My final essay is an essay about everything that I learned about in Digital Humanities. While writing about the last question, I mainly talked about eXistenZ and how augmented reality and avatars play a big role in the game. Along with eXistenZ, I also talked about how I think every video game made is a different way for one to write a piece of literature because I believe every game tells a story somehow or another.
Nick - Farewell Thoughts
This essay discusses the three things that scholars within the Digital Humanities work on. I reference works created by Kenneth Goldsmith, and discuss the principles of archival work by looking at The Digital Public Library of America. I continue on by discussing examples of convergence we looked at in class. With the final question, I composed a small essay focusing mainly on the topic of augmented reality. I thoroughly comb through Ingress, and the impact augmented reality has on exploration. My closing thoughts briefly touch on some additional examples of AR, and how they may impact the future.
Josh - Final Essay
Evan - Binary Trees: An Exploration of the Digital Humanities
This essay serves to respond to many facets of digital humanities, including creative endeavors, scholarly work, archival, convergence, and gaming. The final section presents an extensive discussion of video games and artificial intelligence. It begins with an analysis of personal investment in gaming, the emotional depth and decisions of consequence in modern games. It then delves into procedural generation and an application of AI to these concepts. Beyond that, I consider an optimistic view of artificial intelligence as well as the separation of human and machine.
