A new report investigating the potential of Public AI and its importance for artists and cultural institutions is now available for free to download and to read online. The AI stack Studying Public AI, the report lays out the various layers of the AI stack from, data to the AI models and other software components to …
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All Mapped Out: A new book about maps and digital mapping transitions
Today Reaktion Books published All Mapped Out, by Mike Duggan All Mapped Out is a unique approach to maps, exploring how they have shaped society and culture. Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. …
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Latest activity from the ERC SAMCOM Project
Greetings readers. On behalf of the ERC SAMCOM project (grant no. 947867), I’d like to take the opportunity to share some of the work we have been doing over the past year. We are a team of anthropologists in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL, who are currently investigating the moral complexities of digital …
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Call for Applications: Funded (LAHP) KCL & The National Archives Collaborative PhD Project
A fully funded PhD position is now available at King’s College London on the project “‘Lost for words’: semantic search in the Find Case Law service of The National Archives”, a Collaborative Doctoral Award received by King’s College London in collaboration with The National Archives and funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP). …
Call for Papers: The Infrastructures of Socio-Ecological Knowing in the City
Abstract Deadline: 14th December 2023 We invite you to our workshop on ‘the infrastructures of socio-ecological knowing in the city’ that will take place on the 11thJanuary 2024, at King’s College London. The output of this workshop will be proposed as a special issue, which will be submitted in late Spring of 2024. Contributors to the workshop …
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Outsmarted? A creative methods toolkit for developing collective intelligence around the ‘digital city’
Dr Giota Alevizou and Dr Mike Duggan Student experience in a digital city UK universities are an increasingly popular choice for international students, especially those seeking to experience life in multicultural, diverse centres indeed global cities such as London. Nonetheless, getting used to life in large diverse urban settings is not without its challenges. Several studies have reported …
New article: ‘Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports’
A new article on how perceptions of risk (Beck, Giddens) impact public attitudes towards vaccination passports, authored by DDH professor, Btihaj Ajana, and Elena Engstler, Anas Ismail & Marina Kousta. Link to article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/05390184231182056 Abstract: In response to the global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, many countries around the world have rushed to develop …
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 …
Workshop: Sculpting Time with Computers
Researchers from leading laboratories in cultural informatics come together to discuss the past, present, and future, of computational moving images.
Seminar: Forgotten knights and unseen sailors • 13 June 2023
Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 13 June 2023 3pm BST (remote) Folgert Karsdorp (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam) and Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Forgotten knights, unseen sailors, and unapprehended criminals: applying unseen species models to the survival of culture Abstract Researchers of the past — whether historians, …
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