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: 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 ...
MIT graduate student Whitney Trettien describes what it's like to be a Research Assistant at MIT's HyperStudio for Digital Humanities.
Speaker: Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan. Moderator: Noel Jackson. Abstract: Museums are increasingly adopting open data policies, both for easy internal reuse of data sets and as a way of building community engagement online. While the opening up of data is a welcome ...
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 ...
Speakers: Wayne Marshall, MIT and Pacey Foster, UMass Boston. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: Increasingly, scholars find themselves grappling with shifts in cultural practice and production engendered by the digital turn. A profound challenge to such research issues from the ...
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: 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 ...
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: Javier Cha. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: The Cold War ended more than twenty years ago, and the average bandwidth of broadband internet in present-day South Korea is reportedly twenty years ahead of that in the United States. Our ...
Speaker: Rebecca Mushtare, Marymount Manhattan College. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: Visualizing data is not an easy task, and can be implemented in a variety of ways and with a variety of techniques. As a media maker, I have become more and more ...
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 ...
Speaker: Jeanne Marie Kusina, Bowling Green State University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: This presentation discusses the role of digital media in the field of environmental ethics. There is a long, rich tradition of wildlife and natural history ...
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 ...
Speaker: Alex Leavitt, Convergence Culture Consortium (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) & Web Ecology Project. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish. Abstract: In his new book, "Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts" (2010), Jonathan Gray ...
Speaker: Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the theoretical relevance of kinetic poetry for studying the interaction between language, digital media, and signifying ...
Speaker: Jonathon Cousins. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: The presentation is a walk through of the design and development process behind a visualization recently created for the World Economic Forum Summit in Dubai.¬¨,Ä+ The aim of the presentation is to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition and beyond
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 ...