Desiderium – What Stood Here is an augmented reality land art installation combining a physical artefact, practical lighting, and a real-time 3D AR environment to visualise a representation of one of New Zealand’s least-known environmental atrocities, the loss of 99% of the ngãhere/forest in Banks Peninsula. The installation, which will… Read More »Desiderium to premiere at Auckland Doc Edge Festival
Monday 15 June, 10 – 11 am.
Jesse Pilcher
Human research ethics committees (HRECs) are under pressure. Growing submission volumes mean delays that affect researchers, participants, and the institution.
In this presentation, Jesse will discuss the progress the project team has made towards building a pilot pre-screening tool, and the challenges they have met along the way.
“Desiderium – What Stood Here: Exploring immersive documentary practice through 3DGS and land art” is an augmented reality land art installation combining a physical artefact, practical lighting, and a real-time 3D AR environment to visualise a representation of one of New Zealand’s least-known environmental atrocities, the loss of 99% of the ngāhere|forest in Banks Peninsula.
Elizabeth Stewart
Wednesday 29 April, 1-2 pm
How does crowd-sourced fact-checking differ from professional fact-checking? In this qualitative analysis of Community Notes and corresponding posts from X (formerly Twitter), we identify the kinds of claims that note-writers address, the problems that they identify with those claims, the justifications for the verdicts they reach, and the sources they draw on to support these claims.
Congratulations to Dorian Ghosh, who graduated today with their Masters in Teaching and Learning with Distinction. Dorian first joined the ADL team as a Research Alongsider in 2021, while they were still an undergrad. Since then they’ve returned to the Lab many times, working on projects as varied as finding… Read More »Congratulations Dorian!
Wednesday 1 April, 10-11 am, Puaka-James Hight 224
UC researchers have access to Overton’s index of policy documents, which consists of over 23 million documents from governments, NGOs, IGOs, think tanks, and other relevant sources across 193 countries. Overton provides the ability to access rich document meta-data, including citation information, and the potential to work with this programmatically. This presents an opportunity for new research on policy-making, who is involved, what they are saying, and how they evidence this.
The Arts Digital Lab is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund.
Congratulations to all of the project leads!
Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University)
Friday 20 March, 1-3 pm
Jack Erskine 240
This workshop will reflect on metadata frameworks for historical periodicals and working with digitised image/text corpora.
Thursday 19 March, 11 am – 12 noon
Puaka James Hight 210
Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University)
In the short story, “Uncle Anthony’s Blunder,” a gentleman approaches a young lady whose back is turned to him. From behind, she is dressed in fine clothing with hands covered by gloves. Before waiting for her to turn around, the older man, Antony Nesfield, blurts out a proposal of marriage, however, when she turns around, he discovers that she’s Jamaican and Black – a case of mistaken identity. The engraving and following short story appear on page 231 of a 343-page duodecimo volume, published in the 1833 Forget Me Not, a literary annual title that first appeared in 1823 and lead the revolution in combining the almanac, women’s conduct manuals, and emblem books.
Monday 9 February
The Arts Digital Lab invites you to join us for this celebration of Digital Research in the Faculty of Arts, at which recipients of the 2025 Arts Digital Seed Fund will present on their research.
