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SUMMARY:Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join us for the next in our digital humanities 
 series\, the Tuesday Forums\, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab\, of the 
 Library's DH Center. These presentations invite prominent digital 
 humanities\, geospatial\, cultural heritage\, and information technology 
 practitioners to engage with a friendly student\, faculty\, and staff 
 audience. This is a virtual event. All are welcome\, but please register to 
 receive Zoom link.\n\nPoetry in the makerspace: Plotspaces as tools for 
 spatial visualization\, scalar epistemology and materialist 
 thinking\n\nThis talk presents the plotspace\, a 3D-fabricated sculptural 
 object which represents the spatial and scalar shifts in a poem\, and which 
 can be printed in plastic or resin or milled out of metal. A plotspace 
 includes the text of a poem engraved or embossed on its inner faces\, 
 alongside a curved shape which plots the changing scales of the entities in 
 the poem. This curve extends in a three-dimensional wave-like form which 
 emphasizes the shifts in scale in the poem\, with the intention of 
 prompting—and provoking—viewers to think about what might be 
 illuminated by reading the text of the poem in conjunction with the 
 three-dimensional form which 3D fabrication makes possible. Beyond these 
 literary and hermeneutic affordances\, however\, plotspaces function more 
 broadly in line with the design researcher Sara Hendren’s exhortation to 
 “build something so that you can think with that thing”\, as the 
 processes involved in their construction open up wider questions around 
 bodies\, labor\, and accessibility. While literary studies has long been 
 preoccupied by materialist concerns\, scholars have more commonly 
 considered these in the abstract\, rather than via bodily proximity to 
 noisy\, glitchy\, hot\, and potentially dangerous machines. If applications 
 like CAD software make it easy to design digital objects in virtual space 
 where the constraints of friction and gravity can be temporarily evaded\, 
 then the makerspaces where these designs are translated into physical 
 artifacts bring these and other real-world constraints sharply into view\, 
 showing for instance the latent ableism in putatively neutral software 
 packages. By considering some of these questions\, I suggest that as well 
 as helping to conceptualize literary space and scale\, a plotspace can also 
 cast light on the fictional frictionlessness of digital design processes\, 
 and thereby act as visualization which\, as Lauren Klein puts it\, serves 
 “not as evidence or proof of results\, but as a tool in the process of 
 knowledge production”.\n\n\n\nAnouk Lang teaches English literature and 
 digital humanities in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at 
 the University of Edinburgh\, where she is also an affiliate of the 
 Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is the co-editor of Digital Futures of 
 Graduate Study in the Humanities in the Debates in the Digital Humanities 
 series (with Gabriel Hankins and Simon Appleford\, 2024)\, Patrick White 
 Beyond the Grave: New Critical Perspectives (with Ian Henderson\, 2015)\, 
 and the editor of From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the 
 Twenty-First Century (2012).\n\n\n\n\n \n\n
LOCATION:Online\, Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Miller":MAILTO:lam2c@virginia.edu
CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities, Scholars' Lab, The Makerspace 
CONTACT;CN="Laura Miller":MAILTO:lam2c@virginia.edu
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