Comments on: Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities

By: jmittell

jmittell — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:28:36 +0000

I’d be interested in this as well. From the perspective of film/media studies, the recent growth of video essays are a potential mode of DH productivity – within those makers, there’s a debate about whether such projects should be analytical and/or poetic, and what that means for makers & viewers. I’d love to hear similar issues from other fields.

By: rybakc

rybakc — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:47:11 +0000

As someone who primarily publishes as a creative writer, I’m very interested in this. This is also pretty much the debate I had with my dept head recently, with his position being that DH dehumanizes the humanities. My personal interests are in learning to code poetic rhythm and meter as a way to widen aesthetic discussions of poetry.

By: Patsy Baudoin

Patsy Baudoin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:33:31 +0000

As one of the 10 PRINT authors, I’m committed to reading code culturally (including mainly aesthetically and politically). I’m quite intrigued by the Coles-Lein work, which I’m just learning about (thanks to Amanda F.) and would like to continue the stimulating THATCampNE conversation Amanda R. refers to. Count me in…

By: Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:58:49 +0000

This sounds like a terrific conversation. As Amanda Rust intimates, there are such rich worlds of artistic practice in digital media; there’s a flourishing networked vernacular on aesthetics as well (e.g., The New Aesthetic), and the lack of connection between DH and these domains seems redressable.

By: Amanda Rust

Amanda Rust — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:06:13 +0000

I'd be interested in this as well. At THATCamp New England we had a great discussion around a possibly related theme: Where are all the artists? We focused somewhat on the role of the artist / designer in digital humanities, so perhaps more on visual aesthetics than what you are thinking of here. There are great notes on that discussion from papaelia (proposer of the session) here.

By: Mary Loeffelholz

Mary Loeffelholz — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:56:08 +0000

Count me as interested too–I’d love to hear more about the Coles-Lein work and Amanda’s research questions. From research interests based in US poetry of the long 19th C, I’d be interested in thinking about “gorgeous complexity” as an attribute of networks of poems as well as individual poems. Looking forward, mkl

By: John Rodzvilla

John Rodzvilla — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:36:56 +0000

This is something I would be interested in talking about. I’ve been trying to figure out how to approach this from a professional studies approach in our program. I teach students how to make e-books and websites so they can go out into the industry, but feel that my courses miss the opportunity to talk about an aesthetic quality that’s being ignored. The most I can do is point to some of the more concrete poems and ask how to deal with it. I’d be interested in hearing from others on what they need to do.