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Digital artwork, © by Katherine Buse, Raida Aldosari, and Kaly Stormer, is for illustration purposes only. https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Research Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:23:39 +0000 Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Research RESEARCH Broadly speaking, my research—situated at the intersections of media theory, science and technology studies, and literary cultural studies—interrogates the sciences, the arts, and the popular culture to study politics and technologies. My first book project, titled Rendering, performs an anatomy of computing by following parts of the computer—the motherboard, memory, central processing unit, heat sink, and the graphic card—to identify five fundamental operations—miniaturization, addressability, speculating, heating, and finally, rendering—by which socioeconomic relations in/around the development of computing get transformed into digital infrastructures. I've given a number of talks on this topic and two publications from this project have been published in Critical Inquiry and Configurations. I have also co-authored, with Théo Lepage-Richer and Lucy Suchman, a short book on the figure of the ‘Neural Network.’ I am now starting work on two new solo book-length projects, one of which is tentatively titled Genres of Artificial Intelligence, and another which is titled A Prehistory of Flying Cars. I also work on critical data and AI studies, code and software studies, history of computing, videogame studies and design, and science fiction studies. Most of my research outputs are usually synced up with my ORCID profile found here. Finally, my research also incorporates critical making practices and development of computational tools. Find out more about these projects here. My research has been supported by University of California Humanities Research Institute, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, NOMIS Foundation,&nbsp;Universität Siegen, National Science Foundation, the Davis Humanities Institute, Linda Hall Library, Hagley Museum and Library, the Research Network for Video Game Immersion, and various units of UC Davis and University of Notre Dame. <img width="428" height="600" width_o="428" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e3daaa7da194af2a899cbddaa67d01734b0b7fc8a1f5205f2c1e752645faa7a/neural_networks_cover.jpeg" data-mid="200059465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/428/i/0e3daaa7da194af2a899cbddaa67d01734b0b7fc8a1f5205f2c1e752645faa7a/neural_networks_cover.jpeg" /> <img width="290" height="435" width_o="290" height_o="435" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b17a8550b70c9c72d75de9fce4124a53d92f3f8a3f68e2764b8c0d925e10e432/49_1_LARGE.jpg" data-mid="200059464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/290/i/b17a8550b70c9c72d75de9fce4124a53d92f3f8a3f68e2764b8c0d925e10e432/49_1_LARGE.jpg" /> <img width="666" height="932" width_o="666" height_o="932" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3af40b34d5fcc9160cbe25cf969cb9f77cb82e5514cfc4dcf00a9c477ac1d7a1/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-12-44-02-aksioma-scale-technologies---Google-Search.png" data-mid="200059529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/666/i/3af40b34d5fcc9160cbe25cf969cb9f77cb82e5514cfc4dcf00a9c477ac1d7a1/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-12-44-02-aksioma-scale-technologies---Google-Search.png" /> <img width="600" height="925" width_o="600" height_o="925" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24c2afd3497e7b71cdac298ac138e2a2740362cd8f301598ba37f23053a7e61e/AML_95_2_pr.jpg" data-mid="200059507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/24c2afd3497e7b71cdac298ac138e2a2740362cd8f301598ba37f23053a7e61e/AML_95_2_pr.jpg" /> <img width="781" height="1000" width_o="781" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71d30236c03fd6bba270cb5573f2de6884fe59414d43b3f74da88fad7d1edd6b/61YVJCer-gL._AC_UF894-1000_QL80_.jpg" data-mid="200059505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/781/i/71d30236c03fd6bba270cb5573f2de6884fe59414d43b3f74da88fad7d1edd6b/61YVJCer-gL._AC_UF894-1000_QL80_.jpg" /> <img