In only a few short weeks, my fellowship project has undergone a series of substantial transformations. While the Fellowship course provided useful information about the inner-workings of digital humanities, having a chance to see my own project develop from start to (tentative) finish was an invaluable lesson about everything that goes into a work ofContinue reading “Let the Data Be Your Guide”
Category Archives: Studio Fellows
Problem Solving with Plugins
I have spent the majority of the second half of the summer troubleshooting the Spout and NDI plugins for Unreal Engine. Recently, I have been using Unreal Engine to send video from Axis Studio (the Perception Neuron 3 software) into a projection software called Isadora. With help from my point of contact Matthew Butler, IContinue reading “Problem Solving with Plugins”
Translation in Practice
“But we were growing up and it was necessary to learn, or so my dad told us after he sent Abel to inspect the gully up to the dam—the water from the garden spout had dwindled, perhaps because of a collapsed bank or some rotten branch blocking the stream—only for Abel to return while weContinue reading “Translation in Practice”
How it has been going
I have enjoyed the weekly meetings for this fellowship. We talked about digital scholarship and the labor involved. The weekly meetings are helpful in holding us accountable and offer a space for us to talk about our progress, how we are feeling, and the issues we have encountered in our projects. I really enjoyed theContinue reading “How it has been going”
The Challenges of Crowdsourcing: Engaging the Crowd and Finding Time
As I begin to reflect on my fellowship experience, I would like to pick up where I left off. Since my last post, I worked with folks to test the tasks and workflow of the crowdsourcing component added to Hobo Archive. These tasks ask people to upload pictures of their resources and describe the resourceContinue reading “The Challenges of Crowdsourcing: Engaging the Crowd and Finding Time”
Drawing from what DJ Tanner taught me
Just this week we read and talked about feelings of being obsolete. While the inherent purpose was to discuss the evolution of technology and digital spaces, I gravitated to my own person concern and woe. I instantly responded with the moment that my then high school freshmen sat in my introduction to journalism class andContinue reading “Drawing from what DJ Tanner taught me”
Music of Movement: A Lost Archive
This summer, I am focusing on creating an archive of a movement that has shaped the latter half of the 20th century into the 21st when it comes to contemporary regional culture’s music, culture, and landscape. The Great Migration was a period of great peril and risks for African American families in the South. LivingContinue reading “Music of Movement: A Lost Archive”
Modes of Translation
Recently, in one of the distractions that consume negligible but not insignificant parts of my day, I was reading a Twitter thread about what’s the best way to “tell someone to f— off in a work email.” The responses were numerous and ranged in levels of passive aggression and snark—“I am sorry we have notContinue reading “Modes of Translation”
carceral camoflage
In August 2021, I moved into a small house about a mile south of the University of Iowa, and shortly thereafter began a daily bike commute from home to school and back again. I’m always interested in the million choices that go into the design of a place, and how this built environment affects ourContinue reading “carceral camoflage”
Instances of Kmart
I’ve spent more time than I ever could have imagined thinking about Kmart this past year. Ever since a friend sent me a YouTube clip of a man reading the last announcement at a Kmart store (‘the store will be closing, forever, in 5 minutes…’) and I scrolled through the video’s thousands of elegiac comments,Continue reading “Instances of Kmart”