Eunice Esomonu is one of five Digital Humanities undergraduate fellows from the 2015-2016 academic year. At the time of her year-long fellowship project, Eunice was a Senior at Mount Holyoke College.
Read more in Eunice’s blog posts:
Esomonu on Young Guru's work with digital installation technologies in hip hop @5collDH
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016
Esomonu on limit of sound working w arduino, instead goes back to own homemade turntable + hist of sampling @5collDH pic.twitter.com/aVGDwHRa1x
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016
Discussing issues with producing and using and building new techs to explore hip-hop @5collDH and #digitalhumanities pic.twitter.com/TMiWYv8BgQ
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016
Thank you for bringing your interests to the table: We <3 your use of hiphop to refine #DH questions & approaches! https://t.co/T21wDniTA6
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) May 2, 2016
Beats, Rhymes, Tech:
The Intersection of Art, Technology, and Hip Hop
Eunice’s project consists of four public art installations that use the elements of hip hop culture: Turntablism/DJing, Graffiti Art, Breaking, and Rapping. She used these installations to gain perspective in interactive multimedia production expressed through performances and installation.
In Eunice’s words:
Eunice Esomonu's @5collDH fellows show on #digitalhumanities + hiphop ⇢ today @mtholyoke! https://t.co/bWEyXG4J1I pic.twitter.com/JHvJ7LVCW5
— Five College BL/DH (@5collBLDH) March 28, 2016
Now Esomonu on mining data that constitutes @kanyewest's Life of Pablo. Sampling as data. @5collDH
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016
Now using data visualization to think about graffiti and ownership and space @5collDH. Excellent example of using #dh tools to ask new ?s
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016
Esomonu third hiphop principle she's explored is breaking, and thinking about e-motion and full body engagement using @kinect. @5collDH
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016
Esomonu thinking how visualization permeates hip-hop, so this kind of #digitalhumanities work feels germane to her inquiry. @5collDH
— Marisa Parham (@amplify285) April 30, 2016