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2. The Artist Augmented: AI in the studio (03:30)

Date:
April 14, 2023
Summary:
The Artist, Augmented: AI in the Studio is an art and writing project that explores the impact of generative AI on the artistic process from the perspective of an artist practitioner. Through a ser...

3. What Can Mapping and Spatial Analysis Do for You? (1:03:29)

Date:
September 25, 2018
Summary:
Digital mapping offers a variety of options that range in complexity from dropping a point on your smartphone's mapping application to analyzing statistical differences in different geographies to ...

4. Witt Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (02:53)

Date:
May 16, 2019
Main contributors:
Alexis Witt; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
As part of my PhD dissertation in Musicology,I am building a network graph (visualized using Gephi) of Russian émigré and traveling performers who toured the United States in the first half of the ...

8. Bringing the Field Recording Home: Sampling the Everyday (1:24:00)

Date:
March 12, 2021
Main contributors:
Andrew (Drew) Daniel ; M.C. (Martin) Schmidt
Summary:
Where, exactly, is “the field” implied by field recording? Can you make a “field recording” inside your own home? What does the widespread dissemination of portable recording devices mean for the f...

12. Research Driven Art (1:25:38)

Date:
March 19, 2019
Main contributors:
Caroline Sinders; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher exploring how new kinds of data sets, be it emotional data, traumatic data, or political data can then affect algorithms. How can these outputs be actua...

14. Geographies of Disruption: Mapping to Make Sense of 2020's Sociopolitical Upheaval (44:00)

Date:
November 10, 2020
Main contributors:
Christy Hyman, University of Nebraska Lincoln; Erik Nelson, Indiana University Bloomington; Arrianna Planey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Summary:
Experts explore the disenfranchisement and disruptions of 2020, and examine how mapping can help us make sense of crucial issues both during this historic year and beyond. Five guests across a rang...

15. Antiwar Sentiment in German Storytelling Traditions (03:29)

Date:
April 5, 2024
Main contributors:
Claire Woodward
Summary:
My dissertation traces patterns of empathy in German storytelling from the last 200 hundred years. While doing close readings of dramas, novels, film, and museums, I also used textual analysis to e...

20. Lopez Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (02:39)

Date:
May 16, 2019
Main contributors:
Daniela Gutiérrez López
Summary:
As a scholar-activist devoted to anti-racist, decolonial, femme-inist, anti-capitalist, anti-ableist struggles to decriminalize undocumented people in the United States, I continuously organize in ...

30. Ethics in GIS & Community Mapping (1:41:00)

Date:
November 17, 2021
Main contributors:
Edis Sánchez; Heather Sloan; Theresa Quill
Summary:
This workshop will begin with a discussion of ethics in working with spatial data, and features a special talk by researchers Edis Sanchez and Heather Sloan on ways to ethically conduct community r...

33. Ware (01:59)

Date:
January 17, 2020
Main contributors:
Eric Ware; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities

34. Placing Environmental Lead Exposure on Notice (46:19)

Date:
November 16, 2020
Main contributors:
Erik Nelson
Summary:
Lead is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant that causes numerous adverse health effects in children, particularly neurological and neurobehavioral deficits, lower IQ, slowed growth, and anemia. ...

44. Approaches to public data and archives: Mapping as a form of activism (1:18:08)

Date:
November 20, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities ; Sylvia Fernandez
Summary:
Toxic discourses towards the Mexico-United States borderland and its communities have continuously altered history, social dynamics, culture, among other things that are part of this region. Meanwh...

45. Academic Libraries; Mapping; Public Engagement; Public Participation (1:30:02)

Date:
November 20, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Summary:
Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-c...

46. FrankensTEIn: Teaching Archival Material through Mark-Up (1:04:34)

Date:
November 1, 2018
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Mary Borgo Ton
Summary:
How do we encourage students to read material closely and carefully? What can mark-up show us about the content and context of archival material? This workshop discusses TEI, an internationally-rec...

47. Introduction to Network Analysis Tools (1:00:40)

Date:
January 28, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Mary Borgo Ton; Kalani Craig
Summary:
Interested in using network analysis in your research or teaching? Come to this hands-on session where we will deal with the basics of cleaning and formatting your data and loading it into the simp...

48. Dismantling Borders' Toxic Discourses and Colonial Cultural Records (1:00:52)

Date:
November 20, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Sylvia Fernandez
Summary:
While cartography is a colonialist product when unrepresented individuals or communities utilize and recreate these tools they serve to contest a colonial cultural record. With respect to U.S.-Mexi...

50. Network Analysis and Geography (1:05:55)

Date:
February 5, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Daniel Story; Kalani Craig
Summary:
Want to visualize and study a network in geographic space? We'll do a hands-on exercise with the powerful network analysis software Gephi. Learn about what files Gephi needs to create a network, so...

51. 04_Remembering Vietnam: An Experiment in Civic Engagement (43:46)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; David S. Ferriero
Summary:
Ferriero will discuss the planning process for a major exhibit on the Vietnam War within the context of the mission of the National Archives. Particular focus will be on how the principles of Open...

52. 08_Blood Sacrifice and Clashing American Narratives of the Vietnam War (18:31)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Edward Linenthal
Summary:
The mass slaughter of 1864-1865 in the American Civil War eroded traditional belief in martial sacrifice as redemptive, blood shed for the new birth of the nation. Narratives in tension continued t...

53. Wu Faculty Fellow Presentation (30:58)

Date:
October 3, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Ellen Wu; Himani Bhatt
Summary:
OVERREPRESENTED places Asian Americans at the center of the intersecting histories of race-making, policy, and democracy in age of affirmative action. Three burning questions animate this study. Fi...

