News (Still Water)
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9/17/2017As technological platforms have become more powerful, our ability to deconstruct them has weakened. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act criminalizes farmers who disassemble tractors, hip-hop artists who sample vintage songs, and museum conservators who decompile obsolete software [...]
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1/9/2016As visiting luminary for the UMaine Digital Curation graduate program's fall 2015 teleconference, Craig Dietrich challenged its students to consider how culturally sensitive archives and linked data can break the monoculture of one-size-fits-all paradigms for access and publication [...]
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3/20/2014ANVC Info Design Director and USC Media Arts + Practice Research Assistant Professor Craig Dietrich recently sat down with the University of Maines John Bell for a detailed interview. In Digital Scholarly Production and the Semantic Web, published at HASTAC, Dietrich frames Scalars history involving Semantic Web technology and the Vectors Journal [...]
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5/31/2013Scalar is an online platform built by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC) centered at USC that facilitates the creation of media-rich scholarly publications. The software has only recently entered public beta, however versions have been operational since 2010 that have led to a number of works, many sponsored by scholarly organizations and academic [...]
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6/26/2012According to Streetsblog Los Angeles Sahra Sulaiman, Still Water Fellows Vanessa Vobis, Craig Dietrich, and collaborators are saving the world, one garden at a time. Their project LA Green Grounds continues to dig up both lawns and publicity on its mission to turn Los Angelenos into gardeners. Saving the World, One Garden at a Time [...]
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Projects
CommonPlace
Auto-play and touch-enabled viewing and interacting with digital publications originating from almost any platform
Producer: Occidental College Center for Digital Liberal Arts
URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/commonplace-screen/...
Tensor
Spinning Scalar's import/export system in to its own middleware tool for use by many archives and publishing systems
Skacore Los Angeles
Two decades of show posters
The Metric Clock
Tell time in metric time
How to Use Scalar in the Classroom
Chapter, Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities
On the Word, Digital
Article on digital duplication published in the Library DH special issue of dh+lib
Lego OxyContin
Part of an ongoing series of ironic Lego builds
Tenants in Action (TIA)
Submit housing violations directly to LA City agencies using conversational language
Publisher: Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
URL: http://callTIA.com/about
Digital Scholarly Production and the Semantic Web: An Interview with Craig Dietrich
Interview by John Bell for HASTAC Scholars
Scalar
Scholarly publishing platform combining content and media via semantic web technology
Publisher: Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
URL: http://scalar.usc.edu
Walking Wall Streets
Finding Wall Streets in towns and cities across America
Site of Impact
Interviews with residents living near the proposed Los Angeles NFL stadium site
Police Violence Verdict Generator
Activist media project based on real cases of police violence
DexType for LEAP Motion
Commercial for LEAP Motion DexType gestural keyboard.
The Interpreters
Designing narratives demonstrated by Natural History Museum staff
Presented at: USC School of Cinematic Arts Gallery
Date: February 12, 2013
URL: http://web-app.usc.edu/.../event/897846
After the Document Model for Scholarly Communication: Some Considerations for Authoring with Rich Media
Article on digital publication
Authors: Craig Dietrich and Jentery Sayers
URL: http://www.digitalstudies.org/.../view/234/301
Occupy Roundtable
Discussion series at USC and UCLA featuring OccupyLA participants and theorists
Public Spaces essays
Reflections on and interventions in urban environments and land use, so far in New York City and Los Angeles
Publisher: NMDNet: A Meta-Network of the University of Maine
URL: http://www.nmdnet.org/tag/public-spaces
Redesigning Reality
Week-long series featuring workshops where participants can remix and remake everyday objects and software
Organizers: Craig Dietrich and Steve Anderson
Presented by: USC Visions & Voices
Date: February 24 - March 2, 2012
URL: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/...
A Path towards Global Reach: The Pool
Chapter supporting networked environments in the classroom, with The Pool as a case study
Book: Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
Author: Craig Dietrich with Jon Ippolito
Date: Spring, 2011
URL: http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/a-path-...
