Remaking Victorian Miniatures:Speculative Stitches between 2D and 3D – Jentery Sayers | University of Victoria | @jenterysayersScholars' Lab at UVA | 20 November 2014

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Remaking Victorian Miniatures:Speculative Stitches between 2D and 3D – Jentery Sayers | University of Victoria | @jenterysayersScholars' Lab at UVA | 20 November 2014

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Remaking Victorian Miniatures:Speculative Stitches between 2D and 3D

Jentery Sayers | University of Victoria | @jenterysayersScholars' Lab at UVA | 20 November 2014

Image of basswood cube care of Nicole Clouston --- Navigate this slidedeck using your space bar or arrow keys ---

Follow Along?

Slidedeck online: uvicmakerlab.github.io/stitches Source files: github.com/uvicmakerlab/stitches/

Alpha image of basswood cube care of Nicole Clouston

Outline for Today (~35 Minutes)

The Relevance of Remaking The Process of Remaking The Frames of Remaking Object Lesson: The Work of Gustave Trouvé

Edged image of basswood cube care of Nicole Clouston

The Relevance of Remaking, or Matters of:

Composition (From what materials?) Assembly (Through what processes?) Interface (Through what interactions?) Failure (Through what measures of success?) Abstraction (Through what re-presentations?) Discovery (Through what standards?) Speculation (What's not known? What's not at hand?)

Image care of U.S. Patent 486,563 + the Google Machine

The Process of Remaking

Some Steps from the Lab

Image care of Shaun Macpherson

For more Victorian prototypes, visit the MLab's Trouvé repo.

For more on this process, see Nicole Clouston's work.

For more on this process, see work byKatherine Goertz and Danielle Morgan.

For more on this process, see Shaun Macpherson's work.

For more on this process, see Nina Belojevic's work.

The Frames of Remaking

"Frame" as in "Useful" (framian) Gateways and filters for knowledge production Negotiated and enacted, not possessed Prompted by attention to transduction N-dimensional, or "indefinite number of perspectives" (McGann 15) Entanglements of materialism + idealism, human + nonhuman

Image care of Jentery SayersFor more on entanglements and "agential realism," see Karen Barad (2007) For more on texts in n-dimensions, see Jerome McGann (2003)

The Superficial Frame

Where form meets the grain of a surface (craft, composition, product, design, failure, tactile media)

Image care of Nicole Clouston

The Gravity-Free Frame

Where manipulable ideal meets digital materiality (abstraction, discovery, programmability, copying, undoing, control)

Image care of Katherine Goertz--- Thanks, Nicole Clouston, for this phrase ---

The Ephemeral Frame

Where transcendence meets loss and decay (labor, assembly, process, interface, sound, power, social relations)

Image care of Shaun Macpherson

The Interior Frame

Where the invisible and unknown meet occlusion (speculation, imagination, sketching, prototyping, black-boxing)

Image care of Shaun Macpherson

Relevance to Digital Humanities

Understanding human-computer entanglements through mediation and enactment (beyond speed, size, and abundance)

Not truth claims, but stitching together frames

Image care of Shaun Macpherson and some computer vision

Thank You

Jentery Sayers | University of Victoria | @jenterysayers

Special thanks to Bethany Nowviskie, Laura Miller,Rebecca Peters, Jeremy Boggs, and the Scholars' Lab

Image care of Shaun Macpherson and some computer vision