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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Jul 23

Something we're all in denial about, btw, is that rhetorical infrastructure is one of the central achievements of CS:

• 10-page, open-access paper
• clear abstract
• figure explains the problem on page 1 (or at most 2)
• supported by open code

• written in ... LaTeX ... (ok, no one's perfect)

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Jun 4

The deadline for *paper submissions* (5 pages, excl. references - via PCS) is June 30, 2025 (23:59 AoE).

Submissions to the short-format *AGORA track* (provocations, lab talks, artworks, or work in progress) consist of a 1-page abstract only (DL: August 22) -

via docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Jun 4

VIS4DH is back at @ieeevis.bsky.social, November 2025 in Vienna! Find the Call for Papers here, focusing on the Visualization of Conflict and Peace: vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · May 10

Developing the cube of multimodal competencies in (digital) history - thanks for another round with the splendid builders crew: Christian Wachter, @dielindada.bsky.social, and @sschwandt.bsky.social at @zthf.bsky.social!

The 'cube of multimodal competencies', combining the semiotic modalities of text, diagram, and image - regarding both creation and interpretation - for various levels of elaboration and depth.

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you, @kulturpool.bsky.social, BMWKMS🇦🇹, FFG, and @ars.electronica.art (together with @saschel.bsky.social, Ross Parry, @schichmax.bsky.social & many others) for 2 days of co-ideation re future (re)use of digital cultural heritage! info.kulturpool.at/stakeholder-... #collections>>connections

Cultural heritage projects in Ars Electronica's DeepSpace 8K

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Apr 28

Against the god trick in data visualization: "From Exploration to Critique - Catalyzing Critical Inquiry with Cultural Collection Visualizations". Thanks to @erigeneia-eos.bsky.social, K. Glinka, @nrchtct.bsky.social, and the fabulous guest eds at CG&A. doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG....

FIGURE 2. Critical Inquiry (i.e., the activity of studying cultural phenomena critically) as a compound task, connecting the
components of i) analysis, ii) evaluation, and oftentimes iii) corrective action.

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Apr 28

May 9th, Bielefeld: Psychoanalyzing historiography & its modality struggles: "Text wants to critique, image wants attention, visualization just wants to help with the data? - On intermodal tensions in DH."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Mar 24

A scrolling essay about scrolling, textual navigation, and interface design: "The scroll bar faded away, almost like a ghost of its former self, replaced by an emphasis on continuous motion instead of clear indicators." navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio?ref=thebrows...

Navigation queues | Navigation cues

A web-essay written by Domitille Debret, designed and developed by F451 for The HTML Review Issue 04, Spring 2025.

navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Mar 7

A dose of Austrian cheerfulness at #DHd2025: Diagrams & dances of life and death. Slides at bit.ly/dhd-z (Distant Viewing II, HSBI E1)

Title slide of Rühse, Smuc, & Windhager (2025). Diagramme & Tänze von Leben und Tod. DHd 2025, "Under Construction"

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Mar 3

my unfinished paper watching me scrolling the tl

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Feb 26

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton.

drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · Feb 17

AI will sort it out?
DAC Summer School 2025 (Krems, 2-4 July) explores collecting, archiving, and curating in the digital age, with a focus on AI's role.
The call for contributions is open until 7 April. Participation is free.
#AI #DigitalArchives #CulturalHeritage #SummerSchool #DigitalHumanities

Summer School "AI will sort it ... out? Practices of collecting, archiving and curating in the age of digital transformation"

Invitation & Call for Contributions | Summer School "AI will sort it ... out? Practices of collecting, archiving and curating in the age of digital transformation” | July 2–4 2025, University for Cont...

www.donau-uni.ac.at

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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · Feb 13

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

flowingdata.com

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Feb 6

Special Issue on Visualizing Big Culture & History Data - Big thank you to all authors and reviewers!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/big...

Frontiers | Editorial: Visualizing big culture and history data

Visualizing big, multi-sourced data of the past is not simply a technical challenge, it is an intellectual and 10 interpretive one. While early efforts in di...

www.frontiersin.org

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · Feb 2

Insane: all books of the world visualized in ISBN space phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/vi... (by github.com/phiresky, via HackerNews)

Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space - phiresky's blog

Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human wr...

phiresky.github.io

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Feb 3

Obviously, we just got started. But there’s 4 long years, at least, to ramp up the means of resistant design. Find the whole slide deck at bit.ly/DDB25
(5/5, work with @erigeneia-eos.bsky.social)

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Feb 3

In between, interfaces based on iii) cognition-supporting, ‘scalable viewing’ tech, or iv) reflective design strategies offer equally promising opportunities, as do many v) post-digital or deliberately non-digital exhibition designs. (4/5)

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Feb 3

How to digitize and represent art and cultural heritage for dopamine-flooded and attention-fracked audiences in times of more media? We consider it key to avoid both naiveté and the dilemma to choose between i) listless standard tech and ii) high-gloss insta feeds. (3/5)

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Feb 3

We started from @tedgioia.bsky.social‘s vital State of Culture, 2024 (www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-...) and turned this lens to “The Art Museum in the Digital Age” (@belvederemuseum.bsky.social, Jan 20-24) (2/5)

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Feb 3

Feels quite "this is fine" to do conferences these days, but then again (cf. last slide) - new means to defend the perception of art & culture might be most needed when the flood swallows the zone. (1/5)

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Jan 18

we made some of them talk to each other recently. (and to the 🐘)

bsky.app/profile/wind...

Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Nov 18

ok, more to plug. when doing vis, it's our civic duty to reduce complexity, right?

if you enroll with the counterexample police, better put some effort into it. achievement unlocked: "complexity as design material", with a wonderful #vis4dh crowd: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07465

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Jan 14

Taught the first day of "Data for the Rest of Us" and tried an activity I'm calling "We Data." Students construct datasets about themselves in small groups and look for stories in the spreadsheet. A good icebreaker and introduction to the themes of the course. More here:

We Data: An Icebreaking Activity · Brandon Walsh

Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library

walshbr.com

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