The 2.0 version of the Digital Humanities manifesto, a collaborative project of the 2009 UCLA Mellon Seminar on the Digital Humanities, has now been released for commentary and debate.

Three years in the making, Speed Limits was inaugurated at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal on May 19. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami, addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to t

How can knowledge, research, and pedagogical practice in the arts and humanities drive the design and development of emerging digital media (and vice versa)?

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism was published exactly one hundred years ago on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro. It famously celebrated "the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.. feverish sleeplessness, the perilous leap, the slap and the punch" and proclaimed the beauty of

Stanford Magazine, the publication of the Stanford Alumni Association, provides a nice piece in its November/December 2008 issue on the Preserving Virtual Worlds project.  Under the title "Saving Worlds: Preserving the Digital and Virtual," neatly summarizes the project and its work, with quotations from Henry Lowood (SHL) and Beth Dulabahn of the Library of Congress, as well as a couple of nice photos.  The workshop described in the article was "Preserving Knowledge in Virtual Worlds," put on as part of Media-X' Summer Institute at Wallenberg hall.

Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Dante Hotel (1973–74) is recognized as one of the pioneering site-specific public art installations in San Francisco. Originally presented in a real hotel room staged with remnants of fictional occupants, it was recast as Life² in the virtual world of Second Life in the course of collaborative project with SHL, funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The resulting mixed reality work includes live images and online access to the project in the galleries alongside artifacts, prints, and documents from the original installation. 

Even though SHL has tended to be a practice-oriented platform, we have found it invaluable to engage in theoretical reflection on our work on occasion. Among them, two are currently available on line:

The past year has seen SHL transition from a structure whose principal infrastructure costs were borne by Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences to a more loosely structured, self-supporting research collaboratory built around the work of its faculty leaders. Though the transition has posed numerous challenges, the result has been a revitalization of the lab and a refocusing of its portfolio of projects. The new website is being launched with the aim of providing a livelier presentation of this work in progress, as well as documenting the Lab's past activities and accomplishments.