Digital Transformations MOOT 19 November 2012

A GUIDE TO THE DAY Foreword – Professor Tim Hitchcock

The digital and the online have quite simply changed and where new conversations can take place. It will how arts and humanities practitioners work, and the be a success if participants come away, not just better “The digital and the online have AHRC is committed to supporting that change. informed, but better able to cross and re-cross that awkward boundary between the technical and the quite simply changed how arts and This Moot, this event, represents one small space where humanist; the humanist and the technical. humanities practitioners work, and the transformations implied by these developments will the AHRC is committed to supporting actually occur. It is a fragment of the Council’s programme Professor Tim Hitchcock that change. This Moot, this event, of funding and activities under its Digital Transformations theme, and reflects the AHRC’s commitment to supporting Chair, Digital Transformations Advisory Group represents one small space where the research community in its conversation between the the transformations implied by these shockingly new, the universal and the timeless. developments will actually occur. ” The AHRC has already made some eighteen Research Development Awards under the broad umbrella of PROFESSOR TIM HITCHCOCK the theme, covering everything from the electronic PROFESSOR OF EIGHTEENTHŒCENTURY HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE; COŒDIRECTOR OF THE OLD BAILEY ONLINE AND CHAIR OF representations of dance to the creation of a common THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS THEME ADVISORY GROUP internet archive for 1948 Palestine. Working in a responsive mode with the Arts and Humanities community, the Research Development Awards have helped us map out the wide and open landscape of innovation that already exists. And following on from these awards, the Council will make a small number of larger awards in support of projects that both reflect that diverse landscape of innovation, and which can deliver on the ‘transformations’ element of the theme’s title. Over the next few years the Council hopes to support a series of projects that fundamentally shift the boundaries of debate and normalise the roles of the digital and the new, that can ‘transform’ how we think about the Arts and Humanities. This Moot sits at the pivot between these two programmes of activity, defining a space where the wild and wonderful developments supported through the Research Development Awards can be showcased,

2 IIntroductionntroduction – Professor Andrew Prescott

When I first saw the World Wide Web at the British technology without falling prey to techno-utopianism. Library in 1994, I knew that everything I had been We hope that the Moot will create fresh conjunctions “We hope that the Moot will create doing as a scholar and a librarian was about to be and connections: that historians will see how digital fresh conjunctions and connections: utterly transformed. artworks and robotics might offer new dimensions for their research; that literary scholars will see how spatial that historians will see how digital Since that time, we have seen profound changes in the techniques might transform their reading; that digital environment of arts and humanities research. Great though artworks and robotics might offer artists will find new possibilities in historical and literary these changes have been, we have barely begun to grasp new dimensions for their research; materials, that philosophers can engage with the roots the potential of digital technologies to foster and stimulate of technological invention and probe new dimensions of that literary scholars will see how radically new types of scholarship and artistic practice. knowledge itself. spatial techniques might transform Some possible lines of future development are beginning their reading; that digital artists will to become apparent, in areas such as data visualization, I feel very privileged to have been appointed as the AHRC’s spatial representation, ‘distant reading’ and digital Theme Leadership Fellow for the Digital Transformations find new possibilities in historical and annotation, while digital artists are restating our view of theme. My hopes for the fellowship are very simple but literary materials, that philosophers the relationship between materials, creator and audience, perhaps impossibly optimistic. I want completely new can engage with the roots of but we are still at the earliest stages of our exploration types of scholarship and artistic practice to emerge as a of the potential of these new technologies. We used to result of the AHRC’s exploration of this theme. To achieve technological invention and probe think that it would be possible to deal with the digital by this aim, it will be necessary to make cross-connections new dimensions of knowledge itself.” applying a few key precepts and adhering to good project across disciplines, research communities and sectors, management, but the extraordinary range and complexity and I see the fostering of such links as a central role of PROFESSOR ANDREW PRESCOTT of digital transformations are becoming daily more evident, the Theme Leadership Fellow. As part of my work, I will AHRC LEADERSHIP FELLOW FOR THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION THEME reminding us that there is ‘no one size fits all’ approach be working with the AHRC to arrange various events, to the digital and digitisation. Digital transformations are of which the Moot is the first. I trust it will be a very pluralistic, complex and frequently paradoxical. successful curtain raiser to our programme of work over the next three years. The purpose of this Moot is to encourage researchers of all types to engage with this diversity and to foster hands- on practical involvement with emerging technological Professor Andrew Prescott possibilities. We also seek to encourage researchers to AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Digital question and investigate the nature and scope of the Transformation Theme transformations with which we are engaged. In the past, it has been necessary to act as evangelists for digital technologies in the face of suspicion and hostility from many scholars and artists. Now, a more pressing need is to develop a critical approach which engages with the 3 A word from the AHRC – Professor Mark Llewellyn

