Sotondh, Author at Digital Humanities Digital Humanities Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:59:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 e-learning symposium 2013 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1272 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:12:01 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1272 LLAS, Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies will hold its 8th annual elearning symposium on 24/5thJanuary 2013. The aim of the symposium is to seek to bridge the gap between the ‘techie’ and the teacher, giving educators ideas to help them integrate elearning into their practice but also to inspire them to see where the online future could lead. The …

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]]> sotonDH small grants: Locative and geo-located audio: editing a place with sounds https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/small-grants/1228 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:02:45 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1228 After my presentation at UoS Creative Digifest2, Guy Stephens of Cap Gemini invited me to speak at their London offices: Monday 22nd October, presenting recent musical and academic research on virtual sound in real environments. Fantastic opportunity to discuss my musical and academic research with an audience at Cap Gemini yesterday, in their astonishing 8th floor “Accelerated Solutions Environment” – an entirely mobile arrangement …

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]]> sotonDH small grants: Painting the landscape itself. No, I mean really, actually painting it. Oh, and in sound. https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/small-grants/1226 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:47:50 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1226 If ever you decide to demonstrate your crazy, arcane research, the ideas you dream about and discuss with yourself, sometimes inadvertently aloud – then find you’ve accidentally instigated the biggest, most exciting and terrifying project of your life, don’t call me to complain. I will only laugh. I was working on how to motion-track listeners so they can walk inside …

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]]> sotonDH Small Grants: Painting a City with Sounds – An Audio Portrait of Southampton https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/small-grants/1219 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:40:51 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1219 Composing in the digital studio, I find objects from my surroundings to create virtual ʻinstrumentsʼ from urban and rural sources, machine and human. They are combined, transformed, augmented. Audio Portrait of a City is a an aural snapshot of a place in a time, the largest project of its kind anywhere. Using spoken word and field recordings, I am building …

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]]> SMiLE project featured on London School of Economics blog https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1051 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1051#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 15:38:41 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1051 The London School of Economics blog today features a post titled ‘If you don’t have social media, you are no one: How social media enriches conferences for some but risks isolating others’. It introduces some preliminary findings of the ‘Social Media in Supporting Live Events’ (SMiLE) project by sotonDH members Nicole Beale, Lisa Harris and their team. They extracted data …

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]]> https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1051/feed 1 sotonDH workshop: Thinking and working in digital 3D https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2122 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:44:52 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1045 This *free* workshop will provide an outline of the possibilities for incorporating digital 3D technologies into your working practice. The workshop will include an introduction to a variety of techniques but it will also help you to consider how these techniques can be practically implemented within your work.  The workshop will cover a range of techniques for the capture, modelling …

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]]> Collaborative working using open research data to create open educational resources for the humanities https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2121 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:40:21 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1041 This *free* local event is part of the Higher Education Academy Open Education Resources seminar series. The focus of this workshop will be to show the benefits of publishing research data openly, and to show how one set of data collected for a single discipline can be used in different ways to create Open Educational Resources with varied content across …

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]]> Media Archaeology https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1035 Sun, 13 May 2012 17:37:16 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1035 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 …

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]]> Leipzig eHumanities award https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1030 Sun, 06 May 2012 15:44:52 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1030 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 …

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]]> Archaeology Seminar: Mapping Medieval and Early Modern Spaces https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2120 Fri, 04 May 2012 12:56:26 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1023 The mapping of medieval and early modern landscapes can be informed by archaeology, surveys of standing features, written sources, and historic maps. Each resource can make unique contributions but, of course, is subject to a range of limitations. This paper draws on two completed research projects ‘Mapping the Medieval Urban Landscape: Edward I’s new towns of England and Wales’ (AHRC …

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]]> Restating the Value of the Humanities in Contemporary Contexts https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/1004 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:49:42 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1004 Today some of @sotonDH are at “Restating the Value of the Humanities in Contemporary Contexts” symposium hosted by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth. This live tweet post will be deleted after the event but there will be a storify linked from this post. //

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]]> Thinking beyond the tool https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/973 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:47:33 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=973 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. …

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]]> Global Futures lecture and seminar series https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/991 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:46:31 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=991 Here are the details of some upcoming speakers at Winchester School of Art in the the Global Futures lecture and seminar series. Global Futures Lectures Friday 04 May Victor Burgin 3-5pm Global Futures Seminars 25 April Michelle Teran 4.30pm 9 May Stephen Foster 4pm 15 May Alex Galloway 4pm 25 May Jodi Dean 4pm 6 June Pasi Valiaho 4pm Winchester Centre …

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]]> Digital Literacy Conference https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/986 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:17:47 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=986 The Centre for Innovation in Technology and Education is organising a Digital Literacy Conference on 14th June 2012, 10am – 4pm  at Wide Lane, Southampton Airport. This FREE event (#sotondiglit) is open to staff, students and visitors who want to know more about how the ways in which we teach and learn are changing. You can register here There will be ‘unkeynote’ …

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]]> An overview of The Connected Past https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/963 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:16:50 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=963 Over the weekend of 24-25 March 2012 a group of 150 archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and others from 19 different countries met at The University of Southampton. Their objective: to discuss the critical application of network and complexity perspectives to archaeology and history. The result: a stimulating and friendly gathering of academics from very diverse backgrounds who collectively …

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]]> Curriculum Innovation Programme modules for Digital Humanities students https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/931 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:28:05 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=931 A new Digital Humanities module administered by sotonDH will start in semester two of next academic year. The module can be taken in year one, two or three. The curriculum for this remains under development and will be the focus of workshops in the summer but the online version provides a sense of its structure and focus. The module will benefit …

