Tools for the presentation of digital humanities work: for a non-metaphorical approach to graphic interfaces

The intervention of u2p050 will reflect on the modes of presentation in videoconference of the results resulting from the digital humanities. Each voice, each statement is distinct and must be able to benefit from a specific tool, as a thought is transcribed with words that are specific to it. During the last session of the DHAI seminar, we collaborated with archaeologist Christophe Tuffery to produce an interface specific to his object of study: the impact of digital technology in the construction of archaeological knowledge.

The objective of our intervention will be to consider the possibilities of highlighting the contingency that presides over the use of one or another of the classic tools of the conference by showing the false neutrality that these media presuppose, and the need for a singular production of interface in the regime of continuous reinterpretation of data specific to the digital.

u2p050 will then propose a reflection on the metaphorical status of graphical interfaces in the face of the supposed literalness of textual interfaces (CLI): a guarantee of scientificity. Finally, from this analysis between the metaphorical and literal regimes of interfaces, u2p050 will consider a problematization of artificial intelligence starting from its primitive scene: the Turing article Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

u2p050 is a philosophical audio(s)/visual production machine-enterprise that explores the relations between conceptual thoughts and the digital materials that record, transform and broadcast them. Currently housed at the Gaité Lyrique, its experiments are at the crossroads of cinema, art, technology and philosophy.