La chaire Altissia est une initiative académique soutenue par la société Altissia, qui vise à sensibiliser largement les membres de la Faculté FIAL à l’influence du numérique sur nos disciplines, nos métiers et plus largement sur la société. De nombreux cours en FIAL et de nombreuses recherches prennent déjà en compte cette évolution, mais la Chaire Altissia aura pour but de fédérer ces initiatives et de proposer de nouvelles actions, sous l’égide d’un professeur spécialisé dans ce domaine et recruté pour cette mission.
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Chris Tanasescu a été recruté pour prendre en charge ce projet facultaire interdisciplinaire. Chris est diplômé en anglais, en mathématiques et en informatique. En 2010-2011, il a été boursier postdoctoral principal Fulbright et professeur invité à la San Diego State University (États-Unis). En 2012-13, il était professeur invité à l’Université Paris X.
En 2013-19, Chris était professeur auxiliaire à l’École de génie et d’informatique de l’Université d’Ottawa. Il a été chercheur principal dans le cadre d’une subvention de deux ans du CRSH portant sur un projet intitulé «Poetry Computational Graphs (The Graph Poem Initiative)» (http: / /artsites.uottawa.ca/margento/fr/the-graph-poem/). Il a participé également à une subvention stratégique de 3 ans du CRSNG intitulée «Technologies de l’information et de la communication / Des données à la connaissance, en passant à l’action» (chercheuse principale: la Professeure Diana Inkpen).
Chris est également un poète et interprète (connu sous le nom de MARGENTO) de renommée internationale qui utilise les technologies numériques (https://twitter.com/GraphPoem), les approches intermedia et cross-artform (https://bit.ly/2Xzdk4p). En 2016, il a été nommé coordonnateur de l’infrastructure pour sciences numériques à la Faculté des arts de l’Université d’Ottawa et, en 2018, coordonnateur des sciences humaines numériques.
Ses principaux domaines de recherche et d’enseignement sont les sciences humaines numériques, la poésie informatique, le traitement du langage naturel, les applications de la théorie des graphes, les nouveaux médias et la polymédiation, l’analyse de texte, l’analyse littéraire informatique, les études littéraires numériques, l’analyse de corpus, l’apprentissage automatique, la poésie numérique et post-numérique.
Publications récentes
Numéro spécial de revue académique :
Chris Tanasescu (ed.). 2021. Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties, Vol. 25, special issue on « Literature and/as (the) Digital.
Chapitre du livre:
Raluca Tanasescu, Chris Tanasescu (Margento). 2019. “Translator Networks of Networks in Digital Space. The Case of Asymptote Journal” in Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies. Methodological Considerations, Edited By Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts. New York: Routledge. https://bit.ly/2KNZPq5
Articles:
Chris Tanasescu (Margento), Diana Inkpen, Vaibhav Kesarwani, Prasadith Kirinde Gamaarachchige. 2020. « A-poetic Technology. #GraphPoem and the Social Function of Computational Performance. » DH Benelux Journal, issue 002, https://bit.ly/3a4HB0C
Chris Tanasescu, Vaibhav Kesarwani, Diana Inkpen. 2018. “Metaphor Detection by Deep Learning and the Place of Poetic Metaphor in Digital Humanities” in AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Publications, The Thirty-First International Flairs Conference, Florida. https://bit.ly/2P5LV6M
Livres:
MARGENTO, Steve Rushton, and Taner Murat. 2021. Various Wanted. An almost missing original and five–literary, computational, and visual–translations. Iasi & London: Timpul. https://bit.ly/3yBSGyV.
MARGENTO. 2018. “US” Poets Foreign Poets. A Computationally Assembled Anthology. Ottawa & Bucharest: FrACTalia. https://bit.ly/2MxcS2n; https://bit.ly/2HSWJSg
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The Altissia Chair is an academic initiative supported by the Altissia company, which aims to raise the awareness of members of the FIAL Faculty to the influence of digital technology on our disciplines, our professions and more broadly on society. Many FIAL courses and many researches already take into account this evolution, yet the Chair Altissia will aim to federate these initiatives and to propose new actions, under the aegis of a professor specialized in this field and recruited for this mission.
Chris Tanasescu has been recruited to take charge of this interdisciplinary faculty project. Chris holds degrees in English and Mathematics and Computer Science. In 2010-2011 he was a Senior Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor at San Diego State University (USA). In 2012-13 he was Visiting Professor at Université Paris X.
In 2013-19 Chris was Adjunct Professor in the University of Ottawa’s School of Engineering and Computer Science, working as a principal investigator through a 2-year SSHRC grant on a project titled “Poetry Computational Graphs (The Graph Poem Initiative)” (http://artsites.uottawa.ca/margento/en/the-graph-poem/). He was also involved in a 3-year NSERC Strategic Grant titled “Information and Communications Technologies / From Data to Knowledge to Action” (principal investigator: prof. Diana Inkpen).
Chris is also an internationally awarded poet and performer (aka MARGENTO) employing digital technologies (https://twitter.com/GraphPoem), intermedia, and cross-artform approaches (https://bit.ly/2Xzdk4p). In 2016 he was appointed Coordinator of Digital Humanities Resources with University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Arts, and in 2018 Coordinator of Digital Humanities.
His main research and teaching interests are digital humanities, computational poetry, natural language processing, graph theory applications, new media and polymediation, text analysis, computational literary analysis, digital literary studies, corpus analysis, machine learning, digital and postdigital poetry and poetics.
Recent publications:
Journal Special Issue:
Chris Tanasescu (ed.). 2021. Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties, Vol. 25, special issue on « Literature and/as (the) Digital.
Book chapter:
Raluca Tanasescu, Chris Tanasescu (Margento). 2019. “Translator Networks of Networks in Digital Space. The Case of Asymptote Journal” in Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies. Methodological Considerations, Edited By Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts. New York: Routledge. https://bit.ly/2KNZPq5
Articles:
Chris Tanasescu (Margento), Diana Inkpen, Vaibhav Kesarwani, Prasadith Kirinde Gamaarachchige. 2020. « A-poetic Technology. #GraphPoem and the Social Function of Computational Performance. » DH Benelux Journal, issue 002, https://bit.ly/3a4HB0C
Chris Tanasescu, Vaibhav Kesarwani, Diana Inkpen. 2018. “Metaphor Detection by Deep Learning and the Place of Poetic Metaphor in Digital Humanities” in AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Publications, The Thirty-First International Flairs Conference, Florida. https://bit.ly/2P5LV6M
Books:
MARGENTO, Steve Rushton, and Taner Murat. 2021. Various Wanted. An almost missing original and five–literary, computational, and visual–translations. Iasi & London: Timpul. https://bit.ly/3yBSGyV.
MARGENTO. 2018. “US” Poets Foreign Poets. A Computationally Assembled Anthology. Ottawa & Bucharest: FrACTalia. https://bit.ly/2MxcS2n; https://bit.ly/2HSWJSg