We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund. The successful projects are: Congratulations to all of the recipients! The Arts Digital Research Seed Fund was launched in 2023 to support researchers across the Faculty of Arts to develop research projects and build capacity… Read More »Congratulations to the Arts Digital Research Seed Fund recipients 2024
The Arts Digital Lab is pleased to invite applications for the Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund. We have funding capacity in 2024 to support up to five research projects. The successful projects will receive the following support: The Faculty of Arts is providing this funding to support research… Read More »Arts Digital Research Seed Fund 2024
The Arts Digital Lab has outgrown our old space, so over the summer we packed up and moved downstairs to our new offices on level 3 of the James Logie building. We’re very excited about our new space, which is big enough to let us incorporate some of the ideas… Read More »We’ve moved!
Join us for a short talk by mapmaker David Garcia (he/they), in which he shares parts of his PhD thesis on digital geography together with reflections about his cartographic practice and critique over the past decade. In particular, the mapmaker will focus on map elements we take for granted –… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: Obsessing with Cartography
This has been a busy year for the Arts Digital Lab, with five Arts Digital Seed Fund projects underway in semester two alone. In total we’ve had 19 students working in the lab this year, either as RAs or working on their own projects. In this rapid-fire series of five-minute… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Student Reflections 2023
Sunday 15 October, 10 – 11 am As part of the Christchurch Heritage Festival 2023, join Our Stories Project for a guided audio walk of the central city, where you’ll hear stories from people who were in the city on 22 February 2011, when the 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck. There… Read More »Heritage Festival: Earthquake Stories Walk
You might notice things are looking a bit different around here. That’s because we’ve just launched an entirely new website for the UC Arts Digital Lab.
As well as giving our site a visual upgrade, we’ve rearranged some of the pages to hopefully make it easier for visitors to find out who we are and what we do, and for students to find out how to get involved in the Lab.
Find out how to avoid fake news and get the real deal before voting. Get up to speed with the latest developments in AI, social media and journalism with researchers from the University of Canterbury. Dr Zita Joyce (Head of Department of Media and Communication) and Professor Donald Matheson (Media… Read More »Election Special: Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous for Democracy?
Join us for a casual discussion of the paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 In Proceedings of the… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
The Arts Digital Lab is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund. With support from the Faculty of Arts, we have been able to extend the funding to support a further two projects. The successful projects are: Congratulations to all of the… Read More »Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund 2023
