
So pleased to be able to attend HASTAC 2013. Had a lovely time meeting people, getting new ideas, and sharing my work. I'm beyond grateful for all the support this community has shown me - and only sorry a previous conference commitment cut my time in Toronto far shorter than i would've liked.
The supershort version of the presentation is - we make sense of the world by means beyond solely text, and in both form and content my work embodies an argument for that in being amphibious - that is simultaneously visual and verbal. And then there's a bit more...
While I created no official, easily shareable talk for my presentation, I've gathered together some links to other works that can give those interested who weren't there a sense of what went down and perhaps fill in some gaps for those who were.
First up, I created an image-text document of a talk I gave a while back. It has a lot of similar threads to what i presented in Toronto: http://www.spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/2013/04/image-text-talk-comics-as-tool-for.html (you can skip my site and find it directly here: http://www.juniata.edu/services/jcpress/voices/pdf/2012/jv_2012_162-172.pdf)
Also, in this talk, I highlighted a number of pages from the current chapter I'm working on, and you can find posts on that at the following:
Part 1: http://www.spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/2013/02/ch3-opening-amphibious-refraction.html
Part 2: http://www.spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/2013/03/ch3-sequence-where-words-fail.html
Part 3: http://spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/2013/04/ch3-sequential-art-by-any-other-name.html

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aesthetics informs analysis...
One thing that struck me in conversations after my presentations at HASTAC and AERA, was the essential link between aesthetics and analysis. That is, this is not about using images to illustrate text, but rather having aesthetic choices inform analysis, just as that inquiry shapes the visuals. As the possibilities for scholarship expand to incorporate the arts, I think an understanding of the form's capacities need to inform the work itself. So we're asking ourselves, what can i do with this form that expands what i might do by traditional methods, how can i best utilize it to get at things I'm not able to do otherwise.
Anyhow, that notion of "aesthetics equals analysis" was raised by a session attendee and has really resonated me as articulating well what i've been up to, and will further inform where i go moving forward... - Nick
more words on aesthetics and analysis
I've been continuing to think a great deal on aeshtetics informing analysis, and posted a further statement about that on my site here with some visuals.
An excerpt from that: