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Week 1 2020
Week 1 (20 February)
2.15-3.30pm
Introduction to Cultural Data Sculpting Part 1 | Introductions to class members
3.30-4.30pm
Tour Montreaux Jazz Archive MetaMedia Centre/ Mr Alain Dufaux
4.30-5.30pm
Tour Infinity Room II
5.30-7.00pm
Introduction to Cultural Data Sculpting Part 2 | readings | assignments overview | wiki | schedule | datasets
Assignment 1:
Write a review of the exhibition Infinity Room II. Consider how each of the works were made in terms of data and in terms of application development. Describe the works that most interested you, your favorite installations (at least 2) in terms of the qualities of: i) interactivity/participation; ii) immersion; iii) narrative; iv) data. Written PDF (min. two pages + images) submitted for marking. Presentation in Week 3 (10% of total marks).
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
Atlas of Maritime Buddhism Project
https://sarahkenderdine.info/
https://emplus.epfl.ch/