As a concept, making Dance For Screens seemed completely doable: make some choreography, capture it on film, edit that footage into a series of short screendances and then implement those screendances on a couple of cell phones for an interactive installation. Simple, right?  Not quite.  Each aspect of this project came loaded with a itsContinue reading “Dance For Screens: It’s Alive!”

For me, grad school, and especially the process of dissertating, has involved not knowing what I’m doing a lot of the time. I don’t think that experience is atypical, but this fellowship semester has been a period when I felt like I knew what I was doing—I was making a website about a Boston periodicalContinue reading “It’s Unfinished: Certainty and the Digital Exhibition”

The past few weeks at the Studio have been a unique learning experience as I now have more familiarity and better working proficiency with Audacity and WordPress—tools that I am using in my project. Since I am building a multimedia archive of the stories of South Asians residing in the Middle East, I have conductedContinue reading “Looking back, looking ahead”

My project creates the visualization of people’s ‘cognitive structures’ (or mental map) using survey responses, as shown in my previous blog posting. At the end of the summer, I am very happy to share my experience in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio. First, I have explored possible options for choosing available programming packages andContinue reading “Summer Experience and Next Steps”

As the summer fellowship is wrapping up I am finding myself making a few small, but important, breakthroughs in my work. The most recent being the ability to utilize more of the functions of the ArcGIS platform. Specifically the select tool for highlighting information that is relevant for my work.  Figure 1. ArcGIS map ofContinue reading “Slow but steady…”

In the course of the last couple of weeks, I’ve made some significant progress on my project and my website and I’ve come a long way in my understanding of the code that I’ve been trying to use. The various elements have occasionally felt a little bit eclectic as I’ve transitioned from a Codecademy course onContinue reading “A Summer of Breaking and Building”

To begin, I would like to thank the Graduate College and the University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio for the opportunity to work on my digital project over this summer.  To recap, I intended to build an interactive map of nuclear waste transportation routes from operational and retired nuclear reactors to YuccaContinue reading ““Adventures in Real Estate (Part Two)” by Egeon, merchant of Syracuse”

Hispanic women writers in Iowa: a digital map (part II)   This past week has been the last part of the project, the wrap up. Mainly I have been uploading all the information in WordPress. I thought I would have to learn more digital stuff, but since my project is a map, it´s mainly enteringContinue reading “Hispanic women writers in Iowa: a digital map (part II)”

This summer I have worked on a typeface based on lettering from the Lindisfarne Gospels, a manuscript book created at a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, England, in the eighth century. The manuscript includes calligraphic insular uncial, but heavily illuminated pages feature drawn capitals that are a hybrid ofContinue reading “Historically Inspired Digital Font Design”