[spectre] Johanna Drucker (UCLA) @ FH Potsdam this Monday

[Annika Haas]

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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