Sessions are free, but seating is limited to a first-come, first-served basis and online registration at is required.įaculty and graduate students interested in the digital arts and humanities, as well as digital scholarship and teaching, are encouraged to attend these events. Panelists are David Holland, research and entrepreneurial specialists in the School of the Arts, and Jessica Venable, grant analyst in the VCU Office of Research.Įach event will be held in the Multipurpose Room on the second floor of the James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. "Funding Innovation: Avenues, Resources and Support for Projects,” May 2, noon to 2 p.m.Joshua Eckhardt, associate professor in the Department of English and founder, general co-editor of British Virginia, will moderate.
Panelists are Ben Fino-Radin, digital conservator for Rhizome at the New Museum and manager of the Museum of Modern Art Digital Repository Francesca Fiorani, associate professor in the history of art and architecture at the University of Virginia and director of “Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting,” an electronic archive and Michael Poston, database applications associate at the Folger Shakespeare Library. “Crafting Content: Creation, Scholarship and Organization,” April 25, 1 to 4 p.m.McKelvey, associate professor in the VCU Department of Graphic Design and co-founder of Loop: AIGA Journal of Interactive Design Education, will moderate. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond Amanda French, THATCamp coordinator at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and Emily Smith, executive director of 1708 Gallery and curator and creator of InLight Richmond. “Visualizing the Digital: Design, Ideas and Platforms,” March 26, 1 to 4 p.m.The “Digital Pragmata” series is the result of a collaboration between VCU Libraries, the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Research. Glover and Kristina Keogh, reference librarian for the arts, have organized “Digital Pragmata,” a series of panel discussions at VCU designed to explore the trends and techniques in modern scholarship, teaching and creative work. “Digital pragmata can be textual databases, creative visualizations of information, multimedia explorations, collaboratively annotated maps, course-related blogs and a thousand other projects,” said John Glover, reference librarian for the humanities and reference collection coordinator.
The widespread use of computer technology pushes us away from traditional books or other tangible materials and into “digital pragmata,” or “digital things.” For example, instead of visiting the James Branch Cabell Library to find the first issue of the Commonwealth Times, it can be viewed in the library’s digital archive. The digital age has changed the way information is shared on a daily basis.