Digital Humanities as Humanistic Infrastructure HATII, University of Glasgow, October 26 at 4 pm (details) Abstract Digital humanities is heavily entangled with infrastructure and infrastructural thinking. The field itself is concerned with standards, curation of data, encoding schemas, tagging systems, project charters, tools, interoperability, maker labs and technologically induced methodology. Furthermore,…
I am very happy to announce that I will be a Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at UC Los Angeles starting from the fall of 2016 (connected to my chair at Umeå University). My institutional home will be Information Studies with a dual appointment with the Digital Humanities Program. It is a multiple-year…
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Architecture, Collaboration, and Knowledge Production (July 10 talk, Washington DC) Patrik Svensson Why would anyone want to block the newly installed glass window in their office door (meant to enable easier access for people and support collaboration)? What is the use of a large floor screen in a humanities lab?…
Unflattening and Enacting Visualization #critviz2016 A one-day workshop on critical visualization The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City June 9, 2016 Update June 8: about 60 people registered for the event, everything looking fantastic. live stream will be available here (low-tech, distributed responsibility stream). Welcome! Introduction Visualization has developed strongly…
I have been working on a series of posts/articles on presentation culture, infrastructure and technology. So far I have published five installments (about 8000 words). I have really enjoyed writing this up! These are the currently available posts: “Presentation|Tech (I): Preamble”, Published on September 2, 2015. “Presentation|Tech (II): Performing Scholarship”,…
1. Introduction This is the fifth installation in a series of articles/posts on presentation technology and culture. The previous articles deal with Preliminaries, infrastructure and HUMlab, Performing scholarship, Angled screens and Curating events. This post contains some notes on software and hardware. In the default classroom setting with a screen and…
On March 16, 2016, I had the privilege to deliver a keynote for the first conference on digital humanities in the Nordic countries. The conference – with 235 registered participants – took place in Oslo (at the University of Oslo and the National Library). In preparing for the talk I…
Below are the references (in order of appearance) for my keynote lecture on “Intellectual Middleware” at the Digital Humanities Opening Seminar, Academy of Finland, Turku, March 22, 2016. The list is preliminary and will be corrected and finalized later (apologies for any errors and omissions). Drucker, Johanna and Svensson, Patrik.…
Below I list references and sources I will refer to in my keynote on “Can there be a Nordic Digital Humanities?” at the first conference for digital humanities in the Nordic Countries, March 16, 2016. The list is in order of appearance and currently a draft version (apologies for any…
