DH Fellows Lecture Series: Critical Making

"Why Do They Call It DH When What They Mean is E-Lit? Exploring Creative Making as Critical Thinking"
Alex Saum Pascual, Spanish and Portuguese/New Media

Alex Saum Pascual, Co-Curator of the current No Legacy||Literatura electrónica exhibit at Doe Library and designer and instructor of the DH-funded Electronic Literature: A Critical Writing and Making Course, will provide an overview and examples of e-literature--both her own and her students'--to discuss the creative processes involved in such work, and how it confronts readers and authors with "the problem of the literary." Her reflections will blend into a discussion of how e-lit could be best connected to the digital humanities more broadly, and how these issues informed the design of her course.

Rama Gottfried will discuss the "Odot" software library created by John MacCallum, Adrian Freed, Rama Gottfried, and Ilya Rostovtsev. Odot centers on “o.expr,” an expression language for dynamic capture and processing of OSC (Open Sound Control) bundled data structures. This new library, based on 20+ years of research from UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), has powered a number of high-profile public art projects across the UC Berkeley campus, and underpins the new DH funded music and technology curriculum in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. Graduate composers Scott Rubin and Ursula Kwong-Brown will demonstrate how "Odot" enables music making and new musical instrument design at the advanced level.

 

About the Series:

The Digital Humanities Fellows Lecture Series begins on Friday, March 18th. The DH Fellows Lecture Series brings together the campus DH community for the scholarly presentation and informal discussion of specific aspects of digital humanities practice. Each meeting a different Fellow presents their ongoing work before the conversation is opened to hands-on experimentation in addition to questions, and comments. Intended to further the critical understanding and practice of the digital humanities at Berkeley, these lectures are intended for both existing and prospective DH practitioners.