Engaging with Screens: Art, Archive, Book || Loughborough University, 31
May 2017
As we increasingly encounter books and manuscripts on the screen, we
need to consider how we can best inhabit, enjoy and explore these
digital environments. This interdisciplinary workshop will debate ways
in which readers, publishers, archivists, and curators engage with the
computer screen and its technologies for the purpose of accessing,
preserving, and displaying textual material and paper artefacts. Is the
persistence of books and book-like forms in the digital ecology an
obstacle or necessity to our understanding of screen-based media? How
far can innovative, digital forms stray from their recognizable
counterparts in the analogue world before they become too alien for
users? Can engagement with a screen effectively replace tactile
engagement with a paper manuscript?
Keynote speakers include Douglas Dodds (Victoria and Albert Museum),
Julia Thomas (Cardiff University) and Clive Izard (Armadillo Software).
Full programme details are available at:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/staff-research/research-groups/digital-humanities/engaging-with-screens/.
The Engaging with Screens study day is organized by the DH@Lboro
research group in the School of Arts, English and Drama.
Wim
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Dr Wim VAN MIERLO
Lecturer in Publishing and English | Co-leader DH@Lboro Research Group
School of Arts, English and Drama | Loughborough University
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/staff/academic/wim-van-mierlo/
President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and Editor of Variants
http://www.textualscholarship.eu
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