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Jon Bath is a prominent scholar in digital humanities and book design at the University of Saskatchewan. He specializes in the intersection of visual arts, digital media, and textual objects, focusing on how design principles influence public engagement with scholarship. As a project leader, he co-founded the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) initiative and led the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS), which builds open cultural data systems.
His research emphasizes making academic work accessible through innovative digital tools, such as the Shared Spaces AR app that connects communities with art. Bath has overseen major cultural heritage projects like the Humanities and Fine Arts Digital Research Centre (DRC) from 2011 to 2019. His teaching spans art history, digital culture, and book studies, with courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Key research areas include feminist game design, interface design for digital reading devices, and the historical continuity of book design principles. Bath's work bridges academic and public spheres, advocating for open social scholarship that democratizes knowledge access.
