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Mapping the Unapproachable: An Analysis of Digital Mappings of Traumatic Places in Europe
No full textMemorial sites that commemorate the suffering caused by Nazi terror in Europe are often represented and conveyed through digital geomedia such as multimedia maps, augmented reality applications, or GPS-based audio walks. In my understanding of geomedia, I am following media studies professor Hedwig Wagner, who defines it as “global communication media with reconnection to concrete physical locations” (my translation). In the field of digital Holocaust Memory, various authors refer to the potentials of geomedia to reveal something that is otherwise invisible. Victoria Grace Walden, for example, proposes in her interpretation of the augmented museum reality application Oshpitzin, that mobile devices in this context may be “used as excavation tools that help us to reveal layers of the past that lie dormant, not made visible, or forgotten in today’s physical environments.” While I am convinced that geomedia indeed does have the potential to reveal invisible parts of the past, I think that a critical examination of its function within digital Holocaust memory—as representation of a place of trauma, and as a discourse—is a fruitful endeavor, one that I will follow in my article
Curating is Believing: Digital Art Exhibition and Holocaust Memory
No full textThis article explores the potential of digital exhibitions to enhance Holocaust memory for generations that soon will not have direct contact with survivors, positioning such exhibitions as an innovative educational tool. Focusing on the Nazi gas chambers—a negative symbol of Holocaust memory—as its case study. The article utilizes the “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” research project’s Media Management and Search Infrastructure (VHH-MMSI) to link artworks with their broader historical and socio-cultural contexts. By using modern digital technology to connect present day audiences with past atrocities and their artistic representations, the article highlights the mnemonic role of art and digital curation in teaching Holocaust studies in the digital age
Queer Disabled Bodyminds in the Fairy Tales of Dinah Mulock Craik and Oscar Wilde
No full textThe potential influence of Dinah Mulock Craik on Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales has been often remarked but seldom analyzed. This article suggests that Wilde enters a dynamic engagement with Craik’s literary fairy tales, particularly in their shared critique of nineteenth-century notions of deviance and wholeness. Locating these texts at the intersection of disability studies and queer theory, this article uses Margaret Price’s conception of bodymind to read Craik’s The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak (1875) and Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates (1891) as a complex literary encounter that subverts ableist assumptions regarding “a sound mind in a sound body.
Writing and Drawing “The Three Dresses” (Creative Practice as Research)
No full textWriting and Drawing “The Three Dresses” (Creative Practice as Research
Pandemic Storytelling from the Heart of the Bronx
No full textThis study describes how digital storytelling was used as a pedagogic tool during Covid-19 that greatly affected the lives of students at an urban community college. As a teaching and learning tool, digital storytelling was used to build agency, identity, and community as well as advanced communication and technological skills. This study examines the creation and compilation of multimodal digital video stories and highlights the reactions of students to the pandemic and provides an opportunity for them to share their stories with a larger community. The digital video stories demonstrate technology’s significant impact, as devices like smartphones allowed connectivity and democratized access to a wide range of pedagogical opportunities. The study elucidates the need for a revamped higher education curriculum that offers more programs that allow students of color to collaborate with teachers using digital storytelling for learning and development, to see themselves as active participants in their learning, and to make their voices heard