width="520" height="750" width_o="520" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30cc28b3fd67c4a777c45f5236271dbf90d6fd6f9372199d57265006874030d7/front_cover_configurations.jpeg" data-mid="200059509" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/520/i/30cc28b3fd67c4a777c45f5236271dbf90d6fd6f9372199d57265006874030d7/front_cover_configurations.jpeg" /> <img width="500" height="717" width_o="500" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92d033a8d04f7b2fe8e0884ffd4ed3ae9d10d5617b8fdbe89a02283fbf4ede71/cover_design_issues.jpeg" data-mid="200059508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/92d033a8d04f7b2fe8e0884ffd4ed3ae9d10d5617b8fdbe89a02283fbf4ede71/cover_design_issues.jpeg" /> <img width="333" height="500" width_o="333" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f84b15d2ee02e25936501f75dc6e3b6fd135435d26a18f7354e787ddb1eac1d0/51Ufch323cL.jpg" data-mid="200059504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/333/i/f84b15d2ee02e25936501f75dc6e3b6fd135435d26a18f7354e787ddb1eac1d0/51Ufch323cL.jpg" /> <img width="360" height="527" width_o="360" height_o="527" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64c9f9aab3b8fb8446a60c423fb208e2f87c53de0546677d05cde5f4e26487d1/9781501375361.jpg" data-mid="200059506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/360/i/64c9f9aab3b8fb8446a60c423fb208e2f87c53de0546677d05cde5f4e26487d1/9781501375361.jpg" /> <img width="1643" height="2560" width_o="1643" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c592e9f4b55f9a5c2d728794d295f92c1fc7144753e8909a92fdb4cb63c00e99/Studies10Web-scaled.jpg" data-mid="200059511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c592e9f4b55f9a5c2d728794d295f92c1fc7144753e8909a92fdb4cb63c00e99/Studies10Web-scaled.jpg" /> https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/CV Sun, 24 Dec 2023 14:03:57 +0000 Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/CV CV You may consult, in lieu of my CV, my ORCID ID or my Google Scholar page, which largely stay current with my publications. https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Pedagogy Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:23:39 +0000 Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Pedagogy PEDAGOGY I teach twentieth and twenty-first century literature and literary theory, video game criticism and design, media theory, critical data and AI studies, digital humanities, STS, and the history of computing and technoscience studies. My recent course offerings include 'Corporate Tactics and Game Design,' 'Hyper-Contemporary Fiction,' 'Networks (To) Today,' 'Computation, Culture, and Critique,' 'Critical Digital Studies,' and 'Theories of Media and Technology.' I have taught graduate seminars (in English, Screen Cultures, and History and Philosophy of Science) at Notre Dame titled 'Master's Media: Race, Class, and the Technical Production of Difference' and ‘Science/Fiction: On Worlds Old and New.’ I also co-teach, with John Behrens, a collegewide experimental course on the many lives of generative AI technologies at Notre Dame. Feel free to get in touch if you want to have a look at the syllabi that are not linked here, or if you have thoughts to share. <img width="2844" height="1600" width_o="2844" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c3e09699a74b9285bdac70fba1c0817380249f1876f1976d31bc34905fbd612/Theory-Course-Poster.png" data-mid="200059802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c3e09699a74b9285bdac70fba1c0817380249f1876f1976d31bc34905fbd612/Theory-Course-Poster.png" /> <img width="1058" height="1210" width_o="1058" height_o="1210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d44055ca876491f6304c26c501e0a11e3b66e5311667ad3ef7a2a7bc4da2bbb0/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-17-09-00-FA23-ENGL-90791-CX-01-Science_Fiction-About-Worlds-Old-and-New.png" data-mid="200059803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d44055ca876491f6304c26c501e0a11e3b66e5311667ad3ef7a2a7bc4da2bbb0/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-17-09-00-FA23-ENGL-90791-CX-01-Science_Fiction-About-Worlds-Old-and-New.png" /> <img