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…
I am happy to be back in Sweden and Scandinavia. I am also happy to be based at the Graduate Center, City University New York this academic year, and it is great to be able to travel between the countries. Over the next 1,5 weeks I will have several exciting engagements…
I am currently trying to get a better sense of the development and status of digital humanities in the Nordic countries. It is a strange and fun thing to do. Fun in general (and a learning experience), and strange because I am part of “Nordic DH” myself, although I have…
Publications sometimes seem to come in bursts and always with considerable time lag. I have been working on some large projects and I have had a few years with fewer publications. This is not a problem and there are many types of “deliverables” in academic work, but it is nice to…
Digging Deep: Ecosystems, Institutions and Processes for Critical Making December 1, 2015. CUNY Graduate Center Session 1, 12:30-2:30 pm Designing Institutions of Critical Thinking and Material Making General introduction Patrik Svensson and others Important issues and challenges (based on participant input) Four introductions/statements Anne Balsamo, New School Matt Ratto, University…
Presentation, presentation technology and presentation culture all depend on curation and curatorial practice. In a sense, any presentation and presentation environment is curated. A number of choices have been made to create the environment even if it is a default type of setup with a screen upfront and rows of…