Digital Humanities

South Side Home Movie Project

South Side Home Movie Project

Projects South Side Home Movie Project The South Side Home Movie Project (SSHMP) is a five-part initiative to collect, preserve, digitize, exhibit, and research home movies made by residents of Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods. The SSHMP seeks to increase...
Textual Optics Lab

Textual Optics Lab

Projects Textual Optics Lab Initially funded by the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society, the Textual Optics Lab is a Digital Humanities Lab uniting a diverse group of scholars at the University of Chicago in literature and history. This includes the...
Digital Scrolling Paintings

Digital Scrolling Paintings

Projects Digital Scrolling Paintings Handscroll paintings, painted horizontally on pieces of silk or sheets of paper and mounted as scrolls, are a major type of traditional East Asian painting, distinctive in their format and method of viewing. Their creation is based...