We are delighted to announce that Kat Braybrooke will be joining us as a visiting researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. During her stay she will be exploring collaborations and building on her doctoral research looking at “makerspaces” in cultural institutions. More about her research interests can be found in her bio (below) […]
Category archives: DDH Activities
Project | Creative AI: Neural Networks at the Gallery
Contemporary art institutions, much like cultural heritage museums around the world, face a process of deep transformation through digitalisation, except that for contemporary art institutions such a process ventures into the material foundations of the artworks themselves: digital technology has become a creative medium for artists, while most recently, Artificial Intelligence, especially machine learning (ML), […]
Free workshop: “€uro-Vision: Monstrification between Extraction and Border”
Dr Btihaj Ajana, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities, is involved in an upcoming workshop on “”€uro-Vision: Monstrification between Extraction and Border”. The workshop is free and open to all, supported by Arts Catalyst, a nonprofit contemporary arts organisation that commissions and produces trans-disciplinary art and research. Their goal is to “activate new […]
Department of Digital Humanities supports open source Raw Graphs visualisation tool 📊🎨
We’re happy to announce that the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London is supporting the free and open source RAWGraphs tool as a “gold sponsor”. Described as the “missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization”, RAWGraphs was initiated at the award-winning DensityDesign Lab in Milan, and is widely used by a wide variety […]
Welcome to new Lecturers at the Department of Digital Humanities! ✨
A warm welcome to our new Lecturers who have joined the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London this semester. We are pleased to welcome five Lecturers and three Academic Education Pathway (AEP) Lecturers: Sophie Bishop (Lecturer) Liliana Bounegru (Lecturer) Peter Chonka (Lecturer) Ashwin Mathews (Lecturer) Feng Zhu (Lecturer) Samuel Moore (AEP Lecturer) Daniel Nemenyi (AEP Lecturer) Photini […]
Slides from “Happy Packet Switching: 50 Years of Internet”, 6th November 2019
To commemorate the Internet’s 50th birthday, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London recently hosted an event on “Happy Packet Switching: 50 Years of Internet” with a series of short talks from researchers in the department. You can now find all of the slides here: https://kingsddh.gitlab.io/happy-packet-switching/ Video: The History of ARPANET Dr Stuart […]
New book: Digital Food Cultures, edited by Deborah Lupton and Zeena Feldman (London: Routledge)
A new book on Digital Food Cultures, edited by Deborah Lupton (Professor at UNSW Sydney) and Zeena Feldman (Lecturer in Digital Culture at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London) is now available for pre-order. It also contains a chapter from Rachael Kent, who is a teaching fellow at the department. Here’s the blurb: […]
EVENT | Happy Packet Switching! 06.11.19
Reflections on 50 years of Internet On October 29, 1969 the first packets of the Internet were sent. To commemorate the Internet’s 50th birthday, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London presents a series of reflections on the occasion, held in PechaKucha style, followed by a drinks reception – please join us! Date: […]
Welcome to Nathaniel Tkacz, visiting researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities
We are delighted to announce that Nathaniel Tkacz will be joining us as a visiting researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. During his stay he will be focusing on writing his book about dashboard interfaces, including discussing and workshopping different chapters with colleagues in the department. More about his research […]
INTERNSHIP | A project in King’s Digital Lab
By Natasha Romanova, MA in Digital Humanities 2019 Coming to the Master’s in Digital Humanities in 2017 as a mature student with some previous experience of working in academia, I was attracted by the reputation of Digital Humanities at King’s. I was particularly interested in King’s Digital Lab (KDL) and was hoping to find […]