Cambridge Digital Humanities Online Open Lectures
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Neural Vision Models as Models of Visual Culture: Digital Art History and Bias in AI
Dr Leonardo Impett (University of Cambridge)
Online: Wednesday, 4 May, 2022; 15:30 to 17:00
This paper will try to address the specifically visual component of “bias” in computer vision. Following Ted Underwood’s work on large language models, Leo will try to understand computer vision models as models of visual culture, looking at their use in both art-historical research and smartphone photography.
Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neural-vision-models-as-models-of-visual-culture-tickets-309737602507
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Radical Secrecy; Radical Transparency
Dr Clare Birchall (King's College London)
Online: Tuesday, 10 May, 2022; 15:30 to 17:00
In this talk, Clare Birchall will build on some of the ideas explored in her book, Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America. In an era of data surveillance and individualising calls to monitor open government data, is it salient to rely on transparency as a social panacea? How might transparency serve agendas that are far from transparent? Can we imagine a secrecy that could act in the service of, rather than against, a progressive politics?
Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-secrecy-radical-transparency-tickets-310465248917
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Visualizing Computational Literary Criticism
Simone Abbiati (University of Bergamo, University of Cambridge) and Dr Ryan Heuser (University of Cambridge)
Online: Tuesday, 17 May, 2022; 15:30 to 17:00
Starting from Minkowski's spatio-temporal representation, we will discuss the usefulness of visualising different interpretive steps involved in CLC to re-evaluate their importance and diversity. Regardless of the (literary) theory of reference, the talk investigates the possibility of finding shared conceptual steps that different DH communities around the world present when using digital tools on literary works.
Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualizing-computational-literary-criticism-tickets-324720316207
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Digital Investigations: Towards a Transformative Practice
Dr Irving Huerta (University of Cambridge)
Online: Tuesday, 24 May, 2022; 15:30 to 17:00
Based on a framework originally proposed for the practice of investigative journalism, this lecture will present some of the main challenges of undertaking investigations in the digital age, and in opposition to them, alternatives to produce a transformative practice that truly serves the public interest.
Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-investigations-towards-a-transformative-practice-tickets-310531918327
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