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Saturday, May 4, 2024

StoryTrek XR now available to Carleton instructors

StoryTrek is the Hyperlab's own locative media authoring platform. Designed for spatial storytelling, it allows users to create media rich, site-specific stories, locative games, environmental tours, and open-air museums and installations that can be experienced either from a web browser or a mobile device. StoryTrek adds layers of insight and... More

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

InspirED 2024: CU Teaching Innovation Symposium

With a full day of presentations and discussions on new pedagogical approaches right here at Carleton, this Symposium was truly inspiring. We're already looking forward to next year's lineup!... More

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Responding to Climate Change with AR

Stefania Maggi is doing some incredible work designing an educational game for children with her PSYC 5800 graduate seminar, Anticipatory Emotions and Climate Change. Brian had a blast talking with the group about Augmented Reality, and how location-based environmental storytelling might contribute to their project. We can't wait to play their... More

Friday, November 3, 2023

FASS Chat on Generative AI

Brian was honoured to participate in this special panel on AI, sponsored by the Office of the Dean of FASS. He was also a bit alarmed at the implications of AI raised by the panel. While there was too much to summarize, it's clear that we can't continue to pretend that AI isn't changing... More

Friday, July 28, 2023

Immersive Learning Insights: Harnessing XR for Educational Excellence

Join Teaching and Learning Services on August 10 for an interdisciplinary panel of Innovation Fellows from TLS’s Immersive Technologies Community of Practice in discussion about the challenges and rewards associated with using extended reality (XR) for educational purposes. Panelists will share firsthand accounts of their experiences as XR... More

Monday, January 30, 2023

Future Learning Innovation Fellowship

The results of Carleton's inaugural Future Learning Innovation Fellowship competition have been announced, and we're proud to learn that Brian is among the recipients. He will use his Fellowship to develop learning modules to help instructors across the disciplines  integrate Augmented Reality storytelling into their courses. Check out the full... More

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Living from the Dead

Stuart's new book is out! The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics A philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has “let... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The Omnipresence of Screens: Ideal Projections

On June 29th, Brian will be in conversation with UQAM's Louise Pelletier in a panel for The Ether Medium of Storytelling, a seven-part, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary webinar series on negotiating digital space for culturally-diverse storytelling, organized by the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats with funding from SSHRC.    ... More

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Kathleen Fitzpatrick revisits Neoliberal Tools

"[T]he digital humanities broadly conceived has the potential become not a source of neoliberal tools, but rather a transformative force within the university." Read the whole post... More

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Golden Days, Silver Nights selected for ELC4

We're thrilled to learn that Golden Days, Silver Nights has been chosen for publication in Volume 4 of the Electronic Literature Organization's prestigious Electronic Literature Collection. It's a fantastic collection, and we're proud to be in such excellent... More

Friday, April 30, 2021

DH & Media Studies at Hartwick College

Brian is honoured to return to Hartwick College as part of their 2021 Media Studies, Digital Media, & Digital Humanities Speaker... More

Monday, January 20, 2020

Dispatches from Malaga – pt.3

We're still deciding where to place all of our fiducials, most of which survived the trip from Canada intact, and which will eventually function as locative rabbit holes luring readers into the story. But we have to leave one by the Playa de la Malageta, looking back toward the city centre as a warm... More

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Dispatches from Malaga – pt.2

The story's coming along, and we're following closely behind. It really helps to be in the very location of its setting, albeit in a different era. Still, the layers of time here are very tangible, and in places there are tears or glitches in the cityscape that provide actual glimpses of the ancient past.... More

Monday, January 13, 2020

Dispatches from Malaga

We've arrived safe and sound in beautiful Malaga, and our plot is already afoot. We've been familiarizing ourselves with the terrain, and mapping out the appropriate literary and historical documents. We're now preparing to deploy our  colour-code 3D-printed fiducials around the city. Stay tuned for... More

Saturday, September 21, 2019

DH Pedagogy & Design

We're so proud to have a piece in this excellent collection, based in part on our experiences teaching DH at the Summer Institute that we hosted here at Carleton two years ago with our friends from Ottawa U. and elsewhere. “The Undergraduate Summer Intensive: Principles of Pedagogy and Design.” In Crompton, Lane & Siemens, eds. Doing... More

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Building a DH Centre

Brian is honoured to be speaking about his experiences building Digital Humanities labs and programs at Youngstown University's Digital Humanities Symposium: Shaping Digital Narratives, October 19-20.... More

