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    1. A meeting space for disciplines, students, researchers, technologies, languages, media, teachers. People exploring and working with technology and meaning making
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    3. HUMlab Creates Places for Unexpected Coincidences Meetings are Important for Understanding new Techniques and Technologies
    4. The meaningful artifacts have differences from traditional media While at the same time requiring established interpretive and critical approaches
    5. A (Concise) History of HUMlab
      • 1994-96: Humanities Faculty appoints and runs a Multimedia Group
      • 1997: Concept for HUMlab is formulated and finance is sought from
      • Kempe Foundation with two million crowns granted.
      • 1998: Steering group is formed. Faculty Board grants financing.
      • 1999: Patrik Svensson appointed Deputy Director. Seminars begin.
      • 2000: HUMlab made a permanent working unit. Director Torbjörn
      • Johansson takes up a position at the Interactive Institute ‘Tools
      • for Creativity’. Patrik Svensson made Director. Fifteen seminars
      • are held in 12 months. The Language Lab is established.
      • 2001: Finance from Kempe Foundation and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
      • granted for total 7,5 million crowns. HUMlab Phase II begins. Seven
      • or eight staff and the first national conference for the lab
      • held on technology and language learning.
      • 2002: HUMlab Seminar Series begins with 18 seminars during the year.
      • The first workshops are held; History Laboratories and Digital
      • Culture. Numerous projects are run; Virtual Theater, Computer
      • Games and Players, Planning begins on a Masters Program.
      • 2003: Humanities and Information Technology established as a priority research
      • area by the Humanities Faculty. Two doctoral researchers appointed with
      • dual affiliation, a model for research in HUMlab. An expansion of technology
      • and the beginning of HUMlab themes
      • 2004: Jokkmokk 2004 mobile blog project. More seminars and workshops. Two
      • new doctoral students begin with funding from Wallenberg Foundation.
      • 2005: Planning of five point course ‘IT for Humanists’ begins. The HUMlab blog
      • begins publishing. Several projects develop with the GIS project at Sävar
      • historic village being one. Funding from EU is sought with a number of
      • applications submitted. HUMlab is described as the “ starkast och
      • synligast i sitt slag i Norden” in a national and international evaluation
      • commissioned by the Humanities Faculty. Two large international
      • conferences are held and a symposium on data mining. A book is
      • published from one of the conferences on language learning and IT.
      • One more doctoral candidate begins work in HUMlab.
      • 2006: Significant funding granted from Wallenberg Foundation, Kempe
      • Foundation, Umeå University and Humanities Faculty. A physical
      • expansion of HUMlab begins and five international post-doctoral
      • fellowships are announced. The 2 year EU project “Query and context
      • based visualization of time-spatial cultural dynamics” (QVIZ) is led by
      • HUMlab. A blog opera project is begun with Kulturverket. The five point
      • course IT for Humanists is taught with high evaluations.
      • 2007: Work begins on HUMlab II a doubling in the physical space of the lab and
      • a significant expansion of technology. Five post-doc fellows begin their
      • work in HUMlab. The staff of HUMlab is now around 20 people.
    6. The HUMlab Concept Laboratory Studio Meeting Place Archive Classroom Theater Work Place Broadcaster Resource Model Gallery
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    10. Sense and Technology Should Not be Taken for Granted
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    12. Blogging in Minus 30 degrees Celsius
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    19. Steina Vasulka, founder of New York art space ‘The Kitchen’ performs in HUMlab
    20. An Experimental Dialogue Between The Sámi and Pygmy Peoples
    21. Interaction Design
    22. HUMlab is working in the 3D Online World ‘Second Life’ You are Welcome to Join Us
    23. Postdoctoral fellowships in Digital Humanities at HUMlab Jan Van Looy
    24. Jeanne Lopiparo
    25. Matt Ratto
    26. Torill Mortensen
    27. Peter Asaro
    28. Qviz ‘ Qviz’ will research and create framework for visualizing and querying archival resources by a time-space interface based on maps and emergent knowledge structures. The framework will integrate social software, such as wikis, in order To utilize knowledge in existing and new communities of practice.
    29. Blog Opera
    30. The Future
    31. Creative Arts Campus
    32. Doctoral appointment in Humanities and Information Technology with Focus Upon Gender Studies. From 1 January 2008
    33. Masters Program
    34. Links
      • HUMlab YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/HUMlab
      • HUMlab Blog http://blog.humlab.umu.se/
      • HUMlab Streams http://www.humlab.umu.se/inspeladeseminarier
      • Papers and Essays http://www.humlab.umu.se/node/13
      • Jokkmokk 2004 Blog project http://blog.humlab.umu.se/jokkmokk2004/
      • HUMlab in Second Life http:// blog.humlab.umu.se/?p =532
      Jim Barrett jim.barrett[at]humlab.umu.se http://www.soulsphincter.blogspot.com

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