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) invests supported under the Digital Transformations theme around £100 million each year in the highest quality but places that into a much broader cultural, creative “Research and research processes research taking place across some 50 disciplines, from and technological context. It comes at a particularly change the way we think about postgraduate degrees through to large, multidisciplinary opportune moment from the AHRC’s point of view. We the world. Sometimes that change grants. Key to our capability in supporting the most have recently appointed Professor Andrew Prescott as innovative, creative and imaginative engagements Theme Leadership Fellow and we are in the process of is incredibly rapid, fundamentally with culture and the world around us is the AHRC’s engaging with researchers on the development of larger shifting our established perspectives engagement with researchers in setting priorities and scale research grants under this theme that will respond, and challenging us in dynamic and thematic approaches to funding. In 2009 the Future over their funding lifetime, to challenges that may not Directions for Arts and Humanities Research: A Consultation even be anticipated at this point. fluid ways to reassess continually allowed a rich assessment of the current research On behalf of the AHRC, I’d like to welcome you to the Moot how we research and the focus of our landscape. From that consultation emerged four broad and also encourage you to contribute to the intellectual research themes which the AHRC has been scoping over work. Nowhere is this more apparent challenges under this theme in whatever way (and through the last few years through developmental funding, advice than in the area of the digital.” whatever means, digital or otherwise) you can. from researchers and users of research, and a gradual refinement of the intellectual agendas featuring under PROFESSOR MARK LLEWELLYN Professor Mark Llewellyn DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL each theme. Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council Research and research processes change the way we think about the world. Sometimes that change is incredibly rapid, fundamentally shifting our established perspectives and challenging us in dynamic and fluid ways to reassess continually how we research and the focus of our work. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the area of the digital: be it technology, resources, ways of developing, using and exploiting data, the new challenges and opportunities provided by digital thinking, or even the delivery of research itself. Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities is about engaging, analysing and enriching the multiplex ways in which the shifting, adapting and invigorating role of the digital generates truly transformational approaches to how the arts and humanities operate. This Moot showcases the diverse research we’ve already 4 Digital Transformations

Digital Transformations aims to exploit the potential Probing these research issues will engage a broad range of digital technologies to transform research in the of partners in creative and cultural industries e.g. theatre “Arts and humanities research ... arts and humanities, and to ensure that arts and companies, national institutions, galleries, publishing, law, Will be crucial to understanding the humanities research is at the forefront of tackling and media companies. crucial issues such as intellectual property, cultural potential, scope, limits, and impacts The results of research into digital transformations will memory and identity, and communication and be of significant benefit to individuals, policy makers, of digital technologies.” creativity in a digital age. business, cultural organisations, and researchers. Innovation, creativity, and public interest in the arts and humanities has been at the forefront of the development of the digital age. At the same time digital innovation, the on-line revolution, the potential for an ‘infinite archive’, and associated changes to the way both people and organisations interact are opening up new opportunities and challenges for arts and humanities research. There is huge potential to develop new ways of working to enhance access and creativity, but the digital age also raises complex questions of responsibility, identity, privacy, and data security that need to be addressed. Engineers, computer scientists, and developers are providing the infrastructure for these changes but innovation within the arts and humanities will be essential to exploiting their potential to transform methods of organising, interpreting, and using knowledge. Arts and humanities research perspectives on issues such as forms of knowledge and perception, modes of reproduction and dissemination, and the ways in which Translation Arrays: Version Variation Visualization. Image: Stephan Thiel society as a whole communicates and uses knowledge will be crucial to understanding the potential, scope, limits, and impacts of digital technologies.

5 The event

A ‘moot’ is an Old English term for a and not a lecture and because this moot is “We hope that this event will meeting to discuss important matters. about making serendipitous discoveries and give rise to new ideas, challenge In the next year the internet will carry connections, there is no formal programme, preconceptions and suggest new more information than has previously and what follows is a simple description of the ways of seeing and connecting.” been created by humanity in its entire spaces and themes that we hope will shape history. It deserves a moot! participants’ experience of the day. The discussion will range from the new opportunities offered for visualising, analysing and exploring the arts and humanities; to emerging forms of artistic and scholarly expression; and the question of how we transform scholarship using this deluge of data and technology? These are the issues at the heart of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s strategic theme of ‘Digital Transformations’. We hope that this event will give rise to new ideas, challenge preconceptions and suggest new ways of seeing and connecting. It will let you play with data and new materials, to witness remarkable technologies in action, to ask questions, meet new people and make fresh connections. It will provide space for you to make and break; to hack and yack. Because a moot is a discussion 6 Mezzanine and Corridors – Registration from 9.30am (continues throughout day). Programme Lunch available from 12.30 – 14.00. Informal networking spaces available throughout day. Bar open from 16.00 – 18.30.

