May 142013
 

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce that Perth, Western Australia, has been selected as the location for the second Digital Humanities Australasia conference.

“DHA2014: Expanding Horizons” will be held 18–21 March 2014, co-hosted by The University of Western Australia and iVEC. The local organisation committee will be chaired by Professor Jenni Harrison of iVEC and the program committee chaired by Professor Hugh Craig, aaDH and The University of Newcastle.

The Call for Papers for DHA2014 will be posted soon.

May 112013
 

The annual iMAPPENING show, featuring works-in-progress, performances and presentations by students in the Media Arts and Practice doctoral program, kicks of on Friday, May 10, 2013, from noon to 8:00 p.m., with an opening reception at 6:00 p.m. in the School of Cinematic Arts Gallery. The show will also be open May 11, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., and on Monday, May 13, students and faculty will engage in a series of round-table discussions between 11:00 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. at Kerckhoff Hall, located at 734 West Adams Boulevard.

The show includes the following projects:

Locus Swarm, a virtual space visualized by the creatures that inhabit it.

The Book of Luna, a transmedia metabook, a physical, illuminated manuscript merging sculpture, film and literature.

• Preview of Marquee Survivals, a multimodal exploration of contemporary conceptions of repurposed movie theaters.

We Already Know and We Don’t Yet Know: Autonets, a performance which asks, “Is sexual, gendered and racialized violence global or translocal?”

Penumbra: A Novella, creates a haptic reading experience for the iPad as the reader’s gestures expose the protagonist’s memories.

Polyangylene: Robot Aesthetics and Super-Objects, an interactive installation that involves gallery visitors, a small herd of hexapod robots that compose electroluminiscent wire poetry, and a tumbling junk pile of found objects.

Miralab: Experiments in Responsive Data Viz Worlds: a cloud-based ecosystem for display and interaction with a retrofuturistic aquatic world.

Museum of the Microstar, a satirical narrative game and technology demonstration.

Matricide, a Lacanian love letter to the filmmaker’s Mother(s) combining intimate drag performances, disturbing childhood images revisited and probing testimonial sessions with the Mother.

ImMobility, a performed score about mobility

Memory Cellars, an interactive tour of the new building in the School of Cinematic Arts complex.

Leimert Phone Company, a collaborative community design studio that repurposes pay phones into cultural portals to local history and arts in South LA.

Divergent Shadows and Daily Image, experimental videos.

Visions of Aleph, a recombinant narrative video game.

The Seoul of Los Angeles: Contested Identities and Transnationalism in Immigrant Space, an interactive online cultural history.

Not Your Baby, a mobile app that builds community to challenge sexual harrassment whenever and wherever it may occur.

So Help You God, a documentary database cinema game that dissects the confluence of circumstances leading to a violent crime.

a question of CHARACTER, a documentary meta-game for the Women and Girls Lead comprehensive collection of gender justice films by the Independent Television Service.

Experiments in Representational Animism, which allows audiences to communicate with a public speaker by aggregating their live input as a datastream for an animistic object.

 All events in the iMAPPENING Showcase are free and open to the public – please join us to see this amazing work!

 

2013 IML Showcase

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May 042013
 




Friday, May 3, 2013
4:30 p.m.

USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Open to all. Light refreshments will be served.

This year’s Showcase celebrates the sixth cohort of students to complete the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program. Although the capstone projects created by the students are diverse in subject area, a guiding theme centers on issues related to transmedia, cross-platform compatibility, and the delicate balance between creator constraint and user control, between hardware and software.

The Showcase will also feature digital portfolios from our second cohort of students graduating with the Minor in Digital Studies. This 20-unit Minor explores the potential of digital media for critical analysis and creative discovery. Students produced innovative, scholarly projects, from photo-essays to digital documentaries, from interactive videos to sophisticated web sites, from kinetic typography to 3-D visualizations. By curating projects from their IML classes, the students have created portfolios that contextualize their work for audiences beyond academia. In addition, a range of projects from undergraduate IML courses, grouped by genre, will be displayed. Finally, projects from the rapidly expanding array of IML graduate seminars will be highlighted. This work uses a growing range of tools and tactics that enhance and extend traditional research and scholarship in exciting ways.

This year’s event also marks our last year in the location we’ve called home for more than a decade. As we prepare to move to our new building on campus, we pause to reflect upon and salute the wealth of remarkable, cross-disciplinary projects and pursuits launched by the IML and its affiliates, all of which have contributed to our rich shared history.

The showcase will open on Friday, May 3, 2013, at 4:30 p.m. We hope to see you there!

May 032013
 
The programme for the Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2013 is now published (the abstracts will be added very soon). This year we will be recording video and so presentation slides, audio and video files will be available. These seminars range far beyond an interest in the ancient world. Each paper [...]
May 022013
 

The programme for the Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2013 is now published (the abstracts will be added very soon). Please circulate this via your networks. We have, for several years, been recording these seminars and making the audio files available on our seminar webpage. This year we will be recording video and so presentation slides, audio and video files will be available after each seminar.

The programme flyer can be downloaded as a PDF.

All seminars are on Fridays at 16:30 at Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU.

