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The goal of the Conversations in Digital Humanities speak= er series is to engage Cornell's scholars and practitioners whose projects = explore the intersections of advanced digital technology and cultural under= standing. It targets a broad community of interest at Cornell that re= aches across disciplinary and institutional lines. The series includes spea= kers whose research and practice break new ground in understanding how new = media and digital methodologies are changing the landscape of research, tea= ching, learning, creative expression, and cultural experience.
The series is co-sponsored by the Cornell University Library, The Societ= y for the Humanities, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
We always welcome suggestions for inviting speakers to engage our commun= ity in discussions such as:
Please see the series blog for more detailed inf= ormation about upcoming events.
Talks will be free, ope=
n to the public, and followed by general discussio
For more information, c= ontact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Prese= rvation Services): mir9@cornell.edu
Independent Game Designer, Archivist, and Activist
Ludus Interruptus: How Digital Games Struggle with Sexuali= ty
4:30 pm
Olin Library 107
Merritt Kopas is the author of the games LIM, HUGPUNX, and Consensual To= rture Simulator, and a number of other works. Her games have shifted conver= sations about play, bodies, and sex and have been showcased in festivals ac= ross North America and Europe. Kopas aims to build forms of play useful to = radical movements and marginalized communities. She curates free and access= ible games at her project Forest Ambassador, an attempt to bring= interesting work in games to wider publics. She is currently editing an an= thology of interactive fiction to be released in 2015
Professor of History, Cornell University
Close, Distant, and Dialogical Readings: Three Ways of = Looking at the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives
4:30 pm
Olin Library 703
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Lan= guages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Literary Pattern Recognition: A Machine Reading of Modernist Fo= rm
4:30 pm
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Co=
rridor
Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association, and Vi= siting Research Professor of English, NYU
The Future is Open: Scholarly Societies and Scholarly Publics
4:00 pm, 2B48 Kroch Library
Since the seventeenth-century founding of the Royal Society of Londo= n, scholarly societies have been dedicated to facilitating communication am= ong their members. For the most part, that communication has taken place th= rough annual meetings and periodical publications. The affordances of the i= nternet, however, have begun to change the ways that members of those socie= ties are connecting with one another, as well as with the broader public. M= oreover, calls for public access to the products of scholarly research are = increasing, and often seem to be at odds with the membership-based ethos of= scholarly societies. The conflict, however, is unnecessary, though its res= olution will require significant changes in how we think about scholarly co= mmunication and the societies that facilitate it. This talk will explore so= me of those changes, describing one potential path forward into an increasi= ngly open future.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Moder=
n Language Association and Visiting Research Professor of English at NYU.&n=
bsp; She is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technolog=
y, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011) and of
Additional sponsors for this event include the Institute for Int= ernet Culture, Policy, and Law and the Center for Te= aching Excellence
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at = Kansas State University
The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever
4:00 pm, Alice Statler Auditorium
In a world where we are constantly connected through new media and t= echnology, how can we cultivate a sense of wonder in students? Join Prof. W= esch as he addresses how we can harness 21st century tools to inspire stude= nts to connect, collaborate, and create in ways that challenge what we thin= k we know about human interaction. Wesch's videos on education, culture, an= d technology have reached millions of viewers across the globe. His present= ation will offer new models to inspire and help students to engage with a r= apidly changing world.
Michael Wesch is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digita= l Ethnography at Kansas State University. Dubbed "the explainer" by W= ired magazine, Wesch explores the effects of new media on society and cultu= re. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indige= nous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his atte= ntion to the effects of social media and digital technology on global socie= ty. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information hav= e been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequen= tly featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences= worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wi= red Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Me= dia Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geo= graphic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 C= ASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universit= ies.
This event is organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence
Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory= p>
4:30 pm Doherty Lounge, Ives Hall
Scholz=E2=80=99s talk will examine frameworks for thinking about lab= or in the virtual age., arguing for a need to balance optimism about engage= d digital culture with critique that acknowledges the =E2=80=9Cdramatic shi= fts=E2=80=9D that have restructured =E2=80=9Cleisure, consumption, and prod= uction since the mid-century,=E2=80=9D leading to the =E2=80=9Ccomplex, hyb= rid realities of the digital economy.=E2=80=9D
Scholz is the editor of several collections of essays, including Dig= ital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory (Routledge, 2012). = In 2011, he authored, with Laura Y. Liu, From Mobile Playgroun= ds to Sweatshop City. With Omar Khan and Mark Shepard, he edited= the Situated Technologies series of 9 books and, with Geert Lovin= k, The Art of Free Cooperation (Autonomedia, 2007). His forthcomin= g monograph with Polity offers a history of the Social Web and its Orwellia= n economies. Scholz frequently lectures at conferences and festivals = with recent venues including Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, T= he Obama White House, and Transmediale. Trebor Scholz chaired seven major c= onferences, including the Internet as Playground and Factory (http://dig= itallabor.org/) and MobilityShifts (http://mobilityshifts.org)= . He was the recipient of a MacArthur grant and is the founder of the= Institute for Distributed Creativity, international platform for critical = network culture.
