Data for Digital Arts + Humanities Research / Sep 20 / 12 PM / Wells E159
Scholarly Communications in Digital Arts + Humanities / Sep 27 / 12 PM / Wells E159

MAPPING MATERIALITIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES: 2019-2020

During the 2019-2020 academic year, the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities will explore the theme Mapping Materialities in the Arts and Humanities. Spatial orientation grounds much of our multi-dimensional understanding of materiality, from the physical properties of artifacts that we study as humanists and create as artists, to the digital properties that are conveyed through code, data and interfaces. The concepts we map through our disciplines guide us as we apply computational approaches to arts and humanities, and ground us in our core sources — texts and imagery — that motivate and inspire research and creative outputs. The act of mapping — whether we are plotting time and space or associating and establishing conceptual relationships — is one of several modes of inquiry employed by digital artists and humanists in order to better understand and manipulate materiality. We will explore several manifestations of mapping materiality whether through neogeographic approaches to activist mapping, network analysis of people and places, or open and traceable publishing and peer-review approaches that will provide a foundation for artists and humanities scholars to plot their course.

CONSULT WITH IDAH + DCS

IDAH and the IU Libraries hold joint consulting sessions several times each week on Digital Project Planning. If you need help with a digitally-inflected project or class, we can help. Our regular consulting hours vary by semester; for Fall 2019, our hours are on Tuesdays from 10 AM - 12 PM, and on Wednesdays from 2 PM - 4 PM. You can schedule a consultation with us using our online scheduling tool, or by emailing us directly at idah@indiana.edu.

WORKSHOPS + RESOURCES

Our digital-methods workshops demonstrate how applications of mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, and other digital methods can help arts + humanities practitioners craft new research questions and answer those questions. We also link attendees to the IU resources that can support these efforts and provide practical examples of these digital-methods applications in a variety of environments.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS + INCUBATOR APPLICATIONS

Are you working on a project with a significant digital component in pursuit of tenure and/or promotion? Do you need to jump-start a digital project? Whether you're an undergraduate student, graduate student, or faculty member, IDAH wants to help. Our Faculty Fellowship program and HASTAC Scholarship program are both designed to provide funding for digitally-inflected research projects, while our Incubator program brings all of the resources IU has to offer for faculty and graduate students engaged in digital arts & humanities projects into a single room for a week-long intensive workshop in July.

STAY UP TO DATE.

IDAH regularly reports on talks, workshops and other special events related to digital arts & humanities on the IU Bloomington campus through Twitter, Facebook, and our mailing list. If you'd like to hear about what we're doing on campus (and what our colleagues are up to), give us a follow or sign up to receive emails from us. We send weekly DH event roundups, reminders about upcoming features, and deadlines and save-the-dates for future conferences.