TIME MOOT HALL AUDITORIUM TIME HACK & MAKING SPACES YACK SPACE TIME QUEENHITHE SUITE NEWGATE SUITE & UPPER RIVER ROOM BILLINGSGATE SUITE 10.00 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME 10.00 10.00

10.15 • Keynote Address 10.15 10.15 Digital Affordances: what digital technology does and doesn’t do. Professor John Naughton 10.30 (Acting President, Wolfson College, University 10.30 10.30 of Cambridge). 10.45 • Being Transformed Contributors share digital 10.45 10.45 artefacts that epitomise the idea of digital transformations. Professor Andrew Prescott (King’s College London) with Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool), Professor David Gauntlett (University of Westminster), 11.00 Pamela Mason (AHRC), Dr Torsten Reimer (JISC), 11.00 11.00 Professor Michael Wilson (University College Falmouth), Christie Walker (AHRC). 11.15 11.15 11.15

11.30 • Live Notation: a notational interaction 11.30 HACK & MAKING SPACE • Seeing a Storm of Data compered by Dr 11.30 between a live artist and a live coder Curated by Bronac Ferran shows Melissa Terras (University College London) 11.45 With Hester Reeve (Sheffield Hallam • The Second Bomb: Curation and Destruction 11.45 diverse digital transformations with Professor Howard Hotson (University 11.45 University) and Alex McLean (University in the Digital Age among artists, libraries, museums and of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hughes of Leeds). Panel chaired by Professor Charlie Gere humanities hackers. It is devised to (University of Wales), Dr Philip Brohan (Lancaster University) with Katrina Sluis entertain, amuse, demo, encourage (Met Office). (The Photographers’ Gallery), Prof Sally Jane hands-on learning, stimulate and 12.00 Norman (University of Sussex), Douglas Dodds 12.00 create sparks for future research. OPEN YACK 12.00 (Victoria & Albert Museum), Simon Tanner 12.15 (King’s College London). 12.15 12.15

12.30 12.30 • Working and Moving compered by 12.30 Professor David Gauntlett (University of Westminster) with Dr Ernesto Priego (University College London), Dr Sarah- 12.45 12.45 Louise Quinnell (Kings College London), 12.45 Professor Sophia Lycouris (University of Edinburgh).

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7 Mezzanine and Corridors – Registration from 9.30am (continues throughout day). Programme Lunch available from 12.30 – 14.00. Informal networking spaces available throughout day. Bar open from 16.00 – 18.30.

TIME MOOT HALL AUDITORIUM TIME HACK & MAKING SPACES YACK SPACE TIME QUEENHITHE SUITE NEWGATE SUITE & UPPER RIVER ROOM BILLINGSGATE SUITE

13.30 • The Transformation of Audiences, 13.30 13.30 Ownership and Access 13.45 13.45 13.45 Panel chaired by Professor Charlotte Waelde (University of Exeter) with 14.00 14.00 • Knowing Your Place in a World 14.00 Professor Martin Kretschmer (Bournemouth of Big Data with Professor Tim University), Dr Smita Kheria (University 14.15 14.15 ORAL HISTORIES Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire), 14.15 of Edinburgh), Professor David Gauntlett Dr Julianne Nyhan (University College Professor Ian Gregory (Lancaster (University of Westminster), James London) will be recording interviews University), Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou Wallbank (Lowtech), Professor David Garcia throughout the day as part of the (University of Hull), Jon Pengelly (Robert (University of the Arts, London). ‘Hidden Histories: Computing and the Gordon University). Humanities c.1949–1980’ project. 14.30 14.30 14.30 OPEN YACK 14.45 14.45 14.45

15.00 • The Digital Transformations Debate 15.00 • A View from the Edge compered by 15.00 Opened by Professor David De Roure Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of (University of Oxford). Panel chaired Hertfordshire) with Adam Farquahar by Professor Andrew Prescott with (British Library), Bill Thompson (BBC). 15.15 Dr David Berry (University of Swansea), 15.15 15.15 Professor Clare Squires (University of OPEN YACK Stirling), Dr Jahnavi Phalkey (King’s College 15.30 London) and Dr Sarah Cook (University 15.30 15.30 of Sunderland). 15.45 15.45 15.45

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16.15 • The Gloves’ demo and Q&A with Imogen 16.15 16.15 Heap and team. 16.30 16.30 16.30

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8 What’s happening where

In the HACK SPACE The MAKING SPACE “The discussion will range from (Newgate Suite & Upper River Room) (Newgate Suite & Upper River Room) the new opportunities offered for ...you can try out new technologies and methods, play ...offers more extended introductions to some of the major with data, ask about new techniques and talk to a wide methods which are reshaping the arts and humanities. visualising, analysing and exploring variety of people with different digital perspectives and There will be the opportunity to: enthusiasms. Among the activities you will find will be the arts and humanities; to emerging • learn how the Arduino interactive prototyping platform opportunities to: forms of artistic and scholarly can be used to create new types of electronic objects; expression; and the question of how • work with experts to explore different ways in which you • find out how you can reconceive the teapot; can mash up, visualise and mine data (bring your own on • explore the world of open data and open humanities; we transform scholarship using this a USB stick, CD, DVD or online, and we can play with it); • see 3D fabrication in action and explore digital making; deluge of data and technology?” • explore new imaging technologies such as Reflection Transformation Imaging; • and play with conductive inks. • witness digital art works which question issues of This is not an event for talking heads, but there will materiality, corporeality, audience and authorship; be outstanding speakers in the Auditorium and • experiment with mapping and Geographic Queenhithe suite. Information Systems; John Naughton, Acting President of Wolfson College • interrogate intersections between big data, Cambridge, Professor of the Public Understanding of visualisation and art; Technology at the Open University and a columnist • play with tools for creating maps and timelines, for The Observer will be giving a keynote lecture at the geocoding data and annotating web resources; beginning of the day entitled ‘Digital Affordances: what digital technology does and doesn’t do’. David de Roure • experience 3D archaeological reconstructions; of the Oxford e-Research Centre will be speaking about • and get your hands on linked and open data. current digital transformations, followed by a panel In the YACK SPACE (Billingsgate Suite) discussion chaired by Andrew Prescott (King’s College London). Charlie Gere (Lancaster University) will be ...you will have an opportunity to join in discussions chairing a panel discussion around curation and the digital about how these methods are used, for example to create and a session entitled ‘Transformations of audiences, visualisations of historic weather conditions or analyse ownership and access’ will be chaired by Charlotte Waelde landscapes. There will also be a presentation by the British (University of Exeter). Library announcing new initiatives.

9 A plan of the venue

First Floor Upper

HACK & MAKING SPACERiver Room Bishopsgate

Aldgate Billingsgate

YACK MOOT Newgate SPACE HALL Queenhithe ORAL HISTORY HACK & Ludgate MAKING SPACE

Lower First Floor/ River Room Newgate Suite

NETWORKING, FOOD & REFRESHMENTS

Mezzanine

AUDITORIUM

Auditorium entrance

Loading area

Bar

Ramped access Ladies toilet to auditorium Glass disabled River Rooms lift with Entrance and access to reception with lifts Male toilet Mezzanine

Disabled toilet RECEPTION & REGISTRATION Ground Floor Cloakroom

10 Main Entrance Speakers

Professor John Naughton Professor Martin Kretschmer Dr Smita Kheria James Wallbank John Naughton is: Martin Kretschmer Smita is a Lecturer in CEO of Access Space • Vice-President (and is Professor of Intellectual Property Network, for more currently Acting Intellectual Property Law at the School of than a decade James President) of Wolfson Law and Director of Law, University of has developed and led College, Cambridge. CREATe (the RCUK Edinburgh. Her research action research Centre for Copyright interests include exploring the impacts • Emeritus Professor and New Business applicability of of creative digital of the Public Models in the Creative empirical research, engagement on Understanding of Economy) at the particularly socio-legal personal development Technology at the University of Glasgow (www.create.ac.uk). methodologies in addressing questions on and community regeneration. He has an Open University. From 2000-2012, he was Director of the copyright law and policy as to new types of MA in Art & Design and is a self-taught • The Observer’s Internet columnist. Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & creative content and exploring connections LPIC1 Engineer. James has worked with • A well-known blogger (memex. Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth between Intellectual property law and new partners locally and internationally, to naughtons.org). University (www.cippm.org.uk). Martin forms of property and culture through seed community digital engagement • An engineer. says: “My stock in trade is the empirical perspectives of creators and users. Her projects. He has consolidated Access Space • An investor in technology start-ups. analysis of intellectual property law. I am previous research projects include a Network’s research profile, working on also interested in the genealogy of the qualitative empirical study on the projects with Oxford E-Research Centre, • A photographer. norms governing an information society perspectives of digital artists on the Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield • A Principal Investigator (with Sir Richard (www.copyrighthistory.org).” interaction of copyright law with their day University’s IRiS (Interdisciplinary Research Evans and Dr David Runciman) on a to day creative practice and a collaborative in Socio-Digital Worlds) Centre. James is Martin was educated at Freie Universität five-year Leverhulme-funded project on project exploring perspectives and experienced in working with diverse Berlin, London School of Economics Conspiracy and Democracy at CRASSH, experience of members of open source groups, including young people, adults in (LLM) and University College London University of Cambridge. creative communities on, amongst others danger of social and economic exclusion, (PhD). During the 1990s, he was German • An author. A Brief History of the Future, issues, copyright and authorship. artists, designers, people with disabilities, Consultant Editor at BBC Worldwide. his book on the origins of the Internet, professionals and technical experts. He is a has become a standard on reading frequent presenter at research lists worldwide. His latest book – From conferences, universities and digital media Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you festivals and delivers technical training for really need to know about the Internet – enterprises and community organisations. published in January by Quercus Books.

11 Speakers

Professor David Garcia Professor Charlie Gere Katrina Sluis Professor Sally Jane Norman Previously Professor of Charlie Gere is Katrina Sluis is an Sally Jane Norman is Design for Digital Cultures, Professor of Media artist, writer and a cultural theorist and research program based at Theory and History in educator. She practitioner whose Hoogschool voor de Kunst the Lancaster Institute balances her present transdisciplinary Utrecht & University of for Contemporary post as Curator research addresses art Portsmouth, Professor David Arts, Lancaster (Digital Programme) and technology, Garcia is now Dean of the University. He is the at The Photographers’ theatre and Graduate School -Chelsea, author of Digital Gallery with her role performance. Camberwell and Wimbledon Culture (2002/2008), as Senior Lecturer at Professor of (CCW), University of the Arts London. Art, Time and Technology (2006), Non- London South Bank University where she Performance Technologies and Director relational Aesthetics, with Michael Corris has taught since 2003. Prior to this, she of the Attenborough Centre for the In 1983 he co-founded Time Based Arts, which (2009), and Community without taught at the University of New South Creative Arts at the University of Sussex went on to become one of the premier venues Community in Digital Culture (2012)as well Wales and freelanced in IT & Systems since 2010, she was previously founding for international media arts in the Netherlands. as co-editor of White Heat Cold Technology Administration. Her writing has been director of Culture Lab, an From this basis he went on to develop a series (2009), and Art Practice in a Digital Culture featured in journals including interdisciplinary digital research hub at of high profile international media arts events (2010), as well as many papers on Photographies, Philosophy of Photography Newcastle University. To promote artistic the most significant being The Next 5 Minutes questions of technology, media and art. In and ArteEast. She is presently working on use of digital resources and the socially (94-2003) a series of international conferences 2007 he co-curated Feedback, a major contributions to The Photographic Image vital role of “creative extremophiles” and exhibitions on electronic communications exhibition of new media art at Laboral in in Digital Culture (2nd ed) and The (Bec), Sally Jane’s work has involved EU and political culture. Recently (since 2006 as part Northern Spain, and was co-curator of Blackwell Companion to Photography. IST Framework programmes, UK of the Digital Cultures program) he initiatedU (n) FutureEverybody, the 2012 e-science initiatives, and “ek-stitutions” common Ground a research program consisting FutureEverything exhibition, in Manchester. (Schneider) including the Studio for of structured expert meetings and publications, Electro-Instrumental Music and Sonic investigating the new role of art and design as Acts in Amsterdam. a catalyst for collaboration across sectors and disciplines. In 2007 he edited and contributed to the Book (Un)common Ground, Creative Encounters Across Sectors and Disciplines, which was launched in Spring 2007 at the Enter Festival, Cambridge. In 2008 co-founded the Tactical Media Files on-line archive and resource connecting new forms of social production based on networks to the rise of new social movements.

12 Speakers

Douglas Dodds Simon Tanner Professor Charles Forsdick Professor David De Roure Douglas Dodds is a Simon Tanner is the Professor Charles David De Roure Senior Curator in the Director of Digital Forsdick was appointed is Professor of V&A’s Word & Image Consultancy and James Barrow e-Research at Department, which Deputy Head for the Professor of French at Oxford, Director of the holds the UK’s national Department of Digital the University of multidisciplinary collection of early Humanities at King’s Liverpool in 2001 e-Research Centre and computer-generated College London. He is where he is currently has a coordinating role art. He was the an academic and Head of Cultures, in Digital Humanities Co-Investigator in innovator who works Languages and Area at Oxford. He is ESRC the Computer Art and Technocultures with major cultural institutions across the Studies. He is a strong advocate for the National Strategic Director for Digital Social project (2007-2010), funded by the world to assist them transform their centrality of Modern Languages to arts Research. Focused on advancing digital AHRC, which examined the early history collections and online presence, whether a and humanities research, and is a specialist scholarship, David has worked closely with of the new medium. One of the outcomes small museum in the Shetlands or in the cross-disciplinary fields of travel multiple disciplines across the sciences, was an exhibition at the V&A, entitled digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel. writing, slavery studies, postcolonial social sciences and humanities. He conducts Digital Pioneers. Simon founded the Digital Futures literature and colonial history. He has been research in computational musicology, Academy that has had participants from a visiting professor in Paris, Barcelona and has an extensive background in distributed He is also responsible for a major over 40 countries and run in the UK, Melbourne, and was awarded a British computing, Web, Linked Data and social project to catalogue and digitise some Australia and South Africa. His research Academy Senior Research Fellowship in computing, and promotes new forms of 750,000 prints, drawings, paintings and interests encompass measuring impact 2004 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in scholarly communication. David is chair of photographs in the Museum’s collections and assessing value in the digital domain. 2005 for his contribution to Modern the UK e-Science Forum and a champion for (http://collections.vam.ac.uk). In 2011-12 Simon recently authored Inspiring Languages. He has served on the executive the Web Science Trust, and previously held he was the V&A/Sussex Exchange Fellow Research, Inspiring Scholarship (www.kdcs. committees of the Association of the post of Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sussex. kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html) and University Professors and Heads of French at Southampton where he was closely has just published his Balanced Value and the Society for Francophone involved in the UK e-Science programme. Impact Model (www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/ Postcolonial Studies, and is currently In 2011 he was elected as a Research innovation/impact.html). His twitter President of the Society for French Studies Fellow at the Graduate School of Library account is @SimonTanner. and became a Fellow of the Academy of and Information Science at the University Europe in 2011. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. David is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and part of the leadership team of the Digital Research Cluster at Oxford’s Wolfson College.

