Digital Arts and Humanities

OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

Lewis Ulman (Digital Media Studies, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), English) convened this panel on March 20, 2013, which explored the role of “coding” in the digital arts and humanities. The panel offered insights into what markup, scripting, and procedural programming languages are most useful to arts and humanities scholarship, suggested different ways scholars and teachers in the arts and humanities can engage with coding and considered what role coding plays in the education of arts and humanities students.

Lewis Ulman (Digital Media Studies, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), English) convened this panel on March 20, 2013, which explored the role of “coding” in the digital arts and humanities. The panel offered insights into what markup, scripting, and procedural programming languages are most useful to arts and humanities scholarship, suggested different ways scholars and teachers in the arts and humanities can engage with coding and considered what role coding plays in the education of arts and humanities students.

Lewis Ulman (Digital Media Studies, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), English) convened this panel on March 20, 2013, which explored the role of “coding” in the digital arts and humanities. The panel offered insights into what markup, scripting, and procedural programming languages are most useful to arts and humanities scholarship, suggested different ways scholars and teachers in the arts and humanities can engage with coding and considered what role coding plays in the education of arts and humanities students.

Lewis Ulman (Digital Media Studies, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), English) convened this panel on March 20, 2013, which explored the role of “coding” in the digital arts and humanities. The panel offered insights into what markup, scripting, and procedural programming languages are most useful to arts and humanities scholarship, suggested different ways scholars and teachers in the arts and humanities can engage with coding and considered what role coding plays in the education of arts and humanities students.

Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University), Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities (http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents the Annual Lecture in Book History co-sponsored with History of the Book/Literacy Studies.

Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University), Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities (http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents the Annual Lecture in Book History co-sponsored with History of the Book/Literacy Studies.

Laura Mandell (Director of Texas A&M's Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, IDHMC - http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents a hands-on workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP – see http://emop.tamu.edu), for which Texas A&M's IDHMC recently received a Mellon Foundation grant.

Laura Mandell (Director of Texas A&M's Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, IDHMC - http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents a hands-on workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP – see http://emop.tamu.edu), for which Texas A&M's IDHMC recently received a Mellon Foundation grant.

Laura Mandell (Director of Texas A&M's Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, IDHMC - http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents a hands-on workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP – see http://emop.tamu.edu), for which Texas A&M's IDHMC recently received a Mellon Foundation grant.

Laura Mandell (Director of Texas A&M's Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, IDHMC - http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents a hands-on workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP – see http://emop.tamu.edu), for which Texas A&M's IDHMC recently received a Mellon Foundation grant.

This presentation explores the history of scholarly publishing and current trends in the area of modern publishing, especially on digital platforms. Melanie Schlosser covers the evolution of scholarly publishing to suggest ways in which the academic environment has outgrown traditional mechanisms for sharing research and new opportunities for transforming scholarship, both in the dissemination of new knowledge and collaborative development of research. She provides examples of where the digital environment is furthering publishing economics, presentation of works, peer review, and collaboration as well as creating new challenges, such as in the area of rights.

Cynthia Selfe discusses her experience with OSU's gradual transition to embracing digital scholarship, including the different responses of the OSU Press and the OSU Libraries to the digital environment. She provides several examples of projects from Computers and Composition Digital Press (http://ccdigitalpress.org/) that suggest opportunities for OSU growth in this area. She examines the unique opportunities provided by digital platforms for enhancing the learning experience, sharing knowledge and expanding literacies.

Carlson reviews his long experience with using multimedia platforms to communicate scholarship in the area of computer animation. He shares different methods his colleagues have used to share scholarship, enhance learning, collaborate around discovery and move beyond the limitations of text. He recounts how video, hypertext, web sites, and electronic text books have moved scholarly publishing towards a more flexible, dynamic teaching and research environment. Through examining his past experience, Carlson explores the challenges and developments of digital tools in terms of authorship and appropriate delivery.

A portion of the Q&A session following the presentations of the panel for Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanities records audience insights into digital publishing issues and how we might develop support mechanisms for it at The Ohio State University.

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 from 3:00-4:30 pm in 165 Thompson Library, the Humanities Institute and the Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group hosted a panel discussion on " Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanities." Panelists Melanie Schlosser (Libraries), Cynthia Selfe (English), and Wayne Carlson (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Dean of Undergraduate Education) explored ways in which publishing is changing in the arts and humanities, and led a discussion on the opportunities and pitfalls inherent in the world of digital publishing. The digital environment has enabled exciting new forms of scholarship, and made it possible to communicate and collaborate more openly and effectively. It also poses significant challenges for the traditional, print-based publishing ecosystem, and for those responsible for evaluating scholarship – including promotion and tenure committees. Panelists explored these issues with a diverse audience of OSU faculty and staff.

This presentation explores the concept of a Humanities Visualization Studio for The Ohio State University and its potential role in leveraging “Big Data” to bring new insights and knowledge building in the humanities. Staley offers analysis of the unique approaches humanists might bring to working with large data sets and developing patterns of interpretive insight. He presents the concept of distant reading or macro-level reading as a methodology that is growing in relevance, initiating radical transformation of texts and enabled by emergent technologies. Staley further suggest the important role a Humanities Visualization Studio would have in bringing people together to collaborate, pool resources and move forward in concert.

Labov shares her experience with Stanford’s Humanities Lab (http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/admin/directory.html), Beyond Search (https://beyondsearch.stanford.edu/) and Stanford Literary Lab (http://litlab.stanford.edu/) as examples of how digital humanities labs can address issues involved in working with humanities big data. These initiatives are explored as examples of how such efforts to bring a humanities community together can work (or not). Labov suggests three lessons to be learned from Stanford’s experience: there is a risk in developing digital humanities spaces and equipment stores which are not solidly based in viable research projects, that more successful efforts are built around researchers and their existing work and interests and that an institution needs to let these environments evolve as communities and community centers.

Ulman offers examples of different humanities visualization projects as way of examining the concept of “big data” and how we might set an agenda for a visualization studio. Interrogating the concepts of “close,” “distant,” “wide," and "deep" reading, he suggests that it is not the size of the data set but the broadness of the opportunities for investigation that should determine the kind of projects to be addressed by the humanities visualization studio. Ulman demonstrates how applying visualization techniques that provide a "wide" view of the data found in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives can offer new insights and conclusions. Similarly, investigating single words in Louisa A. Doane’s Journal of Two Ocean Voyages (1850-52) against the "wide" canvas of the Google Books database increased students understanding of historical context and meaning. He suggests that archival finding aids can be made more understandable and facilitate research more effectively by employing visualization tools. Finally, by exploring the process of transforming "deep" text-encoding markup into reading or "surface" versions of texts, Ulman shows how electronic textual editions in themselves are visualizations of complex or "big" data. In these ways, data sets that seem small in size can have larger meaning through data visualization.

A portion of the Q&A session following the presentations of the panel for Visualizing "Big Data" in the Arts and Humanities records audience insights into the meaning behind the term “big data” and how we might develop initiatives at The Ohio State University.