A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century.
Digital_Humanities is a ...compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry—including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation—to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.
XL Lunenfeld, Peter
Journal of visual culture,
08/2012, Letnik:
11, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Peter Lunenfeld writes that though he never considered John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" as formative to his thinking and practice, on being tasked with rethinking the 40th anniversary of its multiple ...birth he is struck by how similar it is to his own transmedia projects, including electronic ones. It anticipates the emerging Digital Humanities and also, in its collaborative nature, how large-scale public dissemination of knowledge would evolve. It goes against the grain of the academic norm of building around a master theorist, even though Berger has an impressive capacity to deploy theories. His use of those of Dziga Vertov and Walter Benjamin are remarked on here to highlight an interesting temporal inflection in how avant-garde ideas about the aesthetics and politics of earlier times are popularised and disseminated. (Quotes from original text)
Web Design’s Long First Decade Lunenfeld, Peter
Afterimage,
04/2006, Letnik:
33, Številka:
5
Journal Article, Magazine Article
Recenzirano
"The World Wide Web as a medium and Web design as a creative practice are now both old enough to have histories. The period between 2003 and 2005 saw various public celebrations of the first ten ...years of this quintessential new medium...By all rights, a history of Web design ought to run from the medium's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, to a hot designer of the moment--Joshua Davis from the United States, Yugo Nakamura from Japan, or a collective like Paris-based LeCielEstBleu--in other words, from the first screen shot of the Berners-Lee browser to a selection from Davis's Praystation." (Afterimage) In this essay on Web design's first decade, Peter Lunenfeld discusses the New Economy, I-Girls and Generation M, the proliferation of Web designers, and dangers associated with historicizing Web design.
But, when my turn to participate arrived at the first international symposium on the history of Web design, I began to think about revisionism at the very moment of historicizing.1 By all rights, a ...history of Web design ought to run from the medium's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, to a hot designer of the moment-Joshua Davis from the United States, Yugo Nakamura from Japan, or a collective like Paris-based LeCielEstBleu-in other words, from the first screen shot of the Berners-Lee browser to a selection from Davis's Praystation. Detailed histories of the evolution of the medium would follow Berners-Lee's development of the Web as a means to distribute physics papers at the Swiss research laboratory CERN, through the release of the first alpha version of the NCSA Mosaic browser for X-Windows in '93, and then on to the frenzy around the spinning off of Mosaic's development team, lead by Marc Andreessen, to form Netscape in 1994.
