AHDS Methods Network

The aim of the ICT Methods Network will be to promote and disseminate the use of ICT in UK Arts and Humanities research in order to enhance, develop and make more effective the process of research, and to communicate research outcomes more widely and efficiently. It will focus on new developments and advanced methodologies, on research processes, questions, and methods, and on uses of data, rather than on data creation and preservation or access to resources.

The English Arts and Humanities Research Board is developing a ICT Methods Network which will disseminate information about digital methodologies in the arts and humanities. I’m not sure what this will mean, but it could be a welcome turn to looking at the interpretation (quesitons and intepretative practices) of digital matter.

Digital Image/Sound and Computer Science

Digital Image / Sound & the Fine Arts [DFAR] integrates two domains, that of Computer Science and the Fine Arts, to address the issues of interdisciplinary cultural education and technological innovation for information societies and networked environments.

The ” href=”http://digital.concordia.ca/site/menu.htm”>Digital Image/Sound &the Fine Arts program at Concordia is an interesting hybrid arts computing program. It can either be taken as a double major with Computer Applications from the Department of Computer Science or it can be taken as a “specialization” in the BFA. The program sounds like it has a strong theory component. For an overview see Section 71.80 – Digital Image/Sound and Computer Science.
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Computing Programs

I was at the Ontario Universities’ Fair where all the universities have booths and thousands of high-school kids come through with their parents to shop for programs. After I had done my turn at the McMaster booth I took my son around to find a program that combines computing with arts or game design. Here is what we found.

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology is an innovative and market-oriented institution, pursuing inquiry, discovery and application through excellence in teaching and learning, value-added research and vibrant student life.
(UOIT Vision)

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Quicktime Flickr Photo Viewer

David Wolf’s Quicktime Flickr photo viewer is an interesting applet that will go to the Flickr photo sharing site searches for images tagged with your search word and then shows you the most recent ones. What is impressive is that this is apparently programmed into Quicktime (didn’t know you could do that sort of stuff) and uses RSS. David is going to post a technical note that explains how he did it.
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I’ve been found!

I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you.

I’ve been found! I changed e-mail to avoid spam, and it has found me. At least it speaks well of me 🙂