We are pleased to announce that, during the evening of Friday, October 22nd—just one day prior to THATCamp PNW—Johanna Drucker (Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Information Studies at UCLA) will be giving a talk at the Henry Art Gallery on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.
Her talk is titled, “The Art of Designing Interpretation in Digital Environments.” Here’s a brief description of what to expect:
Humanists are deeply involved in interpretation, and the conventions of print environments embody approaches to scholarly work that emerged from interpretative activity. What should be considered when approaching the design of digital environments for interpretative work? How will these support some of the crucial features of traditional humanistic work at the same time as engaging with the capacities of digital environments (social networking, real time refresh, extensible reference fields, etc.)? This talk lays out some parameters and questions for thinking about design for humanist interpretation.
Jake Lambert
September 3rd, 2010 → 2:48 pm
Hello,
This sounds very interesting.
I work at the College of Arts & Sciences at the UW, and I’d love to include this event in our calendar, but I can’t find any other information about the event online other than here. Will this lecture be open to the public & if so would it be alright for me to link to more info about it from our events section.
Jentery Sayers
September 8th, 2010 → 6:36 pm
Thank you for your comment, Jake! We’ll have more details on Prof. Drucker’s talk very, very soon. Check back (either here or the website for the Simpson Center for the Humanities) for more. In the meantime, thank you for your patience.