Articles from October 2014
Explore the latest news about Obermann programs, events, and our interdisciplinary community of scholars.
Designing the Digital Future: Highlighting Informatics Work in the Arts and Humanities
Friday, October 31, 2014
Search “informatics” on Wikipedia and you’ll get a hint of the very wide swath that this relatively new field has already cut: bioinformatics, irrigation informatics, legal informatics, music informatics, cheminformatics, and disease informatics are just a few of its subfields. An idea that has been around for barely a half century...
Reflections on Imagining America from UI’s PAGE Fellows
Friday, October 31, 2014
Moving the Middle — Reflections on Imagining America’s national conference by Heather Draxl: The theme of this year’s Imagining America conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, was “Organizing. Culture. Change.” Those three words were intended to “represent concentrations of energy and activity across higher education and within the IA consortium” and played a role in one of the conference’s primary...
Obermann-Incubated Project Comes to a Crescendo
Monday, October 6, 2014
Masks give us permission to explore new ideas or to more bravely enact ways of being that we don’t usually give ourselves permission to pursue. They invite playfulness, humor, parody, and even a bit of mischief. Think Halloween costumes and masquerade balls. All of the qualities that masks allow and invite also make them a clever tool for exploring social issues, which is the aim of a new UI...