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Digital Media Art Preservation Project Questionnaire

CAA invites members to participate in a digital media art preservation project currently underway at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. This project aims to develop scalable preservation strategies for complex, interactive, born-digital media artworks using the collections of Cornell’s Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art as a test bed.

In developing a preservation framework that will address the needs of the broadest range of archive users, Cornell seeks the input of artists, researchers, educators, curators, and others who work with interactive digital artworks and artifacts.

Participate in the project at: http://www.collegeart.org/news/2014/01/24/digital-media-art-preservation-project-questionnaire/

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International Association for Sound & Audiovisual Archive (IASA) CFP

The IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) will hold its 45th Annual Conference: “Connecting Cultures: Content, Context, and Collaboration” in Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday October 5th – Thursday October 9th 2014.

IASA is gathering in Cape Town at the National Library of South Africa’s Center for the Book for an in-depth look into the issues surrounding sound and audiovisual archives and their mission to preserve our sound and audiovisual heritage.

Visit their website for details on submitting presentations (deadline: February 28) http://2014.iasa-web.org/call-presentations

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Queer Studies, Davidson College

Davidson College is seeking to hire a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor specializing in Queer Studies to teach in its Gender and Sexuality Studies program (discipline open). Appointment begins August 1, 2014. Candidates should have PhD or MFA in hand by the time of appointment. Review of applications begins February 21, 2014 and continues until a pool of qualified candidates has been identified.

See full details at: http://www.hastac.org/opportunities/visiting-assistant-professor-queer-studies-davidson-college?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hastac%2Fopportunities+%28HASTAC+Opportunities%29

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Digital Humanities book reviews

During the fall semester of 2013, the HASTAC Digital History Group presented the first part of its yearlong book review series. The goal of the series is to provide reviews of academic books that address the study of history and the digital humanities. Some of the questions that we asked reviewers to think about were: In what ways have these new publications innovated in the field? How do they relate to other historical works? And, what do they reveal about the use of digital methods to study history?

See the current list of titles at: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/tinadavidson/2014/01/24/book-review-fall-series-recap

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“The History and Future of Higher Education” CFP

Tom Abeles and his journal On the Horizon are joining the FutureEd movement with a special journal issue.

The rise of the Internet with its globally expanding social networks is creating new, overlapping communities that are significantly different from the sense of community existing throughout human history. The Internet has created new knowledge networks that make the cost of access to information asymptotically approaching zero. It makes that knowledge transferable across geopolitical boundaries. Knowledge that was once carried across land and sea in the heads of scholars and physical media is now accessible in a “smart” phone.

What the future of the University could, should, ought to be cannot be separated from its history, the history of the institution, its faculties/infrastructure, the seekers of knowledge and those who support the institution embedded in the community, local and/or global. How that history has played out in time and as seen in its current embodiment plays into its future, also.

See a list of suggested themes for this CFP and comprehensive submission guidelines at: http://www.hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-history-and-future-higher-education?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hastac%2Fopportunities+%28HASTAC+Opportunities%29

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NMCC Open House

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Because genius needs coffee.

Join us for our Open House tomorrow from 9-10:30am at the Digital Scholarship Center (142 Knight Library)

Our quarterly Open Houses are casual “meet-and-greets” with our friendly and talented NMCC students and faculty affiliates.  We encourage everyone to invite prospective grads or faculty who might be interested in the program.  Coffee and treats are on us!

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“Beautiful Data” CFP: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections

Harvard University will be hosting Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections, June 16 — June 27, 2014. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the institute will introduce participants to the “concepts and skills necessary to make use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial description and exhibition practice, digital publication, and data-driven, object-oriented teaching.”

Further details are available at: http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2014/01/21/cfp-beautiful-data-a-summer-institute-for-telling-stories-with-open-art-collections/

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Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop

Last summer HASTAC hosted the inaugural Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop, an online, asynchronous, interdisciplinary, participant-driven workshop for scholars and individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects. The goal of the workshop is to create an online space where participants can exchange scholarship and ideas. HASTAC has offered to host the workshop again this summer, which will be held June 16th through 22nd.

See open volunteer positions at: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/dehertoghlb/2014/01/21/volunteer-feminist-scholars-digital-workshop