Comments on: an R&D agenda for embodied interaction in DH?

By: wendyhsu

wendyhsu — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:21:10 +0000

Can we add “performance” into the discussion? Much of the digital humanities discourse revolves around the notion of “text.” What if we start to consider text as performance? If we believe that printed text is considered fixed; digital text is less fixed and flexible, then can we imagine digital text as a performance? If so, how do we imagine things like agency, audience, action, movement, and improvisation in the digital humanities?

some random ideas:
I’m interested in exploring how embodiment may take shape within the context of digital ethnography. I’m thinking about how embodiment may lead to a collapse of the object-subject divide (linking it to the issue of complicity in field work). I would also venture to consider embodiment as a social, public, practical manifestation of knowledge.

By: katharinekliu

katharinekliu — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:39:42 +0000

Writing quickly…

Modelling comes to mind, followed by the Smithsonian’s yarn coral reef: www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/hreef/. The thing itself is awesome, but imagine what it could so if soft circuitry could allow it to RESPOND like coral.

By: molly_dolan

molly_dolan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:07:20 +0000

I definitely think the gendering of technology is an interesting topic for discussion. I went to a talk Mark Frauenfelder (of Make: Magazine) gave a couple of years ago, and the question I asked him at the end was why Craft: had its own magazine that seemed to be geared toward women, rather than incorporating craft projects into Make:. His response was that he didn’t see the split as intentionally being along gender lines. I still think that’s what it effectively does (well, did, since Craft: has folded); it ghetoizes the process of crafting as somehow different.

Can’t wait to try out the Arduino. I’ve been meaning to learn about those for quite a while!

By: Intersections of the Digital and the Material | THATCamp Virginia 2010

Intersections of the Digital and the Material | THATCamp Virginia 2010 — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:03:34 +0000

[…] this broader category could serve as an umbrella under which to talk about the sorts of things that Bethany proposes as well. This is a new area for me, but I’m particularly interested in how digital networks […]