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By gabriella on May 14, 2010

Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

May 20 – May 22, 2010

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Organized by HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT


Keynote speakers:

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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)

Organizers:
MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities
with the MIT Communications Forum (Opening keynote) and the Comparative Media Studies Program

Contact:

Program

By Anna van Someren on May 9, 2010

Thursday, May 20

Registration 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Bartos Theater, E15-070

Welcome & Introductions 3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Bartos Theater, E15-070

Kurt Fendt, Executive Director, MIT HyperStudio
Deborah Fitzgerald, Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

Keynote 3:15 – 3:45 p.m., with discussion until 4:30 p.m.
Bartos Theater, E15-070
Johanna Drucker, Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments
Moderator: Kurt Fendt

Coffee Break 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Short Presentations (6/4s) 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Bartos Theater E15-070

Social Media as Paratextual Narrative: Visualizing Twitter Surges in Response to Popular Television Shows
Alex Leavitt, Convergence Culture Consortium (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) & Web Ecology Project

Citizenship in the Age of Complexity
Daniel Chamberlain, Occidental College

Visualizing Feminism: Reframing Cinema in Database Documentary
Gail Vanstone and Carolyn Steele, York University

Cinemetrics
Arno Bosse and Keith Brisson, University of Chicago

Social/Image: A Visual Art/ists Wiki in Theory and Practice
Amit Ray, Gregory Halpern and Derin Korman, Rochester Institute of Technology

Reception 6:15 – 8:00 p.m.
Morss Hall, 50-140
Ben Shneiderman, Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage:  Interactive Exploration for Scholars in the Humanities, Arts, and Beyond
Moderator: James Paradis


Friday, May 21

Paper Presentations 9:00 – 11:00 am
Bartos Theater E15-070

The Visible and the Invisible: Interfaces and Visualizations of Media Art Archives
Gabriele Blome, University of Siegen

Visual argumentation: How Visual Rhetorical Figures Shape the Perception of Information
Ralph Lengler, University of Sydney

The area told as a story. An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information
Øyvind Eide, Kings College

ExtrAct: Changing humanities research and the dynamics of Extractive Industries through Crowdsourcing
Christina Xu, MIT

White Flight: Complexity, Optics, and Visualization as Evasion
Ted Byfield, Parsons the New School for Design, New School University

Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 am

Short Presentations (6/4s) 11:30 – 12:30 pm
Bartos Theater E15-070

Viewing and Navigating the Historical Context of News
Earl Wagner, MIT Media Lab

09.1: Possible Disappearance / Database Testimony
Ben Miller, MIT

The Virtues and Limits of Data-Intensive Methods in Korean History
Javier Cha, Harvard University

In fondo al mar / Under the sea
David Boardman, MIT

Splendor, Destruction, and the Shift from Awe to Action in Environmental Documentary
Jeanne Marie Kusina, Bowling Green State University

Data Visualization in Digital Storytelling: The Map is Key
Siobhan O’Flynn, University of Toronto

Lunch Break 12:30 – 1:45 pm

Keynote 1:45 – 2:45 pm
Bartos Theater E15-070
Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas, “Numbers, Words and Colors”
Moderator: Kurt Fendt

Paper Presentations 2:45 – 4:15 pm
Bartos Theater E15-070

Visualizing Musical Citation Networks
Wayne Marshall, MIT and Pacey Foster, UMass Boston

Media Art as a Social Process – the Prix Ars Electronica Jury Sessions
Dietmar Offenhuber, MIT

The Role of Mediation in Scholarly Digital Media
Elijah Meeks, Stanford

Layerized and temporally located graphs
Yves-Marie L’Hour and Samuel Huron, Centre Pompidou

Coffee Break 4:15 – 4: 45 p.m.

Paper Presentations 4:45 – 6:15 pm
Visualizing Shakespeare in Performance: The Digital Video Archive in the Age of YouTube
Peter Donaldson, MIT

What do they have? Alternate Visualizations of Museum Collections
Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan

Fingerprints in Image-Driven Scholarship
Ellen Sebring, MIT

Scripting Writing and Reading in Jim Andrews’s Digital Poems
Manuel Portela, Coimbra

Image Matrices: Learning from Klosterneuburg
Maximillian Schich, Northeastern University

Conference Dinner 6:45 – 10:00p.m.
Silverman Skyline Room, E14-638
Keynote: Lev Manovich: “How to read 1000000 Manga pages? Visualizing patterns in games, comics, art, cinema, TV, animation, TV, and print media”
Moderator: Ian Condry

