The carnival of digital-humanities metacommentary takes a curious and compelling turn in Daniel Anderson‘s Waves, a screencasting remix of blog posts using captured keystrokes and cut-and-paste, text autocomplete, and a collage of videos.
The piece features (very much inter alia) the interactive documentary and metaLAB touchstone Welcome to Pine Point and the text of a blog post by yours truly. I’m not sure what the conclusion is, but I find the texture of the piece energizing and evocative—and I like the mantra-cum-manifesto offered by Anderson, who is professor of rhetoric and Director of Studio for Instructional Technology and English Studies at UNC Chapel Hill: “you don’t study digital composing, you perform it.” —via Amanda French.






This actually kept my attention for the full 8.5 minutes. Really interesting use of visual and auditory imputes. That lady speaking at the 4:30ish mark really stood out to me. I hope it’s ok that I forwarded it to a few friends. Cheers! – Sean