Future Horizons : Canadian Digital Humanities

Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger

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Au fil des vingt et quelques chapitres que compte cet ouvrage, les auteurs explorent le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de l’expérimentation en sciences humaines numériques au Canada. Ce recueil, qui rassemble les travaux de chercheuses et de chercheurs établis et émergents, présente des initiatives contemporaines dans le domaine des sciences humaines numériques. Celles-ci sont conjuguées à un réexamen de l’héritage légué par ce domaine jusqu’à ce jour et à des discussions sur son potentiel. Future Horizons jette aussi un regard historique sur des projets numériques d’envergure, quoique largement méconnus, qui ont été réalisés au Canada.

Future Horizons fait plonger le lecteur dans des projets qui mettent à contribution une vaste gamme d’approches — des jeux numériques aux laboratoires ouverts, des archives sonores à la poésie numérique, des arts visuels à l’analyse textuelle numérique — et qui puisent dans des matériaux canadiens tant historiques que contemporains. Dans leurs essais, les auteurs font voir comment une telle diversité d’approches remet en cause la connaissance en permettant aux chercheurs de poser de nouvelles questions.

Ce recueil remet en question l’idée selon laquelle il n’existerait qu’une seule définition des sciences humaines numériques ou une seule identité collective nationale. En observant les interactions du numérique avec la race, l’autochtonie, le genre et la sexualité — sans oublier l’histoire, la poésie et le concept de nation —, Future Horizons propose une vue élargie du travail à l’intersection des sciences humaines numériques et des sciences humaines traditionnelles dans le Canada d’aujourd’hui.

Ce livre est publié en anglais.

Formats disponibles : couverture souple, PDF accessible et ePub accessible.

Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by established and emerging scholars, this collection presents contemporary initiatives in digital humanities alongside a reassessment of the field’s legacy to date and conversations about its future potential. It also offers a historical view of the important, yet largely unknown, digital projects in Canada.

Future Horizons offers deep dives into projects that enlist a diverse range of approaches—from digital games to makerspaces, sound archives to born-digital poetry, visual arts to digital textual analysis—and that work with both historical and contemporary Canadian materials. The essays demonstrate how these diverse approaches challenge disciplinary knowledge by enabling humanities researchers to ask new questions.

The collection challenges the idea that there is either a single definition of digital humanities or a collective national identity. By looking to digital engagements with race, Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality—not to mention history, poetry, and nationhood—this volume expands what it means to work at the intersection of digital humanities and humanities in Canada today.

Available formats: trade paperback, accessible PDF, and accessible ePub

Sujets

• Sciences et techniques
• Digital humanities
• Archive
• Technology
• Electronics
• Engineering
• Digital
• Archives

Informations

• Publié par: Les Presses de l'UniversitÈ d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Date de parution: 13 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780776640068
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 15 Mo

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Future Horizons

Future Horizons

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Canadian Digital Humanities

Edited by paul barrett and sarah roger

University of Ottawa Press 2023

The University of Ottawa Press (UOP) is proud to be the oldest of the francophone university presses in Canada and the oldest bilingual university publisher in North America. Since 1936, UOP has been enriching intellectual and cultural discourse by producing peer-reviewed and award-winning books in the humanities and social sciences, in French and in English. www.Press.uOttawa.ca

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Future horizons : Canadian digital humanities / edited by Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger. Names: Barrett, Paul, 1979- editor. | Roger, Sarah Rachelle, 1981- editor. Description: Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220451737 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220451745 | ISBN 9780776640051 (softcover) | ISBN 9780776640068 (PDF) | ISBN 9780776640075 (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Digital humanities—Research—Canada. | LCSH: Digital humanities—Study and teaching—Canada. Classification: LCC AZ105 .F88 2023 | DDC 001.30285—dc23

Legal Deposit: Second Quarter 2023 Library and Archives Canada © Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger 2023 All rights reserved.

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Robbie McCaw Michael Waldin, Crystal Chan, Céline Parent Transforma Lefrançois Agence B2B

Radiant Loop, generative art by Andrew James MacDonald, 2022.

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The University of Ottawa Press gratefully acknowledges the support extended to its publishing list by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, and by the University of Ottawa.

Radiant Loop, 2022, Generative Art

The artwork that features on the cover is a recent piece that was born out of pandemic living. It explores themes of connection, segregation, and isolation. Andrew James MacDonald is a Montréal-based generative artist who creates art using math and code. Born and raised in Hamilton, he studied multimedia at McMaster University and proceeded to forge a career as a web developer.

He has been involved in several digital humanities projects, most notably Voyant Tools. By combining his programming skills with his keen eye for colour and space, Andrew has been creating works in the field of generative art for over a decade.

Contents

abstract xi list of figures xiii acknowledgements xv

Chapter 1 digital canadas? transforming the nation 1 Sarah Roger and Paul Barrett

Part 1. Situating and Disrupting Digital Scholarship 17

Chapter 2 where is the nation in digital humanities, revisited 19 Roopika Risam Chapter 3 rerouting digital (humanities) scholarship in canada 29 Andrea Zeffiro Chapter 4 closed, open, stopped: indigenous sovereignty and the possibility of decolonial digital humanities 49 David Gaertner Chapter 5 “this game needs to be made”: playable theories⇌75virtual worlds Jon Saklofske Chapter 6 reimagining representational codes in data visualization: what contemporary digital humanities might learn from visual artsbased disciplines 93 Julia PolyckO’Neill

Chapter 7 making, conversation: an experiment in public digital humanities 111 Kim Martin and Rashmeet Kaur

Part 2. Digital Poetics 131 Chapter 8 canadian poetry and the computational concordance: sandra djwa and the early history of canadian humanities computing 133 Sarah Roger, Paul Barrett, Kiera Obbard, and Sandra Djwa Chapter 9 canadian poetry and the computer 149 Sandra Djwa Chapter 10 “saga uv th relees uv huuman spirit from compuewterr funckshuns”: space conquest, ibm, and the antidigital anxiety of early canadian digital poetics (1960–1968) 161 Gregory Betts

Chapter 11 the digits in the digital: bodies in the machines of canadian concrete poetry 181 Eric Schmaltz

Chapter 12 nations of touch: the politics of electronic literature as digital humanities 203 Dani Spinosa

Chapter 13 stop words 221 Klara du Plessis

Part 3. Digital Canadian Archives 237 Chapter 14 wages due both then and now 239 Pascale Dangoisse, Constance Crompton, and Michelle Schwartz

Chapter 15 analog thrills, digital spills: on the fred wah digital archive version 2.0 255 Deanna Fong and Ryan Fitzpatrick

Chapter 16 humanizing the archive: the potential of hiphop archives in the digital humanities 273 Mark V. Campbell Chapter 17 sounding digital humanities 291 Katherine McLeod Chapter 18 linking out: the long now of digital humanities infrastructures 315 Susan Brown, Kim Martin, and Asen Ivanov

Chapter 19 unsettling colonial mapping: sonicspatial representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan 349 Kendra Cowley

Chapter 20 beyond “mere digitization”: introducing the canadian modernist magazines project 367 Graham H. Jensen

Chapter 21 a legacy of race and data: mining the history of exclusion 389 Allan Cho and Sarah Zhang Chapter 22 afterword: the landscape and the horizon 407 Susan Brown

Contributors 425 Index 433