  • June 7: Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton) Exploring visibility networks in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain with Exponential Random Graph Models
  • June 14: Valeria Vitale (King’s College London) An Ontology for 3D Visualization in Cultural Heritage
  • June 21: Tom Cheesman (University of Swansea) Putting Translations To Work: TransVis
  • June 28: Adrian Ryan (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa) Quantifying stylistic distance between Athenian vase-paintings/li>
  • July 5: Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: a federated platform for discovery and research
  • July 12: Greta Franzini (University College London) A catalogue of digital editions: Towards an edition of Augustine’s City of God
  • July 19: Federico Boschetti ( ILC-CNR, Pisa) & Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison, Canada) An Integrated System For Generating And Correcting Polytonic Greek OCR
  • July 26: Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University) Teaching with the Perseids Platform: Tools and methods
  • August 2: Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross) Scholarly reasoning and writing in an automatically assembled and tested digital library
  • August 9: Agnes Thomas, Francesco Mambrini & Matteo Romanello (DAI, Berlin) Insights in the World of Thucydides: The Hellespont Project as a research environment for Digital History
May 022013
 

Following on from wide interest shown in this topic at the Classical Association 2013 Conference, it is proposed that similar panels on e-Learning be convened for CA 2014. Papers are sought on topics relating to the use of e-learning in Classical subjects, including Latin, Greek, Classical Civilisation and Ancient History. The organisers are keen to encourage the submission of papers presenting the innovative use of new technologies, as well as discussion papers on the current state of theory and practice in e-Learning for Classics. The scope of this panel covers the educational sector as a whole, from Primary level through to Higher Education.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words will need to be submitted for consideration by the end of August. Please contact panel organiser Bartolo Natoli by email (bnatoli@utexas.edu) or tweet/DM (@banatoli) if you would like to be involved.

Apr 272013
 

Friday, April 26, 2013
8:00pm – 12:00am
University Park Campus
USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA)


Admission is free.

Rhythms + Visions: Expanded + Live 2 will light up the School of Cinematic Arts Complex in an evening of large exterior projections and animated sonic performances. Innovative artists Quayola, Miwa Matreyek and Charles Lindsay will perform an eclectic program of contemporary visual music and audio-visual art.

Quayola’s time-based digital sculptures and immersive audio-visual work have been presented worldwide. Using huge projections and sound, he will perform Partitura and other animated sound visualizations.

Miwa Matreyek creates magical animated illusions in layered, multi-projection performances. Matreyek performs as a live actor within her animations, which are akin to George Méliès or an animated storybook. She will perform a new animated audio-visual work.

Charles Lindsay, the artist in residence at the SETI Institute, combines science and astronomical visions with accompanying live vocal and electronic musicians. Their piece Trout Fishing in Space envisions a future when humans will leave Earth for good. The work features extraordinary images from the Cassini space mission and earthbound images of nature.

In addition to these performances, the exterior spaces will come alive with multimedia works by faculty and students from USC’s Digital Arts and Animation and Interactive Media divisions.

Organized by Michael Patterson (Cinematic Arts).

Photo: Scott Groller

Apr 252013
 

Copied from the Digital Classicist list on behalf of the organisers:

CALL FOR PAPERS

HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources

University of Southampton 18th July 2013
Organisers: Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans, in collaboration with The Connected Past
http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/

A free one-day seminar on spatial network analysis in archaeology, history, classics, teaching and commercial archaeology.

Spatial relationships are everywhere in our sources about the past: from the ancient roads that connect cities, or ancient authors mentioning political alliances between places, to the stratigraphic contexts archaeologists deal with in their fieldwork. However, as datasets about the past become increasingly large, these spatial networks become ever more difficult to disentangle. Network techniques allow us to address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly through network visualisation and analysis. This seminar aims to explore the potential of such innovative techniques for research, public engagement and commercial purposes.

The seminar is part of Hestia2, a public engagement project aimed at introducing a series of conceptual and practical innovations to the spatial reading and visualisation of texts. Following on from the AHRC-funded “Network, Relation, Flow: Imaginations of Space in Herodotus’s Histories” (Hestia: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/ ), Hestia2 represents a deliberate shift from experimenting with geospatial analysis of a single text to making Hestia’s outcomes available to new audiences and widely applicable to other texts through a seminar series, online platform, blog and learning materials with the purpose of fostering knowledge exchange between researchers and non-academics, and generating public interest and engagement in this field.

For this first Hestia2 workshop we welcome contributions addressing any of (but not restricted to) the following themes:

Spatial network analysis techniques
Spatial networks in archaeology, history and classics
Techniques for the discovery and analysis of networks from textual sources
Exploring spatial relationships in classical and archaeological sources
The use of network visualisations and linked datasets for archaeologists active in the commercial sector and teachers
Applications of network analysis in archaeology, history and classics

Please email proposed titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) to:
t.brughmans@soton.ac.uk by May 13th 2013.

Apr 232013
 


Monday, April 22, 2013
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

University Park Campus
School of Cinematic Arts, Building B (SCB)
Room 104

Admission is free.

Image: Miwa Matreyek, Myth and Infrastructure

A graduate from CalArt’s Experimental Animation program (MFA 2007), Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection. Matreyek is interested in how animation transforms when it is combined with body and space (and vice-versa) and takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality. On one hand, Matreyek’s performance can be viewed as a cinematic experience taking place on a screen. On the other hand, what is seen on the screen is a collapsed product of multiple layers of animation, objects and body, rhythmically unfolding. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and non-illusion.