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Van Allen Project
- Project Director(s):
- Paul Allen Kaiser, Gil Weinberg
- Author(s):
- Mark Downie, Paul Allen Kaiser
- Date:
- 2013
- Group(s):
- Data Rescue
- Subject(s):
- Communication, Science--Philosophy, Technology--Philosophy, Science, Technology, History, Medicine--Philosophy, Medicine, Mass media--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- White paper
- Institution:
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Tag(s):
- NEH White papers, Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects, NEH Digital Humanities, Communications, History and philosophy of science and technology, History and philosophy of medicine, Media studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6Z063
- Abstract:
- This project pursues two intertwined goals. One is formal — to create a radically new kind of documentary, which exploits new techniques of 3d capture and editing that are now possible at a scholar’s desktop rather than at a full-fledged film studio. This new form also calls for new strategies of representation, nine of which we implement. The other goal is thematic — to examine the wartime advances of science that underpin today’s digital society, and to do so from the distinctive perspective of Iowa, where space exploration flourished first under the physicist James Van Allen and to this day under Donald Gurnett.
- Notes:
- In this project we combine two powerful elements -- a hardware and software platform that allows us to fluidly capture and augment both drawings and spaces and to process and tease out meaning from large scientific datasets; and a wonderful thematic thread that uses the ingenious career of astrophysicist James Van Allen as a lens through which to see American science and technology as it developed over the latter half of the 20th century. The combination of these elements allows us to sketch nothing less than a new medium of exposition.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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