Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities

The goal of the fellowship is to help IUB faculty members expand digital arts and humanities research and creative activity. Fellows will work collaboratively with a team of specialists to enhance their understanding of digital tools with the aim of preparing prototypes for major projects and developing and submitting grant proposals for external funding.

The Digital Arts and Humanities Fellowship consists of one course release per semester for two semesters total during the two-year fellowship period. Within this timeframe, fellowship awardees will be expected to submit at least one grant proposal for external funding and to participate in ongoing workshops with a team of specialists and other faculty fellows. Following the fellowship period, fellows are invited to work with the Institute, which will assist in hiring and supervising appropriate staff for the projects.

The deadline for applications for the 2010 class of IDAH Faculty Fellows is October 15, 2009. To access application materials, please visit the Research website.

2009 Faculty Fellows

Catherine Bowman

Catherine Bowman is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University. She is on the faculty of the English Department and teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. She is the author of the poetry collections The Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the Kate Frost Tufts Prize. She is the editor of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, and have been selected for six editions of Best American Poetry anthology. She is the former director of the IU Creative Writing Program. .

Gracia Clark

Gracia Clark has studied Kumasi Central Market in Ghana, West Africa since 1978. Her thesis research in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge highlighted the regional dominance of this urban daily market, and the relations of credit, leadership and domestic work that kept its 20,000 traders in their stalls. She consulted for the ILO and UNIFEM for several years before teaching at UW Parkside, Ul Michigan, Ann Arbor, Subsequent fieldwork addressed development issues of food security and trade liberalization and lastly recorded life stories from older traders. A forthcoming (IUP) volume of life stories titled Raising Capital, Raising Children complements her 1994 book Onions are My Husband. Her IDAH project Virtual Kumasi Central Market seeks to recreate the fieldwork experience by structuring the original materials interactively so that the visitors’ questions shape what they learn.

Margaret Dolinsky

Margaret Dolinsky is an Associate Professor and Research Scientist at the H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University Bloomington. She creates interactive art for high-speed networks and collaborative art experiences for the CAVE Automated Virtual Environment. Her recent work involves digital projections for opera and experimental cinema. Her research focuses on how art aesthetics provokes shifts in perception and enhances sensory awareness.

Dolinsky is a researcher with the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts at the University of Plymouth, U.K. She co-chairs the IS&T/SPIE Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference. Exhibitions include SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ICC, and the Walker Art Center USA. Her work is published in Leonardo, Discover, Computer Graphics World, US News and World Report and ACM's Computer Graphics. Lectures include Tsinghua University (China), Ciber@rts Bilboa (Spain), Sensorial Net (Brazil), BEAP (Australia), and ISEA (France). She received an MFA in Electronic Visualization from University of Illinois at Chicago.

John Gibson

John Gibson is Assistant Professor of Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His instrumental and electronic music has received performances by the London Sinfonietta, the Seattle Symphony, Speculum Musicae, and at numerous conferences and festivals, including Tanglewood, Marlboro, Bourges Synthèse, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Third Practice, SEAMUS, and International Computer Music Conferences held in Beijing, Havana, Belfast, and Copenhagen. Significant awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Paul Jacobs Memorial Fund Commission from the Tanglewood Music Center. Recordings of his music appear on the Centaur and Everglade labels. He writes sound processing and synthesis software and has taught composition and computer music at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Louisville. He holds a Ph.D. in music from Princeton University.

His recent work seeks to present traditional acoustic instruments in new light by transforming their sound in unexpected ways using his own custom software. The focus of his IDAH Fellowship work is the composition of music for laptop orchestra, in which multiple laptop performers collaborate by exchanging sound and information via a wireless network.

