Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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Organized by HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT
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Keynote Speakers:

• Johanna Drucker (UCLA)

• Lev Manovich (UC San Diego)

• Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland)

• Fernanda Viégas/Martin Wattenberg (flowing media)

How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research?

HyperStudio’s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as “humanities tools in digital environments.” (Johanna Drucker)

Topics of presentations, workshops, demos, and poster sessions include:

• Expressive and artistic dimensions of visualizations
• Subjectivity and objectivity in information visualization
• Dynamic/multidimensional visualizations and user collaboration
• Social media and contextualized visualization
• Cultural history of visual epistemology
• Limits and affordances of the translation from data to visualization
• 2D and 3D visualizations of historical/social/political data
• Visualization across media and the archive
• Digital visual literacy & accessibility
• Relationships between database and interface
• Alternative modes of data representation.

Organizers:
MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities
with MIT Communications Forum and Comparative Media Studies