DH 2016 Lecture on Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project
Date/Time
Date(s) - 14/07/2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Auditorium Maximum, Jagiellonian University
Categories
Scott Rettberg and Roderick Coover will present a lecture about Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project in the program of the DH 2016 conference in Kraków on July 14, 2016. The presentation will discussion the origination, goals, and development of the project and will situate the VR artwork in the context of the contemporary digital humanities. The talk “Addressing Torture in Iraq through Critical Digital Media Art—Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” will take place during the “High end 3D / VR / AR 2 ” panel of the Digital Humanities conference, which take place in the Auditorium Maximum on the campus of Jagiellonian University.
Hearts and Minds: the Interrogations Project is an interactive virtual reality artwork developed by an interdisciplinary team including humanists, social scientists, artists, and computer scientists from four different universities. The project attempts to extend and make accessible difficult narratives of war and abusive violence based on actual accounts from soldiers involved. The work offers models for engaging with testimony and oral history. It uses visualization to build new discourse around challenging topics and to bridge concepts that enable storytelling. While many uses of visualization technologies are focused on providing accessible representation of “big data,” in this case, the technologies are being used as a narrative platform to represent a complex contemporary issue and to provide a platform for discussion and debate of military interrogation methods and their effects on detainees, soldiers, and society.