Zoom Meeting ID: 310 825 1911
Digital data visualization is limited by the affordances of the medium. Even interactive visualizations are constrained by a limited set of options including color, size, and shape. Reimagining data visualization through textiles opens up a new range of possibilities for carrying meaning, from fiber content to texture to different craft techniques. At this drop-in event, participants can explore examples of textile data visualization, play with different materials or techniques (no previous experience or crafting skill required!) and think through how they might create and visualize data meaningful to them.
Speaker bio: Quinn Dombrowski (non-binary, any pronouns are fine) is the Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Quinn’s many DH adventures included supporting the high-performance computing cluster at UC Berkeley, running the DiRT tool directory with support from the Mellon Foundation, writing books on Drupal for Humanists and University of Chicago library graffiti, and working on the program staff of Project Bamboo, a failed digital humanities cyberinfrastructure initiative.
Quinn has a BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since coming to Stanford, Quinn has supported numerous non-English DH projects, taught courses on non-English DH, developed a tabletop roleplaying game to teach DH project management, explored trends in multilingual Harry Potter fanfic, and started the Data-Sitters Club, a feminist DH pedagogy and research group focused on Ann M. Martin’s 90’s girls series “The Baby-Sitters Club”. Quinn is currently co-VP of the Association for Computers and the Humanities along with Roopika Risam, and advocates for better support for DH in languages other than English.
Quinn regularly teaches DLCL 204: Digital Humanities Across Borders (a non-English digital humanities class) and DLCL 205: Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists, along with DLCL 201: Digital Humanities Practicum for students working on their own projects.