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February 11, 2015
The First Experiences in Research (FE-R) program requires its students to write abstracts about their research projects. So, here'...
February 10, 2015
This semester, I’ve taken a more active role in the research of Decomposing Bodies headed by Project Lead, Alison...
February 4, 2015
For the month of January, I've been researching for Itinera to catalog the travels of artists and artifacts around Europe during...
February 4, 2015
On Monday, January 29th, Jen Donnelly, Alison Langmead and I braved a wintry mix of snow and slush, arriving at the Ohio History...
February 3, 2015
For the past few months, Aisling and I have been searching for the identification cards created for Chinese immigrants using the...
January 31, 2015
I am excited to announce that construction on my third three-dimensional model is well underway. For this model, I am recreating ...
January 22, 2015
Sisters Mary and Agnes Berry, daughters of Robery Berry, born in Britain only 14 months apart, naturally had an insepreable bond....
January 16, 2015
On the eve of winter break, Alison Langmead, Josh Ellenbogen and I once again emerged from our cozy domiciles at a cold and dark...
January 15, 2015
Tim Hitchcock gave a lovely talk at the British Library at the end of last year on "Big Data, Small Data, and Meaning," that...
January 8, 2015
This is the current theme of Wesleyan's Humanities Center. To add to all the many "turns" we have heard about, there is now a "...
January 7, 2015
For your perusal, the following are links to a conversation happening currently about topic modelling and plotting the plot of a...
December 16, 2014
I've attached a short, interesting piece arguing that historians need to be more engaged with nonacademic publics. The author...
December 9, 2014
ULS has recently subscribed to the peer-reviewed journal ARTMargins, published by MIT Press. According to its website, "ARTMargins ...
December 5, 2014
This semester will conclude my time as an undergraduate at Pitt for the second time. Having graduated in 2009 with a degree in...
November 18, 2014
In the text of a recent a talk that Bethany Nowviskie gave for the Digital Library Federation, she offers a powerful argument for...
November 17, 2014
A project I have been working on these past few weeks in the Visual Media Workshop is the scanning of images from two texts...
November 13, 2014
How long has the question asked above been thinkable? Is it even yet thinkable? Check out the entire image up there. Why don't we...
November 12, 2014
Last week’s break-through led us to begin researching the use of the Bertillon system to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act. The...
November 10, 2014
I am gearing up to do a DH project which has some interesting parallels with Decomposing Bodies, the Bertillon project about which...
November 10, 2014
We will be holding a colloquium on this topic on Wed Nov 12 at noon. In preparation I am posting here a PDF containing some...
November 4, 2014
Whether you are interested in one of our longer term collaborative research projects, primarily use the lab for short-term...
November 3, 2014
Earlier this month, students in History of Art and Architecture and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh hosted...
October 30, 2014
Recording data set after data set of prisoner identification cards, a curious abstraction occurs. The brain seeks the numbers,...
October 20, 2014
I attended an interesting dicussion today on the (controversial) MLA report advocating significant structural changes in humanities...
October 20, 2014
I am asked many questions on a weekly basis about what it takes to start using digital methods in the humanities. I enjoy answering...
October 19, 2014
On Friday night I attended the world premiere of “Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films,” at the Carnegie Music Hall...
October 15, 2014
In the coming weeks, I will be producing a new set of standardized instructions for entering data into Itinera, as well as updating...
October 7, 2014
Transcribing Bertillon cards last week I got to thinking about knitting. When I was a more prolific knitter, people would...
October 3, 2014
The first panel of the DVK Symposium is currently underway in the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, an attractive lecture space on...
October 1, 2014
For those of you who weren't at the Agency meeting on Sept 28, we decided that we would take up the challenge offered by Barbara to...
September 30, 2014
In thinking about a possible exhibition on Decomising Bodies, I hope to create an interactive exhibit that recreates the Bertillion...
September 29, 2014
Some examples of the objects on display at S&S, objects within a hyper- or encompassing object that is itself part of a larger...
September 29, 2014
Shane Pickett, Medicine grounds that become ready during Bunuroo, 2008 acrylic on linen 183 x 153 cm
For the sake of clarity, I...
September 29, 2014
Mathias Goeritz (German, active Mexico City), Message No. 7B, Eccles. VII:6, 1959. MoMA
Alberto Burri (Italy), Sacco e oro...
September 22, 2014
This is the suite of Lynda.com and YouTube videos that I have been suggesting for a few terms to the humanists around who want to...
September 19, 2014
DEBATING VISUAL KNOWLEDGE GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
3-5 OCTOBER 2014
Visual knowledge and visual literacy have become pressing...
September 17, 2014
Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland expressed the intent of their voyage was to discover how the "forces of nature intersect ...
September 16, 2014
Thinking about Decomposing Bodies, I came across many Bertillion Card Forms that were missing their left corner. The loss of these...