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The goal of the Conversations in Digital Humanities speaker series is to engage Cornell's scholars and practitioners whose projects explore the intersections of advanced digital technology and cultural understanding. It targets a broad community of interest at Cornell that reaches across disciplinary and institutional lines. The series includes speakers whose research and practice break new ground in understanding how new media and digital methodologies are changing the landscape of research, teaching, learning, creative expression, and cultural experience.
The series is co-sponsored by the Cornell University Library and , The Society for the Humanities, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
We always welcome suggestions for inviting speakers to engage our community in discussions such as:
- Analyzing the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society
- Practicing integrative approaches that acknowledge the increasingly hybrid nature of our environments, blending new with old.
- Developing innovative uses of technology for public programming, publication, and education
- Creating new multimodal and interactive artworks, interfaces, or other digital "texts"“texts”
- Designing and developing new digital tools for creating, preserving, analyzing, and providing access to digital resources
- Creatively engaging with "big data"“big data”
- Incorporating digital tools and collaborative learning methods into teaching and pedagogy
- Expanding the possibilities of new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship
- Exploring issues related to information sustainability, permanence, copyright, and authenticity
Please see the series blog for more detailed information about upcoming events.
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Talks will be free, open to the public, and followed by general discussion
For more information, contact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services): mir9@cornell.edu
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2014 Fall Schedule
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Tom McEnaney:
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September 15: Merritt Kopas
Independent Game Designer, Archivist, and Activist
Ludus Interruptus: How Digital Games Struggle with Sexuality
4:30 pm
Olin Library 107
Merritt Kopas is the author of the games LIM, HUGPUNX, and Consensual Torture Simulator, and a number of other works. Her games have shifted conversations about play, bodies, and sex and have been showcased in festivals across North America and Europe. Kopas aims to build forms of play useful to radical movements and marginalized communities. She curates free and accessible games at her project Forest Ambassador, an attempt to bring interesting work in games to wider publics. She is currently editing an anthology of interactive fiction to be released in 2015
October 2: Edward Baptist
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
November 5: Hoyt Long
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Literary Pattern Recognition: A Machine Reading of Modernist Form
4:30 pm
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor
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2015 Spring Schedule - to be posted soon!
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2013 Fall Schedule
Sept. 19: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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4:30 pm Doherty Lounge, Ives Hall
Scholz's Scholz’s talk will examine frameworks for thinking about labor in the virtual age., arguing for a need to balance optimism about engaged digital culture with critique that acknowledges the "dramatic shifts" “dramatic shifts” that have restructured "leisure“leisure, consumption, and production since the mid-century," ” leading to the "complex“complex, hybrid realities of the digital economy."”
Scholz is the editor of several collections of essays, including Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory (Routledge, 2012). In 2011, he authored, with Laura Y. Liu, From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City. With Omar Khan and Mark Shepard, he edited the Situated Technologies series of 9 books and, with Geert Lovink, The Art of Free Cooperation (Autonomedia, 2007). His forthcoming monograph with Polity offers a history of the Social Web and its Orwellian economies. Scholz frequently lectures at conferences and festivals with recent venues including Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, The Obama White House, and Transmediale. Trebor Scholz chaired seven major conferences, including the Internet as Playground and Factory (http://digitallabor.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.
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Singer has exhibited at the MoMA/PS1, Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Matadero Madrid, Neuberger Museum of Art, Diverseworks, Bronx River Art Center, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others. Recent awards and commissions include a Madrid Council's Council’s Department of the Arts commission, Turbulence.org commission, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist award, Helsinki Artist International Program residency, Headlands Center for Arts residency, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) award, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship and an Eyebeam and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Social Sculpture commission. She was a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology from 2010-2011. Singer's writing has been included in books and journals such as Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (2012) Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (2011) and Duke University's Radical History Review (2006). She has been interviewed by NPR's NPR’s All Things Considered and Where we Live, along with several other public radio stations.
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Digital Conservator, Rhizome ArtBase: http://rhizome.org/
"Conservation “Conservation in Collections of Born-Digital Contemporary Art"Art”
4:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" “Buzz” Aldrin, astronauts on-board the Apollo 11 lunar module, narrowly completed the first moon landing in the wake of a series of disruptive alarms from their digital guidance computer. We now know that these program alarms were inconsequential. However, the burden of monitoring and interpreting those data distracted the team at critical moments, nearly forcing them to abort the mission or risk a fatal crash. This early event in the development of human-computer relationships foreshadowed widespread public concerns about the integration of digital computing into everyday work.
Since Apollo, issues of distraction, authority, and trust have troubled digital interactions with data. Surgeons struggle with 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 collections including libraries, archives, museums and arboreta fear a transformation
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 Apollo 11 landing, I will demonstrate how I have used data visualization as a form of inquiry into the micro-physics of human-computer relationships. My presentation will address a number of issues, including how to integrate qualitative and quantitative sources, animate data through graphics, and allow for multiple interpretations to adhere. This research contributes to a timely and long-term ambition: to bring design methods to bear on the study of knowledge and creativity in digital culture.
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This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor.
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Talks will be free, open to the public, and followed by general discussion.
For more information, contact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services): mir9@cornell.edu
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