HyperStudio explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities. Our work focuses on questions about the integration of technology into humanities curricula within the broader context of scholarly inquiry and pedagogical practice. Learn more
Speaker: Ben Miller, MIT. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: Visual modeling of databases, when applied to the problematic of witnessing traumatic events, offers a way to structure testimony's logical relations and text. Without the external logic offered by data ...
Speaker: Earl Wagner, MIT. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: By distilling and applying the expectations and judgment that constitute an informed perspective, computer systems can provide those unfamiliar with a topic a contextualized and enriched view ...
Speaker: Ted Byfield, Parsons the New School for Design, New School University. Moderator: Nick Seaver. Abstract: Information design and data visualization are often justified with appeals to heroic formulations like "massive flows of data." Yet when stripped of their ...
Speaker: Oyvind Eide, Kings College. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: The paper will present my PhD work. The primary objective is to explore how people reflect and communicate about geography. Why do some groups of people, e.g. in the modern Western world, use ...
Speakers: Mike Danziger, Lev Manovich, Nick Montfort, Christopher York. Moderator: Kurt Fendt
Speaker: Ralph Lengler, University of Sydney. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: Some visualizations need not only adequately represent information; their presentation needs also to be effective, leading to a behavior change in the viewer. Rhetorical figures, like ...
Speakers: Amit Ray, Gregory Halpern and Derin Korman, Rochester Institute of Technology. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: While cultural theory has long critiqued the notion of an autonomous creator or object of art, the quantitative instantiation of ...
Speakers: Arno Bosse and Keith Brisson, University of Chicago. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: Cinemetrics (http://www.cinemetrics.lv/index.php), is an open-access, interactive website designed to supplement the traditional toolkit of film studies with a number of digital ...
Speakers: Gail Vanstone and Carolyn Steele, York University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: Our session queries the epistemological implications of a installation-based documentary database we are constructing to elaborate on ideas articulated in ...
Speaker: Daniel Chamberlain, Occidental College. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: A massive, global financial crisis involving obscure trading products. A healthcare reform effort that extends to thousands of pages and tens of thousands of adjustments to the law. Massive ...
Speakers: Mike Danziger, Lev Manovich, Nick Montfort, Christopher York. Moderator: Kurt Fendt
Speakers: Mike Danziger, Lev Manovich, Nick Montfort, Christopher York. Moderator: Kurt Fendt
Speaker: Peter Donaldson, MIT. Moderator: Noel Jackson. Abstract: This paper explores new directions in education and research on Shakespeare made possible by digital video collections, both scholarly and popular, and new tools for active video use. Using materials ...
MIT graduate student Whitney Trettien describes what it's like to be a Research Assistant at MIT's HyperStudio for Digital Humanities.
