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Digital Scholarship Symposium

The 2023 Digital Scholarship Symposium showcases innovative undergraduate and graduate student digital research and creative activity. The event will take place on May 25th and will include a DSI showcase from 11am–12pm, a keynote talk from 1–1:30pm, a DSC showcase from 1:45–2:45pm, and brief student talks from 3–5pm.

For more information about attending the symposium, visit our events page.

Questions? Email us at digitalscholarship@ucsc.edu.

Event Schedule

3D Printed Geography
Dino Francisco Raphael

Heat Press Make and Take
Olivia Arthur

3D-Printed Combat Robot
Rohan Person

Lunch will be provided for in person participants in the David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons on the ground floor of McHenry Library.

Keynote
Deep-Sea Coral III
Presented by: Saul Villegas

 

Gentrification in Tijuana
Ivette Orozco Sanchez

Fishing Trades in the East China Sea
Nami Lee

Journey of the Goddess: Darshan in the Durga Puja festival of West Bengal, India
Brent Horning

Disinformation and Deception: Measuring Russian Operations in the Latin American Information Environment
Dylan Waste

History in Focus: Past and Present Protest in Okinawa
Daniel Story
With Myles Rider-Alexis. Featuring Alexis Dudden and Kim Inthavong.

Murasaki: The Purple Hearted One
Myles Rider-Alexis

Introductory Remarks
Elizabeth Cowell, Richard L. Press University Librarian Presidential Chair

Disinformation and Deception: Measuring Russian Operations in the Latin American Information Environment
Dylan Waste

Gentrification in Tijuana
Ivette Orozco Sanchez

Fishing Trades in the East China Sea
Nami Lee

Music and Visual AI
Myles Rider-Alexis

Mapping Undocumented Spatiality à la GIS
Juan Ruiz

The Geographies of Research: Who Gets to be in Academic Literature?
Brittney Jimenez

Lidar and 3D Printers
Dino Francisco Raphael

Journey of the Goddess: Darshan in the Durga Puja festival of West Bengal, India
Brent Horning

Keynote Presentation: Deep-Sea Coral III

3D coral bioluminescent sculpture

DEEP-SEA CORAL III

Saul Villegas
First Year MFA, DANM
https://newart.city/show/deep-sea-coral-iii-space

Session:  Keynote Speaker

A view into the porthole of deep-sea archives from submersible footage provided by the Hawaiʻi Undersea Research Lab (HURL) is recreated from a submersible dive. Visual media of samples from corals and denizens from the sea are studied by oceanographers as multi-millennial timescales and serve as paleo-recorders of biogeochemical information. In the virtual adaption of the submersible dives, the immersible scene is designed to host a library of digitized objects containing these paleo recorders to extract, visualize, and make visible the pathways of archaic knowledge that hold vital information about our environment. Using a speculative design approach. A third adaption to the project ‘Deep-Sea Coral’ expands to an immersible experience through collaboration with oceanographer, Thomas Guilderson.

DSI Project Showcase:

The DSI Showcase provides an opportunity for students to showcase work they’ve completed using the technologies available for use in the DSI. These technologies include 3D printers, Cricut makers, laser cutters, and holographic equipment.  The projects listed below were only available during the DSI showcase.  Projects that were also presented as a VizWall Session can be found in their VizWall Session below.

Speedbump combat robot

3D-Printed Combat Robot

Rohan Person
Robo, Junior

Session:  DSI Project Showcase

Designed using CAD software, 'Speedbump' is a one pound robot that competes in an arena against other robots in the Antweight weight-class. These 3 minute matches end in a tap-out, incapacitation, or by Judge's decision scored from control, aggression, and damage. My robot's chassis and flipper were created entirely with 3D-Printing technology, with exact design tolerances and specific printing settings to perfect its construction. From this project, I learned how to design using CAD, source specific components for its internals, rate power efficiency of motors, solder, and operate in a competitive environment!

