Nowcasting Conference - LiveBlog!

12:13 And with that Nowcasting Conference 2009 takes a break for lunch.

12:10 The critique is directed towards data as a model for directing humanistic research. But these models will be modified by the specificity of the individual. Drucker is challenging the holistic adoption of empirical knowledge for doing humanistic work in graph presentation and not the practice of consensual agreement of interpretation by humanists.

12:05 Great presentation from Drucker. Last Q + A before break.

12:00 Twitter: lulabrad How do we map the "human experience"? What is the terrain of psycho-geography that Drucker describes? #ctcs677

11:58 Addressing the problem of scale and reading (i.e. the need to move from a space of a page to file, folder, collection, archive). It doesn't need to be put into a structure to be moved through. Reading is performative and the process is transformative of the text.

11:50 Temporarily is relational and not standard and fixed. We need to look at affect. It phenomenological and experiential.

11:48 Twitter: lulabrad the mapping of subjectivity...ah, i'm reminded of our discussion on phenomenology from last week #ctcs677
itchybramble Drucker's humanistic ethics: rather than assuming it’s a given (data), it’s a taken (capta). #ctcs677

11:43 Drucker letting lose and throwing the gauntlet. The idea of data representing is problematic because it assumes form follows data. Data is a construct of empirical methods that suggests there is an existing phenomena that can be taken by mechanical means. Any metric of perception of any phenomena is according to an agenda. It assumes there are user independent. WRONG!

11:41 Twitter: DiegoSemerene "The humanities can never be grounded in certainty" #ctcs677

11:40 Change the perspective of entities of the object of knowledge to knowing of events and the interpretation of it.

11:40 Twitter: joshuams Finally got http://tinyurl.com/yzeohzc (Real Media) video stream working w/ a newer intel-mac friendly version of VLC. #ctcs677

11:36 The latest developments in digital humanities: from approaching the problems that arise from the digital in the humanities to the shift of creating humanities with and within the digital environment.

11:35 Before the conference heads out to lunch here is Johanna Drucker FROM DATA TO CAPTA: DIAGRAMMING INTERPRETATION

11:33 Despite that the presentation is over here is the wikipedia page for the Medium is the Massage.

11:30 Even with the massive success of Medium is the Massage, it didn't create the transformation and the graphic norms that were being experimented with did not happen. the more conventional models of publishing sustained afterward.

11:25 Very dense presentation from Schnapp. Q + A begins.

11:23 Twitter: lulubrad Massaging of messages initiates change surrounding identity and the public- the you. #ctcs677

11:17 Medium is the massage is a hybrid of new and older materials. The bulk of textual materials is reworked and the massaging projected shifts to the public and concludes by proposing the question "who are you with respects to the electronic age." Medium as the massage is a McLuhan mash-up by impacting the public impact by popularization repackaging and re-approriating McLuhan.

11:15 Twitter: lulubrad ...turning message into massage...#ctcs677

11:00 Schnapp on Jerome Agel - The book producer was not the traditional editor but rather like a music producer and involved in all phases of the creation of a book. "Book were hits and not bestsellers."

10:52 Future Shock

10:50 Onward to Jeffrey Schnapp MAKERS OF THE 1960S: QUENTIN FIORE + JEROME AGEL

10:42 Twitter: DiegoSemerene Paglen's "production of outer space" echoes Curtis Wong's World Wide Telescope project? http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx #ctcs677

10:40 It's a shame Paglin didn't get a chance address the legal framework that encases this issue. Definitely something to look further into.

10:38 During the Cold War and the 90s space was militarized but it was silently agreed that it would never be weaponized. Though there may be war from space there would never be a war spot in space. However, this has now drastically changed.

10:35 We are interrogating the symbolic issue of space travel that are absent in the presentation. Paglin thinks that's spectacle for the military. What defines the "now" are the current developments and approach politics has towards the GSO.

10:33 Fascinating presentation by Paglin. Now onto the Q + A.

10:30 SATCOM has dramatically altered the ways on how outer space is viewable. Defact military occupation of orbit. Unlike other sources of occupation, this is invisible, undetectable, and deniable. It represents the closing of a frontier.

10:25 Twitter: ironmanx28 Trevor Paglen is extending his work mapping terrestrial manifestations of the MIC into space #ctcs677

10:23 MiTEx was to inspect and deactivate satellites with the goal of making them look like these spacecraft had simply broken down. MiTEx was subtle, stealth and deniable. It has an informal sovereignty over the GSO. This is a new ideology the military has projected onto agendas concerning US presence in air and space.

10:15 The anxiety is a response to the perceived territorialization, military occupation, of the orbits from the origins of these broken and rogue satellites. Now onto MiTEx.

10:10 Paglin has a very interesting take on the idea of anxiety concerning this subject of satellites, their orbits, and their relation to actual human interaction.

10:08 The rogue satellite DSP-F23 is the trajectory of Paglin's presentation. For more information visit here.

10:00 For anyone interested in Trevor Paglin's work visit http://www.paglen.com His presentation THE OTHER NIGHT SKY: SECRET SATELLITES AND ‘GEOGRAPHIES’ OF ORBIT begins now.

9:58 Anne states she is largely influenced by Jay David Bolter's Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Second Edition, but she responds that this digital writing space is no longer about words and more about conditions and situations now.

9:53 Twitter: itchybramble never before considered the book as a time-based medium, e.g. its frozen temporality as opposed to the "nowness" of a website. #ctcs677

9:50 Anne Burdick is now taking Q + A.

9:50 More interesting however is Design speculative mode - is propostional, provocative, investigative, and optimistic.

9:46 Design is more than issues of more than representative but also it is operational. It can also be used to create and structural logics, schema, information hierarchy, cultural strategies, narrative structure. Design can re-contextualize, critic, and deconstruct.

9:38 Visualization of footnotes that also have no departure note.

9:34 Discussing notions of authorship, hypertext, collaboration, and mediation.

9:25 Anne is introducing newecologyofthings.net

9:20 Twitter: tmcphers i'm here (there?) virtually but the streaming hasn't started yet. are folks already talking? #ctcs677

9:20 Turning things over to Anne Burdick, DESIGNING KNOWLEDGE. The conference now begins.

9:18: not everything is digital humanities, but the digital humanities are about everything---> design theory + digital humanities = designed theory

9:15 Defining design theory and thinking about design in all its manifestations: human centric, solution-oriented, and technical. Now moving on to the digital humanities...

9:10 Defining Nowcasting as defined by Rivka Galchen. There is more data points to get a fix for the present than trying to forecast the future. Now to combine that with design theory...

9:05 Introductions for Nowcasting Conference: Design Theory + Digital Humanities 2009 begins.