Brown University Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage hosted a Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series for the 2011-2012 academic year in order to engage Brown faculty and students in the digital arts and humanities, and to encourage expanded programs focused on digital scholarship at Brown. This site features images, abstracts, and bios for the speakers (current as of the dates of their lectures), as well as videos of the Paul DeMarinis and Tara McPherson talks.

Click on a speaker below to access information about a talk:

Paul DeMarinis catalogs decades-worth of his experimental sound sculptures, which intimately tie together elaborate technological assemblages with the production of sound.

Tara McPherson stresses that academic publications, access, and methodologies must strive to match features online readers are expecting, or risk becoming increasingly subservient to prepackaged solutions.

Jeffrey Schnapp would like to see creative digital access experiments lead the way for the future of the library as an institution.

Richard White shows how spatial perception and analysis is inherently social, using digital presentation tools to explore specific economic changes over time.

Alan Liu frames the digital humanities within a continuum of ongoing content/form transformations, advocating that archives treat networks as primary objects.