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DH Workshop & Luncheon:The Untimely Potential of the Digital Humanities (new date)

October 8, 2015

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

IQ Center (Science Center)

Helen MacDermott

Dr. Jen Boyle, Associate Professor of English and New Media
Director, Digital Culture and Design, Coastal Carolina University

An immersive interface that offers a virtual tour through the streets of seventeenth-century France; a chat forum that allows protesters on the ground in Tunisia to transmit immediate reports to a journalist in New York; a locative phone app that can generate a turn-of-the-century image of the lobby of the Mandarin Hotel while you are moving through the space in real time.

What all of these examples have in common is their ability to skew and remediate temporal experience through a digital or virtual environment. This talk explores the possibility that these environments offer far more possibilities than simply startling encounters with the actual and the virtual. How can alternative modalities of time and temporality allow us to see a more challenging set of issues at play in these digital remediations of time? What do such alternative frameworks tell us about digital bodily time, a time frame now actively positioned between past present-future?

The second half of the workshop will allow for some hands-on experimentation with accessible digital tools, so please bring your laptop!

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