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Please join us this Friday for the first talk in our newly revived Digital Humanities Seminar Series:

Sum

“Building a Digital Action Committee”

Friday, February 16

10:30a-12:00p

Athenaeum Classroom (Newman 124)
Bio and recent projects:
Roshmond “Sum” Patten is a seasoned hip-hop artist, and digital media/marketing professional with over 15 years’ experience. As an artist, he manages an independent music career that features an eclectic body of work, with an indomitable DIY ethic. Professionally he is a creative-for-hire, working on a variety of projects ranging from being the Twitter voice for Donald Glover’s hit TV show Atlanta, to acting as lead strategic partnerships consultant at Stampede Management, and helping Apple Music refine their music discovery algorithm. Sum has served as Music Director for IndieCade International Videogame Festival and is currently on the Advisory Board for Overbrook Entertainment’s mobile app developer, Buzznog. He is currently building out the Digital Action Committee concept, a collective of creatives building awareness campaigns and digital tools for modern activism. Topics the collective approaches include closing the digital divide, leveraging the individual/organizational digital footprint, and creative approaches to constructivist tools.

* Please mark your calendars for our future DH Seminar Series dates (all, 10:30a-12:00pm):

2/23 – Christopher A. Miller
A multi-modal, media-enhanced performance of John Cage’s 45′ for a Speaker (1954)

3/16 – Amanda Nelson, Natasha Staley, Meaghan Dee, and Tanner Upthegrove
“Raising the Curtain on Shakespeare: Exploring Text Through Spatial Sound and Projected Image”

3/30 – LaDale Winling

Title TBD

4/6 – Quran Karriem (Duke University, Digital Knowledge Fellow)
Title TBD

4/13 – Tabitha James
“Organismic Integration Theory to Explore the Associations between Users’ Exercise Motivations and Fitness Technology Feature Use”

4/20 – Sylvester A. Johnson
“Can Robots Make Love?: Artificial Intelligence, Human Identity, and the Life of Things.”

4/27 – Andrew Kusak

Title TBD