Architecture, Collaboration, and Knowledge Production
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?…
Critical Visualization Event at GC, CUNY on June 9, 2016
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…
Presentation|Tech Update March 2016
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”,…
Presentation|Tech (V): Software and hardware
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…
DH experts on (Nordic) DH
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…
Intellectual Middleware keynote references
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.…
NDH Keynote References
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…
Four Nordic engagements in March
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…
Nordic DH – some sources
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…
New publications (June 2015-January 2016)
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…