Week 1 2019

Introduction to Cultrual Data Sculpting

Lecturers
Sarah Kenderdine
 

Content

8am-10.30am  Introduction to Cultural Data Sculpting 

10.30am-11am Introductions to class members | eM+ team 

11am-12pm The Kung Fu demonstrator - call for volunteers (Céline Kosirnik, UNIL/EPFL CROSS grant). Preview at eM+ and tour of Lab.

12.30pm-1pm Introduction to (potential) archives, assignments, overview of project development description and demonstrator (Assignment 4).

Readings (PDF or printed books at eM+ for borrowing)

• Kenderdine, S. (2013). Place-Hampi: Inhabiting the panoramic imaginary of Vijayanagara, Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag. (Download text pages here PDF)
• Kenderdine, S. (2013). ‘Pure Land: Inhabiting the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang’. Curator: The Museum Journal 56(2), 199–218. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12020. (PDF)
• Griffiths, A. 2008. Shivers down your spine: Cinema, museums, and the immersive, view. New York: Columbia University, Press (printed Chapters 1 & 2).
• Drucker J. (2014), Extract from Graphesis, Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (PDF)
• Drucker, J. (2014), Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (printed)
• Drucker, J. (2013), “Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface,” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 7, no. 1: 8, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000143/000143.html. 
• Eppler, M. J (2012), "What Is an Effective Knowledge Visualization? Insights from a Review of Seminal Concepts", in F. T. Marchese, E. Banissi (eds.), Knowledge Visualization Currents, 35 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4303-1_3, © Springer-Verlag, pp. 3-12 (PDF)
• Kenderdine, S, Shaw, J and Gremmler, T (2012) ‘Cultural Data Sculpting: Omnidirectional Visualization for Cultural Datasets’, in FT Marchese and E Banissi (eds), Knowledge Visualization Currents: From Text to Art to Culture, London: Springer-Verlag, pp. 199-221 (PDF)
• Friendly and Denis, “Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization.” See Friendly and Denis’ entry on the wall painting at http://www.datavis.ca/milestones/index.php?group=pre-1600

Websites

Montreux Jazz Digital Project -
MJA Data Enhancement
Montreux Jazz Café and Heritage Lab
CERN Archives
Metropolitan museum's API
Cleveland Museum of Art API

https://sarahkenderdine.info/
https://emplus.epfl.ch/