Posts from the ‘CDH events’ Category
Cindy Keefer, Archivist, Curator & Director . Center for Visual Music
Preserving Visual Music : The Archives of the Center for Visual Music
THURSDAY . May 30 . 4:30 PM . INTN 1113 . Refreshments served .
Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center for Visual Music Los Angeles, will discuss and screen work by pioneers of kinetic art, abstract animation and pre-digital cinema from CVM’s archives. CVM is a Los Angeles archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media. CVM preserves and promotes films by Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Charles Dockum, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, Harry Smith and others, as well as contemporary artists. Keefer will screen work from CVM’s archives by Fischinger and Belson, plus Dockum’s Mobilcolor Projections, Bute’s Abstronics (an early oscilloscope film), a short Bute documentary, and more. She will also discuss Belson’s now legendary 1950s Vortex Concerts, CVM’s work with the Fischinger legacy, current preservation work, and Raumlichtkunst, the new HD 3-screen reconstruction of Fischinger’s 1920s multiple-projector performances, recently exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Tate Modern, and scheduled for exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in summer 2013.
This is the last event CDH will host for the 2012-2013 season. Please join us for this exciting presentation.
The Critical Digital Humanities presents a CDH research panel with presentations by April Durham and Kimberly Hall. They will present drafts of recent research in digital humanities for discussion and comment.
Wednesday . April 10 . 12:30 – 2
English Department Conference Room
Refreshments will be served.
CDH event with media artist and scholar, Kristy Kang
The Seoul of Los Angeles: Contested Identities and Transnationalism in Immigrant Space
Thursday, April 4th at 3pm
Room: INTS 1113
Refreshments provided.
A presentation of interdisciplinary work in the digital humanities that explores narratives of identity formation and cultural memory.
Ms. Kang is an internationally recognized artist and has served as researcher, project director, and designer on a range of collaborative projects at the Labyrinth Project at USC.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Workshops in the Humanities. For more information on this and other events, please visit ideasandsociety.ucr.edu
New CDH Talk : Production & Pedagogy with Professor James S. Tobias
February 25th, 2013
April Durham
Production and Pedagogy: Design in the Digital Humanities Classroom
Dr. James S. Tobias . Associate Professor . Department of English . UC Riverside
Thursday . March 14 . 3-4:30 pm . English Department Conference Room
Refreshments provided.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information on this and other events, please visit the website at ideasandsociaty.ucr.edu
The Critical Digital Humanities group at UCR announces a reading group:
“Rhetoric & Critical Digital Humanities Scholarship: Rethinking Interactions with Digital Scholarship in terms of Agency, Rhetorical Address, and Reception”
The readings include short articles from the recent collection Debates in the Digital Humanities. The three articles are available by emailing your RSVP. Please see the flier below for the addresses. Kimberly and Rochelle will lead the discussion
This reading group will lay the foundation for an ongoing discussion about this year’s theme addressing the rhetoric of digital humanities scholarship.
WHEN: Wednesday . January 16 TIME: 1-2:30
WHERE: English Department Conference Room . HMNSS 2212
lunch will be served!
The three articles from Debates in the Digital Humanities are also available at the links below:
Lisa Sipro, “This is Why We Fight: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities”
Alan Liu, “Where is the Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities”
This event is sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Workshops in the Humanities.
The Rhetoric & Remix Reading Group meeting today has been postponed.
The event will be rescheduled for the Winter quarter.
Rhetorics of Power in the Politics of the Digital
CDH Hosts a Twitter Feed/Screening of the Presidential Debate
between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Debate Topic: Foreign Policy
10.22.2012 . 6-7:30 pm . English Department conference room
Pizza and drinks will be provided.
Sound Art and the Transborder Digital Memorial: Luz María Sánchez’ “2487″ at the Riverside Art Museum
September 19th, 2012
Carolyn Schutten
In conjunction with the Riverside Art Museum’s exhibition You Are Breathing in It: Alternative Art Practices (YABII), Luz María Sánchez’ 2487, a stereo installation from an 8-channel sound piece, is currently on exhibit in the RAM Alcove Hallway. The sound art installation was curated by Carolyn Schutten, a PhD student in public history from UCR, who took part in the Riverside Art Museum Student Curatorial Council (RAMSCC) pilot program.
2487 speaks the names of the two thousand four hundred eighty seven people who died crossing the U.S./Mexico border . The work employs digital technology and sound as a means for transborder memorialization and protest, imposing the absence of those lost into the public sphere. Sánchez’ immersive sound environment remaps social history as the names of the deceased fly across the border through soundscape and digital media. Drawing from data acquired from activist websites, Sánchez created a sound map of names which she recorded digitally. Her final score, along with the database, has been exhibited widely but lives permanently on the world wide web, in commemoration and quiet protest. Sánchez’ work connects the digital and geographic landscape to the listener’s body, gaining entry through sound and transcending political and physical barriers.
Curator Carolyn Schutten will speak about 2487 and the curatorial process, along with the other RAMSCC students, during a panel discussion on September 21 at 6:00 pm. To RSVP please call 951-684-7111 or e-mail Exhibit Liaison Kathryn Poindexter at: ramexhibitions@riversideartmuseum.org.
2487 will be on exhibit from August 9 – September 26, 2012 in the Riverside Art Museum Alcove Hall. YABII will close on September 22, 2012.
For more information on Sánchez sound project, visit: www.diaspora2487.org
Luz María Sánchez’ 2487 was originally commissioned by Artpace San Antonio as part of the International Artist-in-Residence program New Works: 06.2, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Please join us for one of the final events of our exciting digital year.
Dr. Rita Raley, Associate Professor at UCSB will present on the possibilities for social exchange in textual media environments, focusing on hand-held devices.
Thursday, May 31
4:30-6 pm
INTS 1113
Refreshments served!
Dr. Raley’s talk will move “beyond the desktop,” with a particular focus on mobile media and projected display. In this work, she emphasizes the potentiality of these environments with respect to social exchange, publics, and being in common.
She also reflects on the disciplinary implications of textual environments that are about transient display and process rather than the artifact. Dr. Raley is Associate Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with a particular emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and language (codework, machine translation, electronic literature, and electronic English).
For more about Dr. Raley visit: http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/
CDH event – Technologies of Critical Writing: On the War Between Data and Images
May 9th, 2012
Steve Anderson
Tuesday, May 15th 1-3pm in INTS 1111
Technologies of Critical Writing: On the War Between Data and Images
by USC professors: Steve Anderson and Holly Willis
Despite many attempts throughout the history of cinema to derive a “language of cinema” or a “film grammar,” little has been written about the rich history of text deployed in film and video, in which onscreen typography produces an emergent, participatory aesthetic experience uniting reading and viewing. “The Letter and the Line: Text in Film and Video” assesses key examples of this history. Steve Anderson of USC will present his recent work in the realm of digital humanities authoring and platform development, focusing on an interactive critical essay developed through a process of “researching in public” and utilizing the newly developed, rich-media electronic authoring platform, Scalar. This hybrid, text/media essay is being created in parallel with an author- generated archive of video clips and text commentaries that are posted to the online forum and fair use advocacy site, Critical Commons.
