October 2nd, 2009
3:30-5:30pm
Great Plains Art Museum
1155 Q Street, Hewit Place, Lincoln, NE

Sponsored by:
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
The College of Journalism and Mass Communications
The UNL Art Department

A panel moderated by William G. Thomas, III featuring the nationally recognized speakers below:

Michael F. James

UNL - Ardis James Professor of Textiles, Clothing and Design and Department Chair Textiles, Clothing and Design
James is known for his studio work which is exhibited in numerous museums and galleries internationally. He is a leading innovator in digital textile printing used in the studios of contemporary quilt makers and surface designers. He is co-curator, with artist Sandra Sider, of the upcoming exhibition "Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design, & the Studio Quilt" opening November 21 and running through May 9, 2010 at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.

Matthew Kirschenbaum

UMD - Associate Professor, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanitites
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) director Neil Fraistat comments, “Matt Kirschenbaum’s leadership in bibliography, digital forensics, and digital preservation has helped position MITH at the forefront of crucial new work that is reconfiguring archival studies and practices.”

Johanna Drucker

UCLA - Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor, Information Studies
Drucker's research focuses on alphabet historiography, modeling interpretation for electronic scholarship, digital aesthetics, the history of visual information design, history of the book and print culture, history of information, and critical studies in visual knowledge representation. Most recently, her scholarship has focused on information visualization, "which draws heavily on models from the empirical sciences, where approaches based on representation and transparency prevail.”