Learning From YouTube
"Video-book" analysing YouTube's Pedagogical concerns while reimagining its interface, published by MIT Press
Designer: Craig Dietrich
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: February 7, 2011
URL: http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/learningfromyoutube/
Unauthorized Pictures of Sony Pictures
... the guard ran out and told us we couldn't take pictures of Sony Pictures
The Network of Ecology
Talk series and companion installation show bringing "ecology" back to its source
Director: Craig Dietrich
Events: Panel Discussion featuring LA-based Ecologists, part of the USC Digitial Studies Symposium, The Natural History Museum's Age of Mammals Exhibit and Vivarium Jar Building (talk by Vanessa Vobis), Companion installation show at USC's Ronald Tutor Campus Center (November 2010-February 2011)
Dates: October 2011 - February 2011
Representing Culture via Agile Collaboration
Chapter on developer ecosystems that priviliage small, bottom-up collaborations
Authors: Craig Dietrich and John Bell
Book: Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments
Editor: Georgios D. Styliaras
Date: Spring, 2011
URL: http://www.igi-global.com/...?id=50271
Magic at Without Borders
Video installation featuring interviews with scholars and designers as they develop interactive media
Installed: Without Borders VI, UMaine Lord Hall Gallery
Date: August - September, 2009
Science Species Lab
Ecology-centered installation show and companion workshop in California's Wine Country
Installed: ArtSpace404, Arts Council of Sonoma County
Date: Fall, 2009
Press release: PDF
Plateu Peoples' Web Portal
Archive of Plateau people's cultural material, currated by Plateau Tribal members and WSU special collections
Director: Kim Christen
Lead Developer (2007-2009): Craig Dietrich
Developers: Eric Volkernic, John Smith
Presented in part by: Washington State Startup Grant, Northwest Computer Consortium
URL: http://libarts.wsu.edu/plateaucenter/portalproject
ThoughtMesh
Distribute and connect your papers using this easy-to-use web-based publishing system
Presented by: Vectors Journal & Still Water
URL: http://thoughtmesh.net
Example meshes: National Poetry Foundation mesh, Critical Code Studies 2010 Conference mesh
Please, Reply to All!
Benefiting the digital environment one email at a time...
Please, Do Not Reply to All!
Inverse benefiting the digital environment one email at a time...
Inspiration: /RNN (Response Not Neccessary)
URL: http://pleasedonotreplytoall.com
Mukurtu Archive
Open source content management platform based on local cultural protocols of indigenous communities
Director: Kim Christen
Lead Developer (2005-2010): Craig Dietrich
Presented in part by: Washington State Startup Grant, NEH Digital Start Up Grant
URL: http://mukurtuarchive.org
Press: BBC News, Wendy Seltzer, Slashdot.org
Digital Dymamics
Indigenous cultural archive and learning tool, published by the Vectors Journal
Designer: Alessandro Ceglia
Database: Craig Dietrich
Presented by: Vectors Journal
URL: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/...?project=67
Unmarked Planes & Hidden Geographies
Aesthetics of secret planes flown in the USA by the USA, published by the Vectors Journal
Designer: Raegan Kelly
Developer: Craig Dietrich
Presented by: Vectors Journal
URL: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/...?project=59
Panorama Ephemera
Online version of Rick Prelinger's Panorama Ephemera, published by the Vectors Journal
Designer: Raegan Kelly
Developer: Craig Dietrich
Presented by: Vectors Journal
URL: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/...?project=58
Dynamic Backend Generator
Relational writing canvas incoporated into dozens of scholarly multimedia projects
Presented by: Vectors Journal
URL: http://vectorsjournal.org/journal/blog/.../tools/dbg/
Nitpickers
Installations at Cedar Rapids' artist-run gallery and theater, Legion Arts | CSPS
Installed: September 2008, Legion Arts|CSPS
Airport runway lights
Installation at the University of Iowa's art building portico featuring airport runway lights and companion runway
Installed: Spring 2008, Iowa City
Mall storefronts
Some glossy, some not: store facades installation at the the iGallery in Iowa City
Installed: Spring 2007, iGallery, Iowa City
The Daily Palette OS X Dashboard Widget
An artwork a day delivered to your OS X Dashboard (a hip place to be in 2005...)
Creator: Craig Dietrich
Presented by: University of Iowa Intermedia Area
URL: http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/widget
Goal 2006! Dynamic Trading Card
Thirty-two teams and their contry profiles represented
Director: Jon Winet
Technology Director: Craig Dietrich
Presented in part by: DiverseWorks, Houston