Monday, July 23, 2018

Two New DH Courses

Carleton has two new Digital Humanities Honours seminars on offer in Fall 2018. DIGH4002 asks whether digital media will bring about technological utopia or a dystopian apocalypse. DIGH4004 is a self-directed workshop offering hands-on introduction to new critical, storytelling, and modeling tools. Check out the... More

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The Scandal of Digital Humanities

(An updated version of this post is forthcoming in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2018, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein, U. Minnesota Press.) My apologies for a prolonged absence as we’ve built (and rebuilt) our new labs. With the renovations nearly complete, and with so many pixels glowing over recent charges by... More

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Strange Cognitions

"Strange Cognitions: SF and the Metanovum," Brian's Plenary Lecture for the Université de Montréal's Science Fiction Colloquium, argued for a new understanding of SF's relation to actually existing AIs. Throughout his talk, he compared fictional representations of artificial intelligence with actually existing AIs like "Rachel," which (who?) was... More

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Hyperlab Profile: Sarah Thorne on Storytelling and Video Games

Sarah discusses the Hyperlab as a resource for thinking about the future of storytelling through augmented reality and GPS tracking technologies:... More

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

DHSITE

Talks are underway about bringing DHSITE back to Carleton! We held our inaugural Digital Humanities Summer Institute-Technologies East at Carleton and Ottawa University on May 17-20. Over 120 delegates from Ottawa and around the world signed up to learn about VR, AI, game development, video editing, text analysis, and other subjects.... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Scene of the Crime

We've received a $180,000 AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme Grant with our colleagues at Queen's University of Belfast, Dr. Andrew Pepper and Dr. Dominique Jeannerod, for “Scene of the Crime: New Digital Storytelling and Mapping Technologies for Crime." Our goal is to create a mobile AR adaptation of a detective novel... More

Thursday, April 20, 2017

DHSITE in the news!

Read all about DHSITE 2017, May 17-20, Ottawa. http://newsroom.carleton.ca/2017/04/10/digital-humanities-summer-institute Register now at:... More

Friday, March 24, 2017

DHSITE2017 is live!

http://dhsite.org May 17-20 Ottawa, Canada poster... More

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Vice interviews Hyperlab researchers about Pokemon Go

Vice's Nicole Pacampara interviews past and present Hyperlab researchers about Augmented Reality games:... More

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Wear Whatever in Halifax

Brian is honoured to be delivering two keynote addresses for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute-Atlantic (DHSI@Dal) on May 10. The first talk, “Party Dress: Wearable Media for Utopian Bodies; or, Wear 'Whatever' to the Party,” will attempt to distinguish the dystopian transhumanist aspects of wearables from their utopian potential to... More

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Serendipity: Chance Encounters in the Digital Humanities

The Hyperlab is proud to co-host Kim Martin, Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph, who will be speaking at Carleton's Discovery Centre on Tuesday, March 8, 4:45-6:00, Room 482 MacOdrum Library. She'll tell the story of one scholar’s adventures down a path that joins Digital Humanities, Serendipity... More

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Burning our Libraries

Brian's new piece in Mediatropes offers a sobering warning about Canada's active destruction of its libraries and archives by neoliberal... More

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Don’t Make a Scene: Game Studies for an Uncertain World

Just published in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique:... More

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Digital Rhetoric & Ethics Lab: update

After many months of construction, we're finally nearing completion of the Digital Rhetoric and Ethics (DR&E) Lab, which is partnered with the Hyperlab. Stay tuned for more info and... More

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

DHSI@Congress

The workshops at DHSI@Congress this year look amazing! And of course, our own Brian Greenspan will be delivering the closing plenary:... More

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

the Hyperlab @ SSHRC

Check out our research story on SSHRC's website:... More

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

DR&E Lab

Construction has begun on the Digital Rhetorics and Ethics (DR+E) Lab, the Hyperlab's new annex, and the inspiration of my colleague Stuart J. Murray, Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics: http://www.digitalrhetorics.ca You can see a model of the lab here:... More

Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Hyperlab is expanding!

This spring, the Hyperlab will be expanding. Brian Greenspan and Stuart J. Murray, Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics, have received a CFI Infrastructure Grant to build a Digital Rhetorics and Ethics Lab adjacent to the Hyperlab.  More details and screenshots to... More

Friday, November 14, 2014

Imaginaries of the Future

Brian is excited to be a Network Partner with the new Imaginaries of the Future: Historicising the Present research network. Created with a $205,000 Leverhulme International Research Network Grant (P.I. Dr. Nathaniel Coleman, Newcastle University), the network will host a rotating series of international symposia on the topic of utopian studies.... More

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