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Smith tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/ddbf3562381d5c99 <p><img alt="Ben Fry - On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces" src="http://serialconsign.com/images/2010/02/origin-of-species-preservation-favoured-traces.png"></p> <p>[Ben Fry / <em><a href="http://benfry.com/traces/">The Preservation of Favoured Traces</a></em> / 2009]</p> <p><a href="http://madeleineclare.com/">Madeleine Clare Elish</a> at the MIT <a href="http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/">Hyperstudio</a> (a digital humanities lab) recently pinged me with details regarding an interesting symposium on information visualization that will be taking place this coming spring. <em>Visual Interpretations</em> is scheduled for May 20-22 and will consider the "aesthetics, methods, and critiques of information visualization" in the humanities and social sciences. The call frames the event as follows:<br /> <blockquote>How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research? HyperStudio’s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as "humanities tools in digital environments.” (Johanna Drucker)</blockquote></p> <p>This all sounds quite promising and I appreciate the way that the event is contextualized – especially the desire to focus on the &#34;past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities.&#34; The word <em>past</em> suggests this will be much more than a visualization trade show. Some highlights from the suggested topics posed by the organizers: <ul> <li>Expressive and artistic dimensions of visualizations</li> <li>Cultural history of visual epistemology</li> <li>2D and 3D visualizations of historical/social/political data</li> <li>Visualization across media and the archive</li> <li>Relationships between database and interface</li> <li>Alternative modes of data representation.</li> <li>Digital visual literacy* &#38; accessibility</li> </ul> </p><p>You can get more information on the symposium CFP <a href="http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/">here</a> – the organizers can accommodate a range of presentation formats (papers, workshops, and something called a 6/4 which is either an odd time signature or a <a href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/">PechaKucha</a>-style speed talk).</p> <p>I&#39;m leaning towards submitting a proposal – perhaps I&#39;ll see some of you folks in Cambridge this May.</p> <p><em>*An issue that I <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/revminds/2009/09/form_follows_visual_literacy.php">prattled about</a> during my tenure at ScienceBlogs last fall.</em></p> <div><div> <h2>Trackback URL for this post:</h2> <div>http://serialconsign.com/trackback/455</div> </div> </div><div> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?a=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?a=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?a=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?i=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?a=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?i=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?a=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:TzevzKxY174"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?a=6kOFqWMO65c:huw_AY6uyIY:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/serialconsign?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/serialconsign/~4/6kOFqWMO65c" height="1" width="1"> Ben Fry - On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces

[Ben Fry / The Preservation of Favoured Traces / 2009]

Madeleine Clare Elish at the MIT Hyperstudio (a digital humanities lab) recently pinged me with details regarding an interesting symposium on information visualization that will be taking place this coming spring. Visual Interpretations is scheduled for May 20-22 and will consider the “aesthetics, methods, and critiques of information visualization” in the humanities and social sciences. The call frames the event as follows:

How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research? HyperStudio’s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as “humanities tools in digital environments.” (Johanna Drucker)

This all sounds quite promising and I appreciate the way that the event is contextualized – especially the desire to focus on the "past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities." The word past suggests this will be much more than a visualization trade show. Some highlights from the suggested topics posed by the organizers:

  • Expressive and artistic dimensions of visualizations
  • Cultural history of visual epistemology
  • 2D and 3D visualizations of historical/social/political data
  • Visualization across media and the archive
  • Relationships between database and interface
  • Alternative modes of data representation.
  • Digital visual literacy* & accessibility

You can get more information on the symposium CFP here – the organizers can accommodate a range of presentation formats (papers, workshops, and something called a 6/4 which is either an odd time signature or a PechaKucha-style speed talk).

I'm leaning towards submitting a proposal – perhaps I'll see some of you folks in Cambridge this May.

*An issue that I prattled about during my tenure at ScienceBlogs last fall.

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