Listen to Julia Specter, Junior at Mt. Holyoke College, and Kimberly Bain, 5CollDH post-bac, talk research, traveling, and hideousness.

"You Have to Crawl Before You Can Stumble": Julia Spector and Undergraduate Research

Emily Lankiewicz who is a Mount Holyoke graduate and a 5college Digital Humanities Fellow has been using the method of photogrammetry to put historic artworks on a new pedestal that doesn’t place them above our line of sight, but instead, allows us have control over the ways we want to witness objects we may not be allowed to touch. Sara Smith is archivist and creator which puts her in a unique position to talk about creation and curation as both beginnings of creative journeys. At Amherst College, she is the subject librarian for Architectural Studies, Art & the History of Art, European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Theater and Dance,. During the podcast, we talk about one of her ongoing shows called Orphaned Images: For over 20 years, she has been buying collections of slides from yard sales and thrift stores. Many of these collections are carefully labeled and organized and easily lend themselves to newly imagined narratives. And so she invites interested people to submit stories that are then turned into slide show presentations. I'm also with Jocelyn Edens, the curator of disruptive shows like Codes of Conduct and In each hand I keep each of my eyes. Edens is the Kress Curatorial Fellow at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she supports the Institute for Curatorial Practice and digital platforms for curating.
 
To build an intellectual base for our discussion, I begin the podcast with an excerpt from Zahid Chaudhary’s book “Afterimage of Empire”:

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