Technical Intersections
World as Palimpsest: Multimodal Literature in Augmented Reality
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Robert Fletcher
This paper will both discuss a digital-humanities project that remediates ekphrastic poetry in augmented reality and explore AR as a cultural, aesthetic, and rhetorical practice across the humanities and related disciplines, with special attention to literary studies. It will review the innovative practices of established digital-literature artists working in AR and examine the current needs that must be addressed to establish this technology as a significant facet of the digital humanities. It will end by demonstrating a few methods of integrating augmented reality into classes without any programming requirements.
Participatory Humanities in the Digital Age: An Ethnographical Review of South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Minhyoung Kim
The field of digital humanities is becoming more exciting as the number of low-cost technologies and free-of-charge mobile applications are now widely attainable. They allow humanists to accomplish an ever-increasing number of tasks that were not possible only a few years ago, were very costly, or required high-end computing power. The range of these applications provides open access to digital participation at an unprecedented level. Collective collaboration is in particular an inherent part of nearly all digital humanity projects. Such partnerships connect digital resources, generate new practices, and enhance participatory humanities, which fuel diversity and lead to the expansion of the freedom of humanity. This study aims to examine how such participatory humanities serve as pivotal links between the personal and the political, allowing citizens to actively engage in networked forms of community and digitally connected action, while maintaining their sense of individuality. Utilizing an ethnographical approach with an open and reflexive research design, this study focuses on the structure of the Candlelight Revolution in South Korea.
