Toronto Metropolitan University
Centre for Digital Humanities
March Offerings
2023
- most events are hosted on Zoom and are free and open to all registrants
- also, check out the workshops hosted by the Collaboratory!
Join us!
Public Talk @ TMU
Tuesday 14th
6:00–8:00 pm
Peter Bronfman Learning Centre,
Heaslip House (Chang School of Continuing Education),
297 Victoria Street, 7th floor
Celebrating LGBTQ2S+ Studies at TMU.
To celebrate the launch of TMU’s LGBTQ2S+ Studies Minor in Fall 2023, two leading LGBTQ2S+ Studies scholars will talk about their recent and forthcoming work.
Dr. Lisa L. Moore: “How Lesbians Saved Poetry: The Poems of This Bridge Called My Back.”
Dr. Bo Ruberg: “Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies.”
Co-sponsored by the CDH.
In-Person Event
Digital Cultures
Lecture Series
Thursday 16th
10:00–11:00 am EST
Screen Sovereignties: 2LGBTQ+ Indigenous Governance in Canadian Cinemas.
Jas M. Morgan (Canada Research Chair, Digital Wahkohtowin & Cultural Governance, Toronto Metropolitan University.)
The third of four talks in the Winter 2023 interuniversity DH Research Centre Lecture Series on the theme of “Communities.” Sponsored by the Université de Montréal, the University of Ottawa, the University of Guelph, and Toronto Metropolitan University.
For more information visit the CRIHN website.
CDH Virtual
Drop-Ins
Tuesdays Noon-1 pm EST
Launch of Creating Playable Stories with Ink/Inky.
Join Jeremy and Jason for the launch of an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook published on TMU Libraries’ Pressbooks platform.
Episode 2: Nier Automata (PlatinumGames 2017).
Host: Kevin Ghouchandra
Panel: Jeremy Andriano, Patrick Dolan, and Alexander Hurezeanu
The last of humanity has fled to the moon to avoid extinction. Androids 2B and 9S, on the frontline of humanity’s resistance, fight the 14th Machine War, aiming to take back the earth from a robot army of mindless destruction…or at least that’s what they think.
Just as the robots and androids repeatedly fight the same endless war over and over again, Nier: Automata’s story seems to ask the player to replay the same game again and again. The full story is only revealed after repeated playthroughs: but will every player persevere to learn how it really ends?
Listen to the podcast on February 14th and find out more by visiting the Unarchived Podcast page on Stories in Play.
Making Music.
Host: Reg Beatty
Join Reg as he examines a number of tools to explore sound and make music ranging from online oscillators, to virtual piano rolls, to “Orca” by Hundred Rabbits:
“Orca is a two-dimensional esoteric programming language in which every letter of the alphabet is an operator, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.
The application is not a synthesiser, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio interface…”
EXPLORATORY RESEARCH GROUP
“Digital Lives: Exploratory Research Group.”
A discussion of David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein as a digital biography.
David Clark, “Pictures in the Stars: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein and the Online ‘Biography’.” Biography, volume 38, number 2, Spring 2015, pp. 290-296, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2015.0022.