19.714 why the (digital) humanities need the (digital) arts

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 714.
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   [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell <georock_at_mcmaster.ca> (15)
         Subject: Re: 19.708 why the (digital) humanities need the
                 (digital) arts

   [2] From: Michael Hart <hart_at_pglaf.org> (48)
         Subject: Re: 19.713 why the (digital) humanities need the
                 (digital) arts

   [3] From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" <gklindgren_at_uwb.edu> (107)
         Subject: RE: 19.713 why the (digital) humanities need the
                 (digital) arts

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         Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:35:52 +0100
         From: Geoffrey Rockwell <georock_at_mcmaster.ca>
         Subject: Re: 19.708 why the (digital) humanities need the
(digital) arts

Dear Willard,

I think I am one of the people talking on the digital humanities and
arts. A document that I find useful thinking through the intersection
of creative practices and information technology is _Beyond
Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity_
which is online at:

http://newton.nap.edu/html/beyond_productivity/

This report nicely discusses some of the challenges including
preconceptions and differences in funding. In my experience one of
the challenges when humanists and artists collaborate is coordinating
research practices and outcomes. Humanists value the dialogue that
takes place in symposia, meetings, conferences and so on. For us talk
is work while for many artists talk is time away from the studio
where the work happens.

Yours,

Geoffrey Rockwell

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         Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:36:43 +0100
         From: Michael Hart <hart_at_pglaf.org>
         Subject: Re: 19.713 why the (digital) humanities need the
(digital) arts

This subject reminds me of a comic I saw last month of

"The Ultimate Solution" to eBooks

It showed a new generation looking through an empty monitor case. . . .

at a plain paper book. . . .

Whye shoulde a newe medium conforme to ye olde standardes???

There is way too much effort being made to enforce ye olde standards
and way too little effort being made to bring all the CONTENT to all,
regardless of what font, format, layout, etc.

With this new medium, everyone should be able to choose their own,
use their own favorite formats and fonts, not yours.

86,600,000 Google hits for:

"ebook" OR "ebooks" OR "e-books" OR "e-book".

and only

75,700,000 for "bomb" OR "bombs".

Give the world eBooks in 2006!!!

Thanks!!!

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg

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         Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:37:17 +0100
         From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" <gklindgren_at_uwb.edu>
         Subject: RE: 19.713 why the (digital) humanities need the
(digital) arts

At our regional campus, we're nudging our way around this essential question,
trying to get a better hold of how the digital moves across, under, through
the humanities and the arts. We're doing courses on the digital university
and public humanities, forming a new media working group, thinking about the
intermediality of the arts, and, as Willard suggests, re-thinking classroom
space into a kind of design space for collaboratories, performance research.
Just to say I hope to hear more!
Best,
Gray

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren,PhD
Interim Coordinator
Center for University Studies and Programs
Faculty: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington, Bothell

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Received on Tue Apr 18 2006 - 02:09:35 EDT