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SUMMARY:DH Seminar: "Shapely Profusion"
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DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Schnapp\, founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) H
 arvard\nAbstract: \nMy talk is concerned with one of the defining challeng
 es within the field of Knowledge Design: the shaping of both meaningful ex
 periences and new knowledge forms when working with large image corpora. T
 he talk will concern itself with two metaLAB (at) Harvard projects\, one c
 ompleted six years ago (the Lightbox Gallery)\, one more recent (A Flittin
 g Atlas of the Human Gaze). Both tackle the question of how to devise on-s
 ite museum experiences of digital images at scale in ways that diverge fro
 m but complement the artwork-by-artwork experience of their conventionally
  displayed analog counterparts. Both work with portions of the museum data
 base--the scale varies between 1\,800 and 8\,500 artworks--and leverage th
 e distinctive ontology of digital images by building experiences of them a
 s user-recombinable networks: in one case (the Lightbox Gallery) they refr
 ame the visitor's experience of every artwork that he or she has experienc
 ed before reaching the gallery\; in the other case (A Flitting Atlas) they
  provide an AI-assisted experiment in art historical mapping and storytell
 ing.\n\nBio: \nJeffrey Schnapp is the founder/faculty director of metaL
 AB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for 
 Internet and Societyat Harvard University. He holds the Carl A. Pescosolid
 o Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
  in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (his principal appointment) 
 but is also on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at H
 arvard’s Graduate School of Design. He currently serves as Chair of the
  Department of Comparative Literature.\n 
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