Dr Rachael Kent, Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Culture of Department of Digital Humanities has launched a timely empirical research project exploring how people are using digital technology during COVID-19 lockdown and isolation. In particular, how it is shifting social interactions and health practices in everyday life. Rachael was recently a guest on The […]
Category archives: Projects
Contact Tracing Apps: Should we embrace Surveillance?
‘Media show up wherever we humans face the unmanageable mortality of our material existence,’ wrote the philosopher John Peters Durham five years ago not knowing that the Coronavirus Covid-19 would prove him right. Already at the beginning of February there was an app for assisting us in managing our mortality better, and as it usually […]
Call for PhD scholarship applications ‘Creative AI as a medium in artistic and curatorial practice’
We are excited to announce a PhD scholarship for research into creative AI in artistic and curatorial practice in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery funded by LAHP. We welcome applicants from the field of new media studies, art and gallery studies, science and technology studies, scholarship and professional practice in visual and media arts and […]
Curating expertise: Towards an Interdisciplinary Museums Studies Research Agenda at KCL
There has recently been much interest and attention within King’s College London to the field of museum studies. This is hardly surprising: the university sits within one of the richest and most diverse cultural cities in the world, surrounded by gems such as the British Museum, the National Gallery, the V&A, the Soane Museum and […]
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), […]
Project | Distant Reading across Languages (DRaL)
Supported by the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s College London, Distant Reading across Languages (DRaL) is a collaborative project between DDH and KDL with a interdisciplinary team, including experts from research software engineering, UI/UX design, computational linguistics, and literary studies. The objective of the project is to experiment with the methods of distant […]
Project | Reframing Art: Opening up Art Dealers’ Archives to Multi-Disciplinary Research
“Reframing Art: Opening up Art Dealers’ Archives to Multi-Disciplinary Research” is centred on a collaboration between the Department of Digital Humanities and King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London and the National Gallery, London, funded by the Cultural Institute at King’s. King’s lead researcher: Stuart Dunn Associated organisations: National Gallery, London, the Getty Foundation, King’s […]
Project | Technologically Fabricated Intimacy
Blending research-focused and performance-driven critique, the project addresses the implications of hyper-connectivity in intimate relations by looking at the mechanics of blockchain technologies applied to dating cultures. Dr Alessandro Gandini – academic lead Marija Bozinovska Jones – artistic lead Technologically Fabricated Intimacy – dating apps, gamification and blockchain technologies is a collaboration between King’s College London’s Department of […]
Project | Mobile Phones and Reproductive Health in Cambodia
A research project funded by the AHRC to foster collaboration between Public Health and Arts & Humanities. King’s and the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine are leading a group that includes researchers from SOAS and Marie Stopes International (MSI) Cambodia. The project looks at how workers in garment factories in Cambodia use mobile […]
Project | Our Data Ourselves
Our research project “Our Data Ourselves” was an AHRC-funded grant being undertaken at King’s College London in 2013-15, to broadly consider the personal data generate in the everyday lives of young people, through their mediated, cultural and communicative practices. Our aims are to increase our understanding of the nature and role of the data that […]