Saturday April 27th (York University)
DAY 3 Registration – York University, Accolade East Concourse 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
8:30 am – 9:00 am Coffee and Mingling, CIBC Lobby, ACE
9:00 am Keynote – Faire Fecan Theatre, ACE
Joseph Tabbi, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago
“Relocating the Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material and Mental Environments”
Saturday ongoing
+City (http://pluscity.me) – HASTAC 2013 Conference Twitter Visualization Project
+City is a dynamic data visualization of pre-determined Twitter hashtag streams that maps in real-time tweets, replies and retweets, illuminating the social flow of networked communications.
On monitors in CIBC Lobby, on select conference room screens before talks and online.
Siobhan O’Flynn and Faisal Anwar, Toronto
10:30 am-5:00 pm Made Realities: A Maker Space – Accolade East Concourse (across from CIBC Lobby)
Devon Elliott (University of Western Ontario), Kevin Kee (Brock University), Shaun Macpherson (University of Victoria), JenterySayers (University of Victoria) and William J. Turkel (University of Western Ontario) in collaboration with the Maker Lab in the Humanities, the Ontario Augmented Reality Network (OARN), and the Lab for Humanistic Fabrication
10:30-1:00 pm Sensorium: A curated interactive exhibition showcasing digital media research underway in the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University (backstage @ Faire Fecan Theatre)
Also on the concourse: HASTAC info table, Booktable, courtesy of York University Bookstore
10:20 am-11:35 am
Session 11 (Lightning Talks) ACE 002
James Thornburgh, Fresno State: “Hackerspaces as the new CTE training ground?”
Amy Ratelle, Ryerson University: “To boldly go where someone else has gone before in great detail: DH, archives and fan sites in film studies”
Sarah Berry, Portland State University: “In Search of Massively Open Intimacy”
Session 12 (Lightning Talks) ACE 003
Vicki Mayer, Tulane University: “MediaNOLA: A Circuit for Historical Production and Preservation”
Hannah Turner, University of Toronto: “What kind of thing is a museum catalogue?”
Rachel Deblinger, UCLA:“Making Memories/Motifs: An interactive exhibit of early Holocaust survivor narratives”
Tomas Karlsson, Umeå University: “Historical War-games and the Retention of History”
Session 13 (Lightning Talks) ACE 004
Kurt Fendt and Jia Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “Layered Patterns -Visualizing Reader Engagement in Digital Texts”
Jonathan Reeve, New York University: “Towards a Social Literary Annotation Engine”
Korey Jackson, Anvil Academic: “Introducing Anvil Academic: Modular Publishing for Digital Scholarship”
Katie Tanigawa and Jana Millar Usiskin, University of Victoria: “Empty Tags and Dis-contents: Strategies for Challenging Markup Teleologies”
Ekin Yasin, New York University: “The Dying Patient, The Invincible Mouse and Tumor Media: Technologies and Cultures of Tumor Mediation”
Session 14 (Lightning Talks) ACE 009
Jeri Wieringa, George Mason University: “Introducing Rails Girls”
Tessa Joseph-Nicholas, UNC-Chapel Hill: “Life Still Very, Very Hard: Women Reading Women Online and the Problem of Intimacy“
Costis Dallas, Athena Research Centre and University of Toronto; Toma Tasovac, Center for Digital Humanities, Belgrade; and Christof Schöch, University of Würzburg: “Understanding and Building a Community: DARIAH-EU’s Virtual Competency Centre for Research and Education”
Elika Ortega, University of Western Ontario: “Where is the Story? Social and Textual Network Analysis of Intermedial Narrative Texts”
Carrie Lanza, University of Washington: “Exploring Genealogies of Community-Based Participatory Media Practices”
Session 15 ACE 001
Alan Craig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Getting Started With High Performance Computing for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences”
Scott Rettberg and Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen: “Developing a Robust Research Infrastructure for Electronic Literature: The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base”
Sara Diamond, OCAD University: “Centre for Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design”
Session 16 ACE 005
“Building an Academic Community for the Digital Age”