Saturday, May 22nd

Workshops, Demos, and Posters 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Bartos Theater, E15-070

Workshops
Digitization of Cultural Heritage: Taiwan Experience
Der-Tsai Lee, Ming-chorng Hwang, Sophy Shu-Chen and Jessie Tsai, Academia Sinica

Collaborative Cave Drawings of Social Interactions: Simple Visualizations of Complex Phenomena
V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai and Andrea Frank, MIT

Qualitative, Metaphor-based Frameworks for Information Visualization
Jonathon Cousins, New York

Demos

Chronos – A Flexible Timeline Tool
Dave Della Costa, MIT HyperStudio

Data Portraiture and Topic Models
Aaron Zinman, MIT Media Lab

Emergent Time – Social Timelining
Christopher York, MIT

Exploration and Discovery of Data through Concept Mapping
Michael Korcynski, Tufts University – UIT/Academic Technology

The History of Early Modern Physics: A Digital Exhibit
Cira Brown, Worcester State College

Hustling Health Care: An Experiment in Ulterior Education Through Gameplay
Clay Ewing, Parsons, The New School for Design

Immersive Planning: Games and the Urban Environment
Eric Gordon, Emerson College

The New York Times Visual Explorer
Aditi Shrikumar, University of California, Berkeley

The Shape of the Media-City
Gaia Scagnetti, MIT

Synthetures
Nick Hardeman, Parson, The New School for Design

Venturing into the Image Era through Italo Calvino
Marta Del Pozo Ortea, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Visualization-101: Escape from Etudes
Bill Ferster, University of Virginia

What does research sound like?
Todd Wemmer, Endicott College, University of Massachusetts of Amherst


Posters
Geologic Time Viewer
Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth, The New School

Hearing the Unseen
Barry Moon, Arizona State University and Brenda Moon, Australian National University

The Importance of Bibliometric Literacy in the Context of Humanities,
Almila Adkag Salah, Virtual Knowledge Studio / KNAW

Visual Metaphors of Time: (Post)Structural Analysis
Olga Ast, Parsons, The New School for Design

Visual representations in the Knowledge Production Value Chain of Pharmaceutical Development
Meaghan Brierley, University of Calgary

What? Where? When? NOT Who? Why? How? – Spatiotemporal visualization of mobile communities
Benjamin Mangold, University of Siegen

Short Presentations (6/4s) 11:00 – 12:00 p.m.
Bartos Theater, E15-070

Informationalizing Space: Lebbeus Woods and Photosynth
Andy Engel, Wayne State University

neurographica
Maria Moon, Art Center College of Design

Laptop: Visualization of the Musical Instrument in Digital Music Performance
Dustin Morrow, Temple University

The Process of Visualizing Data As A Mode of Inquiry
Rebecca Mushtare, Marymount Manhattan College

An Ethnographic Study of Information Visualization
Esra Ozkan, Independent

Visualization Across the Archive
Matthew Dimopoulos, Claremont Graduate University

Lunch Break 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Closing Panel 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Mike Danziger, Lev Manovich, Nick Montfort, Christopher York
Moderator: Kurt Fendt

Registration

By gabriella on April 20, 2010


Conference Attendance/Fee

Attending the humanities + digital “Visual Interpretations” Conference is free, however registration is required.

Registration for the Conference is CLOSED

Venue

By gabriella on April 19, 2010

Venue

All sessions of the humanities +digital Conference will be held on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Presentations and 6/4s will take place in Bartos Theater, lower level of the Jerome Wiesner Building – Media Lab (building E15), 20 Ames Street; Mini-Workshops and Demo-Sessions in other rooms of the Wiesner Building.

The Opening Reception will be held in Morss Hall, the main auditorium in Walker Memorial (building 50), 142 Memorial Drive.

The Conference Dinner will be held in the Silverman Skyline Room of the new Media Lab Complex (building E14), 75 Amherst Street.


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Hotel/Travel

By gabriella on

Hotel Reservations
We have reserved a block of rooms at a special conference rate at the Cambridge Marriott, which is adjacent to the MIT campus. Please click to make your reservation.
You must make your hotel reservation by Friday, April 30, 2010 in order to get the discounted conference rate ($170 per night plus tax). Rooms can be singles or doubles and sharing a room with a colleague helps reduce the cost of attending the conference.
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General information about the MIT campus and environment can be found here.

Travel information:

Conference Bios

By brett on May 17, 2008

Abstracts and Bios for all presenters at the h+d Conference 2010