Week 10 (Oct 24, 26, 28):

Monday: “Reading” Images from a Distance

Study Guide:

  • Read Lev Manovich’s “How to Compare One Million Images?” up to page 21 (the rest of the article is optional reading). Why are the limits of studying visual arts in the traditional way (looking at them closely with our naked eyes, and describing and interpreting the differences with words)? How is the new method the author recommends?
  • Do you think the new method differs from the traditional approach in nature or only in degree? (The short blog post “The Meaning of Statistics and Digital Humanities” from the same author provides helpful insights to this question.)

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Wednesday: Quantitative Analysis of Images with ImageJ: Lab and Practice

Writing Assignment 3: First draft due before class.

Study Guide:

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Friday: Visualizing Musical History

Study Guide:

Explore each of the above websites. Expect to spend 20 minutes or so on each of them. Consider:

  • How does each project approach the relationship between music and society? What aspects of music history and composition does it focus on?
  • What digital tools does each project employ to analyze musical history?