digital humanities and digital media

Interview 1
At the intersection of computational
methods and the traditional humanities
Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker has a reputation as both a book artist
as well as a pioneer of what has become known as
Digital Humanities. She is well known for her studies
on visual poetics and experimental typography
(The Visible Word 1994, Figuring the Word 1998) but
also for her investigations of visual forms of knowledge
production (Graphesis 2014), digital aesthetics
and speculative computing (SpecLab 2008) and
Digital_Humanities (2012, co-authored). She has
worked as a Professor in Art History (Columbia, Yale,
& SUNY) and Media Studies (University of Virginia)
and since 2008 is the inaugural Breslauer Professor
of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of
Information Studies at UCLA.
Johanna welcomes governmental regulation on the internet
against ‘neoliberal entrepreneurialism,’ rejects new grand narratives
‘reconfigured by the pseudo-authority of computation’
and considers the sociality of contemporary existence an obstacle
for ‘interior life,’ innovation, and zoophilia. She compares