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
Computers have altered so many aspects of musician's lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition and beyond
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...