Week 03 2018

Week 3: The Data!

An introduction to the three major datasets to be used for the course, the Montreax Jazz Archive (MJA), CERN archives and, Leonardo Da Vinci’s (LDV) archive.

Note: Lectures start on EPFL campus at MetaMedia Centre at 8am. 

Lecturers
Sarah Kenderdine
Alain Dufaux, EPFL's MetaMedia Lab
Jean-Yves Le Meur, CERN
 

Content

1. Tour of EPFL’s MetaMedia Lab by Alain Dufaux, followed by trip to MJ Café installations (8am)
2. Walk to eM+ (10am)
3. Lecture by Jean-Yves Le Meur, CERN (11am)
4. Presentation and discussion of Assignment 1
5. Introduction to Leonardo archive in preparatino for Martin Kemps lecture
6. Internships opportunities
7. Review of Unity Tutorials

Readings

• 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)

eM+ Library

• Drucker, J. (2014), Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Websites

• Montreux Jazz Digital Project -
• MJA Data Enhancement
• Montreux Jazz Café and Heritage Lab
• CERN Archives
• 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