Over the next few months, we’re running interviews with 5CollDH Student Fellows to learn more about their projects and research process. We continue our series with Eunice Esomonu, a senior at Mount Holyoke College. What is your 5CollDH project about? My project seeks to search and convey the intersection of hip hop and technology through interactive installations inspired by the…
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Envisioning Zine Networks in Twine
Where games, archives, and zines meet, you’ll find 5CollDH Undergraduate Fellow and Hampshire College student Nora Miller hard at work. Miller’s project uses digital cartographic and network mapping tools to critically explore the physical and cultural travel of zines in the 1990s. This is Nora’s first post of three; you can click through to read the second and third…
Open World Writing
5CollDH Undergraduate Fellow and Amherst College student Carl “Ott” Lindstrom has audience on the brain. His fellowship project is a multimedia Scalar exhibition tracking the changing relationship of the spectator with the media object from classic film to interactive video games to the immersive future of virtual reality. This is Ott’s first post of three; you can click…
Exploring Videogames and Virtual Reality with 5CollDH Student Fellow Carl “Ott” Lindstrom
Over the next few months, we’re running interviews with 5CollDH Student Fellows to learn more about their projects and research process. We continue our series with Carl “Ott” Lindstrom, a senior English and Film and Media Studies major at Amherst College. What is your 5CollDH project about? My as-yet-unnamed project charts the changing subject/object relationship between the spectator and the…
Locating Zines with 5CollDH Student Fellow Nora Miller
Over the next few months, we’re running interviews with 5CollDH Student Fellows to learn more about their projects and research process. We start our series with Nora Miller, a Division II student at Hampshire College. What is your 5CollDH project about? My project, Locating Zines, explores networks of zines (small, self-produced booklets or mini magazines) in the 1990s through digital…
Reassessing Intimacy
Presenting my project was something of a fight, with myself more than anyone else to be quite honest. One of my main issues I was grappling with in haraway’s basement was intimacy. What does it mean to get close in the digital age? Does it mean to be physically close, to have the screen right up against your face,…
Copper & Control: A Progress Update from 5CollDH Fellow Wouter Schievink
Context Quotes: “We shape our tool, thereafter they shape us” – Father John Culkin “A computer is nothing but the actualization of man’s greatest desire to possess and control” – The Pattern On The Stone “In order to skillfully operate instruments a human being must internalize aspects of those instruments into their kinesthetic and perceptual habits.” – Joseph Weizenbaum Working…
IMDB and Queering Media
For her 2014-15 undergraduate fellowship project with the 5CollDH, Cade Johnson blurs the line between art and scholarship, with a queer feminist online installation cum analytical essay on the strange life of body horror in cinema and the digital age. The following is an update from her work in the trenches: As the gist of my project is rewriting film studies scholarship,…
Generative Music and Video Games
The following is an update on Andrew Wang’s 2014-2015 undergraduate fellowship project with the Five College Digital Humanities Initiative. His project exists at the intersection of digital technologies and experimental musicality—a space that Andrew describes as a “feedback loop” of compositional practices. Using stomp boxes, MIDI controllers, and Abelton Live in conjunction with traditional instruments like the violin, Andrew…
Creating a Virtual Reality Game: The Process
The following is an update on Coralie Pardo’s 2014-2015 undergraduate fellowship project with the Five College Digital Humanities Initiative. Her project is an interactive video game that uses principles of embodiment to interrogate the experience of race and gender. Using Oculus Rift technology, Coralie will design and implement a game that teaches players about the ubiquitous natures of race…