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Presentation Title: HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA

Date: Oct 4, 2018

Location: Levis Faculty Center, Fourth Floor (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL)

As the impact of computational methods on all aspects of ordinary life accelerates, humanists and artists are grappling with hous big data is understood and how the cultures arising from it are shaping up at this moment in the history of technological innovation.

This conference tackles questions of scale, visuality, application, representation, textuality, materiality, aesthetics, preservation, epistemology and experimentation at the intersection of big data and research and thinking in the arts and humanities. Our aim is to place these issues at the heart of conversations about big data and its institutional locations at Illinois and to advance a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches to the field.

· Worries about not North Korea Nuclear weapon but big data

· Renaissance of humanity. (In the age of big data)

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University)

· Radical Approach

· Generous Thinking

· Big Data

· Listening

· Working in public

· The University

· How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion, and tenure documents?

· The Anecdote

· Prestige

· Honest

· The worst of it

Trevor Munoz (Interim Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities)

When will I be big enough for Big data?

· Head is full of practicality of running humanities

· Public goods, concepts how are they related?

· Accelerates insights

· AADHum (Develop scholars working at the intersection of African American cultural studies and digital humanities), Deliver the community of people who choose to work at this area.

· People of color

· Showed picture

· Computational neuro network: having a lot of data to practice on.

· They set them to work body of data. Mass amount of data.

· Datasets have become more important than algorithm -> how do we survive?

· Data attack?

· Based on learning from data

· Humanities Data draws our vision from future

Lisa Nakamura (Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Cultures at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

· Automating Racial Empathy: Virtual Reality and the undercommons

· Very excited. Breaking ice,

· Autonomy of big data

· Virtual reality vs. Technology

· Compassion, empathy, create things for us. That won’t allow us to think about data.

· Apparatus

· New empathy automated through virtual reality

· The Frist Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It’s Pornography

· How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine.

· VR helped me grasp the life of a transgender wheelchair user (‘The Circle’ uses VR’s strengths and weaknesses to help you be someone else.

· ONE DARK NIGHT: Source Sound provides VR audio design and processing for Emblematic Group’s riveting VR experience. Trayvon Martin’s fateful altercation with neighborhood watch citizen George Zimmerman is vividly recreated sing actual 911 calls, literally taking the viewer directly to the scene of the crime. A signature experience for virtual reality star Nonny de la Pena.

· The virtual reality that turns you into a black woman. Why did design collective Hyphen-Labs create a VR experience populated exclusively by black women? (by BBC)