• World Summit of digital humanities centers directors and funders this July (2010) in London

    (from US CentreNet list).We are pleased to announce that the centerNet steering committee has received a Digital Humanities Start Up Grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities to help it develop a robust and sustainable organizational infrastructure and to run a World Summit of digital humanities centers directors and funders this July in…

  • Materials Library @ King’s

    One of the more interesting research groups here at King’s. They do research into the materiality of flesh! Materials Library is an interdisciplinary collaborative team that make objects, events and exhibitions that foreground materiality. We are also engaged in both scientific research and artistic practices that explore the senso-aesthetics of materials. At the heart of…

  • He’s simple, he’s stupid, he’s the pilot

    Adrift again 2000 man You lost your maps, you lost your plans Did you hear him yell: “Land damn it land” ? You say you can’t, well I hope you can I hope you can How’s it goin’ 2000 man Welcome back to solid ground my friend I heard all your controls were jammed Well…

  • EngageMedia

    EngageMedia is a video sharing site about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific, located in Melbourne in Australia, just a few doors up from my old house in Napier Street, Fitzroy. They also distribute their own developed plug-ins. This is a sophisticated crew that know their social software.! EngageMedia uses the power…

  • ‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’

    University of Birmingham,24-25 September, 2009. This workshop will review and address the making of tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the web. The workshop leaders joins partners in the COST-ESF Interedition project (http://www.interedition.eu), which is focussing – as is the JISC-funded Virtual Manuscript Room project — on Europe-wide creation of infrastructure and tools for collaborative…

  • Probing questions in the Digital Humanities?

    Probing questions in the Digital Humanities?

    The ‘Digital Humanities’ is a problematic field partly because is traverses the treacherous chasm between the academic and non-academic. Here is a polemic I wrote on Arts-humanities.net on a forum for the DRHA Conference that starts in Belfast today (and if you ask me nicely, I will give examples). <soapbox> The essence of the humanities…