Stanford Humanities Lab Projects

 

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SHL projects.

The status of each project is indicated as follows:

Pilot project, in early stages of development.
Project in middle phase of development.
Project nearing completion or complete.
A check mark indicates a project successfully spun off or hosted by a partner institution.

Artificial Eyes :: Investigating the relationship between natural science and art in the early modern period, reconstructing observational instruments and the skills required to use them.   (2003)

 

AsianAmericanArt :: A study and interpretation of visual art production by individuals of Asian ancestry in the United States from the mid-19th century to 1965.

 

Before Recognition :: Draws on psychology, aesthetics, cognitive science, art history and art practice to elucidate the perception of artworks.

 
  

Berlin - Temporal Topographies :: A multimedia, web-based research project that investigates the historical and cultural layers of a city space.

 

Body Language :: A multimedia project that investigates body language in Russian and Soviet society through the 20th century.

 

Court Records :: A web based research and teaching environment using court records about ordinary people and everyday disputes from Brazil and colonial Mali.

 

Changing All :: A new 2004-05 project focusing on ongoing changes in the grammar and function of all in conversational American English, esp. its use as an intensifier, and its use to introduce quotations.

 
  

Crowds :: A collaborative research project that examines the importance of the crowd in the modern era.

 
  

dpResearch :: A digital performance journal.   (2001)

 

Historinet :: Developing a software system for intelligent search of a scholarly archive of digital data, representing the stream of recorded events of a personal scholarly life.

 
  

How They Got Game :: A project exploring the history and cultural impact of interactive simulations and video games.

 
  

How The West was Shaped :: Constructing a computer model to bring dynamic conceptions of space into historical research and pedagogy, starting with railroads in the 19th century North American West.

 
  

Irish-American West :: This online collection of primary texts and scholarly articles focusing on Irish-Americans in the American West has been absorbed by the Western Institute for Irish Studies. The project continues apace in its new home.   (2005)

 

Life to the Second Power—Animating the Archive :: Converting the archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson into a digital format of hybrid genre, to dynamically revisit the past while simultaneously expanding the audience for the material.

 
  

Medieval Spains :: A research- and curriculum-based website that presents scholarly materials on the various communities of medieval Spain.

 
  

Pervasive Percussion Performance Space :: Exploring and synthesizing notions of movement, space, and sound through radical choreographies and new technical processes in a fundamentally redefined sound space.

 

Philosophical Stages :: Experimental pedagogy at the intersection of philosophy and drama with both traditional and new media.

 
  

R. Buckminster Fuller, Polymath :: A project exploring the R. Buckminster Fuller archive housed at Stanford.

 
  

Revolutionary Tides :: Presents a collection of political posters as a distinctly modern medium of mass communication and persuasion.

 
  

The Rosetta Screen :: A literary-themed artwork to be installed in the Martin Luther King, Jr., Public and University Library in San José, CA   (2003)

 

Shanghai/Paris: Urban Imaginaries 1880-1940 :: Tracing the development of the urban imaginary in two distant cities over the course of a century.

 

Thinking Aloud and Looking aHEAD at Museum Learning :: A project that seeks to develop a head camera and research protocol to study how people learn in humanities museums.

 

Traumwerk :: A web-based collaborative authoring environment designed to explore, experimentally, some classic issues in the humanities.

 

Virtual Mandala :: A project located at the confluence of the historical process in which a system of thought adapts itself to another culture and the development of new technology discourse.