Digital Futures Consortium

Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard: A Graceful Sunset for a Successful Evolution

April 26, 2019

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard (DFC), an active collaboration across the University since 2013, is disbanding at the end of this spring term. Initiated for the purpose...

Touch This Page: Making Sense of the Ways We Read

April 23, 2019

What did the last book you read feel like? By putting 3D replicas of books for blind and low-vision readers printed in the nineteenth century into your hands, "Touch This Page" presents a story abo...

ArtTechPsyche V

March 29, 2019

Returning for a fifth year, ArtTechPsyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts through numerous immersive digital experiences, art installations, technology de...

Needles in a Digital Haystack: Improving Digital Archive Research

March 26, 2019

Manually searching through more than 46 million digital records is an intractable research task. This is what lay ahead of Ben as a Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaus...

Giza is My Classroom: Experiments in Virtual Reality, Streaming, and 3D Scanning

February 26, 2019

Peter Manuelian will discuss some of his latest 3D experiments to bring ancient Egypt alive in the classroom, from live-streaming Giza Pyramids classes to China, to VR headsets for virtual visits t...

Finding an Alien Biosphere with Quantum Chemistry

November 27, 2018

Dr. Sousa-Silva will be discussing her current research projects, which involve assessing alien biosignatures with organic and quantum chemistry.

What Do Machines See When They Look At Art?

October 23, 2018

For the past two years the Harvard Art Museums staff have been exploring alternative methods for describing the museum’s collections using machine processing and computer vision.

Early Design Decisions in Digital Projects

September 25, 2018

Excavating in Italy, Spain, and Israel showed Henry Gruber how archaeological evidence could enhance our understanding of the world elucidated by our written sources. His current research focuses o...

3D Scanning Deep History

April 2, 2018

Professors Daniel Lord Smail (History) and Matthew Liebmann (Anthropology) will discuss the rationale for grounding their 'Deep History' course in material culture...

ArtTechPsyche IV

March 30, 2018

Returning for a fourth year, ArtTechPsyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. This annual symposium run by Harvard's Digital Futures Consortium is a u...

Measuring the Unseen

March 7, 2018

PULSUS gathers real-time data on city activity, such as traffic patterns and what residents are doing and feeling, from various sources and translates the information into soundscapes. The goal is ...

MorgantinaVR: Visualizing Material Culture in Virtual and Augmented Reality

February 7, 2018

Please join us for the first event of 2018 in the Digital Futures Discovery Series, a year-long program led by Harvard's Digital Futures Consortium that explores the ongoing ...

Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop for Creating Effective Data Visualizations

January 9 or 10, 2018

Join the Digital Futures Consortium for a participatory workshop on visualizing data and understanding the powerful role it plays in analysis and presentation for digital scholarship. The wor...

Drone Technology: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Teaching

November 8, 2017

Advance environmental engineering research using drone technology has informed our undergraduate design-based education at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at H...

Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop for Creating Effective Data Visualizations

November 7 or 8, 2017

Join the Digital Futures Consortium for a participatory workshop on visualizing data and understanding the powerful role it plays in analysis and presentation for digital scholarship. The wor...

Project Phaedra: Preserving Harvard's Early Data and Research in Astronomy

October 4, 2017

Material originally produced during 19th and early 20th century by researchers at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) was recently re-discovered in the HCO Astronomical Plate Stacks collection. T...

All About Digital Futures

September 12, 2017

Join us for the kickoff of the Digital Futures Discovery Series, a year-long program led by Harvard's Digital Futures Consortium that explores the ongoing transformation of s...

ArtTechPsyche III

April 20, 2017

Art Technology Psyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities (DART...

Visual Eloquence: A Hands-on Workshop for Creating Effective Data Visualizations

November 2, 2016

Join the Digital Futures Consortium for a participatory workshop to gain practical experience visualizing data and understanding the powerful role it plays in contemporary digital scholarship...

ArtTechPsyche II

April 14, 2016

Art Technology Psyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities (DART...

Sightlines: proJECT

February 11, 2016

PREPARE – DISCOVER – INTERACT

proJECT provided a glimpse into the near future of technical and interactive imagery o...

Sightlines: obJECT

December 3, 2015

PRESERVE – USE – ENGAGE

obJECT examined contemporary use and the impact of emerging technologies on technical image...

Memories Realized: From Objects and Media to Curation and Scholarship

November 10, 2015

Memory, events, and personal objects are the focus of research in many disciplines and at the same time they document cultural and social history. Scholars produce online archives from this work th...

Sightlines: obSERVE

October 14, 2015

CAPTURE – PROCESS – DELIVER

The broad theme of the event was image acquisition. Presentations on 2D, multispectral, and 3D imaging highlighte...

ArtTechPsyche

April 23, 2015

Art Technology Psyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities (DART...

THATCamp Harvard

September 27, 2014

Unconference: an open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot.

Thinking with Your Eyes: Visualizing the Arts, Humanities, & Sciences

February 27 and 28, 2014

Thinking with Your Eyes exp...

Digital Futures: The NOW Edition

November 13, 2013

Are you making the most of digital technologies in your teaching or scholarship? Join us for a showcase of digital projects and informal conversation featuring:

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A More Open Future for the Past: Publishing, Data, and Archaeology
November 13, 2013
Eric Kansa will discuss Open Context, an open access data publishing venue for archaeology that represents the changing nature of scholarly communications.
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