Lightning Lunch: "Computation and Composition"

Welcome to the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Digital Humanities Network (DHN), based at the University of Toronto.The mandate of the DHN is to design and support initiatives that raise awareness and build upon U of T’s existing strengths in the digital humanities. The network defines the digital humanities broadly, including communities and methods, tools, and platform-based approaches often associated with the digital humanities. The DHN supports initiatives that encompass interpretative or theoretical work on digitality and a wide variety of computational approaches to humanities research.To achieve this mandate, we facilitate events that bring together faculty, students, librarians, and staff from across the University’s tri-campus, such as lightning lunches, workshops, and an annual conference. Our monthly lightning lunches focus on a specific topic or contemporary issue with experts from different disciplines to explore threads of commonality and nuance. It is always our hope that these lightning lunches will lead to the formation of new networks, research projects, and shared knowledge. Our workshops address the technical and theoretical issues found across our members’ research needs. These workshops range from technical programming to practical research applications. Finally, our annual conference brings together these disparate groups to network and examine our shared interest in digitality.In addition to organizing events, we distribute a weekly newsletter, which digests relevant events, calls-for-proposals, and jobs around the Toronto area, and provide one-on-one consultation with our members to advise them and direct them to relevant resources at the University.Please email dhn.admin@utoronto.ca to get in touch and to subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

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Short presentations on current research by leading scholars in computational arts and design.

Jackman Humanities Building

Sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute, our lightning lunches focus on a specific topic or contemporary issue. By inviting experts from different disciplines to explore the intersections of their work, these events lead to the formation of new networks, research projects, and shared knowledge. This lightning lunch focuses on the topic of "Composition and Computation," and is presented in collaboration with the symposium MixtuRe: Digital Art and Compositional Realities (Sept. 21, 2019). Our speakers present for 7 minutes followed by lunch and informal discussion on the role of computational arts within and beyond the university.Christopher Salter, Design and Computation Arts, Concordia UniversitySiobhan O'Flynn, English and Drama, UTMDoug Van Nort, Computational Arts, York UniversityIsabel Pedersen, Communication and Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech UniversityRegistration is mandatory for catering purposes. For more information and to register for MixtuRe, visit https://mixturealities.wordpress.com/

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