OSU professors Robert Ladislas Derr (Art), Heather Inwood (East Asian Languages and Literatures), and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance) come together to consider how corporeal engagement inflects and is inflected by technology and arts practices. Derr stages both a corporeal and a historical encounter with Christopher Columbus, sensing his way through both past and present, Inwood analyses excretory excesses written into contemporary Chinese poetry, especially in the School of Rubbish and the School of Spam, and Zuniga-Shaw and her students offer perspectives on how technologically mediating physical practices such as dance opens up new questions around the body, movement, aesthetics, and decision-making. Discover Columbus In his project, Discovering Columbus, Robert Ladislas Derr utilizes the power of perspective and video technology to explore the convergence of ten towns in the U.S. named after the 15thcentury explorer. Constellations transposed on streets serve as navigation. Transcending time and place, his point of departure is wanderlust and the iconic explorer. Heather Inwood’s presentation will look at Chinese poetry on the internet that deals with the human body, examining avant-garde poems published online in the mid-2000s to consider the connection between the human body and digital technologies. She will explore the changes that occurred when practitioners of “body writing” (shenti xiezuo) moved online and suggest that poems that deal with bodily processes and sensations function as a form of meta-poetry, or poetry about poetry. The School of Rubbish (lajipai), whose writings included a style known as “shit and piss writing,” and the School of Spam (guanshuipai), whose members liked to “spam” internet forums with their crudely written poems, are used as examples. Synchronous Objects Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, was launched online and installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009. She will discuss how this work has impacted international audiences and connected viewers with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within.

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The Digital Sensorium - Part 6

Lewis Ulman (Digital Media Studies, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), English) convened this panel on March 20, 2013, which explored the role of “coding” in the digital arts and humanities. The panel offered insights into what markup, scripting, and procedural programming languages are most useful to arts and humanities scholarship, suggested different ways scholars and teachers in the arts and humanities can engage with coding and considered what role coding plays in the education of arts and humanities students.

CODE: Codified Objects Define Evolution - Conatser

Laura Mandell (Director of Texas A&M's Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, IDHMC - http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents a hands-on workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP – see http://emop.tamu.edu), for which Texas A&M's IDHMC recently received a Mellon Foundation grant.

Hands-on Workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project - Part 1

Hands-on Workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project - Part 2

Hands-on Workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project - Part 3

The Digital Sensorium - Part 5

Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University), Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities (http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) presents the Annual Lecture in Book History co-sponsored with History of the Book/Literacy Studies.

Annual Lecture in Book History: The Material Form of Literacy Conversation: Encoding and Modeling Texts from Early to Mass Print - Part 1

Annual Lecture in Book History: The Material Form of Literacy Conversation: Encoding and Modeling Texts from Early to Mass Print - Part 2

Hands-on Workshop on the Early Modern OCR Project - Part 4

CODE: Codified Objects Define Evolution - Delagrange

CODE: Codified Objects Define Evolution - Rinaldo

CODE: Codified Objects Define Evolution - Discussion

The Digital Sensorium - Part 1

The Digital Sensorium - Part 2

The Digital Sensorium - Part 3

This podcast presents events hosted by The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute’s Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group (DAH WG). DAH WG provides a venue for building a sustained digital arts and humanities network on campus. Ohio State supports ground-breaking work in the digital arts and humanities, but the University’s success in this area depends on building support systems that include a more robust infrastructure for developing and hosting digital humanities projects and a richer culture of collaboration and curation for that work. That culture must bring together librarians, IT professionals, and faculty, who, on such a large campus, often are simply unaware of potential resources and collaborators. As one of the OSU Humanities Institute's Working Groups, we sponsor workshops, panel discussions by members of the OSU community, and presentations by guest speakers. Programming organized by the working group focuses on areas in which there is already interest or expertise on campus, including mapping/visualization, digitally-enhanced pedagogy, digital archives, electronic textual editing, and game-based learning. The Working Group also functions as an 'incubator' for an ongoing digital arts and humanities community or network at OSU. This community will facilitate collaboration and sharing of expertise, and may have a role in recommending infrastructure for supporting research and teaching. For more information about the Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group, please visit our website: go.osu.edu/dah.

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