13 June 2016, 5pm
Dimensions of Visualization for the Humanities
Johanna Drucker, UCLA
As digital humanities projects engage with large scale data and analytic tools,
they have become increasingly dependent on visualization tools to assist in
making the queries and assessments of these approaches legible. Most of the
graphical properties of these visualizations bear the imprint of the fields
within which they were invented – social and natural sciences, administration,
business, and other empirically-driven disciplines. Are these visualizations
adequate for humanistic purposes? Or are the basic tenets of humanist
epistemology, grounded in interpretative approaches and hermeneutic methods, at
odds with those based on empiricism? If so, then what additional dimensions –
literal and conceptual – might be added to the graphical expressions for a
domain specific approach to visualization in and for the humanities?
Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies
in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known
for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry,
fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book
artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries
worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and
Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical
Guide (Pearson, 2008, 2nd edition late 2012). She is currently working on a
database memoire, ALL, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with
University College London and King's College, and a letterpress project titled
Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work, Digital_Humanities, with
Jeffrey Schnapp, Todd Presner, Peter Lunenfeld, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming
from MIT Press.
Start 5 pm @ Campus Fachhochschule, Hörsaal in Haus D
Kiepenheuerallee 5, 14469 Potsdam
information+visualization
http://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/ <http://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/>
<http://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/ <http://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/>>
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