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
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
At next week’s meetup, Karin Stahel and Kaspar Middendorf will be reporting back on a recent trip they took to the USA, where they visited three different Digital Humanities programmes, at CUNY’s Graduate Center, University of Connecticut’s Greenhouse Studios, and George Mason’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: DH Labs in the USA
Computational approaches to language modeling and translation, an active area of research for more than 75 years, have hit the mainstream. Writers, teachers, and readers have been encountering writing evaluators in wide deployment since the late 1990s, machine translation made readily available since the mid-2000s, procedurally generated text adventures since… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Language Models and Reading Across Stories
More people are getting their stories through screens that respond to their curiosity and interests, and more and more these stories speak back to social issues, or even kickstart social movements. We invite you to an interactive creative storytelling workshop for making storygames driven by choices the reader makes. Enter… Read More »Workshop: How to Write an Interactive Storygame
ChatGPT is currently at the forefront of much debate about the impact of AI in education. We are therefore running a workshop next Wednesday 8 Feb at 3 – 4.30pm in Logie 613 to test ChatGPT’s capabilities and discuss its implications for teaching and assessment. The first part of the… Read More »Workshop: ChatGPT, teaching and assessment
This summer has been a busy one in the Arts Digital Lab, with eight students working in the Lab as Research Assistants, as Summer Scholars or on their own research. In this rapid-fire series of five-minute talks, students will reflect on the projects they’ve been working on. Coming from a… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Student Reflections, Summer 2023
