SHL - Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

A message from our director Dr Sharon Webb. University of Sussex, School of Media, Arts and Humanities; University of Sussex; Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP); Sussex AI; #impossibleuntildone #digitalhumanities #sussexresearch

We’ve just announced this year’s call for applications to our Sussex AI PhD studentships at the University of Sussex! You can find all the details https://lnkd.in/edSQNp5F. This year we’ve included a few suggested project directions to give some inspirations https://lnkd.in/e8UEKxHu. Please share with your contacts! Deadline is 19th February. Email me and/or DSAI_administration@sussex.ac.uk if you have any questions about the process.

An interview with our lab manager, Elena Dennison, Research Programmes Manager for the University of Sussex, School of Media, Arts and Humanities. Elena talks about her role and work with researchers, challenges and future plans for the lab, and the power of a good biscuit. https://lnkd.in/eEC4gvrr #impossibleuntildone #sussexresearch #digitalhumanities #universityofsussex Sussex AI; Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP); University of Sussex

I wonder if I know any SMEs in the creative industries and/or tech that might want to collaborate on an application to this Innovate UK BridgeAI competition? https://lnkd.in/eVqqTWM2 Got a couple ideas #AI #sustainableAI #creativeindustries

Listen to SHL - Sussex Digital Humanities Lab core member M. Beatrice Fazi on the Disintegrator podcast. This episode dives deep into the concept of computation as an autonomous form of thought and creation, that is nevertheless contingent, i.e. not independent from the material conditions of the world. Listen now, and enjoy!

A new article on the notion of synthetic media, culture, artificial intelligence and what I call The Inversion. What happens when the culture we experience and the forms of life that are predicated on this cultural context are no longer produced purely by human labour but become overwhelmed by the production of synthetic media from AI systems?

You are all invited to our next Research Forum, Monday 2 December at 2pm. Join in person, or on zoom - register for a link! Our Research Forum is a space for researchers to meet and share ideas and interests. At each forum we welcome three or more speakers to share work at different stages of development. On Monday 2nd December we will hear from : Ian Winter, The Domestic Light Project (https://domesticlight.art/). This  is a multi-year project that explores the nature of our relationship to the character of light, home, and the passage of time – through the collection of a year+ l data time-lapse of spectral colour of light in homes worldwide. Ian is interested in discussion and observations about the creation and collection of the colour data at the heart of the project, and whether peer to peer artistic and cultural networks can facilitate new possibilities of observation of our environment and the exploration of expanded temporalities through data timelapse. Daniel Millum, AI and the Tricontinental Revolution: applying Machine Learning and Minimal Computing approaches to Global South library collections. This work is based on one of our collections at University of Sussex, the Tricontinental bulletin produced in Cuba by OSPAAL which was particularly influential in the 1960s and 1970s. The project aims to apply Computational and Machine Learning (ML) techniques based on the principles of Minimal Computing to the digitised Tricontinental texts. Jo Lindsay Walton, Digital Sustainability 2024. This was an umbrella initiative for three projects, funded by Innovate UK, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)/Future Observatory, and University of Sussex, School of Media, Arts and Humanities AHRC IAA. Together these projects introduced arts and humanities methodologies, including storytelling and play, into the complex and rapidly evolving field of digital sustainability. Highlights included the report The Cloud and the Climate: Navigating AI-Powered Futures, the launch of Climate Acuity and the Digital Sustainability Game (https://climateacuity.org/), and our work with industry partners including Greenly | Certified B Corp and Greenpixie. We'll reflect on these activities and think about next steps. All welcome, registration is necessary: https://lnkd.in/e39smWrp Sussex AI; Sussex Nature Sense; Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)

Thank you for your feedback! The Cloud and the Climate: Navigating AI-Powered Futures report is available in our blog: https://lnkd.in/eEAvwFgt University of Sussex; Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP): University of Sussex, School of Media, Arts and Humanities

Funding opportunity to develop partnerships and activities that contribute towards increasing diversity and inclusion in the NERC community. Your project will test and pilot methods to showcase a diverse range of people and skills to inspire those who have potential to be part of the future talent pipeline in environmental science. This opportunity is open to individuals at any career stage. We particularly encourage applications from individuals from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds who do not usually apply to or receive NERC funding. Different research disciplines, from social scientists and technicians to physical and data scientists, bring unique skills and perspectives that, when combined, can lead to more innovative and sustainable environmental solutions. 📅 Join our webinar on 22 January to ask questions and learn more. Register: https://lnkd.in/exFVxenB Opportunity closes on 1 April 2025. For more information and to apply: https://lnkd.in/eMJkmuaB

If you are in the UK and want to learn how to build, develop and foster communities around #openhardware, join this webinar, where we will be detailing the Open Hardware Makers training course! (Designed with a large community and in collab with Alexander Kutschera and Julieta Arancio, PhD). This training course is an online program, where participants are paired with a mentor that will support them through learning best practices on Open Hardware Development. #openscience #openresearch University of Sussex