Johanna Drucker on design in the digital humanities
The NEH-Vectors seminar “Broadening the Digital Humanities” just wrapped up at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy last week. One of the highlights for me was Johanna Drucker’s talk on the role of design in the digital humanities. Drucker has been an inspiration to me for many years via her work with SpecLab at the University of Virginia and their work with computational literature that goes far beyond conventional text encoding to imagine literary game spaces (e.g., the Ivanhoe project). This video presents Drucker’s setup to a much longer talk about the potentials of creating an online research and publication space that would take advantage of all the affordances of networked scholarship.
Posted by sanderson in blog on Aug 11th, 2009
Steve Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts & Practice in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth 2011), co-Editor of the interdisciplinary online journal Vectors and creator of the fair use advocacy site Critical Commons. A scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of media, culture and technology, his research interests include historiography, the theory and history of emerging technologies, documentary and experimental film and video, and interactive media design.