./zposter/ University of Victoria Thu, 09 Mar 2017 16:15:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 ./zposter/#comment-100 Tue, 20 May 2014 17:00:13 +0000 ./?p=3054#comment-100 […] in learning more about the core impulses of the Z-Axis initiative, then I recommend reading this post, by Jentery, from back in […]

]]> ./zposter/#comment-56 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:39:43 +0000 ./?p=3054#comment-56 […] implementing that shared workflow as we look toward the “Kits for Cultural History” and “Z-Axis” initiatives in the coming year. Here, I want to briefly examine the Lab’s workflow, focusing […]

]]> ./zposter/#comment-52 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:36:00 +0000 ./?p=3054#comment-52 Thanks to Mark Sample (@samplereality) for pointing our attention to his wonderful post, “The Poetics of Non-Consumptive Reading.” We’re especially interested in unpacking how Z-Axis research corresponds with Mark’s closing paragraph, which includes the following: “I want to advocate for a poetics of non-consumptive reading in the digital humanities. Scholars and students of art, literature, history, and culture ought to transform more of our non-consumptive research into expressive objects. Nonexpressive use of texts is a dead-end for the humanities. A computer model surrounded by a wall of explanatory words is not enough. Make the computer model itself an expressive object.” To be sure, the idea of a computer model (e.g., an OBJ file produced in Mudbox) acting as an “expressive object” will inform our future research. More on that front soon.

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