width="1754" height="1440" width_o="1754" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/949f6c6eaad4317163c4c880aa61c5266bd0edf1cdd78b3ebdf2553eb3ac4531/Computation_And_Culture3.jpg" data-mid="200059801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/949f6c6eaad4317163c4c880aa61c5266bd0edf1cdd78b3ebdf2553eb3ac4531/Computation_And_Culture3.jpg" /> <img width="1423" height="944" width_o="1423" height_o="944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d88b3ee050d433809293c609da0929e2ec3a9854b6683352fc341f2791b708a6/Critical_Digital_Studies.jpg" data-mid="200059808" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d88b3ee050d433809293c609da0929e2ec3a9854b6683352fc341f2791b708a6/Critical_Digital_Studies.jpg" /> https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Media Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:23:39 +0000 Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Media MEDIA A SELECTION OF PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE AUDIO AND VIDEO CONVERSATIONS INVITED TALKS AND CONVERSATIONS CONVERSATIONS HOSTED re:compute :: media technologies and alternate futures SYMPOSIUM - SEPT 2022 LIFE IN PIXELS - SPRING 2022, SPRING 2023, SUMMER 2023, SPRING 2024 can be found here. OTHER CONVERSATIONS DEMOS AND PAPER VIDEOS https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Critical-Makings Sun, 24 Dec 2023 05:52:04 +0000 Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/Critical-Makings CRITICAL MAKINGS DIGITAL HUMANITIES&nbsp; &nbsp;—&nbsp; &nbsp;VIDEOGAME (RE:)CONSTRUCTION&nbsp; —&nbsp; &nbsp;COMPUTATIONAL FORENSICS&nbsp; &nbsp;—&nbsp; &nbsp;SPECULATIVE DESIGN Much of my critical making work has happened in the ModLab Digital Humanities Laboratory at UC Davis and at various units in Notre Dame. I have also worked with the Data Science Initiative, the Genome Center, and the Digital Scholars Lab at UC Davis, and at IIT Indore in the discipline of Computer Science and Engineering. With Toby Li’s SaNDwich Lab, I collaborate on artificial intelligence applications of human-computer interaction; VISAR, an&nbsp;AI-enabled writing assistant system for argumentative writing, is cureently being piloted in classrooms across Notre Dame. I was the project director of Frack! The Game, a strategy game that takes cues from real-world incidents to explore the ethical, socioeconomic and environmental landscape of fracking. I was the lead developer on a multi-university, NSF-funded collaboration, via the Genome Center and ModLab at UC Davis, that investigates the role of narratives in citizen science. To that end, we developed, implemented, and (quantitatively and qualitatively) tested a science-fiction graphic-novel-based story module for foldit. I was also a part of the Critical Wearables group, a speculative design collaboration that aims to critically think about concepts of self and subjectivity in the era of wearable computing, asking what forms of sociality can emerge outside the top-down corporate model of wearable tracking devices. In the past, I have participated in a number of other digital humanities and big data projects, working on, among other things, broadsides in early-modern English literature, machine (self-)learning preference networks, the rhetoric of the Twitter bots in the 2016 US Presidential election and contemporary meme archeologies. I have also co-designed, with Joy Miller and Jacob Hagelberg, an alternate reality game at UC Davis. <img width="451" height="668" width_o="451" height_o="668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b89838f365c0c3580e1bed8448f50f3632a7e33ae94b515b57a2c921ec36066e/pic4.jpg" data-mid="200062207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/451/i/b89838f365c0c3580e1bed8448f50f3632a7e33ae94b515b57a2c921ec36066e/pic4.jpg" /> <img width="1205" height="750" width_o="1205" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54b180da3e17b756d1c30ba826db9ae330a5bf0182de96623344f7358b9d4b6c/Frack-titlescreen5-01.png" data-mid="200062203" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54b180da3e17b756d1c30ba826db9ae330a5bf0182de96623344f7358b9d4b6c/Frack-titlescreen5-01.png" /> <img