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]]> #eSUSHI https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/920 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:29:50 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=920 The first #eSUSHI event hosted today in Southampton was a great success. Part one of a series of multi-disciplinary seminars: “Temporality and value at the intersection of arts and technology” It draws together a distinctive research programme from the University of Southampton and the University of Sussex’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (SUSHI for short) A draft storify of the …

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]]> Two Southampton articles in new Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks ebook https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/897 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:32:28 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=897 Leonardo (the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology) and MIT Press produced a new ebook that confirms the Arts and Humanities finally form a valuable part of the growing group of disciplines often associated with complex network research. The volume includes two contributions by researchers from The University of Southampton: the Google Ancient Places project is discussed by …

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]]> Archaeology Seminar: 3D Imaging for Archaeology using Structured Light Technology: Developments in Systems for Remote Areas, Hostile Environments, and Maritime Archaeology https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2118 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:13:57 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=892 Christopher Begley (Transylvania University and University of Kentucky Center for Virtual and Visual Environments) will be talking in the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the Avenue Campus on 3D Imaging for Archaeology using Structured Light Technology: Developments in Systems for Remote Areas, Hostile Environments, and Maritime Archaeology. Recent innovations in structured light scanning has allowed the development of a rugged, …

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]]> PhD Opportunities in Web Science https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/797 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:51:35 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=797 Offer: A fully funded 4-year MSc/PhD studentship – annual stipend £13,590.00 (tax free) and all fees paid (Equals a monthly pay of £1,130) Topic: Anything relevant to the Web, Social Networking, Semantic Web, e-commerce, e-learning etc. Relevance to Digital Humanities: We currently have two PhD students doing joint topics in Web Science, one looking at on-line communities and museology and …

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]]> The Big Digital Archaeology Digital Humanities Venn Diagram Show https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/788 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:18:27 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=788 I have written a storify describing “The Big Digital Archaeology Digital Humanities Venn Diagram Show” – a session at #caasoton designed to explore the interfaces between digital archaeology and digital humanities. This will be revised as more comments are received. I am not keeping an archive version of the original. Link View the story “The Big Digital Archaeology Digital Humanities …

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]]> SMiLE: Early Reflections and Next Steps #caasoton https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/782 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:28:00 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=782 There is a new post by Lisa Harris on the Digital Economy USRG site about the #caasoton SMiLE project. Keen to learn from SMiLE @nicoleebeale of burdens &affordances of Twitter@ #caasoton. Seems intellectually incredible, but what r the probs? — Sara Perry (@ArchaeologistSP) March 28, 2012 Link http://digitaleconomy.soton.ac.uk/blog/703

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]]> #caasoton finished https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/761 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:45:34 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=761 Tomorrow is the excursions day at #caasoton so the main conference has finished. It has been an extraordinary few days. Overwhelmingly the response to the conference has been very positive, and delegates seemed happy with the many different things we tried. From the videos to the website to the social media to the rather tasty selection of pastries :-) We have …

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]]> Fabulous student film crew SUSUtv are recording at #caasoton https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/757 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:41:15 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=757 You will recognise the SUSUtv guys from their lovely lime-green shirts!  For the CAA Conference which is running this week they are producing highlights packages of each day’s events, as well as, for example, more specific videos for the Day of Digital Humanities and Personal History conference themes. The team members are: Dom Kullander  (Film Studies) Jamie Chadd (Film and English) Alastair Mogford (Geography) Cassie Robinson (Anthropology) Lauren …

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]]> CAA2012 workshops https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/752 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:59:40 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=752 The first day of CAA2012 has been a great success. Lots of happy people at the workshops and lots of happy online chatter. The plenaries are about to begin and then its the opening reception, first at Highfield and then in the Old Town. Add your photos to our Flickr group:http://www.flickr.com/groups/1919041@N23 3 days, 8 streams, almost 50 topics, 200-300 talks, …

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]]> Maritime Digital Humanities https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/738 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:17:37 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=738 To mark the launch of the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute  on Tuesday we will be showcasing a range of sotonDH Maritime Digital Humanities projects. We have converted one of the multitouch systems installed around the University to show a series of interactive demos. These include: 3d chirp Acoustic characteristics of archaeological wooden material in marine environment Acoustic methods in …

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]]> Connected Pasts over https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/730 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:00:36 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=730 The Connected Pasts symposium has universally been acclaimed as a fantastic success. Many congratulations to the organisers. Lots of activity in the twittersphere via #connectedpast #connectedpast Afternoon session on Personal Political & Migration networks starts with marriage network of Europes ruling families — John Layt (@odysseus_nz) March 25, 2012 Impressed by diversity and scope of #connectedpast papers. Excellent atmosphere for …

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]]> sotonDH Lunch https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2116 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2116#respond Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:45:31 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1001 We will be holding a @sotonDH lunch between 1 and 2pm on Wednesday 25th April in room 1097. Come along to talk about future DH projects and teaching.

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]]> https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/dh-events/2116/feed 0 Networking The Connected Past https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/643 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:19:30 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=643 You can now explore how well networked everyone at The Connected Past symposium is! The Connected Past will take place in Southampton this weekend. I made a network using the registration and abstract submission data. The nodes represent delegates and authors (orange), linked to their institution (green), country (purple) and the paper or poster they will be presenting. You can zoom in …

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]]> Computationally Intensive Imaging https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/blog/639 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:42:35 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=639 I gave a talk on humanities imaging interests at the Computationally Intensive Imaging USRG meeting today. We discussed possibilities for supercomputing based visualisation, and the new e-infrastructure south consortium. We also talked about the results from various Humanities trials of the mu-Vis Centre’s CT facilities, and some photographic imaging such as RTI. The group also includes expertise in computer vision and …

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