DIGITAL FORAYS: SPACE & PLACE II: VISUALIZATION & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies // A year-long series 2020-2021:

This year-long series starts from a simple premise: What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age?  This is not a call for researchers to simply produce digital outputs - but we live in an ever-increasingly digital world. In order to better activate our scholarship, and to grasp the terrain in which our research questions unfold, we must reimagine our methods, modes of collaboration, and how to participate in a quickly changing digital landscape. See full series overview

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SPACE & PLACE II:
VISUALIZATION & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

April 15, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup

More scholars and activists across the region are finding ways to use infographics, visualizations and novel techniques of digital storytelling to explore lived experience, push our perspectives, and flip current imaginations of space and place. How are individuals/initiatives expanding the collaborations creating new visual narratives around social issues?  How are these visualizations and digital stories becoming a part of research and teaching? How do we account for “data” in these backstories?

Join the Kevorkian Center with Ahmad Barclay, Ahmad El-Gharbie', Fabiola Hanna and discussant Hatim El-Hibri on April 15, 2021 at 12:30 pm (EST) to think through these questions and discuss together issues of platforms and publics. To register please follow the link here or copy and paste the link to your browser: bit.ly/NYUKevoDF415

She has several forthcoming publications on these topics including a chapter on how non-Western contexts can help rethink software studies. Her work has been published in Feminist Media Histories and Sounding Out. She is working towards a special issue on activist interactive documentary in the non-Western world. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, the SubZero Festival in San Jose, the Digital Arts Research Center in Santa Cruz, and the MakerFaire in San Mateo.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to kevorkian.center@nyu.edu by April 8, 2021. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. A captioned version of this presentation will also be made available within a month to our Youtube page.

Also be advised that this Zoom event will be recorded and made available after the event on our Youtube page.

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