Hi, I just received an email from the UO Digital Humanities group announcing some really fun sounding events around the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein happening on campus next week. Neat Halloween timing! What sounds really of interest are the visualization aspects of these events and thinking about the ways in which we can nowadays digitally visualize the story as well thinking about ways in which over the years this novel has evolved in our visual and popular culture!
Also this is a great opportunity to learn about an area on campus you may not be familiar with and the Science Library is a great resource on campus and the Viz Lab is just one part of it, there is also a really neat MakerSpace in the Library too!
If you have any questions let me know!
Digital Humanities email invite with additional information below!
-Robert
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and universities around the world are celebrating with Frankenreads events between the 24th and 31st of October. The Price Science Commons Visualization Lab is hosting a two-day open house (Oct. 30th and 31st) in the Viz Lab with hands-on, entry-level data visualization activities. Thanks to Celeste Reeb (Ph.D. Candidate, English) the Viz Lab has also scheduled a community event that may be of interest to you:
Oct 29th: Frankenstein Trivia, Starlight Lounge (film screening to follow).
Oct 30th: Visualizing Frankenstein Open House in the Price Science Commons Viz Lab, 10-2pm Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by trying out some entry-level data visualization techniques! Use Voyant Tools to decide whether the monster should be called Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Monster, or something else altogether. Use Palladio to map events in the novel and connect places in time. Record yourself reading part of the novel and use Sonic Visualiser to visualize the sound. This is a come and go event and is open to everyone. Bring your laptop! Refreshments provided.
Oct 31st: Visualizing Frankenstein Open House in the PSC Viz Lab, 10-12pm
Same as above! Refreshments provided.
For questions please contact Courtney Floyd, Price Science Commons Visualization Lab Specialist, at cfloyd3@uoregon.edu.