This event will be co-sponsored by the School of Industrial and = Labor Relations
Associate Professor of New Media, Purchase College,=E2=80=A8 State Unive= rsity of New York
Making Doing
5:00 pm, Milstein Auditorium
Brooke Singer is a media artist who lives in New York City. Her work=E2= =80=A8blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts=E2= =80=A8practices. She engages technoscience as an artist, educator,=E2=80=A8= nonspecialist and collaborator. Her work lives "on" and "off" line in the f= orm of websites, workshops, photographs, maps, installations and=E2=80=A8pe= rformances that often involves public participation in pursuit of=E2=80=A8s= ocial change.
Singer has exhibited at the MoMA/PS1, Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff=E2= =80=A8Centre, Matadero Madrid, Neuberger Museum of Art, Diverseworks, Bronx= =E2=80=A8River Art Center, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music = and=E2=80=A8Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others. Recent = awards and commissions include a Madrid Council=E2=80=99s Department of the= Arts=E2=80=A8commission, Turbulence.org commission, New York State Co= uncil on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist award, Helsinki Artist Internat= ional=E2=80=A8Program residency, Headlands Center for Arts residency, New Y= ork State=E2=80=A8Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) award= , a New York=E2=80=A8Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship and an Eyebe= am and Lower=E2=80=A8Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Social Sculpture com= mission. She was=E2=80=A8a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology from 2010-201= 1.=E2=80=A8=E2=80=A8Singer's writing has been included in books and journal= s such as=E2=80=A8Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (2012) Net Wo= rks: Case=E2=80=A8Studies in Web Art and Design (2011) and Duke University'= s Radical=E2=80=A8History Review (2006). She has been interviewed by NPR=E2= =80=99s All Things=E2=80=A8Considered and Where we Live, along with several= other public radio=E2=80=A8stations.
She is currently Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College,= =E2=80=A8State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technolog= y=E2=80=A8and activist group Preemptive Media.
For more please visit: www.bsing.net
This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corri= dor, The Society for the Humanities, the Department of Art, and The Ti= nker Factory Lab
Digital Conservator, Rhizome ArtBase: http://rhizome.org/
=E2=80=9CConservation in Collections of Born-Digital Contemporary Art=E2= =80=9D
4:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
Fino-Radin will be joined in discussion by internationally-recognized me= dia art curators Richard Rinehart, Director, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell Un= iversity, and Timothy Murray, Curator of Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of = New Media Art and Director of the Society for the Humanities. This talk is = supported in part by a digital preservation grant from the National Endowme= nt for the Humanities.
School of Media Studies, The New School, NY http://www.= wordsinspace.net
"Infrastructural Intelligence: Thinking About and Through Layered = Infrastructures"
4:30 pm, 106 Olin Library
A technical infrastructure is simultaneously a conduit for, and an embod= iment of, an intellectual infrastructure: an epistemology, a way of solving= problems, and a means of concretizing and spatializing answers to those pr= oblems. In this talk I'll address how my students and I have been exploring= these interlocking infrastructures by creating new infrastructures for sch= olarly inquiry -- and how I've "wired" these pedagogical experiments into m= y own scholarship on media infrastructures. Over the years we've constructe= d interactive "deep" maps; exhibitions, both online an on-site; and multime= dia publications to visualize, sonify, spatialize, and inhabit various infr= astructures, ranging from pneumatic tube mail-delivery systems, to archival= processing protocols, to the geographies of resource acquisition, manufact= ure, and distribution that generate our consumer technologies. I'll discuss= how a few of my courses "scaffold" our exploration of these topics, and ho= w this teaching generates new infrastructural intelligence for my own work.=
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/y= anni-loukissas.html
"Drawing Data Work"
12:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin =E2=
=80=9CBuzz=E2=80=9D Aldrin, astronauts on-board the Apollo 11 lunar module,=
narrowly completed the first moon landing in the wake of a series of disru=
ptive alarms from their digital guidance computer. We now know that these p=
rogram alarms were inconsequential. However, the burden of monitoring and i=
nterpreting those data distracted the team at critical moments, nearly forc=
ing them to abort the mission or risk a fatal crash. This early event in th=
e development of human-computer relationships foreshadowed widespread publi=
c concerns about the integration of digital computing into everyday work.
Since Apollo, issues of distraction, authority, a=
nd trust have troubled digital interactions with data. Surgeons struggle wi=
th increasing demands on their attention; indeed, they must monitor data in=
proliferating digital forms while simultaneously executing complex manual =
tasks and managing an ad hoc team. Architects quarrel over what constitutes=
an adequate digital model and who has the skills, creative sensibilities, =
and access to data necessary to construct it. Curators of material collecti=
ons including libraries, archives, museums and arboreta fear a transformati=
on
or loss of knowledge through digitization. I seek to understand and =
aid such workers as they endeavor to merge, modify or replace older virtues=
and norms with the values of an emerging digital culture.
This talk addresses the question of how to study =
work in the technological moment. Using the historical example of the Apoll=
o 11 landing, I will demonstrate how I have used data visualization as a fo=
rm of inquiry into the micro-physics of human-computer relationships. My pr=
esentation will address a number of issues, including how to integrate qual=
itative and quantitative sources, animate data through graphics, and allow =
for multiple interpretations to adhere. This research contributes to a time=
ly and long-term ambition: to bring design methods to bear on the study of =
knowledge and creativity in digital culture.
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities & Prof= essor of English, University of Maryland
http://mith.umd.edu/people/person/neil-fraist= at/
4:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor.=
Talks will be free, ope= n to the public, and followed by general discussion. &n= bsp;  = ; = strong>
For more information, c= ontact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Prese= rvation Services): mir9@cornell.edu