Remaking Victorian Miniatures:
Speculative Stitches between 2D and 3D
Image of basswood cube care of Nicole Clouston
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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
For more Victorian prototypes, visit the MLab's Trouvé repo.
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 Sayers
For 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
Special thanks to Bethany Nowviskie, Laura Miller,
Rebecca Peters, Jeremy Boggs, and the Scholars' Lab
Image care of Shaun Macpherson and some computer vision