54. 07_Who Gets to Tell the Vietnam War Story (18:55)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Heather Stur
Summary:
For as much as has been written and produced about the Vietnam War, the voices telling the story have remained much the same. Historians and journalists have privileged American male combat veteran...

55. 02_Soldiers Write the War: World War II, Vietnam and the War on Terror (46:53)

Date:
January 14, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; John Bodnar
Summary:
This paper will explore the way American soldiers from three different wars wrote about their experiences. It will attempt to unravel the fragile relationship between patriotic accounts of war tha...

56. Scholarly Communications for Arts and Humanities (1:08:07)

Date:
October 1, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
While we often think about the end form - website, digital journal, online resource - when we talk about digital scholarly communications, the work of digital arts and humanities publishing starts ...

57. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities Classrooms? (58:16)

Date:
September 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
We're all buried in the digital world when we work on our own arts & humanities projects - whether it's reading the digital copy of an article, snapping smartphone photos of related work, or collab...

61. 10_Telling War: An Exploration of Form (17:22)

Date:
January 15, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Lisa Silvestri
Summary:
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Telling War, a veteran based initiative, explores manifestations of the veteran voice through a variety of story forms such as papermaki...

65. Data for Digital Arts and Humanities Research (1:01:00)

Date:
September 26, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Sara Duke; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
Digital methods such as mapping, data visualization and network analysis offer opportunities to interrogate, explore, and answer research questions. What underlies each of these digital methods are...

67. Harnessing DH to Write and Teach Black Women's History (59:31)

Date:
April 14, 2023
Main contributors:
Jazma Sutton
Summary:
This talk will chronicle Dr. Jazma Sutton's interests in the Digital Humanities and how she uses it's tools and resources to amplify the voices and experiences of Black women in the rural Midwest. ...

71. Chromik Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (02:05)

Date:
May 16, 2019
Main contributors:
Joanna Chromik; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
This project examines publicly available statements about sex and sex work in light of the #MeToo movement and in response to the passing of the FOSTA-SESTA. It focuses on the online efforts of sex...

72. Factivity of Emotive Verbs in Spanish (03:16)

Date:
April 5, 2024
Main contributors:
Joe Larson
Summary:
This project investigates emotive verbs in Spanish and their alleged factivity. Factivity was first described as a semantic property of certain predicates by Kiparkski and Kiparski (1970). Recent e...

77. Visualizing Comic Book City Data (1:03:00)

Date:
April 24, 2020
Main contributors:
Julian Chambliss
Summary:
In this workshop, participants will examine a set of visualizations created by a team of faculty, librarians and academic specialists at Michigan State University. Using Michigan State University L...

80. What Can Networks Do For Me? (55:50)

Date:
September 25, 2018
Main contributors:
Kalani Craig; Daniel Kloster
Summary:
Network analysis provides a data-driven analysis and visualization exploration of relationships in digital arts & humanities, but within that umbrella is a variety of approaches to understanding in...

81. IDAH Research Workshop Introduction (07:10)

Date:
January 27, 2021
Main contributors:
Kalani Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
This workshop introduces methods used for digital research and creative analyses and outputs, with a focus on research questions and data framing.

82. Data Mining for Humanists (1:04:08)

Date:
September 25, 2018
Main contributors:
Kalani Craig; Michelle Dalmau; Tassie Gniady
Summary:
From the open, largely unstructured text of the novel, to the structured world of social-network entries, to the automated comparison of photographs on a pixel-by-pixel basis, data mining has a bro...

84. Choosing a Digital Method: Data Mining (35:47)

Date:
August 31, 2017
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig
Summary:
Data mining encompasses a several different approaches to exploring large swaths of information, from the open largely unstructured text of the novel to the structured world of social-network entri...

85. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities? (55:36)

Date:
September 12, 2019
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau; Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Summary:
Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts &...

86. Choosing a Digital Method: Making Digital Objects (52:29)

Date:
September 21, 2017
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig; Tassie Gniady
Summary:
From installations overlaid on the world around us to reprints of otherwise inaccessible archaeological finds that we can handle at will, digital objects help us interact with and understand the wo...

90. Mioni Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (02:38)

Date:
May 16, 2019
Main contributors:
Lino Mioni; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
This project is part of my ongoing doctoral research which investigates the establishment of recipe collections and cookbooksas a genre in the early days of print. Building from the anonymous recip...

94. Alternative Food Media as Site of Radical Praxis (03:30)

Date:
April 14, 2023
Main contributors:
Mallika Khanna
Summary:
In 2012, before beginning an overhaul of its public communications service that produced LinkNYC, the City of New York relied on 13 telecom companies to provide service to its network of public pay...

96. Black Glitch in the Hour of Chaos (1:27:02)

Date:
November 30, 2016
Main contributors:
Marisa Parham
Summary:
How might we conceptualize "the digital” as a kind of mediation that articulates the time and space of diasporic experience? In answer, Parham's talk will explore rememory, affective excess, and gl...

98. The Franken Assignment: Going Beyond the Essay (1:01:02)

Date:
October 24, 2018
Main contributors:
Mary Borgo Ton; Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
Are you eager to try new forms of assignments but are not sure where to start? Looking for resources to help students build engaging and interactive final projects? In this workshop, we'll explore ...

99. Project Management Through Poster Design (38:12)

Date:
April 5, 2019
Main contributors:
Mary Borgo Ton; Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Summary:
Giving a poster presentation for a class or a conference? In the throes of a research project and need some clarity? This workshop explores poster design as a tool for organizing your research and ...