The pilot project for Stanford University Press’s new digital publishing platform, Enchanting the Desert, is the web-based revival of a photographic slideshow made in ca. 1900 at the Grand Canyon by commercial photographer Henry Peabody. It is the earliest surviving mass-marketed visual representation of the region, meaning that it serves as a template for what people actually...
Life (Un)Ltd presents "Old Macdonald Had a Database: Lessons from the National Animal Identification System". Kath Weston, University of Virginia. Many of today's hotly debated surveillance technologies made their debut in applications with animals. In the United States, the National Animal Identification System is a state-sponsored Big Data scheme that proposes to render each animal...
Join UCLA's Digital Humanities Working Group as we learn about two exciting projects: David Kim, assistant professor, Germanic Languages, “World Literature@UCLA: Tracking Transliterations and International Publics with Gephi” This lecture examines how social network analysis, in general, and the application Gephi, in particular, are useful for reading “world literature.” David Damrosch, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, and...
Kathy High is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction and art. She produces videos and installations posing queer and feminist inquiries into areas of medicine/bio-science, and animal/interspecies collaborations.
Guest speaker: Ivan Pilshchikov, senior research fellow, Tallin U., Estonia.
Louis-Philippe Demers is a multidisciplinary artist using machines as media. His robotics works could be found in theatre, opera, subway stations, art museums, science museums, music events and trade shows.
