The panel brings an art librarian, a media-arts professor, a graphic designer and an artist into shared dialog around the chain of contemporary digital publishing as it relates to art pedagogy: from artists experimenting with new formats, to the complexities of collecting and archiving those formats, to their circulation in the library system, and their ultimate inclusion into curricula and course work. Common to all these speakers is an engagement with a particular library-oriented digital humanities tool, functioning as access platform, commissioning publisher, research database and file archive. This digital humanities toolkit uses the library as a grounding point for experimental publication, by combining unruly digital resources from the open internet alongside its own content initiatives, all of which are distributed through the WorldCat and other commercial databases to both public and academic audiences. Speaker 1 leads the art library at a large university, and will speak about digital collections development for advanced programs in computer science, digital arts, and media theory. Speaker 2 is a university professor in a Media Arts and Design program, and will speak about using library-centric digital humanities tools for both undergraduate and graduate courses, chiefly on visual intelligence and data visualization. Speaker 3 is a design professor with a commercial graphic design practice. They will speak about two recent digital books: one on using AI in typography, and the other an exhibition catalog from a major Asian art museum on artistic responses to personhood and identity against a background of AI. Speaker 4 is a queer performance artist and type designer. They will speak about archival research in queer subcultural histories, and publishing across multiple (frequently open-access) formats.
