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Wednesday, November 5, 2025<\/p>

Educating Desire with Extended Reality<\/h3>

Brian brought the Hyperlab's work in digital storytelling and XR media critique to the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, held in Cape Fear over the Halloween weekend. What could be more timely or frightening? 2025: Blue Utopias: Utopian Dreams on Sea and Shore Approaching its 50th anniversary, SUS continues to... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, October 23, 2025<\/p>

Back by popular demand: Mobile Storytelling with Location-Based XR Workshop<\/h3>

November 26, 2025, 1:30-3:30, Experiential Learning Hub (ELH) Extended reality (XR) media offer new ways to tell stories that build on the audience\u2019s local environment and embodied sense of place. In this workshop, we will build XR experiences using the StoryTrek platform, which allows users to easily blend digital media with real-world... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, April 14, 2025<\/p>

Mobile Storytelling with Location-Based XR<\/h3>

Tuesday, 6th May 2025 at 01:30 PM Extended reality (XR) media offer new ways to tell stories that build on the audience\u2019s local environment and embodied sense of place. In this workshop, we will build XR experiences using the StoryTrek platform, which allows users to easily blend digital media with real-world locations to create... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, May 4, 2024<\/p>

StoryTrek XR now available to Carleton instructors<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, April 30, 2024<\/p>

InspirED 2024: CU Teaching Innovation Symposium<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, February 28, 2024<\/p>

Responding to Climate Change with AR<\/h3>

Stefania Maggi is doing some incredible work designing an educational game for children with her PSYC 5800 graduate seminar,\u00a0Anticipatory 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, November 3, 2023<\/p>

FASS Chat on Generative AI<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, July 28, 2023<\/p>

Immersive Learning Insights: Harnessing XR for Educational Excellence<\/h3>

Join Teaching and Learning Services on August 10 for an interdisciplinary panel of\u00a0Innovation Fellows\u00a0from TLS\u2019s 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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, January 30, 2023<\/p>

Future Learning Innovation Fellowship<\/h3>

The results of Carleton's inaugural\u00a0Future Learning Innovation Fellowship\u00a0competition 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 \u00a0integrate Augmented Reality storytelling into their courses. Check out the full... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, August 30, 2022<\/p>

The Living from the Dead<\/h3>

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 \u201clet... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, April 20, 2022<\/p>

The Omnipresence of Screens: Ideal Projections<\/h3>

On June 29th, Brian will be in conversation with UQAM's Louise Pelletier\u00a0in a panel for The Ether Medium of Storytelling, a seven-part,\u00a0cross-cultural and interdisciplinary webinar series\u00a0on negotiating digital space for culturally-diverse storytelling, organized by the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats with funding from SSHRC.    ... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, April 3, 2022<\/p>

Kathleen Fitzpatrick revisits Neoliberal Tools<\/h3>

"[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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, May 30, 2021<\/p>

Golden Days, Silver Nights selected for ELC4<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, April 30, 2021<\/p>

DH & Media Studies at Hartwick College<\/h3>

Brian is honoured to return to Hartwick College as part of their 2021 Media Studies, Digital Media, & Digital Humanities Speaker... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, January 20, 2020<\/p>

Dispatches from Malaga – pt.3<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, January 15, 2020<\/p>

Dispatches from Malaga – pt.2<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, January 13, 2020<\/p>

Dispatches from Malaga<\/h3>

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 \u00a0colour-code 3D-printed fiducials around the city. Stay tuned for... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, September 21, 2019<\/p>

DH Pedagogy & Design<\/h3>

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. \u201cThe Undergraduate Summer Intensive: Principles of Pedagogy and\u00a0Design.\u201d In Crompton, Lane & Siemens, eds.\u00a0Doing... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, September 20, 2018<\/p>

Building a DH Centre<\/h3>

Brian is honoured to be speaking about his experiences building Digital Humanities labs and programs at Youngstown University's\u00a0Digital Humanities Symposium: Shaping Digital Narratives, October 19-20.... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, July 23, 2018<\/p>

Two New DH Courses<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, January 23, 2018<\/p>

The Scandal of Digital Humanities<\/h3>

(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\u2019ve built (and rebuilt) our new labs. With the renovations nearly complete, and with so many pixels glowing over recent charges by... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, December 12, 2017<\/p>

Strange Cognitions<\/h3>

"Strange Cognitions: SF and the Metanovum," Brian's Plenary Lecture for the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al'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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, October 11, 2017<\/p>

Hyperlab Profile: Sarah Thorne on Storytelling and Video Games<\/h3>

Sarah discusses the Hyperlab as a resource for thinking about the future of storytelling through augmented reality and GPS tracking technologies:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, May 23, 2017<\/p>

DHSITE<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, April 26, 2017<\/p>

Scene of the Crime<\/h3>

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\u00a0\u201cScene of the Crime: New Digital Storytelling\u00a0and Mapping Technologies for Crime."\u00a0Our goal is to create\u00a0a mobile AR adaptation of a detective novel... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, April 20, 2017<\/p>

DHSITE in the news!<\/h3>

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

Friday, March 24, 2017<\/p>

DHSITE2017 is live!<\/h3>

http:\/\/dhsite.org May 17-20 Ottawa, Canada poster... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, November 19, 2016<\/p>

Vice interviews Hyperlab researchers about Pokemon Go<\/h3>

Vice's Nicole Pacampara interviews past and present Hyperlab researchers about Augmented Reality games:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, May 7, 2016<\/p>

Wear Whatever in Halifax<\/h3>

Brian is honoured to be delivering two keynote addresses for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute-Atlantic (DHSI@Dal) on May 10. The first talk,\u00a0\u201cParty Dress: Wearable Media for Utopian Bodies; or, Wear 'Whatever' to the Party,\u201d will attempt to distinguish the dystopian transhumanist aspects of wearables from their utopian potential to... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, March 2, 2016<\/p>

Serendipity: Chance Encounters in the Digital Humanities<\/h3>

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\u2019s adventures down a path that joins Digital Humanities, Serendipity... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, February 21, 2016<\/p>

Burning our Libraries<\/h3>

Brian's new piece in Mediatropes offers a sobering warning about Canada's active destruction of its libraries and archives by neoliberal... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, November 7, 2015<\/p>

Don’t Make a Scene: Game Studies for an Uncertain World<\/h3>

Just published in Digital Studies\/Le champ num\u00e9rique:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, October 28, 2015<\/p>

Digital Rhetoric & Ethics Lab: update<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, May 6, 2015<\/p>

DHSI@Congress<\/h3>

The workshops at DHSI@Congress this year look amazing! And of course, our own Brian Greenspan will be delivering the closing plenary:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, May 6, 2015<\/p>

the Hyperlab @ SSHRC<\/h3>

Check out our research story on SSHRC's website:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div>

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