ACADIA | 2012 Conference. "The conference will highlight experimental research and projects that explore the reciprocity and synergy between bits and atoms, the digital and the physical, and between digital code and material logic. The conference will bring together designers, researchers and practitioners who engage, question and aspire to stretch these boundaries. Architects, fabricators, engineers, media artists, technologists, hackers and others in related fields of inquiry are invited to participate."

"Fetid and Fragrant Futures for the Humanities"

The Humanities And Technology Camp

"Historypin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, Historypin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peeks into the past."

A Celebration of Richard Rorty's Archive. "Participants will address a number of key questions for criticism in the era of computational media. What is an archive if it includes 'born digital' materials? How do new forms of digital production and reception change the character of scholarly discourse? What is the relationship between public memory and computer memory? How should teaching materials be handled in the age of open courseware? How can Rorty’s ideas about philosophy as cultural politics be read in both the liberal and the academic blogospheres? How can more dialogue between critical theory and the digital humanities be fostered?"

"Coal-powered digital media is destructive to the environment in many ways beyond deforestation." from PBS MediaShift.

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for rights expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of digital content in publishing, distributing and consuming of digital media across all sectors and communities.

What should libraries do to become relevant in the digital age? from seth godin's blog.

The energy savings realised by digital technology will merely absorb its own growing footprint.

Dust-to-Digital's mission is to produce high-quality, cultural artifacts, which combine rare, essential recordings with historic images and detailed texts describing the artists and their works.

from wired.

Research suggests that the act of reading observes a gradient of fluency.

Nowcasting is the first conference to apply contemporary design theory to emerging issues in the digital humanities. Showcasing digital humanities projects at every level from google mapping to supercomputing visualization, the Nowcasting seminar proposes that learning from communication design, interaction design, and industrial design will be vital to 21st century humanistic inquiry.

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A new series called “Dithering.” The subject is the sound quality of recorded music—analog, digital, or any combination thereof. from the new yorker.

digital fiction from penguin.