Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 11, 2010, 10:24 AM

I've blogged several times about the amazing CHAT festival happening Feb 16-20 at UNC, spearheaded by HASTAC Steering Committee member Joyce Rudinsky and many other colleagues at UNC.   You'll see one of our founding HASTAC Steering Committee members, Mark Olson, on the program.   The Duke Visual Studies Initiative and our ISIS program (the local "mother" of HASTAC) have compiled this list of who at Duke will be at CHAT.  It's thrilling.  Join us!

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 13, 2010, 10:01 AM

For those following our course online on the HASTAC site, here's my opening welcome post to the students.  To find all of our posts, remember the tag to search for is ISIS 120.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 09, 2009, 10:13 AM
Belatedly, our household has purchased its first iPhone. At dinner last night, at a local restaurant, Ken and our friend Larry compared iPhones, various wait staff came over to show off theirs, it was instantly clear this is not a phone. It is a toy, a pet, an agent of social exchange, an outlet for creativity . . . and imagine my surprise when, in playing with one of the most lyrical and lovely Aps of all, the Ocarina Ap, I discovered a Duke connection to our beloved alum, Ge Wang, one of the students who worked with us long ago to create what would become ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies) and then would become HASTAC. Ge moved on to Princeton where he worked on PLOrk (the Princeton Laptop Orchestra) and now is at Stanford where he is part of SLOrk . . . and also has created the Ocarina Ap on your iPhone.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 08, 2008, 07:14 AM
When we launch our new HASTAC website, we will have a space where we can invite anyone and everyone teaching a HASTAC-y course to launch syllabi. I put up my course description for ISIS 120, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" earlier and have been working with the research assistant, teaching assistant, and teaching apprentice (Patrick, Katy, and Lindsey) this semester to get this closer to finished. Here's the syllabus in progress for anyone who might be interested in seeing work in progress. That, after all, is the HASTAC way. We're also delighted for feedback. Next up: working in the social networking affordances into the structure of the class. Facebook? Or as a Facebook friend suggested this morning: Google Friend Connect? That is the question. Even now, with the clunky affordances of our ancient HASTAC site, I hope others out there will post their syllabi and even their syllabi-in-progress so we can all learn together!

Submitted by ves4 on Sep 26, 2008, 01:09 PM
Building an interdisciplinary Visual Studies center in an old tobacco warehouse bay.