CHAT Festival 2012: "Digital Museums, Archives, and Publications"

CHAT = Collaborations: Humanities, Arts, Technology

With: Mark Olson (h), Clarissa Lee, Florian Wiencek, MaryLeigh Morbey, Sylvia Miller, William Shaw

Clarissa Lee, Duke University
MaryLeigh Morbey, York University
Sylvia Miller, UNC Press
Mark Olson, Duke University
Will Shaw, Duke University
Florian Wiencek, Jacobs University

What are the common challenges and opportunities the digital turn offers to scholars and critics building resources and developing arguments through online experiences and interactions? How do these projects make a difference in the wider world? What are the distinctive challenges of working with scientific objects, social media virtual environments, 3D models, e-publications, online museums, and archives? Where does all of this technological innovation leave conventional forms of scholarly publishing and presentation? What new opportunities arise? Short presentations followed by discussion.

For full festival schedule (in progress) and other information, visit http://www.chatfestival2012.org/