Fiona Barnett (Duke University), Amanda Phillips (University of California Santa Barbara) and Viola Lasmana (University of Southern California)
11:45 am -1:00 pm
Session 17 ACE 002
Daniel Powell, University of Victoria: “Notes Towards a Multimodal Regional Digital Cultures Collaboratory; or, HASTACing With the Neighbors”
Nicole Dewandre, European Commission-DG CONNECT: “Being human in a hyperconnected era”
T.B. Dinesh, Janatsu, India: “ReNarration Internet for Oral Cultures”
Session 19 ACE 003
“From Silos to Synergy: A Digital Humanities Project as a Catalyst for Collaboration”
S. Hollis Clayson, Mary E. Finn, Josh Honn, Claire Stewart, Matthew Taylor, Harlan Wallach, Katrin Voelkner Northwestern University
Session 20 ACE 009
“Innovative Identity: Re-envisioning Activism in Libraries and Archives”
Brianna Marshall (Indiana University), Melissa Villa-Nicholas (UIUC) and Paul Vinelli (University of Texas at Austin)
Session 21 ACE 005
“Digital Pedagogy: Dialectical and Analogical Praxis”
Ashley Young (Duke University), Sam Abramovich (University of Pittsburgh), Bryce Peake (University of Oregon), Viola Lasmana (University of Southern California)
Session 22 ACE004
Alan Sondheim, Independent Scholar and Artist: “What is to be Done — Issues of Animal and Plant Extinctions”
Dana Coester, West Virginia University: “The Reverberatory Narrative: Multimedia as a Multisensory Network”
Roderick Coover, Temple University: “Documentary Arts and Sensorial Research in Representing the Impact of Climate Change on Perceptions of Coastlines and Estuaries of the Mid- Atlantic”
12:00 pm -1:30 pm Lunch (continuous service – box lunch provided) – Accolade East Concourse
1:30 pm- 4:00 pm Posters and Demos (attendance by authors optional)
The Art and Technology Learning Laboratory -102 Accolade West (adjoining building)
The Transmedia Lab – 103 Accolade West (adjoining building)
Presenters may choose to leave their posters or demos available for a second session (rooms are secured overnight). Presenters may or may not be in attendance during this session.
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Session 23 ACE 003
Mark McDayter, Western University: “Hacking the Text: From Social Reading to Social Text”
Abigail De Kosnik and Andrea Horbinski, University of California, Berkeley: “FanData: Scraping Data from Fan Fiction Archives”
Robert E. McGrath, Champaign Urbana Community Fab Lab: “Introductions to Making at a Community Fab Lab”
Session 24 ACE 004
Piotr Michura, Academy of Fine Arts, Poland; Stan Ruecker, Illinois Institute of Technology; Gerry Derksen, Ted Pollari, IIT Institute of Design and Scott Audette, W.W.Grainger Inc.: “New Narratives Using Conversational Sculptures”
Tara Zepel, University of California, San Diego: “‘Seeing’ Visualization as a (Digital) Humanities Discipline”
Kurt Fendt, Jason Lipshin, Jeffrey Ravel, Jia Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “The Comédie-Française Registers Project: Merging Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Data Visualization”
Session 25 — Lightning Talks ACE 002
Going Beyond “Training”: Encouraging Innovation among 21st-Century Faculty
Tim Galow, John Garrison, Phil Krejcarek and Terri Johnson, Carroll University
Session 26 Faire Fecan Theatre, ACE
“Assessing Filmic Media as Collections of Culture”
Virginia Kuhn, University of Southern California; Alan Craig, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Ritu Aurora, University of Texas; Michael Simeone, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Session 27 ACE 005
Victoria Szabo, Duke University: “Building the Digital City: New Media Theory Meets Digital Humanities Practice”
Allison Schifani, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Alternative Sprawls, Junkfutures: Buenos Aires Libre’s Urban Epistemology”
Eric Ritskes, OISE/University of Toronto: “Producing culturally legitimate forms of digital knowledge: Indigeneity and the global production of the local”
Session 28 ACE 009
“Cohorts without Borders: New Doctoral Subjects”
Bonne Stewart, University of Prince Edward Island; Melonie Fullick, York University; Trent M. Kays, University of Minnesota; sava saheli singh, New York University
3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Session 29 ACE 002
Aaron Mauro, University of Victoria: “Festina Lente”: Digital Humanities as Narrative“
