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Digital Arts and Humanities: innovation, creativity & contexts
| Time/Date | Reading/Material | Activity |
| Tues, 24 Jan (3:35PM-6:15PM) | -Drucker, ch 1, 1-18. -Loudon, “Creativity Can Be the Bridge”, The Conversation, 16 October 2018 -Rogers, So You want to make a DH Website |
Lab on Web Publishing Alternatives: Github Pages, Google Sites, Hypotheses, NYU Web Hosting (WordPress), Notion, Vercel, NYU WP, Humanities Commons. |
| Thurs, 26 Jan (3:35PM-4:50PM) | -Schneider, “Why Digital Humanities”, Politics East Asia, 4 November 2013. -Sneha, “Mapping Digital Humanities in India” CIS Bangalore, 2016, 5-14, 52-57. -Kidd, “Nobody Cares about your blog!” 2022. |
discussion |
Making and Project-Based Thinking
| Time/Date | Reading/Material | Activity |
| Tues, 31 Jan 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Berry/Fagerjord, “On the Way to Computational Thinking,” Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in the Digital Age, 2017, 40-59. -Humanities Data Fundamentals |
Lab: -Working on our own blogs / pushing material to them using [GitHub Desktop] -Introduction to RStudio and [Posit.cloud] (formerly RStudio.cloud) |
| Thurs, 2 Feb 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Posner, “How Did They Make That” 2014. -Chachra, “Why I am Not a Maker” The Atlantic, 23 January 2015. Full text here -The Making and Knowing Project |
discussion |
Digital Literacy Narrative Instructions here Due Date 2 March, 20% final grade.
Data and Metadata in the Arts and Humanities 1
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 7 Feb 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Broman/Woo “Data Organization in Spreadsheets”, The American Statistician, 24 April 2018. -Drucker, ch 2 (19-33) & 4 (52-69) -De Bastion/Mukku, Data and the Global South, 2020. -metadata / API / discoverability / federated database / IIIF -Lab: Asking questions of cultural databases and their bias -Digital Library of the Middle East -Notebook: Exploring the Harvard Art Museums API |
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| Thurs, 9 Feb 3:35PM-4:50PM | -D’Ignazio/Klein, “Why Data Science Needs Feminism” and “The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves”, Data Feminism, 16 March 2020. -Mindscape [podcast], Catherine D’Ignazio on Data Objectivity and Bias -Data & Society [podcast] Data Feminism |
Prepare two questions for the general discussion and put them in the class space. |
In collaboration with Love Data Month and NYUAD Library (location NYUAD Library, room 329), session led by Suphan Kirmizialtin
ASSIGNMENT 1 here Due Date 2 March, 20% final grade.
Textual Bodies
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 14 Feb 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 7, 110-120. -Clark et al, “What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus” Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2022 |
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Lab: -Text Mining: Easy to Less Easy -Google NGram Viewer -Bookworm -Voyant -AntConc -Docuscope -CLiC |
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| Thurs, 16 Feb 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Ramsey, “In Praise of Pattern,” TEXT Technology 14.2(2005). -Klein, “Distant Reading after Moretti” [blog] 2018. -Miller, “Using GPT on Library Collections”, 2023. |
Distant Reading: A Conversation with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu [podcast] |
Text as Data
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity | Tues, 21 Feb Drucker, ch 6, 86-109. 3:35PM-6:15PM Text as Data podcast (zoom) Lab Notebook: Identifying Most Distinctive Words in Three (Sets of) Texts: Working with Two Genres: Children’s Literature and Science Fiction
Thurs, 23 Feb Generative text & GPT 3:35PM-4:50PM Critical prompts for GPT with OpenAI and other APIs (zoom) Hardfork, Can ChatGPT write this podcast? (podcast) chatGPT and the Sweatshops Powering the Digital Age (Nyabola) Hardfork, Generative AI is here : who should control it? (podcast) Heikillä, What does chatGPT know about me? , MIT Technology Review, 2022. Optional: Elkins & Chun, Can GPT-3 pass a Writer’s Turing test?, Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2020
Spatial Horizons
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity | Tues, 28 Feb Drucker, ch 8, 130-150 3:35PM-6:15PM Exploring Spatial Projects Journal Club: 5-6pm Robert Ackland & Ann Evans, “Using the web to examine the evolution of the abortion debate in Australia, 2005–2015” at The Web as History.
Thurs, 2 Mar Cole/Giordano “Digital Mapping”, in Doing Spatial History, 2022, 274-287. 3:35PM-4:50PM Travis, “Geovisualizing Beckett” in Abstract Machine, 2015, 97-116 Agenda Wrisley, “Spatial Humanities”, Porphyra 22(2014): 96-107. An Introduction to UMap | Kepler | Maps as Data
Map Visualization
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity | Tues, 7 Mar Watch: Linked Maps and Spatial Searching 3:35PM-6:15PM Read: A growing problem of deepfake geography Agenda Read: Deep fake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat Listen: Fake Satellite Imagery Lab: (1) Make an OpenStreetMap account here. Visualizing previous datasets in UMap (2) Using code to make maps with leaflet.js (3) Making your own fantasy map for world building (4) Adding an interactive map to Wikipedia in Your Language
Thurs, 9 Mar Guest speaker: Mary Michael (UCSB) “What can data be?” 3:35PM-4:50PM Krupar, “Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice”, Georgetown Agenda Journal of International Affairs 16.2(2015): 91-101. Exploring Humanitarian OSM
BREAK 15-22 March
on or around 23 March, Ramadan begins
Culture on the z-Axis
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity | Thurs, 23 Mar Drucker, ch 9, 151-171. 3:35PM-4:50PM Web resources: Thingiverse, 3duniverse, 3dwarehouse, Yeggi Agenda Nieves, “Digital Queer Witnessing,” The Digital Black Atlantic, 2021, 58-68.
