Arguing Through Archival Objects:
A Z-Axis Method for 3-D-Printed Interpretation



Alex Christie, with the INKE-MVP Research Team

MLA 2015


Following along at axchristie.github.io/mla-zaxis

@axchristie

A map of the British empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch settlements adjacent thereto

Care of the Library of Congress

Distribution of AIDS in the US in 1988
by Peter Gould

Care of GEOG 482at Penn State

Z-axis Map

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Care of Lombrail-Teucquam

SUR CERTAINES POSSIBILITÉS D’EMBELLISSEMENT IRRATIONNEL D’UNE VILLE
(12 mars 1933)
Questions :
Doit-on conserver, déplacer, modifier, transformer ou supprimer : – 1. L’arc de Triomphe – 2. L’obélisque – 3. La Tour Eiffel – 4. La Tour Saint-Jacques – 5. La statue de Chappe – 6. La statue de Gambetta – 7. La statue de Jeanne-d’Arc (rue de Rivoli ) – 8. Paris pendant la guerre – 9. La Défense de Paris en 1870 – 10. La République (place de la République) – 11. La colonne Vendôme – 12. Le Sacré-Cœur – 13. Le Trocadéro – 14. Le Chevalier de la Barre – 15. Le Lion de Belfort – 16. L’Opéra – 17. Les Invalides – 18. Le Palais de Justice – 19. La Sainte-Chapelle – 20. Le Chabanais – 21. Notre-Dame – 22. La Nationale – 23. La statue de Panhard – 24. La statue d’Alfred de Musset – 25. La statue de Clémenceau – 26. Le Panthéon – 27. La statue d’Henri IV – 28. La statue de Victor Hugo (Palais-Royal) – 29. La statue de Louis XIV – 30. La gare de l’Est- – 31. La statue de Camille Desmoulins ?

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Next steps: Towards a z-axis tool

Next steps: Animated maps

Thank You

Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE)

The Modernist Versions Project (MVP)

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL)

The Maker Lab in the Humanities

University of Victoria Special Collections

The Newberry Library

Z-Axis Team

Adèle Barclay, Alex Christie, Stephen Ross, Jentery Sayers, Katie Tanigawa. Special thanks to Belaid Moa (Compute Canada).