BTW Donna Cox is a fantastic interdisciplinary catalyst as well as artist, scientist and nifty person.

Oh, some art from my first computer on Flickr. http://bit.ly/jyEzT

You might be interested in the work of Donna Cox, who is sort of an “artist in residence” at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) here in Illinois. Her work is particular focused on the role of artists in scientific visualization, but I could see how to extend the argument to the humanities.

I’m also interested in this with regard to the collection dashboard (http://is.gd/1dfXw).

I was hoping to have exactly this conversation; thank you for articulating so much better than me! I decided to use the term “humanities-based imagist” because I don’t feel I have the qualifications to be called an “artist” (I do not have an MFA, for example), although I have been called an artist by a colleague here in the Art Department. Also, as one other blogger noted, “artist” has all sorts of other baggage tied to it. But at the very least, I was hoping that the installation would spark a conversation about the place for the visual in the (digital) humanities, especially since we have such a long and intractable tradition of being “people of the book.”