Joss Marsh

Joss Marsh is Associate Professor of English and Victorian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of *Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in 19th-Century England* (1998), a book unusual amongst academic works in having been described as both "monumental" and "a page turner," and numerous essays on Dickens, Chaplin, the 19th-century novel and film, Victorian visual culture, celebrity, film stardom, and the magic lantern. She has a long-standing commitment to public lecturing and public outreach, and has collaborated in the production of four documentaries with the BBC. She also occasionally submits to the discipline of theatrical performance--most recently as Widow Corney in *Oliver!* (Cardinal Stage), Lady Bracknell in *The Importance of being Earnest*, (Detour Productions), and Scrooge (in drag, for the BPP)--and values the different kind of knowledge it can offer. Since 2006, with her research partner, David Francis OBE, she has been deeply involved in reconstructive magic lantern performance and lecturing, using original slides, authentic texts, and an 1891 tri-unnial lantern, at: the Cinemateca Portuguesa (Lisbon), the Dickens Universe (UC Santa Cruz), the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Pacific Film Archive, U Michigan, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art (D.C.), and (most recently, with the assistance of a New Frontiers grant), the Harvard Film Archive and Yale University (NAVSA). The areas of the lantern repertoire and of Victorian culture these shows have helped Joss and David research and explore, to date, have included: the relationship between visual story-telling with the lantern and cinematic narrative; temperance propaganda; religious and missionary uses of the lantern; the Victorian "Service of Song" (a mix of story, images, and music: a form of nineteenth-century "musical"); the representation of movement, especially railway travel; the illuminated fairy tale; and the extraordinary multi-media career of the late Victorian celebrity writer George R. Sims. They will present on Sims in London, in the premises which once housed the Royal Polytechnic, the center of the late-Victorian lantern world, in April 2009; in January, they present a new program, "The Magic Carpet," on lantern-assisted virtual travel, at the Vienna Art Museum/Film Archive.

2008 Faculty Fellows

Nicole Jacquard, John Walsh, and Jeff Hass

Jeffrey Hass

Jeffrey Hass is currently Professor of Composition at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he serves as the Director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music (CECM), having previously taught music theory and composition on the faculties of Rutgers University and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. His compositions have been premiered by the Louisville Orchestra, Memphis Symphony and the Concordia Chamber Orchestra, and have had performances at Lincoln Center, and at national conferences of the Society of Composers, International Computer Music Conference, International Double Reed Society, SEAMUS and the College Music Society. For the past three years, I have been working with contemporary dance with computer music and interactive electronics and video. With this project, my goal is to create a unified network of sensors, video tracking and sound data, processed by a central program that will interact with dancers and musicians in a sophisticated manner to produce and/or control music and video. The outcome will be one work for instrumentalist(s) and one work for dancer(s) utilizing this system.

Nicole Jacquard

Nicole Jacquard received her BA from Indiana University, with her first MFA from the University of Michigan and second MFA from RMIT University while on a Fulbright Scholarship in Melbourne Australia. In 2004 Jacquard finished her Ph.D. in Fine Arts at RMIT University with a focus on how the computer can be implemented into a contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing practice. As Dr. Sokol became the new director of Indiana Universities Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) one of his goals was to foster collaborations with departments throughout the IU Bloomington campus. A particularly exciting prospect was to apply IUCF's technical expertise in the area of fine arts and support her personal research into 3D Color Rapid Prototyping.

Her current body of work investigates the container, ornamentation, the souvenir, memory, longing, and nostalgia associated with the collection of personal objects. The work focuses on how ordinary everyday objects such as cups, vases, spoons, toys and other collectables that transcend the mundane through the association of memory thus becoming personal and precious. Within her work there are direct references to architecture, and historical containers such as Greek and Roman amphora's, for their overall form and the surface decoration that is both ornamental and narrative.

John Walsh

John A. Walsh holds a Ph.D. in English literature and is an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of digital humanities and digital libraries. Walsh's research interests include digital editing and textual studies; the application of XML, semantic web, and metadata technologies as tools for the discovery, analysis, and representation of humanities data and complex textual and graphic documents; and the evolution of the document in the digital age. Specific research projects include The Swinburne Project, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton , and Comic Book Markup Language . In addition to his research activities, Walsh has over ten years experience as a developer, manager, and librarian working on digital scholarly projects. Walsh publishes articles on digital humanities and digital libraries topics and is a frequent presenter at the major digital humanities conferences. John is an elected member of the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), an information technology standard widely used in digital humanities and digital library projects, and an elected member of the executive committee of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) . Walsh is also a technical editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ)