The title goes a long way to describing my intentions with this post, I want to explain why it is I’m taking CS:111 Intro to Computer Science as a junior history major. As we’ve been discussing the relative merits of humanities students learning to code, I’ve been reflecting on my own choices this term, and […]
The project I chose to explore is called Virtual Angkor. The project revolves around the 3D recreation of the city of Angkor and the elements that helped the city flourish. The project is clearly oriented towards education and using 3D technology to enhance that education. The goal of Virtual Angkor is to create a 3D […]
For this most recent assignment, I decided to write my “deconstruction” of a Digital Humanities project on a virtual version of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world and located in Cambodia (you can access the project here). The temple complex was built in the 12th century in what is now northwest Cambodia […]
Few things are so quickly dated and so obscure to outsiders in literature as references to place. A neighborhood nickname, a locally notorious alley, may be rich in meaning as Dickens writes them, but utterly baffle readers a mere generation later or a country distant. Authorial London: About The Authorial London project is a compilation […]
Francis Bacon, esteemed Elizabethan philosopher, father of empiricism, and notorious pain in my rear during my 10th grade AP European History class, undoubtedly left his legacy in history. However, his place in early modern British society — particularly within his connections to other notable figures of the era— serves as the lens through which anyone […]
Virtual Angkor is the result of the collaboration between Archaeologists, Historians, and Virtual History Specialists, likely in the spirit of scholarly collaboration under the wings of SensiLab at Monash University in Australia. Targeted towards educators, it was created to unfurl the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor before the eyes of students, it’s a three-dimensional world that […]
Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Built for the classroom, it has been created to take students into a 3D world and to use this simulation to ask questions about Angkor’s place in larger networks of trade and […]
By the mid-20th century, the modern research university assumed its present form, with segmented humanities departments separated from the natural and social sciences as well as from vocational and professional schools. Digital work challenges many of these separations, promoting dialogue not only across established disciplinary lines but also across the pure/applied, qualitative/quantitative, and theoretical/practical divides. […]
“…I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others—above all, the caregivers—whose work isn’t about something you can put in a box and sell.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not […]
There is a need to address the complexities of globalization, colonization, and the alienated labor of people of color in the production of technology that advances digital scholarship practices that they will not be able to access or directly benefit from. Moya Z. Bailey, All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but […]
A Difficult Introduction to SketchUP 3D Looking back on my first experience with SketchUP, the only thing that I can think about to really describe the experience would be frustration. A lot of it. I began by attempting to utilize the web version of the application on my laptop, only to discover that it was […]
There is a need to address the complexities of globalization, colonization, and the alienated labor of people of color in the production of technology that advances digital scholarship practices that they will not be able to access or directly benefit from. Bailey, Moya Z. “All The Digital Humanists Are White, All The Nerds Are Men, […]
The cultural primacy of making, especially in tech culture—that it is intrinsically superior to not-making, to repair, analysis, and especially caregiving—is informed by the gendered history of who made things, and in particular, who made things that were shared with the world, not merely for hearth and home. Debbie Chachra, Why I Am Not a Maker […]
Along with many other scholars, we suggest that the migration of cultural materials into digital media is a process analogous to the flowering of Renaissance and post-Renaissance print culture. Burdick et al. “One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 4. In the early chapters of Burdick’s book, when the […]
How easy/hard was it? Making my house in SketchUp was easier than I initially thought it would be. The tutorial videos really helped me understand the SketchUp software. What elements particularly bogged you down? The only challenge I faced was trying to make the roof. Since the roof goes both directions (North to South and […]
“The field of Digital Humanities may see the emergence of polymaths who can ‘do it all’: who can research, write, shoot, edit, code, model, design, network, and dialogue with users. But there is also ample room for specialization and, particularly, for collaboration.”
Luckily for me (and my amateur SketchUp abilities) my parents live in a ranch-style home, which was built in the 1980’s. The overall design of the house is straightforward–in fact, there’s at least one other home in the neighborhood built from the very same plan and which has only superficial differences. Not to toot my […]
This first assignment in the course involved us using the application Sketchup to create a basic 3D model of our house from where we grew up. At the beginning before we began playing around with the software, the task seemed daunting since designing a house is something that requires years of education and practice. However, […]
Doing SketchUp was not as hard as I imagined, whereas it definitely took a large amount of time if you wanted to make a delicate model. Windows and doors were the main obstacles for me. My home has a lot of windows on the sides, and hidden doors inside rooms. Therefore, I tried several times […]