Gigabyte the Battlebot

Derek Tran
Computer Science: Game Design Class of 2023

Sri Ram

Session:  DSI Project Showcase

This is Gigabyte the Combat Robot from the TV Show Battlebots. It spins up an 120lb shell to 230mph to destroy the opponent. It does so with a 26lb brushed motor. It's the most powerful weapon and Battlebots and the best shell spinner at Battlebots.

Heat Press Make and Take

O.A.

Session:  DSI Project Showcase

This project demonstrates the process, safety essentials, and useful tips for using the Cricut Autopress with heat transfer vinyl. Each participant goes home with at least one magnet or pin that also serves as an example of the 3D printing and laser cutting technologies at the DSI. This is a useful project because it allows participants to make creative decisions and engage with the materials, while also learning the safety principles of working with the Autopress heat press. These skills are also transferable to working with the Cricut Mini Heat Press, available for checkout on the Cricut Maker carts.

Little FIshes Flocking SImulation

Holographic Flocking Simulation

Zack Traczyk
Computer Science, Junior
https://xxzbuckxx.github.io/Boid-Simulation/

Session:  DSI Project Showcase

Using the Looking Glass Portrait in the DSI I programmed an interactive holographic visualization. Specifically I replicated flocking behavior using an approach called "Boids." I thought this project was interesting as it explored complexity theory and how simple rules can dictate complex movement. Additionally, I was excited to use the holographic display technology and I wanted to explore holograms as a medium.

Innovation Award

Micki Lincoln
3rd year, HAVC major (Classical Studies and History of Consciousness minors)

Session:  DSI Project Showcase

The Innovation Award is a project that a group of DSI students were asked to create for this year's Chancellor's Innovation Impact Awards. The group created a designed, prototyped, researched sustainable materials, and produced awards to be given out at the awards ceremony on May 30th.

DSC Showcase

The presentations listed below are available only during the in-person Interactive Digital Poster Session.  Digital Projects that are also presented as a VizWall Session can be found in their VizWall Session below.

History in Focus: Past and Present Protest in Okinawa

Daniel Story
With Myles Rider-Alexis. Featuring Alexis Dudden and Kim Inthavong.

Session:  DSC Project Showcase

History in Focus is a podcast by the American Historical Review and produced here at UCSC Library's Center for Digital Scholarship. This exhibit showcases material from episode 6, "Soil and Memory," which featured a collaboration between historian Alexis Dudden and graphic artist Kim Inthavong on past and present protests in Okinawa, Japan, over US military presence there. View Kim's artwork and listen to her describe the way she worked with Alexis to visually interpret this history. The episode was produced by Digital Scholarship Librarian Daniel Story with audio engineering support from DSC student assistant Myles Rider-Alexis.

VizWall Session 1

The presentations listed here will be presented in VizWall Session 1.  Some projects will also be available to view during the Interactive Digital Project Showcase.  If permissions are provided by the speaker, a recordig of the talk will be provided after the symposium.

Disinformation and Deception: Measuring Russian Operations in the Latin American Information Environment

Dylan Waste
Politics, 2024

Session:  DSC Project Showcase, VizWall Session 1

Since the 2016 US Presidential election, the scholarly exploration of social media as a vector for foreign information operations has exploded. Whereas a significant amount of this literature has focused on these issues from a transatlantic perspective, this project focused on Russia's information operations in Latin America after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This project asked, what discursive strategies are employed? What narratives have become especially salient? By comparing the similarity of Russian state-sponsored narratives to those on Latin American social media, this paper explores Russian foreign policy narratives in the Global South. Considering the epistemological concerns and methodological challenges of measuring dis/misinformation, this project engaged with social media data from a constructivist perspective. This project shows that Russia’s strategic narrative in the Global South has transitioned in the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Gentrification in Tijuana

Ivette Orozco Sanchez

Session:  DSC Project Showcase, VizWall Session 1

My project focuses on the border city of Tijuana and its constant state of transformation. Through a short documentary film I attempted to document how the forced merging of cultures translates into various artistic expressions, such as murals, food, music, fashion, and literature, and how these mediums reflect the socio political state of the world. I believe that by finding unique representations of this transforming phenomenon, we can gain insight and understanding of border cities such as Tijuana. Exposure to such histories can help raise awareness of our interactions within multicultural settings.