Adam Hammond, University of Victoria: “Problematizing Literature with Digital Methods: He Do the Police in Different Voices and The Brown Stocking”
Kevin A. Wisniewski and Craig Saper, University of Maryland, Baltimore County:
“The E-University Press @ UMBC”
Session 30 ACE 005
Timothy Bristow and Jim Clifford, York University: “Empires of Information: Text Mining Behind a Pay Wall”
Adčle Barclay, Susan Brown, University of Guelph/ University of Alberta; Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria: “The Key to All Ontologies?: The Long Now of Linked Data”
Michael Widner, Stanford University: “Towards a Future of Humanities Research: Bibliopedia, Linked Data, and the Problems of Data Silos”
Session 31, Faire Fecan Theatre, ACE
“Socially Engaged Scholars in the Digital Age”
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, John Mugane, Carla Martin, Harvard University and Patrick Vinck, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Session 32 ACE 009
“NextGen Digital Humanities: The Voices of Undergraduate Researchers”
Hema Surendranathan, Bryn Mawr, Michael Suen, Learning Games Network, and Jen Rajchel, Haverford College
Session 33, ACE 003
Jay David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Nassim Jafarnaimi and Rebecca Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Writing, Performance, Design: Frameworks for understanding & creating new narratives in augmented reality”
Geoffrey Allan Rhodes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: “New Narratives: Augmented Reality Art, So What, Who Cares?”
Alan Craig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “From the Virtual to the Real: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Personal Fabrication”
Session 34: Hybrid Works ACE 004
Johannes Heldén & Håkan Jonson, artists: “Evolution – a hybrid talk”
David Jhave Johnston, City University of Hong Kong: “Angry Words”
Mez Breeze, artist: “networker mez” (film)
4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Session 35 ACE 003 Cancelled
Session 36 ACE 009
“Pushing Productive Limits: Creativity and Anxiety in the Digital Humanities”
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Zoe LeBlanc, Miriam Martin and Don Rodrigues, Vanderbilt University
Session 37 ACE 005
“Enabling Collaborative & Participatory Learning in the 21st Century College Classroom: A Structured Conversation”
Jacqueline Vickery (University of North Texas), Andrew D’Souza (Top Hat Monocle), Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University), Dennis York (York University)
Session 38 ACE 011
“Speculation: An Alternate Reality Game”
Stephanie Boluk, Vassar College; Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago; Patrick LeMieux, Duke University
Session 39 ACE 002
Claude Fortin, Simon Fraser University: “Developing the interactive potential of digital public screens”
Adam Brown, James Cook University Australia: “Mechacritique: interobjectivity and criticality in new configurations of the photographic workshop”
Jon McKenzie and Rosemary Bodolay, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “DesignLab: Democratizing Digitality via Smart Media”
Session 18 ACE 004
Films – filmmakers in attendance
Nicole Van Slyke, Rhode Island School of Design: “Arts:Tech A Documentary Exploring Community-Based Practices” (30 minutes)
This documentary explores community-based practices in technology education.
Dan Browne, York University and Ryerson University, “memento mori” (28 minutes)
A layered time-lapse exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime—over 100,000 in total.
6: 00 pm Reception: Scott Library Atrium (food and drink provided)
and Performance: “Digitize and/or Destroy”
William Denton, web librarian, Adam Lauder, W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship and Lisa Sloniowski, English literature librarian, York University
Recognizing the role of libraries and archives in cultural production as well as in organizing and preserving material artifacts, this piece seeks to lay bare the everyday practices of digital preservation while at the same time producing a new digital corpus for future reuse and remixing.
Saturday Evening, 8:00 pm onwards
Norman Felix HASTAC Party (downtown)
Featuring York University Digital Media Showcase -Students’ Juried Exhibition
Norman Felix Art Gallery
627 Queen Street West
(Cash Bar)