I am very happy to be part of the Being Human Festival (a festival of the humanities) in November in London. Lorna Hughes and I have been working with Sally-Jane Norman and Todd Presner to put together a panel on Being (digital) humans – a great group of collaborators and an…
One thing I noticed in the concept drawing of the lab (HUMlab, second section of the main campus lab) I discussed in the first part of this series is that there is an angled screen there. I use ‘angled screen’ (or ‘screens’) to refer to two or more adjacent screens set at…
Digging Deep: Ecosystems, Institutions and Processes for Critical Making December 1, 2015 #critmaking Rooms C201 and C202 , CUNY Graduate Center (on 5th Avenue at 34th Street), New York City. Dec 1 update: Very welcome to today’s event! The full program is available here. Description “Making” has gained new currency through…
This second post on presentation technology and presentation culture addresses some personal reflections on the role of presentations and performance in scholarly life. The first post can be found here. Academic work and performance Most of us know the challenges and fun of doing job talks, asking questions at a conference, defending…
Higher education has a curious and contentious relationship with space and buildings. I am involved in several projects looking at the connection between the intellectual/operational mission of the university and its architectural materiality – the largest project looking at “interactive spaces” together with architect Anna Misharina and others. I will not go into…
This is the first installation in a short series of posts on presentations, presentation technology (software and infrastructure) and presentation culture (mostly within the academic setting). This first post gives some background to my personal interest in presentation technology and uses HUMlab as a key example of presentation infrastructure. I take…
Erica Robles-Anderson (NYU) and I have spent some dedicated time over the last year thinking about presentation technology and presentation culture. The first result of this collaborative work is an article on the history and critical context of PowerPoint and presentation software/culture (under review). We also thought that it would be…
Continuing to read *Between the Humanities and the Digital* http://t.co/yKgnctjslE, ed. @patriksv @theodavid. A wow collection of DH essays. — Alan Liu (@alanyliu) June 6, 2015 A) Introduction I am very happy that our edited volume on Between Humanities and the Digital (MIT Press, 2015) is now available! It came out early this…
Patrik Svensson is Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University and the former Director of HUMlab (2000-2014). He was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Center, City University New York in 2015-2016, and is currently a Visiting Professor at University of Californa at Los Angeles (UCLA personal…
