Reading “To Cite or to Steal?…” made me feel frustrated for Kevin Ferguson. The beginning was so exciting, when he said his work was being circulated and he felt like, for a moment, that he had “arrived.” And then to…
Digital Surrealism: Visualizing My Life
While reading Kevin Ferguson’s methods and analysis of the work he has done with different films, I kept having a recurring thought of “what if I used this same method to analyze my life in some way?” Maybe my life planning and decision-making class has me in too much of a “reflect on my life” mood…or I could be onto something. At first, I thought about putting all of my home movies and videos of me throughout my life through…
An Analysis of the Surreal
In reading Kevin L. Ferguson’s piece on Digital Surrealism, I found something rather amazing. A small gem from my childhood,…
Limitations and Blessings of Voyant
Text processing tools such as Voyant enhance our ability to recognize and find meaning in language patterns within a body of text beyond what can be done with a close reading only. Looking at the information generated about the use of certain words and where they occur adds to our own interpretation by offering a… Read More Limitations and Blessings of Voyant
Our Voyage with Voyant
We used Microsearch and Trends to analyze Standing Female Nude and The World’s Wife and what similarities and differences there are between them. We noticed that in The World’s Wife, specific body parts such as mouth, hands, head, eyes, heart and face were used a lot more frequently than in Standing Female Nude. This says …
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Digitizing Difficulty
There are distinct advantages and disadvantages to working with digital media as opposed to traditional sources. Digital media are often easier to work with. They make things infinitely more searchable and easy to transmit. Thanks to the church’s efforts in digitizing old records, family history work moves at an unprecedented pace. Digitized books make enormous …
On Originality
Somehow reacting to a blog post feels more like handling a rattlesnake than responding to an article, book, or poem published by an institution. I don’t expect to attract attention in either case, but a blog lives and breathes. The Internet is a fluid medium in a way that print has never been. That seems …
Perspective in Pieces
Growing up I loved to draw. I spent hours drawing things in front of me just as I perceived them. When I got to high school and my art teacher put Picasso’s drawing of Igor Stravinsky in front of the class upside down and told us to draw it, everything in me resisted. In my… Read More Perspective in Pieces
Why Leave the Text?
As disruptive as Mark Sample’s suggestion that Deformance should be regarded as a legitimate digital humanities undertaking, I simply couldn’t accept his proposition as adoptable. There are two broad reasons why. First, leaving the text means leaving academic inquiry. Second, deformance is merely performance, or maybe a better term might be reformance. To begin, humanistic studies …
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Reading backwards
I got to around the part of Mark Sample’s article “Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities,” in which he states, “Reading backwards revitalizes a text, revealing its constructedness, its seams, edges, and working parts,” and then I scrolled to the bottom of the article and started to read it backwards. Obviously this is not what Strange…
