Lab Activity Updates

This page collects a new kind of post we started piloting in Summer 2024: a tweet-length "update" on recent lab activities of external interest.

All lab activity updates

2024

  • 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”.