Fishing Trades in the East China Sea

Nami Lee

Session:  DSC Project Showcase, VizWall Session 1

Murasaki: The Purple Hearted One

Myles Rider-Alexis
Film, Senior

Session:  DSC Project Showcase, VizWall Session 1

This project is an instrumental hip hop album accompanied by visuals that go along with the story of the songs and their titles. The story is of a samurai warrior traveling through lost lands and is heavily inspired by the story of the African samurai, Yasuke, and other stories that were hidden throughout history. The first half of the album is composed of mostly minor melodies and dark sounding elements. The second half of the album is much more lighthearted and represents the triumph of good over evil. The music and artwork are representative of me, my life experiences, and knowledge of history.

VizWall Session 2

The presentations listed here will be presented in VizWall Session 2.  Some projects will also be available to view during the Interactive Digital Project Showcase.  If permissions are provided by the speaker, a recordig of the talk will be provided after the symposium.

Mapping Undocumented Spatiality à la GIS

Juan Ruiz
Latin American and Latino Studies, Ph.D. Student

Session:  VizWall Session 2

Using space as a category of analysis, I study how undocumented graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz navigate particular spaces to illustrate forms of undocumented spatiality. I formulated a participatory mapping activity to evoke information about where undocu-grads feel most comfortable or uncomfortable on campus due to their immigration status. I explore the concepts and literature of spatiality, undocumentedness, deportability, “illegality,” and undocumented spatiality. The conceptual frameworks in human geography and modern mapping technologies, like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), aid my project in thinking about undocumentedness in novel ways.

Map of where community organizing literature is being written about

The Geographies of Research: Who Gets to be in Academic Literature?

Brittney Jimenez
2nd Year in LALS PhD

Session:  VizWall Session 2

Academics choose locations for their work based on their research interests, personal connection, a vital event site, or research conducted by other scholars in the area. The sites that authors choose to write about can have significant benefits of bringing publicity to those sites, amplifying issues that individuals in the area experience, and validating their experiences by having the “expertise” of an academic. The privilege of being seen as valid through academia leads me to consider which communities are being given this access. My question is: How can QGIS help to understand where literature on community organizing focuses and which geographic locations get a voice in academia? My analysis is impactful because it will focus on areas where community organizing literature is being written about; this offers insights into which communities’ issues are being discussed and amplified.

3D PRINTED GEOGRAPHY

Dino Francisco Raphael
Bioengineering, Senior

Session:  DSI Project Showcase, VizWall Session 2

Lidar is a widely used tool to acquire geographical data, this tool in combination with 3D modeling software like Blender allow us to create highly accurate 3D models of geographic regions. These models give the user freedom to create realistic or exaggerated 3D printed models of their preferred geographical regions.

Brent with Jagadhatri

Journey of the Goddess: Darshan in the Durga Puja festival of West Bengal, India

Brent Horning
Anthropology 2023

Session:  DSC Project Showcase, VizWall Session 2

This digital ethnography is part of my anthropology thesis which was awarded the dean's honors this year. Based on six months of fieldwork in India, the research examined the globalization of Hinduism, gaze theory, and positionality. This exhibition documents the journey of the seasonal Goddess statues which are the highlight of this massive celebration, Durga Puja. Clay is sourced from the sacred riverbed, sculpted by master artisans, distributed, ritually worshipped, and adored by thousands; they conclude their divine lifespan by returning to the river or being disassembled and repurposed. The Hindu concept of Darshan, or sacred seeing, is central to this worldview and will be explored. "…the prominence of the eyes of Hindu divine images also reminds us that it is not only the worshiper who sees the deity, but the deity sees the worshipper as well. The contact between devotee and deity is exchanged through the eyes” (Eck 1998, 7)