Visualizing Electronic Literature
This seminar and workshop will focus on using network analysis software to visualize the field of electronic literature. Featured speakers including keynote speakers Sean Ryder, chair of the HERA Network Board and professor of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Kurt Fendt, professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and director of the Hyperstudios Digital Humanities lab, will address various research aspects of digital humanities databases, information visualization as research and visualization as art practice. The first day will be a seminar with presentations at Bergen Public Library, and the two following days are workshops where participants will use Gephi to analyse and visualize data from the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base.
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Program
Monday, August 19
Bergen Public Library
10:00-10:15: Welcome from Claus Huitfeldt, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Digital Humanist.
10:15-11:00: Sean Ryder - “The Digital Humanities in the European Research Context”11-12:00 Kurt Fendt - “Humanities as Data: Projects, Visualizations, and Emerging Methods” Respondent: Anders Fagerjord
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:15-14:00 Scott Rettberg - “An Emerging Canon? A Case Study in Using Visualization Strategies to Understand a Field as It Develops”14:00-14:30: Jill Walker Rettberg - “Network Analysis and Visualization as a Method for Studying Electronic Literature”
15:00-15:30: Leonardo Flores (via Skype from Puerto Rico) - “Case Study: Analyzing I ♥ E-Poetryvia Visualizations from ELMCIP Knowledge Base Data
15:30-16:00: Dag Elgesem and Lubos Steskal - “Analyzing the Climate Change Blogosphere”
16:00-16:30: Patricia Tomaszek: Examples of Visualization Techniques in Works of Electronic Literature?
19:30-21:00
During the evening session, artist and author Judd Morrissey, associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will give a performance from his digital literary works, which often involve literary databases, performance, and visualization. Author's site: http://www.judisdaid.com
(This day also forms part of UiB and Bergen offentlige bibliotek’s collaboration on an Electronic Literature Reading Series as part of the library’s Digital Arena project.)
Tuesday, August 20
Room: HF264
9:00-12:00
Intro to ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
Outputting Info from the Knowledge Base
Intro to Gephi
Walkthrough making a visualisation with KB data
12:00-13:00: Opening of “The Rise of Electronic Literature” Exhibition at the Humanities Faculty Library, UiB
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Project brainstorming, pitches, group formation. Workshopping in small groups
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday August 21
Room: HF264
9:00-12:00: Updates on how projects are going - help needed? Workshopping in small groups
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:00: Workshopping in small groups, prepare presentations
14:00-15:30: Project presentations and discussion of ways forward
15:30-16:00: Discussion of potential book project on visualization methods and macroanalytics of electronic literature