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…
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…
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…
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…
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…