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: Esra Ozkan. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: Information visualization could be largely defined as graphical representation of complex information. It comprises a set of tools and techniques that transforms sophisticated data such as scientific ...
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 ...
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
Speakers: Mike Danziger, Lev Manovich, Nick Montfort, Christopher York. Moderator: Kurt Fendt
Speakers: Shiva Ayyadurai and Andrea Frank, MIT. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: Many phenomena of global concern such as climate change, health and nutrition, globalization are complex systems with many inter-related components. In the modern world of rapid ...
Speaker: Siobhan O'Flynn, University of Toronto. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: As digital storytelling becomes more complicated in the design of fragmented, non-linear experiences, the inclusion of dynamic maps that chart the narrative architecture ...
Speakers: Der-Tsai Lee, Ming-chorng Hwang, Sophy Shu-Chen and Jessie Tsai, Academia Sinica. Abstract: The government of Taiwan initiated a national digitization program in 2002 to digitize our cultural heritage. Its main objective is to promote content digitization ...
Speakers: Der-Tsai Lee, Ming-chorng Hwang, Sophy Shu-Chen and Jessie Tsai, Academia Sinica. Moderator: Emma Teng. Abstract: The government of Taiwan initiated a national digitization program in 2002 to digitize our cultural heritage. Its main objective is to promote ...
Speaker: Ellen Sebring, MIT. Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Abstract: Where do images from the historical record take you in historical inquiry and what is offered by working within the digital environment? This presentation will be a case-based examination of the "visual fingerprints" ...
Speaker: Maximillian Schich, Northeastern University. Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Abstract: This talk introduces image matrices as a useful visualization method for visual classification networks, such as tagged images or otherwise categorized visual documents. ...
Speaker: Andy Engel, Wayne State University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: When physical space is digitized, tagged, and reassembled, as in Microsoft's photo-stitching technology Photosynth, it is likewise reified, extended, and damaged. The ...
Speaker: Dustin Morrow, Temple University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: This multimedia project examines the artistic/expressive dimensions of the visualization of music in its exploration of the conscious and subconscious interpretations of live ...
Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition and beyond
Speaker: Dietmar Offenhuber, MIT. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: This paper investigates the social structures of annual jury sessions of a prestigious art competition ,Äìtheir composition, their temporal evolution and ultimately their decisions. The visual ...
Speaker: Maria Moon, Art Center College of Design. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: neurographica investigates the ways in which design can be used to explore and analyze neurological data. Traditionally, the predominant role of design in the scientific process has been to visually ...
