Recorded sessions from the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference, DHA2021 Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities, are now available to view on YouTube: See the full playlist here.
DHA2021: Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities, the biennial conference of the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities (aaDH), begins on Monday 22nd, hosted by the University of Canterbury. Professor Paul Millar, President of aaDH, says that the conference theme is a response to the extreme events our region has been experiencing—including… Read More »Distinguished All-Women Panel on Indigenous Data Sovereignty to open Australasian Digital Humanities Conference
When it comes to dancing, pulling a sled, climbing stairs or doing tricks, “Spot” is definitely a good dog. It can navigate the built environment and perform a range of tasks, clearly demonstrating its flexibility as a software and hardware platform for commercial use. Viral videos of Boston Dynamics’ robotic… Read More »Is ‘Spot’ a good dog? Why we’re right to worry about unleashing robot quadrupeds
Kia ora Koutou, As we mark the 10th anniversary of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated Ōtautahi Christchurch, we remember those who were lost, and send our deepest aroha to those who have suffered. Nine years ago on this day the Christchurch Press published an ‘In Memoriam Special Feature’ telling the… Read More »Remembering 22 February 2011
The talk that Jennifer Middendorf and Samuel Hope presented at the National Digital Forum in Wellington in November, titled “Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling”, is now available to view on YouTube. In the talk, Samuel and Jennifer discuss some of the ethical challenges faced by the Understanding Place… Read More »National Digital Forum 2019 presentation: Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling
On Tuesday the UC Arts Digital Lab, main office of the CEISMIC earthquake digital archive, hosted Hon Clare Curran, the current Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media, and Minister of Government Digital Services. The Minister was welcomed to campus by Vice Chancellor Rod Carr and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Arts… Read More »Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media visits the Lab
Our aim is to develop a tool that will allow individuals with personal, familial, cultural, or historical connections to the Residential Red Zone area to tell their story and to reflect on what this space means to them. Seven years on from the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes the future of Christchurch’s Flat Land Residential Red Zone… Read More »Understanding Place: Mapping Memories and Meaning in the Residential Red Zone
The UC Arts Digital Lab is excited to announce the launch of a new and improved UC QuakeStudies earthquake research repository. QuakeStudies, the University of Canterbury’s major contribution to the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, contains photographs, documents, videos, audio recordings, media articles, and other material relating to the 2010/2011… Read More »A New Look for UC QuakeStudies
Last Friday, staff and students involved in the Canterbury Roll project, along with a team from Nottingham Trent University here to do a scientific analysis on the Roll, met for a symposium to discuss progress so far and our next steps. We had some great presentations from the various people… Read More »The Canterbury Roll Symposium
At the National Digital Forum in Wellington last month, Jennifer, along with Jonathan Hunt from Catalyst IT, gave a presentation on progress with migrating QuakeStudies to the new Islandora platform:
