My Relationship with Digital Arts & Humanities

I began my journey in this minor as I realized my budding interest in bridging the gap between cognitive science and my love for art, design and performance. In two years, it has culminated in a plethora of projects related to psychology, design, theater, storytelling and mapping that all share a fond appreciation and curiosity for digital tools and knowledge-making. 

Digital Arts and Humanities became a space where the quantitative methods I was learning like data collection, sorting and visualization, could engage with qualitative methods of art, theoretical evaluation and narrative building to create an interdisciplinary way of understanding the world. 

To explore my journey through this portfolio, I categorized my work into three threads of Digital Humanities inquiry that best apply to the intersection of my interests with that of the field. 'Design Thinking' highlights my projects that have a big artistic component to them.  'Digital Scholarship 'is a culmination of my projects that use digital tools to engage with critical inquiry within Cognitive Science. 'Mapping & Storytelling' showcases a few of my projects that use mapping as a way of narrative building about a given topic. It is an ode to one of my favorite skills I picked up by being in this minor.