Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA) is a hub for knowledge exchange, fostering collaboration, and cultivating a community of Arts researchers engaged in digital scholarship. We are here to support you in your research and connect you to the most relevant and innovative resources.
We are a collaborative initiative started by the Public Humanities Hub, Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology and the UBC Library Research Commons focused on Faculty of Arts research and scholarship using digital methods.
What is digital arts scholarship?
Highly interdisciplinary and ever-expanding; digital scholarship encompasses research activities that use computational and multimodal approaches to expand methods of research inquiry, scholarship and dissemination.
At DiSA, we imagine digital arts scholarship broadly and acknowledge the collaborative potential between Arts disciplines, traditional and emerging technologies, and digital life. Digital scholarship in the arts is not just new media but new methodology. It challenges existing models of dissemination, authorship, audiences and knowledge mobilization.
Expanding modes of research, facilitated through critical engagement with and beyond digital tools and infrastructure, can illuminate new questions to be asked, new scales of study, and new configurations of what it means to be human.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).