King’s Engaged Research Awards for collaborative project to develop arts-, research- and community-based responses to anti-Asian racism

A collaboration led by researchers at DDH and CMCI to develop arts-, research- and community-based responses to anti-Asian racism has been recognised with a King’s Engaged Research Award in the Local Collaborations category: I, Human: Becoming Visible (IHBV) was a collaborative, creative project organised by King’s College London; City, University of London and Moongate Productions, working with …

AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda

A paper on “AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda” has just been published by Department of Digital Humanities PhD researcher Tommy Shane. The paper is open access and can be found here and the abstract is copied below. Against a backdrop of widespread interest in how publics can participate in …

Article on COVID-19 testing situations on Twitter published in Social Media + Society

King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) researchers have contributed to a new collaborative article on “Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods” which has just been published in Social Media + Society. The article is co-authored by Noortje Marres (CIM Warwick), Gabriele Colombo (DensityDesign Lab Milan, former King’s DDH), Liliana …

New Research Project: Art x Public AI

Art x Public AI is a new research project by the Creative AI Lab, a collaboration between the Serpentine (a public arts org in London) and the Department of Digital Humanities, KCL. The lab focuses on developing research and prototypes that further artistic experimentation with AI. Our aim is to expand the conversations around AI …

Professor Stuart Dunn’s Inaugural Lecture at King’s College London

On 20th June 2023, Stuart Dunn of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London delivered his Professorial Inaugural Lecture, The Spatial Humanities: A Challenge to the All-Knowing Map, which explored: What are Spatial Humanities, and why does King’s have a Professor dedicated to them? In 1946 Jorge Luis Borges published a short story …

Dr Kate Devlin leads £5m UKRI research project to explore responsible and trustworthy AI

King’s College London have been awarded £5m in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to support a collaborative project led by Dr Kate Devlin from the Department of Digital Humanities and involving Dr Caitlin Bentley and Professor Sana Khareghani (Department of Informatics), and Professor Prokar Dasgupta (Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology and the Department …

DDH researchers at King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence

DDH researchers are contributing to several public talks and events as part of the The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence (Bringing the Human to the Artificial, King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence). The festival brings together speakers, exhibits, performances, demos, and screenings in an exciting programme of events from 24th-28th May 2023. The events are open …

King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities: Shannon Mattern on “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus”

Last night we hosted Shannon Mattern for a talk on “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus”, as part of a new series of King’s Public Lectures in Digital Humanities. Here’s the video of the livestream. Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus At a time of increasing artificial intelligence and proliferating conspiracy, faith in ubiquitous data …

DDH researchers contribute to “AI: Who’s Looking After Me?” exhibition and events at Science Gallery London

Department of Digital Humanities researchers Mark Coté and Kate Devlin have contributed to a new programme of public activities with Science Gallery London. AI: Who’s Looking After Me?, (presented in collaboration with FutureEverything) is a free exhibition and public events programme, running from 21 June 2023 to 20 January 2024. AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ …

Seminar: placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning • 23 May 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 23 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Thea Sommerschield (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Restoring, dating and placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning: the Ithaca project Abstract Ithaca is the first deep neural network for the textual restoration, geographical attribution and chronological attribution of ancient Greek inscriptions. …