<rmm> The Computational Turn, Swansea University

Paulien Dresscher paulien at dresscher.nl
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> From: Richard Rogers <rogers at govcom.org>
> Date: January 4, 2010 12:20:30 PM CEST
> To: Masters of Media <mastersofmedia at listcultures.org>
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> Subject: <mom> CFP: The Computational Turn, Swansea University
>
> CFP: The Computational Turn
>
> http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/
>
> SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
> 9TH MARCH 2010
>
> Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke  
> University).
> Keynote: Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).
>
> The application of new computational techniques and visualisation  
> technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new  
> approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new  
> corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new 'computational  
> turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to  
> create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g.  
> Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and  
> applications of what Lev Manovich has called 'Cultural Analytics'  
> and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques.  
> Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of  
> texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML  
> encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new  
> quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as  
> media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or  
> haptically. Within this field there are important debates about the  
> contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern- 
> matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm  
> (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new  
> forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging  
> which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone- 
> scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts  
> and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures  
> provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big  
> Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an  
> interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer  
> science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft  
> interdisciplinarity).
>
> Papers are encouraged in the following areas:
>
> - Distant versus Close Reading
> - Database Structure versus Argument
> - Data mining/Text mining/Patterns
> - Pattern as a new epistemological object
> - Hermeneutics and the Data Stream
> - Geospatial techniques
> - Big Humanities
> - Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities
> - Tool Building
> - Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities
> - Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances
> - Language and Code (software studies)
> - Information visualization in the Humanities
> - Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn
>
> + Participation Requirements +
>
> Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper  
> (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and  
> Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the  
> computational turn, research focus or research questions related to  
> computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with  
> algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research  
> methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies  
> (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be  
> published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of  
> the participants will be invited to present their paper at the  
> workshop.
>
> Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010
> Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010
>
> Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict,  
> Power, Empire, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts  
> and Humanities (RIAH) at Swansea University.
>
> + References +
>
> Clement, Tanya E. (2008) ‘A thing not beginning and not ending’:  
> using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of  
> Americans. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23.3 (2008): 361.
>
> Clement, Tanya, Steger, Sara, Unsworth, John, Uszkalo, Kirsten  
> (2008) How Not to Read a Million Books. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html
>
> Council on Library and Information Resources and The National  
> Endowment for the Humanities (2009) Working Together or Apart:  
> Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Retrieved  
> 10/11/09 from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf
>
> Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in  
> Information-Intensive Environments. Theory, Culture and Society  
> 26.2/3 (2009): 1-24.
>
> Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) How We Think: The Transforming Power of  
> Digital Technologies. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680
>
> Kittler, Fredrich (1997) Literature, Media, Information Systems.  
> London: Routledge.
>
> Krakauer, David C. (2007) The Quest for Patterns in Meta-History.  
> Santa Fe Institute Bulletin. Winter 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf
>
> Latour, Bruno (2007) Reassembling the Social. London: Oxford  
> University Press.
>
> Manovich, Lev (2002) The Language of New Media. MIT Press.
>
> Manovich, Lev (2007) White paper: Cultural Analytics: Analysis and  
> Visualizations of Large Cultural Data Sets, May 2007. Retrieved  
> 10/11/09 from http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc
>
> McLemee, Scott (2006) Literature to Infinity. Inside Higher Ed.  
> Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193
>
> Moretti, Franco (2005) Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a  
> Literary History. London: Verso.
>
> Robinson, Peter (2006) Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury  
> Tales and other Medieval Texts. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern  
> Language Association of America. Retrieved 10/11/09 from  http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml
>
> Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray & Unsworth, John (2007) A Companion  
> to Digital Humanities. London: WileyBlackwell.
>
>
>
>
> Organised by Dr David M. Berry, Department of Political and Cultural  
> Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry at swansea.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Dr David M. Berry
> Department of Political and Cultural Studies
> School of Arts and Humanities
> Swansea University.
> Swansea
> SA2 8PP
> Wales, UK
>
> Tel: 01792 602633
> Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/
>
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