Session #7. Connecting the (Virtual) Dots

Simulations, emergence, augmented life, and visualization technologies animate cultural spaces, historical enterprises, games, and corpora as well as the military. Meeting Room 105. Session Chair: Orit Halpern, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, and Department of Historical Studies, New School for Social Research. Discussion Leader: Mitali Routh, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University. Panelists: Timothy R. Tangherlini, Zoe Borovsky, & Todd Presner, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA Digital Humanities Incubation Group, Thick Viewing: Integrated Visualization Environments for Humanities Research on Complex Corpora; Helen Papagiannis, Joint Program in Communication and Culture,York University and Ryerson University, Augmenting Digital and Analog Memory; John H. Johnston, Department of English, Emory University, Artificial Life: New Media Object as a New Space of Exploration; Caren Kaplan, Cultural Studies Program (Women and Gender Studies), University of California, Davis, ‘Everything is Connected': Aerial Perspectives, the 'Revolution in Military Affairs,' and Digital Culture