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Biography, Life Writing
Saving Lives: Digital Biography and Life Writing
In this first decade of the twenty-first century we are caught up in the midst of a technological shift of the kind that Walter Benjamin, in his 1936 essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, attributed to the increasing popularity of photography in the early twentieth century. The essence of that change was the unprecedented capacity to create infinitely reproducible multiple copies. For the first time the idea of the primacy of the singular work of art was seriously open to question. ‘The history of every art form,’ writes Benjamin, ‘shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, a new art form’.
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History
Exhibiting History: The Digital Future
This paper surveys the digital history field, highlighting trends across historical, cultural and literary studies, heritage, archaeology and geography, as well as library information, screen and media studies, multimedia production and interaction design. This broad field is increasingly relevant to museum practice as museums experiment with digital modes of presentation and communication, including virtual exhibitions and other online extensions of the physical visitor experience.
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e-Research
Digital Fabric, Narrative Threads
The traditional crafts of quilting, embroidering and weaving may appear to be a world away from the high tech fields of computer networking, digital interface design, and database development. However, the old and new are increasingly being linked through metaphors that reveal a great deal about changing attitudes to digital technologies as they become more [...]
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History, e-Research
Virtual Strangers: e-Research and the Humanities
The Arts and Humanities have traditionally been worlds apart from Science and Technology in their ways of pursuing and generating knowledge and understanding. So much so that the famous term, ‘The Two Cultures’, coined in the mid twentieth century by C. P. Snow to describe the vast gap between these discipline areas, is still current [...]
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In 2010 Paul Arthur will take up the position of Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the History program at the Australian National University. Since 2007 he has been a Targeted Research Fellow in Information Commons at Curtin University, Western Australia, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University. During 2009 Paul Arthur is a visiting fellow at two international centres - Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA (teaching his seminar course 'Writing History with New Media'), and HUMlab, the digital humanities centre at Umeå University, Sweden. Click here for Paul's CV.search
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