Dürre in einem Maisfeld
Dürre in einem Maisfeld What potential does environmental data offer for the Digital Humanities? How can digital methods contribute to the analysis of weather and climate in the humanities and media studies? Can they be used to explore the present and history of the human-environment relationship? These are the questions of a three-day hackathon that will take place at the University of Potsdam starting on May 31. More than 60 scientists want to open meteorological and climatological data such as satellite images, maps, diagrams, but also literary and journalistic texts, video clips and visualizations for new readings, novel applications and a broader audience. Titled "Environmental Data, Media and the Humanities" - #EcoHack for short - the hackathon brings together experts from the digital humanities, design, media studies and the arts. It is organized by the Potsdam Network for Digital Humanities and the project "Weather Reports - Wind as Media, Model, and Experience" together with the Fellows Dr. Liliana Bounegru from London, Simone Fehlinger from Paris, and Dr. Jonathan Gray from London. With guests from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, the United States, Latvia, Belgium and France, researchers in Potsdam will work in several teams on different projects. These include the visualization of weather forecasts with film material from (extreme) weather archives, video and sound installations for the medial treatment of the topic "forest," but also the computer-based research of ecocritical literary texts.
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