Kenneth Sherwood (English, Co-director of Center for Digital Humanities and Culture) published the digital poem “Coal Code” in the peer-reviewed Electronic Literature Collection. Programmed in Javascript, the multi-media piece combines lyric voice tracks with an array of images reflecting upon and recyling stories and postcard images from nineteenth century coal culture in Pennsylvania. The web version of the work invites viewers to interact with the piece, shaping the aural and visual experience, changing the tempo, intensity, and shifting between the symmetry of “duet mode” and the the chaos ..read more

IUP Literature and Criticism Doctoral students Joseph Canton and Meghan Cronin have been recognized as 2022 HASTAC scholars Meghan Cronin and Joseph Canton, 2022 HASTAC Scholars and IUP L&C Graduate Students Ms. Cronin plans to look at how Shakespeare can be studied and taught through digital means, with two scheduled presentations on the topic in 2022.  She has previously conducted computational analysis of Shakespeare plays using the text visualization tool Voyant. “I am tremendously honored and thankful that IUP English has recognized my award. I am excited about the avenues of exp ..read more

DHC faculty Ken Sherwood and Gian Pagnucci offered a workshop entitled “Deliberate Tech Choice: My Domain for Teachers” to resident Fulbright teachers on Friday, October 1, 2021. The workshop introduced these international teachers to the framework of deliberate technology choice, aligning digital enhancements to teaching with student needs. Fulbright teachers learned to code a simple web page, create a self-hosted blog, and build a collaborative multi-authored wiki — as three tools from the MyDomain toolbox. View Slide, Full Screen, New Window Presenting for FDAI ..read more

The DHC is proud to announce the first phase Ethnopoetics.org — a collaboration to extend the valuing and study of global poetries. Using the affordances of an open-access wiki, Dr. Kenneth Sherwood initiated the project in Summer 2021 with graduate students in ENGL 766/866 Comparative Literature Ethnopoetics. Students from a Fall class in Digital Humanities have been helping to develop the project. They have learned to create accessible, scholarly contextualization and commentary for important texts of global poetry originally collected by Alcheringa in the 1970s. Ethnopoetics names an inform ..read more

Congratulations to Prof. Matthew Vetter and IUP Graduate Student Oksana Moroz. The Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to help support the Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at IUP ..read more

We’re writing to invite you and your students to participate in IUP’s fourth annual Interdisciplinary Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, to be held Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 10am-2pm (Stabley 201/210). At last year’s event, 91 editors made 228 edits to 73 articles in Wikipedia, adding over 12,000 words to help improve representation of women and the arts across disciplines. In addition to these accomplishments, student-participants were also give ..read more

Coal Code Node was produced as installation by Ken Sherwood and Bob Sweeny, October 2018, Kipp Annex. For the exhibit, Sherwood coded a poetic sound/image generator, video sequences of which were captured and this projection was combined with a film loop created by Sweeny and projected through a network of ropes strung across the space. The javascript program can be run in Firefox and the code examined on KennethSherwood.com /p> ..read more

On April 25, some seventy regional middle and high-school students will visit IUP in the culmination of a semester long activity.  Beginning early in the year, a team of IUP graduate students and faculty led on-site workshops to introduce students to the elements of hypertext, interactive fiction, and basic coding. Visitors are welcome to enjoy and vote for viewer’s choice awards during the festival. The website of student works can be accessed during the festival and subsequently ..read more

Photo courtesy of Zeeshan Siddique For the second year in a row, the Center for Digital Humanities and Culture (DHC) at IUP has co-sponsored an Edit-a-thon event focused on improving representation of women and the arts in Wikipedia. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. This lack of female participation has led to an alarming dearth of content about women and art in the world’s most popular online research tool. DHC affiliate Dr. Matt Vetter organized and led the event with Women’s and Gender Studies Director Dr. Lynn Botel ..read more

Prepared for the chairs of IUP Humanities and Social Sciences (Feb 2018), on behalf of CHSS Digital Projects and the IUP Center for Digital Humanities and Culture Download SlidesOER – for college chairs (1 ..read more