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January 5th, 2009: Humanities Tools in Digital Contexts |
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Presenter: Johanna Drucker Location: Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Building) Many of the early approaches to digital humanities have come of age as substantial repositories and archives have become established. Early pioneering projects in editing, collections development, and visualization are now accepted parts of digital humanities' research. But huge challenges -- cultural and intellectual as much as technical -- remain if the humanities are to help shape the next generation of scholarly tools for research and pedagogy. This talk describes a work in progress, I.nterpret, that aims to engage humanistic concerns in a digital environment. Readings:Johanna Drucker, Blindspots: Humanities’ ‘Tools’ in Digital Environments: Ivanhoe: http://www.ivanhoegame.org Artists' Books Online: http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/
Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She has published extensively on the history of written forms, typography, design, and visual poetics. In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Recent titles include: Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (Chicago, 2005); Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, with Emily McVarish (Pearson, 2008), Testament of Women (Druckwerk, 2006), and Combo Meals(Druckwerk, 2008). For the academic year 2008-09 she is the Digital Humanities Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center working on a project called “Diagramming Interpretation.” Her book, SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in early 2009. |