13 Speakers

Dr David Berry Professor Claire Squires Dr Jahnavi Phalkey Dr. Sarah Cook David M. Berry is Claire Squires is Jahnavi Phalkey is Dr. Sarah Cook, is a Senior Lecturer in Professor of Publishing Lecturer in History of curator of Digital Media in the Studies and Director of Science and contemporary art and Department of the Stirling Centre for Technology at King’s writer. She is author Political and Cultural International College London. She (with Beryl Graham) of Studies at Publishing and has studied politics Rethinking Curating: Art Swansea University Communication at the and history of science After New Media (MIT and visiting fellow at University of Stirling. at the University of Press, 2010) and IMK, University of Her publications Bombay, the School of co-editor (with Sara Oslo. He is author of Critical Theory and the include Marketing Literature: the Making of Oriental and African Studies, and Georgia Diamond) of an 1000-page anthology on Digital (2013), The Philosophy of Software: Contemporary Writing in Britain and Philip Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Her art and technology collaboration drawn Code and Mediation in the Digital Pullman: Master Storyteller, and she is research is focused on the history of from research at the world-renowned Banff Age (2011), Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of co-Volume editor of the forthcoming science at its intersection with the New Media Institute 1995-2005 (Euphoria Copyleft and Open Source (2008), editor Cambridge History of the Book in Britain transformation of the Indian subcontinent and Dystopia, Riverside Architectural Press, of Understanding Digital Humanities (2012) Volume 7: The Twentieth Century and in the twentieth century, seen especially in 2011). Sarah Cook holds the position and Life in Code and Software (2012). He Beyond. Her research includes the AHRC its effects on laboratory practice. of Reader at the University of Sunderland writes on issues around computational Digital Transformations R&D project ‘The where she coedits the online resource media, philosophy and digital technology Book Unbound: Disruption and www.crumbweb.org, teaches on the MA as @berrydm on Twitter. Disintermediation in the Digital Age’ Curating and supervises PhD students. (www.bookunbound.stir.ac.uk) and the She is also Honorary Research Fellow at NESTA/AHRC/Creative Scotland-funded the University of Liverpool in partnership CReATeS (Consortium for Research into with FACT. Arts and Technology in Scotland http://creates.stir.ac.uk). She previously worked at Hodder Headline publishers.

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Professor Howard Hotson Professor Lorna Hughes Dr Philip Brohan Dr Ernesto Priego Howard Hotson is Professor Lorna Hughes Philip Brohan got a PhD Dr Ernesto Priego Professor of Early is the University of Wales in theoretical solid- gained his PhD from Modern Intellectual Chair in Digital state physics from University College History at Collections, based in the Cambridge in 1993, and London in 2011. He’s a the University of National Library of immediately left digital humanities and Oxford, a Fellow of St Wales. She is a Senior academia to work in publishing researcher, Anne’s College, Research Fellow at the industry modelling writer and editor. He is President of the Centre for Advanced nuclear reactors. Since the co-founder and International Society for Welsh and Celtic Studies. 2002 he has worked at coordinating editor of Intellectual History, Chair of the Steering Lorna leads a research programme based the Met Office, working out how, and why, The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Committee of the newly formed Council for around the digital collections of the National the weather of decades and centuries ago Scholarship, a pioneering open access the Defence of British Universities, and Library of Wales, with a particular focus on differed from that of today. He runs the academic rapid publication project. He Director of the international and understanding the use, value and impact community research project oldWeather often blogs at HASTAC, 4Humanities, the interdisciplinary research project, Cultures of of digital resources on research, teaching (http://oldweather.org). University of Venus and the Guardian Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of and public engagement. She is particularly Higher Education Network. the Seventeenth-Century Republic of interested in the use of ICT tools and Letters. As an historian, he is interested in methods for the analysis of large-scale digital using digital technology to master the large collections, and in research collaborations and complex data needed to understand the between humanities and scientific disciplines. geographical distribution, structure and She is the author of Digitizing Collections: transformations of intellectual activity in Strategic Issues for the Information Manager early modern Europe. He is equally (London: Facet, 2004), the editor of interested in using digital technology to Evaluating & Measuring the Value, Use create radically multilateral means of and Impact of Digital Collections (London: scholarly communication and collaboration. Facet, 2011), and the co-editor of The Virtual Representation of the Past (London: Ashgate, 2007). She was President of the Association for Computing in the Humanities (2002-6), and is Secretary of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). She is the managing and commissioning editor of the Ashgate series, ‘Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities’. 15 Speakers

Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell Professor Sophia Lycouris Dr Melissa Terras Professor Ian Gregory Sarah-Louise Quinnell I am a practising artist Melissa Terras is Ian Gregory is completed her PhD in with background in Co-Director of UCL Professor of Digital Geography at King’s choreography and Centre for Digital Humanities at College London in recent work with new Humanities and Lancaster University. 2010. Her doctoral technologies, video in Reader in Electronic His research research harnessed particular and very Communication in concentrates on the potential of digital recently robotics. In the UCL’s Department of applying Geographical technology to collect, past, I have been also a Information Studies. Information Systems analyse and performer and a With a background in (GIS) technology to disseminate her research findings. As a company director. In the last nine years, I have Classical Art History, English Literature, and the humanities. Early in his career this result of this and being involved in a range been exploring the application of Computing Science, her doctorate concentrated primarily on quantitative of web-based resources to support early choreographic techniques on media other (University of Oxford) examined how to use historical material such as the census and career researchers Sarah-Louise set up than the dancing/human body. With an advanced information engineering he was heavily involved in the Great Britain networked researcher in 2011 to support interest in the meaning and function of space technologies to interpret and read Roman Historical GIS project. More recently, his researchers looking to engage with social and the idea that space can be performative, I texts. Publications include Image to interests have moved to how qualitative media to support their research and have been focusing on the exploration of the Interpretation: Intelligent Systems to Aid material, particularly texts, can be used in professional development. The project has dynamics of space (in both artistic contexts Historians in the Reading of the Vindolanda humanities GIS. He is currently PI on the grown rapidly and she now collaborates such as galleries and theatres and everyday Texts (2006, Oxford University Press) and European Research Council-funded Spatial with Dr Ernesto Priego on networked spaces) to create ‘choreographic “Digital Images for the Information Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project and researcher and they now offer consultancy environments’, vibrant and articulate Professional” (2008, Ashgate). She is the previously led the Mapping the Lakes and training to a range of UK HEIs and environments for the viewer/user, spaces general editor of Digital Humanities project. For more information see: research institutions. Sarah-Louise is which move, oscillate, vibrate, and speak to Quarterly journal, the secretary of the www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/gregoryi currently completing an MA in online and the viewers through perceptual routes, spaces Association of Literary and Linguistic distance education with the Open which can be shared experientially with Computing, and on the board of the University in order to give theoretical viewers. Alliance of Digital Humanities grounding to her practical skills. Organisations. Her research focuses on the The majority of this work manifests itself use of computational techniques to enable as video installations (single screen or research in the arts and humanities that multi-monitor) and has an element of site- would otherwise be impossible. You can specificity, either through the use of images find her on twitter @melissaterras. and sounds from sites which inspire me to create my work, or through the connections I make between my work and the ways in which I present it. 16 Speakers

Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou Dr Adam Farquahar Bill Thompson Cameron Craddock Maria Dr. Farquhar is Head of New media pioneer Cameron Craddock Chatzichristodoulou Digital Scholarship at the Bill Thompson has is a Senior Lecturer (a.k.a. Maria X), PhD British Library, where he been working in, and Programme (London), is a cultural focuses on establishing on and around the Leader in practitioner (curator, services for scholars and Internet since 1984 Communication producer, performer, researchers that take full and currently Design at Gray’s writer). She is Director advantage of the spends his time School of Art, of Postgraduate possibilities that digital thinking, writing Robert Gordon Studies and Lecturer in collections present. Previously, he was Head of and speaking about University, Theatre and Performance at the School of Digital Library Technology where he co-founded the digital world we are in the midst Aberdeen. His research activity has Arts and New Media, University of Hull. She the Library’s Digital Preservation Team of building. focussed on socially oriented design has taught at Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, Queen (www.bl.uk/dp) and initiated its Dataset Strategy initiatives; exploring the role of the During the 1990’s he was Internet Mary, Richmond International American and Programme (www.bl.uk/datasets). He was designer in reducing crime and anti- Ambassador for PIPEX, the UK’s first University, and worked as Community Co-ordinator and Scientific Director of the EU social behaviour whilst encouraging commercial ISP where he developed Officer at The Albany (London). Maria was co-funded Planets Digital Preservation project wellness, health promotion and social websites for Comic Relief, the Edinburgh co-founder and co- director of the (www.planets-project.eu) and was a lead integration. Cameron is the co-founder Fringe and Anne Campbell MP, before international media art festival Medi@terra, architect on the BL’s Digital Library System. He is of Streetsport.org www.streetsport.org, moving to Guardian Newspapers as and Fournos Centre for Digital Culture in President of DataCite (www.datacite.org), an a ‘diversionary tactics’ and ‘social head of new media. He established the Athens, Greece (1996–2002). In 2007 she international association dedicated to making it innovation’ initiative that enables and paper’s first website in 1994 and was initiated and co-directed the festival and easier to identify, cite, and reuse scientific data; facilitates strong collective partnerships responsible for many online projects symposium Intimacy: Across Visceral and founder and Chairman of the Open Planets between academics, industry, local including Eurosoccer.com in 1996. He Digital Performance at Goldsmiths, Laban, Foundation (www.openplanetsfoundation.org); authorities and activity agencies. The is currently working with the Archive The Albany, Home London and online. She and serves on the Board of the Digital initiative has had a measurable impact Development group at the BBC on is co-editor of the volumes Interfaces of Preservation Coalition. Prior to joining the Library, and in some instances demonstrates a finding ways to make the BBC Archive Performance (Ashgate, 2009) and Intimacy he was the principle knowledge management 50% reduction in complaints of youth more accessible. Across Visceral and Digital Performance architect for Schlumberger (1998-2003) and anti-social behaviour in Aberdeen City. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Maria has research scientist at the Stanford Knowledge Bill appears each week on Click lectured and published widely. Currently she Systems Laboratory (1993-1998). He completed (formerly ‘Digital Planet’) on BBC is working on a Practice-as-Research project his PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of World Service radio writes a monthly concerned with intimacy and ageing in Texas at Austin (1993). His work focuses on column for Focus magazine and makes digital times, and a monograph on improving the ways in which people can represent, occasional contributions to other networked performance and life. find, share, use, exploit, and preserve digitally publications and programmes both on encoded knowledge. and off-line. 17 Speakers

