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Lecture – “We Speak with Alexa’s Voice, and That is Uncanny”: Voice Interface, The Contemporary Gothic, and the Ghostly History of Sound (Julia Panko, Asst. Prof. of English at Weber State University)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Voice user interfaces, smart speakers, and digital voice assistants have quickly risen to prominence in the contemporary media ecology. While critiques of these technologies have centered on their erosion of privacy and reification of the surveillance society, the uncanniness of these disembodied voices also evokes...

[Postponed] Lecture – Digital, Archival, Literary: Evolving Models for Digital Scholarship (Julia Flanders, Prof. of Practice in English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Library), Co-Sponsored with BYU Office of Digital Humanities

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

POSTPONED  UNTIL FALL 2020 This presentation will consider our evolving conceptions of "digital text", through the lens of the 30-year history of the Women Writers Project. The shifting tensions between information and artifactuality have produced changes in both theory and practice for editors, readers, and tool designers....

[Postponed] Lecture – The Worlds of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy: Digital Storytelling at the Disney Parks (Sasha Coles, Founder and Chief Historian, Enchanted Archives)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

POSTPONED - When Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, in July 1955, Walt Disney told guests, “Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.” Disney was on to something. The food, rides, designs, and characters at Disney theme...

[Postponed] Lecture – Back to Indigenous Futures with Indigenous Pacific Islands Seafaring Technology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Seas and Skies, and Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Computer Engineering and Design (Vicente M. Diaz, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

POSTPONED - Question: What can Indigenous Technology (IT) and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) involving Pacific Islander Seafaring capabilities/relationalities and computer engineered interactive, visual, and immersive technologies do with and for each other when they are purposefully juxtaposed and deliberately designed to advance indigenous, social, environmental...

Research Talks – Spring 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Please join Digital Matters on September 1st via Zoom to hear our Spring 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects. Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, "Native Places Atlas Project: Mapping Native...

Research Talks – Fall 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Please join Digital Matters on November 30th via Zoom to hear our Fall 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects. John Flynn, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, "Native Scholars Clearinghouse" Native Peoples of...

Prof. Julia Flanders Graduate Student Meet & Greet

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Graduate students, please join Prof. Julia Flanders for an informal discussion about her work as the Northeastern Digital Scholarship Group Director, Director of the Women Writers Project, and editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly.  Please come prepared with questions about digital scholarship, text and coding, and the Women...

Lecture – Digital, Archival, Literary: Evolving Models for Digital Scholarship (Julia Flanders, Prof. of Practice in English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Library), Co-Sponsored with BYU Office of Digital Humanities

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

This presentation will consider our evolving conceptions of “digital text”, through the lens of the 30-year history of the Women Writers Project. The shifting tensions between information and artifactuality have produced changes in both theory and practice for editors, readers, and tool designers. We’ll look not only...

Research Talks – Spring 2021 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

John Flynn, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, "Native Places: An Indigenous Atlas of Utah and the Intermountain West" Native Places is a spatial humanities project from the American West Center. It consists of an interactive, layered map...

Research Talks – Fall 2021 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects

Join in person in Digital Matters, Rm 2751 Marriott Library, or through Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting https://utah.zoom.us/j/96055650906 Meeting ID: 960 5565 0906 Passcode: 294094 David Onwukeme, Digital Matters Undergraduate Intern Undergraduate in Multi-Disciplinary Design, “Possibilities of An Autonomous Sanctuary” This project investigates the Land Bridge...

Wikidata and the Vocal Pedagogy Lineage Project

Marriot Library, Room 2751 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

In this research talk, Seth Keeton will present his Vocal Pedagogy Lineage project, which leverages Wikidata to visualize the network of students and voice teachers. The talk will include a tutorial on querying Wikidata. Seth Keeton received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance...