ReMedia PI, Dr. Emily Christina Murphy has joined the University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative as their first Scholar in Residence (2024-25). Learn more about the work she’ll complete during her residency here: https://dhn.utoronto.ca/cdhi-welcomes-visiting-scholar-in-residence-dr-emily-murphy
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ReMedia students present research at IA1 launch
On September 25th, students Odessy Liu and Rowan Pickard presented research posters on ReMedia projects at the IA1 launch party and research showcase. Odessy Liu reported on data scraping and preliminary analyses for the SSHRC-funded Modernist Remediations project that will contribute to a chapter in Dr. Murphy’s in-progress book, Iconic Biography. Liu and Murphy will […]
IA1 Research Space Launch Party
Join us for the launch of the FCCS research spaces in Innovation Annex 1!
REBLOG: Mind the Gap, It’s There on Purpose: The Exclusion of Sound & Oral Histories in Western Academia
This post is reblogged from the AMP Lab blog. Find the original here. This post is the third and final in a series of blog posts has been written in reflection to the summer 2022 URA project The Pocket Desert annotations created using AudiAnnotate. Rowan’s project was funded by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Undergraduate […]
REBLOG: Hearing the Okanagan: A Closer Look at The Pocket Desert Radio Documentary
This post is reblogged from the AMP Lab blog. Find the original here. This post is the second of a three-part series about the importance and relevance of oral histories and audio recordings based on research conducted on The Pocket Desert radio documentary. The research was funded by a Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Undergraduate […]
REBLOG: Transcending Time: The Significance of Sound & Audio Archives in the Okanagan
This post is reblogged from the AMP Lab blog. Find the original here. This post is the first of a three-part series about the importance and relevance of oral histories and audio recordings based on research conducted on The Pocket Desert radio documentary. This research was funded by a Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Undergraduate Research Award […]
High, Middle, and Low Brows in Graphic Biographies, Part 2
Undergraduate student assistant Julie Carr wrote this post as part of her work gathering titles of graphic biographies for the Modernist Remediations project. You can read Part 1 of this post here. In the last post, I discussed insights from the “brows” or constructed markets that graphic biographies from different publishers fall into. In this […]
High, Middle, and Low Brows in Graphic Biographies, Part 1
Undergraduate student assistant Julie Carr wrote this post as part of her work gathering titles of graphic biographies for the Modernist Remediations project. While working studying graphic biographies in the Modernist Remediations project, I became interested in whether we could classify this emerging genre along conventional “brow” lines and whether that classification would yield any […]
ASMR and Embodied Relationships to Technology
Oriane Edwards wrote this blog post as part of her work with Modernist Remediations to think through affective relationships to technology. ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, is a recently coined term describing a tingling sensation at the top or back of one’s head, neck and spine. Online discussion about this phenomenon began in 2009, […]
Ghosts in the Shells: Collaboration and Cosmic Horror in AI Art
[CONTENT WARNING: HORROR, BONES, TENTACLES] Oriane Edwards contributed two blog posts from her independent research on the Modernist Remediations project in ReMedia. The rise of artificial intelligence-made art (AI art) tools such as Midjourney sparked fierce debates regarding the future of art. Beyond art, how might AI art itself be used more broadly as a […]