My summer research uses motion capture and green screen to explore the choreographies of rock climbing. I am interested in how route design influences a climber’s interpretation and experience of a rock wall. This summer research is an opportunity for me to gain the technical skills needed to create a live performance installation that exploresContinue reading “Ellen Oliver blog post 1”
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Learning how to code while having lots of thoughts
This summer, I aim to learn the necessary skills to build a digital database for my dissertation and future related research. To do this, I am learning to use Python language to scrape data from Chinese social media websites. This project is important to my research on feminist preservation and archiving of heavily censored queerContinue reading “Learning how to code while having lots of thoughts”
Reimagining the Hobo’s Archive: Authentic, Participatory, and Digital
This summer, I am excited to learn more about digital archiving as I continue to develop a digital archival project in partnership with the hoboing community in the upper Midwest. Since 2021, the hoboes and I have worked together to develop a site called Hobo Archive to digitally preserve cultural resources from the community. WeContinue reading “Reimagining the Hobo’s Archive: Authentic, Participatory, and Digital”
Finding a Climate Diaspora
Lost in the conversation about the impact of global climate change, and policies designed to prevent rising temperatures and mitigate their consequences, is an understanding of the human impact of an increase in global temperature. I propose a comprehensive storymap that shows the migration of people throughout the world as a result of climate relatedContinue reading “Finding a Climate Diaspora”
From thought to reality – The Wallach Project
Bringing history to the forefront of creative practice and the art world isn’t something that happens much beyond academia and museums. People are often interested in the new, shiny, exciting work (which to be fair is wonderful) that the older, more tactile creative histories often fall to the wayside. In the last few years ofContinue reading “From thought to reality – The Wallach Project”
Big Data Makes Me Uncomfortable, but Hey
It takes a lot for me to say that I’m truly uncomfortable. In life, I am pretty sure I’ve lived it in a perpetual state of discomfort—or at least a way in which I embrace situations that aren’t all that cozy. I believe in being uncomfortable so much, that I used to start my seniorContinue reading “Big Data Makes Me Uncomfortable, but Hey”
Introducing the Studio’s 2022 Summer Fellows
The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 12 graduate students have been selected for the 2022 Studio Summer Fellowship program. These individuals will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training in skillsContinue reading “Introducing the Studio’s 2022 Summer Fellows”
An Artists’ Book Video Project: Still in Progress
Progress not perfection.” These three simple words of reassurance have been the mission statement of our cohort through the summer fellowship, and have become somewhat of a restorative, compulsory chant for me. Through the summer fellowship, I’ve used these words to settle feelings of fear, doubt, and insecurity—to generate new momentum after having been slowedContinue reading “An Artists’ Book Video Project: Still in Progress”
Developing a Community Engaged, Digital Scholarship Practice
Preview of Covington’s forthcoming archive on Black girls in film As a community engaged scholar, this fellowship has provided a space to value fellows’ interdisciplinary scholarship, professionalization from the Studio and explore the possibilities of how the digital humanities can assist and serve in the development of community needs that coincide with academicContinue reading “Developing a Community Engaged, Digital Scholarship Practice”
Listening to Audre Lorde in Exploring Archives
Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider first and second edition Coming to this fellowship during a time of social unrest due to a dual pandemic, of racial injustice and international health crisis, I asked myself: How can my work address injustice in the archive? In exploring this terrain amidst a time in which anti-racism and socialContinue reading “Listening to Audre Lorde in Exploring Archives”