width="3529" height="2270" width_o="3529" height_o="2270" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62aa275d7b2079773cfb23389774ab805aae279078829c81018cc8ea2a019d43/dropdownsample.png" data-mid="200062202" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62aa275d7b2079773cfb23389774ab805aae279078829c81018cc8ea2a019d43/dropdownsample.png" /> <img width="1700" height="1200" width_o="1700" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45b5434fd818cd2b588d94abb6f8aa75283430f8196153f96f33422ed90e3a75/pic5.png" data-mid="200062208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45b5434fd818cd2b588d94abb6f8aa75283430f8196153f96f33422ed90e3a75/pic5.png" /> <img width="759" height="463" width_o="759" height_o="463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/852a7b1a9b14e830c1ec37518b4a6a5e65d27cd7b55951b9e6882e502c65ca8d/pic3.jpg" data-mid="200062206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/759/i/852a7b1a9b14e830c1ec37518b4a6a5e65d27cd7b55951b9e6882e502c65ca8d/pic3.jpg" /> <img width="717" height="421" width_o="717" height_o="421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4080571c31db53e174bbbda317bf33db8b97d7a0701fe362de840dd03f671a6e/pic2.png" data-mid="200062205" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/717/i/4080571c31db53e174bbbda317bf33db8b97d7a0701fe362de840dd03f671a6e/pic2.png" /> <img width="705" height="422" width_o="705" height_o="422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6611e1d645ec1bf3aabb93cf7a4211d42fe425806cdb3c1a8f63b1ee6819715c/pic.png" data-mid="200062204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/705/i/6611e1d645ec1bf3aabb93cf7a4211d42fe425806cdb3c1a8f63b1ee6819715c/pic.png" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/869dbc8af1ceacd475d5c20461018c45e95b2ec5adfa916e221b4de75b64e823/BeardfishFinal.png" data-mid="200062201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/869dbc8af1ceacd475d5c20461018c45e95b2ec5adfa916e221b4de75b64e823/BeardfishFinal.png" /> <img width="1732" height="1264" width_o="1732" height_o="1264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bea39daf86df19990c517109b0286b0e20e654f91d8877638e05852fc8229bc/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-16-55-31-VISAR-A-Human-AI-Argumentative-Writing-Assistant-with-Visual-Programming-and-Rapid-Draft-Prototyping---uist23-zhang-visar.pdf.png" data-mid="200062258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bea39daf86df19990c517109b0286b0e20e654f91d8877638e05852fc8229bc/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-16-55-31-VISAR-A-Human-AI-Argumentative-Writing-Assistant-with-Visual-Programming-and-Rapid-Draft-Prototyping---uist23-zhang-visar.pdf.png" /> <img width="872" height="728" width_o="872" height_o="728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8799cdc74a87a5d14c94284726e1d84a70be0201bf0e26605ba5710190775047/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-17-04-12-Wrapped-in-Story-The-Affordances-of-Narrative-for-Citizen-Science-Games---3582437.3582443.pdf.png" data-mid="200062287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/872/i/8799cdc74a87a5d14c94284726e1d84a70be0201bf0e26605ba5710190775047/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-17-04-12-Wrapped-in-Story-The-Affordances-of-Narrative-for-Citizen-Science-Games---3582437.3582443.pdf.png" /> <img width="1760" height="656" width_o="1760" height_o="656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2c47119f91e5daf6b22cc9b318c0db326f49855acf0c44fd878993db130bcff/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-16-55-06-VISAR-A-Human-AI-Argumentative-Writing-Assistant-with-Visual-Programming-and-Rapid-Draft-Prototyping---uist23-zhang-visar.pdf.png" data-mid="200062266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2c47119f91e5daf6b22cc9b318c0db326f49855acf0c44fd878993db130bcff/Screenshot-2023-12-24-at-16-55-06-VISAR-A-Human-AI-Argumentative-Writing-Assistant-with-Visual-Programming-and-Rapid-Draft-Prototyping---uist23-zhang-visar.pdf.png" />