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SESSION PROPOSAL: This is not the Ken Burns effect! Enacting the Archive (TEACH)

Media artist sam smiley will be screening recent works that use archival images to tell alternative stories through video art. She will talk about tools and techniques, will show portions of her work, and will facilitate an open discussion to follow. Open discussion: How can video artists and historians enact historical documents in a way […]

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Registration for THATCamp SHOT is now open!

THATCamp SHOT 2014 is just over two months away and we are now ready for registration. THATCamp, The Humanities And Technology Camp, is a free, open, interdisciplinary “unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good. As historians of technology, we study the making and transformation over time, but the SHOT conferences […]

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THATCamp un-roundtable at SHOT!

While we hope that many SHOT conference participants will come to the THATCamp, many more will not. In order to share some of what we will do at the THATCamp, Finn Arne Jørgensen proposed an untraditional session for this year’s conference, titled “This is not a roundtable: THATCamp SHOT and the place of technology in […]

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Watch this space!

THATCamp SHOT is happening! We will meet at The Henry Ford on November 6, 2014, immediately before the start of the annual SHOT conference. A roundtable will connect the THATCamp to the regular conference. Watch this space for more information! The logo above is a work in progress – please comment if you have suggestions […]

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