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision #1 : revised instructions in drive. Due 6 April.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Exploring Textual Data from a Custom Corpus. Due April 18. Instructions here.
Tues, 28 Mar Lab: Finding Global Culture in 3d printing 3:35PM-6:15PM Visit to Archives & Special Collections (430-530pm) + discussion of HTR
Optional event: Unlocking Archives with AI 1, Iftar and presentation (640-845pm)
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity | Thurs, 30 Mar Tissen, “3d Printing and the Art World: Current Developments and Future 3:35PM-4:50PM Perspectives”, Advances in 3d Printing, 2022.
Optional event: Unlocking Archives with AI 2, Iftar and presentation (640-940pm)
Image Collections
Tues 4 Apr Lab: WCMA digital project | Selfie City | Photogrammar | MoMA photography | 3:35PM-6:15PM This Was Paris in 1970 Agenda Vox, “Why I am Obsessed With these Cheap Paintings of Paris” Kinds of metadata in cultural collections: human created & computed
Thurs, 6 Apr Arnold/Tilton, “Distant Viewing: Analyzing Large Visual Corpora” DSH 2019: 1-19 3:35PM-4:50PM Drimmer, “How AI is Hijacking Art History” The Conversation, 1 Nov 2021. Agenda How does a lightbox work? In class exploration: ARt Image Exploration Space for manual alignment using two image corpora Looking for Patterns in Image Collections with IMJ
ASSIGNMENT 3: Analyzing your custom image corpora with Orange. Due 4 May. Instructions here.
Computational approaches to image
Tues, 11 Apr Orange Data Mining for image classification 3:35PM-6:15PM Lab: Working with Datasets of Arabic Book & Magazine Covers, VanGogh paintings, Flickr Faces, Yoga Poses, Wikiart self-portraits, Ebony Magazine Covers, Chinese Fine Art, Pokemon Images, Watch: How We Teach Computers to Understand Images (Li) and Clustering of Monet and Manet (Orange)
Thurs, 13 Apr Group Ideation for Final “Unproject” 3:35PM-4:50PM Burdick et al. “A Portfolio of Case Studies,” Digital_Humanities, 2016, 60-71 (guest instructor) open access > read open access > ch 2 Emerging Methods and Genres, page 35 in chapter pdf.
Tues, 18 April Junginger et al, “The Close-up Cloud” Journal of Digital Art History, 2020 3:35PM-6:15PM Salvaggio, “How to Read an AI Image,” 2022 Exploring the Atlas of KREA AI Generative Visuals Vox, “The Text to Image Revolution, Explained” Lab: DALLE - 2 / Dreamstudio.ai / diffusion B / Lexica / Craiyon
Optional Workshop: “Palestine Open Maps mapathon” Wednesday, 19 April, 3-530pm. Location TBA.
Palestine Open Maps is a collection of historical maps of Palestine. In this workshop, we will learn how the simple open source tools of OpenStreetMap can be used to extract geographic data from historical maps, and publish them for use by other researchers. We will also discuss how the ontology of historical maps gets adapted into the ontology of modern GIS tools, and how the data produced collectively opens questions around data ownership and public knowledge production.
Optional talk: “Open data and knowledge stewardship, the case of Palestine Open Maps” (Majd Shihadi, University of Toronto) Thursday, 20 April, 12-130pm location TBA
Data and Metadata in the Arts and Humanities 2
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 25 April 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Vetter, “Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in”, 2021. -Rawson/Muñoz, “Against Cleaning”, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2019, 279-292 |
Lab: OpenRefine and Wikidata |
| Thurs, 27 April 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Drucker, ch 5, 70-85. |
-Demo of reveal.js -Planning and scoping final un-projects |
Final “unproject”: Due 13 May. Instructions here.
On the Social in Digital Arts and Humanities
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity | Tues, 2 May Siemens, “It’s a Team if you use ‘Reply all’”, Linguistic and Literary Computing 3:35PM-6:15PM 24.2(2009): 225-232. Nowviskie, On Capacity and Care, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2019, 424-426. Burdick et al. “The Social Lives of Digital Humanities,” Digital_Humanities, 2016, 73-98. (ch 3) Drucker, ch 12, 211-225. group work
Thurs, 4 May group work 3:35PM-4:50PM Wrap up
Tues, 9 May group work Thurs, 11 May final presentations
All work is due Sunday, May 14, 11:59pm.