In the next series of interviews, Epistemicast speaks with Dr. Simon Ganahl (Mag. Dr. Dr. phil.), about his pioneering work in the realm of Digital Humanities. We explore how, in contrast to more traditional approaches that seek to bring more digital, scientific and numerical methods to the humanities, Simon is championing humanities students and scholars to use their knowledge and understanding of the arts to deliver richer, more exciting cultural work in the digital sphere.
In our first episode, we speak to Simon about Campus Medius, a long-running digital mapping and cartography project, which explores a pivotal 24-hour period in the rise of fascism within Austria. The project illustrates how Simon has developed many of his ideas over the last decade to become a multispective digital experience that takes much inspiration from the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault and his concept of the Dispositive.
Our second episode moves on to discuss the InSituEx research agenda, and how Simon is developing this as an open source toolkit allowing others to explore, adapt and evolve the digital multispective experience developed in Campus Medius. We get to the centre of Simon’s current thinking and enter into a discussion on how art, literature, the humanities and the study of these subjects has so much more to offer the development of new digital media.
LINKS
Online tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEdJG-UAJkY
Karl Kraus: Karl Kraus (writer) - Wikipedia
The Third Walpurgis Night: https://chooser.crossref.org/?doi=10.2307%2Fj.ctv10sm911 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300236002/the-third-walpurgis-night/
The InSituEx Research Agenda: https://insituex.fhstp.ac.at/
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