Scholarly Community

From its outset, the Temporal Modelling Project has worked to establish and interact with a wide community of scholars and computer scientists. To that end, we have sponsored a weeklong seminar on time in a humanities context, gathered and made available on the Web a set of readings and images related to temporal conceptualization, founded a research group (SpecLab) dedicated to the creation of innovative tools for humanities computing, and presented our work in a number of academic venues. Project research reports are included in another section of this site. Here you will find documentation of the project's relation with and service to its community.

• Visual Archive: a collection of temporal visualizations for teaching and research
• Annotated Seminar Readings: material from the Temporal Modelling Seminar of 2001 (also an excellent introduction to the conceptualization of time)
• a report on the seminar, including summaries and new insights
• SpecLab: UVA Speculative Computing Laboratory, a research group stemming from Temporal Modelling Project activities
• Related and affiliated projects:
  • The Ivanhoe Game: an online scholarly resource, also interested in visualizing interpretation and subjectivity (UVA)
  • HEML: Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Mount Allison University, Canada
  • Salem Witch Trials: documentary archive and transcription project of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
  • Race and Place: research project on an African-American community in the Jim Crow South, sponsored by the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH)
• Public presentations of Temporal Modelling tools, designs, and concepts:
  • forthcoming:
    • ACH/ALLC 2003: major humanities computing conference at which Temporal Modelling will present a paper and offer a hands-on demo session. (June 2003)
    • "Aesthetics and Provocations in the Digital Humanities," Opening keynote "IT and the Humanities," Summer School, Karlskrona, Sweden, Graduate Summer School of Literature and Literary Theory (May 2003)
    • Society for Textual Scholarship, "Graphical Aesthetics" opening panel with Marjorie Perloff and Charles Bernstein focused on visual aspects of meaning in display and interpretation of texts. (March 2003)
    • "Applied Aesthetics." Invited lecture in a series featuring Jerome McGann, Faye Ginsburg, and Michael Century. Series curated by Michael Joyce in connection with a seminar planning Approaches to Media Studies. (Vassar College, February 2003)
  • past:
    • "Information Visualization," School of Visual Arts, NY, Artists Visualize Information, with Matt Mullican, Nancy Chunn, and Erica Baum, curated by Ellen Levy. (April 2002)
    • "Digital Provocations: Literary studies and electronic technology," invited speaker, Harvard University, Humanities Center, Reading Literacy Conference (April 2002)
    • "Is there an aesthetics of digital media?", invited speaker, University of Colorado, Boulder, New Technologies of the Visual Conference, Other speakers were Tom Mitchell, Rod Coover, Steve Jones, and Faye Ginsburg (September 2002)
    • "Graphical presentations," invited speaker, Graduate seminar on Poetics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (October 2002)
    • as well as several local demo and work-in-progress sessions at the University of Virginia
• a feature article about the project in Arts & Sciences Online
• storyboards from the Temporal Modelling Project are being used to teach humanities computing at a course at the University of Maryland

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