Sussex Humanities Lab (UoS)

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The Sussex Humanities Lab investigates the interactions between technology, culture, society and environment toward sustainable & just futures for all.
#VisibleWikiWomen Lab hosted by Whose Knowledge
FREE ONLINE event https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/events?id=66672
“The whole endeavor of collecting images, categorizing them, and labeling them is itself a form of politics, filled with questions about who gets to decide what images mean and what kinds of social and political work those representations perform” - Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, Excavating AI. The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
#VisibleWikiWomen Lab hosted by Whose Knowledge

#VisibleWikiWomen campaign, has brought images of black, brown, trans, queer, Indigenous, & non-binary folks to Wikimedia, to decolonize Wikipedia.

The University of Sussex
SHL Digital Co-Director Dr. Sharon Webb discusses the problem of historical, societal bias in code & data sets used to develop AI. Sharon explains the need to change research cultures, environments & practices in tech. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/news?id=66308
Digital Pioneers: Recoding our Future

SHL Digital has taken part in ‘Digital Pioneers: Recoding our Future’, a documentary series created for BCS The Chartered Institute for IT.

The University of Sussex
Another great FREE seminar from SHL Digital this autumn - Mechanical Slavery: Freedom, Subjection, Automation. Monday 25 November, 2-3:30pm. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/events?id=65745
Mechanical Slavery: Freedom, Subjection, Automation

In the decades following the invention of the electronic digital computing machine, slavery was used with remarkable frequency...

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SHL seed funding symposium 2024 - hybrid event - 6 exciting projects

• Connecting with Local Food Systems
• Socio-Tech AI Applications in China & UK
• Embodied AI Performance
• Loneliness chatbot
• Electronic believers
• Mothers uncovered

info & tickets https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/events?id=64315
#digital humanities
#creative practice

Sussex Digital Humanities Lab seed funding symposium 2024 - hybrid event

Come to hear about the ongoing work of the six seed-funded projects from SHL 2024 call. Presentations, Q&A, and panel discussion. In person or online.

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A lack of vision for a sustainable future is a barrier to achieving one. So how do we come up with an informed & inspiring vision? On 9 June Chris Sandom & Jo Walton UoS & artist Daniel Locke plan to stay up for 24hrs to draw a comic that will envision a more sustainable future. bit.ly/3wpUosh
Festival of Ideas: Bird Bath Installation - Sun 5 - Sun 12 May 2024, St Peter's Church, Preston Park. Open to the public and filled with spring bird song recorded in local nature reserves and recovery sites. https://brightonfestival.org/whats-on/KoT-festival-of-ideas-bird-bath-installation/
Festival of Ideas: Bird Bath Installation - Brighton Festival

Created by meditator and broadcaster Alistair Appleton (Mindsprings) and musician and ecoacoustician Alice Eldridge (University of Sussex).Bird Bath transforms beautiful buildings into restorative spaces by inviting you to pause, rest and ‘bathe’ in t

Brighton Festival
How can artists help us shift our perceptions and support the conservation of our shared natural heritage, for our own health & wellbeing?
SHL & ONCA welcome Daisy Stewart-Darling as artist in residence 2024 to explore Multispecies Flourishing
https://thelivingcoast.org.uk/artist-residency-2024
The Living Coast Artist Residency 2024 - The Living Coast

The Living Coast artist residency

The Living Coast
SHL Digital newsletter out today mailchi.mp/645dda179d16...

DIY Signal Processing: Distortion workshop in flow today.

Adam & Alex lead students to build a simple distortion circuit. This hands-on workshop will develop students' DIY soldering skills & explore the differing musical character of components & how they transform a signal. All SHL events here: bit.ly/4c6ad7g