1 Aug 2016

Rediscovering the Human in the Digital

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  5CollDH Undergraduate Fellow and Amherst College student Carl “Ott” Lindstrom has audience on the brain. His fellowship project is a multimedia Scalar exhibition tracking the changing relationship of the spectator with the media object from classic film to interactive video games to the immersive future of virtual reality. This is Ott’s third post of three; you can click through to read the first and second installments, or read an interview with Ott conducted by Jeffrey Moro. I never took the … Read More

1 Aug 2016

On Finishing a Thesis

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  5CollDH Undergraduate Fellow and Amherst College student Carl “Ott” Lindstrom has audience on the brain. His fellowship project is a multimedia Scalar exhibition tracking the changing relationship of the spectator with the media object from classic film to interactive video games to the immersive future of virtual reality. This is Ott’s second post of three; you can click through to read the first and third installments, or read an interview with Ott conducted by Jeffrey Moro.   I’m not a parent, … Read More

25 Mar 2016

Open World Writing

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  5CollDH Undergraduate Fellow and Amherst College student Carl “Ott” Lindstrom has audience on the brain. His fellowship project is a multimedia Scalar exhibition tracking the changing relationship of the spectator with the media object from classic film to interactive video games to the immersive future of virtual reality. This is Ott’s first post of three; you can click through to read the second and third installments, or read an interview with Ott conducted by Jeffrey Moro.    “Write of the … Read More

10 Feb 2016

Exploring Videogames and Virtual Reality with 5CollDH Student Fellow Carl “Ott” Lindstrom

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Over the next few months, we’re running interviews with 5CollDH Student Fellows to learn more about their projects and research process. We continue our series with Carl “Ott” Lindstrom, a senior English and Film and Media Studies major at Amherst College. What is your 5CollDH project about?My as-yet-unnamed project charts the changing subject/object relationship between the spectator and the media object through three key evolutions in visual media: cinematic film, video games and virtual reality. I heavily focus on the use … Read More