Over the weekend I launched Ring Log, which is simultaneously a critique of surveillance culture and a parody of machine vision in suburbia. In the interactive artist statement I call Ring Log an experiment in speculative surveillance. “Speculative” in this context means what if? What if Amazon’s Ring doorbell cams began integrating AI-powered object detection […]
From the ad: Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, an undergraduate college of The New School, invites applications to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning July 2020 in the Culture and Media Department. The program seeks to prepare students for advanced media studies and for careers in the communications industries and media arts. We […]
From the report: In mid-October, I presented on a roundtable titled “Teaching the American West Online” at the Western History Association’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our panel also included Dr. Jennifer Thigpen (Washington State University), Cassandra Clark ( Ph.D. Candidate, University of Utah), and was chaired by Dr. Sandra Mathews (Nebraska Wesleyan University). […]
From the CFP: As Texas Digital Library embarks on a new decade, TCDL’s theme this year, 2020 Hindsight: Looking Back, Moving Forward, presents an opportunity to pause and reflect on lessons learned from past projects and initiatives, and envision fresh possibilities for the future. Proposals might detail projects that didn’t go as planned (for better […]
From the announcement: Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020 will be hosted at the University of Colorado Denver, in collaboration with the School of Education and Human Development. We will gather July 27-31 for the largest Lab to date. This year’s event will include a broad selection of courses from an international group of faculty, special guest […]
From the ad: Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of History beginning August 2020. Area of specialization is open (other than the Americas). Broad training and ability to teach a variety of classes is a must. The successful applicant will also have digital humanities and/or public history […]
From the report: The 9th Annual University of Kansas Digital Humanities Forum “Bodies | Justice | Futures” was held at KU on October 3 – 4, 2019. Opening Keynote: Janet Chávez Santiago, Oaxaca, Mexico, “Indigenous Language and Culture Visibility in the Digital Age: Examples from Zapotec Activism,” Oct. 3 Janet Chávez Santiago discussed the challenges and […]
From the CFParticipation: We are happy to launch the call for participation for the DARIAH Annual Event 2020, which will take place in Zagreb, Croatia from May 26 to 29. Topic of this year’s event is Scholarly Primitives. It has been twenty years since John Unsworth first formulated scholarly primitives as a set of recursive and interrelated functions that form the foundations of research […]
From the CFParticipation: If you identify as a woman and gender minority working in DH anywhere in the world, you are invited to contribute to a collection of “love letters” to works of DH scholarship, collectively forming an annotated bibliography, which will be published as part of the proceedings of the “Women and Gender Minorities […]
From the ad: The Head of the Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) Department is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing an active, comprehensive digital scholarship program that meets the needs of a growing campus and the evolving environment of scholarly communication. Within the UCI Libraries, the Head of DSS and team members often partner with library […]
