Being (digital) humans Nov 17
Presentation|Tech (III): Angled Screens
Digging Deep – Critical Making Event on December 1, 2015

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…
Presentation|Tech (II): Performing Scholarship

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 and Space – recent examples

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…
Presentation|Tech (I): Preamble

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…
Close Reading PowerPoint

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…
MIT Press volume published

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…
About

Patrik Svensson is a scholar, writer, curator and entrepreneur. He was Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at UCLA 2016-2020, Distinguished Visiting Fellow/Visiting Professor at CUNY Graduate Center 2015-2016, and Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University 2012-2020.. Svensson is the former Director of HUMlab (2000-2014). He will be…