Short-Circuiting the Hardware of History
trettien, whitney
trettien, whitney
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The past is, as Wolfgang Ernst has provocatively written, the “artifactual hardware, so to speak, upon which historical discourse operates like a form of software.” Taking up the implications of Ernst’s statement, this talk explores how tinkering with the material weight of history, its hardware, through the creative/critical use of digital media has the power to update the software of our discourse. By deliberately engaging the charged differences of electronic media — their material strangeness in relation to historical artifacts — tactical methods of creative deformation and critical making have the power to short-circuit scholarly conventions, forcing current methods of reading, writing and communicating to run along new paths.
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Keynote talk. Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material. University of Kansas. September 12, 2013: http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013
whitney trettien is a PhD Candidate in English at Duke University.
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2013-09-12
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Digital, Humanities, Digital Humanities, Sound, Digital media, Materiality