ABSTRACT

The Faculty of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) at Bowdoin College proposes a critical, analytical framework, referred to as the ‘4As,’ as an interdisciplinary means to interpret, evaluate, and create the data, operations, and devices of computing across all domains of knowledge production. Following other disciplines that have developed in symbiotic relationships to one another, DCS puts computation in conversation with fields from across the arts, humanities, physical, and social sciences. Our foundational premise is the bidirectional influence between these disciplines and digital artifacts and computation. The 4As (artifact, architecture, abstraction, and agency) benefit from both the scepticism of the liberal arts in the face of ubiquitous digital processes and the analytical opening for examining questions pertaining to creative and imaginative alternatives to the digital and computational status quo. We provide an ultra-contemporary case study to demonstrate the framework in use.

摘要

鲍登学院数字与计算研究学院 (DCS) 提出了一个关键的分析框架，称为“4A”，作为跨学科的手段来解释、评估和创建跨所有领域的数据、操作和计算设备。知识生产领域。继其他学科以共生关系发展起来之后，DCS 将计算与来自艺术、人文、物理和社会科学的各个领域进行对话。我们的基本前提是这些学科与数字工件和计算之间的双向影响。4As（人工制品、架构、抽象、现状。我们提供了一个超现代的案例研究来展示正在使用的框架。