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Blogs written in the 2011 to 2014 phase of Soton DH

Media Archaeology

Jussi Parikka from sotonDH will be talking at the CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) seminar in Cambridge on 23 May 2012. The talk entitled "What is Media Archaeology?" will examine the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory. Media Archaeology opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. I am giving a talk at Cambridge uni in May, at CRASSH, crassh.cam.ac. Continue reading →

Leipzig eHumanities award

The Leipzig centre for eHumanities has recently announced a new award scheme: the eHumanities innovation award. The award aims to recognise "emerging researchers who have developed new automated methods for the analysis of Humanities content". The Leipzig team emphasises that they are not looking for scholars who applied existing methods to digital data, but instead want to uncover real methodological innovations that are useful for the Humanities. Continue reading →

New tricks for old masters

What’s the connection between fine art and digital technologies? The University’s Kirk Martinez has been telling me about his years of work with the world’s most famous art galleries such as the Uffizi, the National Gallery and the V&A. His quest has been to find ways of producing the best-possible images of artworks through sophisticated scanning technology. It all started in 1989 with the aptly-named VASARI project. Continue reading →

Thinking beyond the tool

At last year's Theoretical Archaeology Group a session titled 'Thinking beyond the tool' was held, chaired by the university's Costas Papadopoulos, Angeliki Chrysanthi and Patricia Murrieta Flores. The sessions aimed to move beyond simple archaeological applications of computational techniques and reflect on the theoretical implications involved. The themes covered included augmented reality, 3D reconstructions, photo-realism, social network analysis and databases. Continue reading →