Lab Activity Updates

All lab activity updates

2024

• November 13, 2024 update: Staff grant award

  Will Rourk successfully proposed a UVA Engage grant that will support community cultural heritage informatics preservation and research efforts for the Dunbar Rosenwald School and Fluvanna Evergreen African-American School buildings.

• November 6, 2024 update: Staff conference speaking

  Brandon Walsh and Amanda Visconti are presenting at the U.S.-based digital humanities scholarly org (the Association for Computers and the Humanities) annual conference, ACH 2024, with in two sessions including Praxis Fellow alums Seanna Viechweg and Fellow Crystal Luo.

• October 30, 2024 update: Staff zine publication

  Amanda Visconti and Zooniverse’s Sam Blickhan co-created & published a zine, “Speedweve for Mending”, as part of the public #DHMakes Methodz Talks Amanda organizes.

• October 25, 2024 update: Staff grant award

  Will Rourk successfully proposed a UVA Engage grant sending funds to Charlottesville’s The Haven day shelter (located in a historic church) & local nonprofit Doing Good. He recently 3D scanned the building in support of restoration and improvement efforts to better serve unhoused neighbors.

• October 23, 2024 update: Staff conference speaking

  Brandon Walsh and Mackenzie Brooks taught an online workshop, “Digital Pedagogy on Paper: An Assignment Redesign Workshop” for the DLF Forum Conference.

• October 17, 2024 update: AI staff speaking

  “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity” symposium: Amanda Visconti was an invited expert for a roundtable and OA volume on AI intersections w/cultural policy, heritage, creativity (10/23; sponsors UVA Karsh Digital Tech for Democracy Lab, Environmental Institute, Data Science).

• October 11, 2024 update: Staff external events

  Amanda Wyatt Visconti organized a series of external events, #DHmakes Methodz Talks, with DH scholars from around the country teaching making and crafting methods.

• September 9, 2024 update: Staff zine publication

  Amanda Wyatt Visconti published a mini-zine, “Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case” on using our makerspace’s lasercutter, with thanks to Ammon Shepherd for providing a training refresh.

• September 5, 2024 update: Staff conference attendance

  Ammon Shepherd and 4 of our Makerspace Technician students are presenting talks at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces.

• August 19, 2024 update: Staff project release

  Brandon Walsh published “DH on the Go”, a website collecting digital humanities podcasts, audiobooks, & other video/audio of interest to DHers, open to public contributions via Zotero group.

• August 5, 2024 update: Lab conference involvement

  Multiple Lab staff or alum are presenting or facilitating a mini-conference at the August international digital humanities conference, DH 2024.

• August 1, 2024 update: Staff project release

  Amanda Wyatt Visconti published ZineBakery.com, a website sharing their project collecting, researching, & amplifying zines on culture, tech, and justice (of which Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab is a public zine distro subset). Includes data visualization, metadata, coding, relational database work.

• July 2, 2024 update: Staff article publication

  SLab Director Amanda Visconti published an article on the recent history of #DHmakes/maker-craft work in DH in the inaugural issue of the Korean Journal of Digital Humanities, co-authored with Quinn Dombrowski and Claudia Berger.

• May 31, 2024 update: Lab article publication

  SLab Head of Student Programs Brandon Walsh published an article in the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, co-authored with 4 former Praxis Fellows: “A Way In: Digital Pedagogy Training with Speculative, Low-Tech Workshops”.