Infocult's favorite digital humanities project of the year is all about murders. Trisha Campbell is tracking who killed whom in Pittsburgh, mapping out the resulting networks.
The subject and the process lead Campbell down some interesting routes:
This is not a search for answers, nor a sociological experiment; in fact, I don’t know quite what to call this quest, but it is part practice, part ethical, and part creative-critical work. I want to say: I am interested in understanding murder in a more robust way, but that’s not what I mean at all. Instead, with the intervention of murder, I want to begin re-making past matter, dead matter, or ruins, where the objects we make—that is, the digital work/art or analog work/art—conjure thought...
It reminds me of the fine Small Town Noir blog, set not too far from Pittsburgh.
(thanks to Todd Bryant)
Todd sent this to me too because he knows I love to look up people on FB after they are in the news for terrible things. This woman is essentially my hero.
Posted by: Landisb | October 09, 2012 at 08:49