Professor Charlotte Waelde Professor David Gauntlett Professor Mike Wilson Dr Torsten Reimer (JISC) (University of Exeter) David Gauntlett is (University of Falmouth) Dr Torsten Reimer Charlotte Waelde joined Professor of Media Mike Wilson is is programme Exeter Law School in 2010. and Communications, Professor of Drama manager at JISC. She is Professor of Intellectual and Co-Director of the and Dean of As part of JISC’s Property Law. Previously she Communications and Research and the Innovation group was a member of the Law Media Research Graduate School at he works with the School at Edinburgh Institute, at the University College academic sector University where she took her University of Falmouth. He is to develop and Ph.D and was appointed Westminster, UK. His also a member of support Professor of Intellectual research concerns the disruptive potential the AHRC Peer innovative ideas and practices in digital Property Law in 2008. She was Associate Dean for of digital media in everyday life. He is the Review College and a member of the research, including areas like digital Innovation and Teaching in the College of author of several books, including Creative Programme Advisory Boards for the infrastructure (such as grid and cloud Humanities and Social Sciences from 2007-2010. Explorations (2007) and Making is RCUK’s programme on the Digital computing), research methods (from Professor Waelde was a founder member and a Connecting: The social meaning of Economy (led by EPSRC) and the AHRC’s text analytics to visualisation) and policy co-director of the AHRC Research Centre in creativity, from DIY and knitting to programme on Digital Transformations. development. Before joining JISC, Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT) YouTube and Web 2.0 (2011). He has Torsten has worked in digital research His main research interests lie in at Edinburgh University which was one of only a produced the website Theory.org.uk for 15 and technology for organisations like the field of popular and vernacular handful of centres that was refunded by the HA RC years, and made several popular YouTube the Department of Digital Humanities performance and he has published for a second term of five years in 2007 (to 2012). videos. He has conducted collaborative at King’s College London, the extensively on Storytelling, research with a number of the world’s Digitisation Centre at the Bavarian State Professor Waelde’s research and teaching focus Grand-Guignol and Brecht and his leading creative organisations, including Library in Munich, the IT and the H istory on intellectual property and internet law and collaborators. In particular, his work the BBC, Lego, and Tate. departments at the University of the intersection between the two. Her work is on storytelling has led him to work on Munich and an international software necessarily international in nature, but also has strong the interface between storytelling and company. Torsten has a Ph.D. in modern comparative, European and domestic influences digital technology and the way in which history. appropriate to the subject areas. Professor Waelde’s the internet has enabled the telling and focus is on the interface between intellectual property sharing of ‘extraordinary’ stories of the law and changing technologies, the changes in the law everyday experiences of people. wrought by those technologies, and the impact that those changes have on the way that the law is both perceived and used by the affected communities. Her work explores ways in which the law may be better calibrated to meet the needs of stakeholders.

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Imogen Heap Dr Thomas Mitchell ‘The Gloves’ demo and Q&A with Imogen Heap is a British musician Dr Mitchell is a computer scientist, researcher and Imogen Heap and team considered by some the epitome of a electronic musician lecturing computer music at the • Auditorium 16.15-17.15 digital diva. Her talent spans from University of the West of England. His interests cover song writing to elaborate, live many aspects of adaptive sound design and interactive The Gloves are a cutting edge experimental gestural multi-instrumental improvisations, music performance/composition. music system being created for Imogen Heap’s studio building on a unique voice, classical Dr Adam Stark and stage work. Developed by Imogen and her team, training and unusual tech-savviness. The Gloves use gestural vocabularies, motion data- Self-produced, independent, Dr Stark is the co-founder of the interactive arts capture systems, and software interfaces to map engaged, she blurs the boundaries technology studio Codasign and a post-doctoral motion to music. Motivated by the desire to liberate between pure artforms and creative entrepreneurship researcher at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen performers from traditional gear, buttons, faders, and and uses her knowledge of the web and social Mary University of London. He is interested in new laptops, the designers strive to create a system that networking to communicate and collaborate with her ways to create music through interactive technology. allows a more direct connection between performer loyal following in pioneering ways. In particular, he wants to make electronic music and audience through intuitive gestures. performative and engaging to watch on stage. She is an accomplished performer having toured the Imogen Heap and her team will give an in-depth tour world with 4 albums, including Ellipse (2009) which Dr Kelly Snook of The Gloves and their functionality, including details earned her Grammy and Ivor Novello awards. After Dr Snook is Imogen Heap’s studio and technology of its many subsystems. Imogen will then perform ‘Me 15 years of diversified career experiences, she enjoys manager. Dr Snook has a PhD in Aeronautics and the Machine’, a single off her upcoming album that exploring how her ‘musical ecosystem’ can have a Astronautics from Stanford University and spent was written and is performed entirely with The Gloves. positive impact by getting involved in creative projects 18 years as a NASA researcher and manager. She is that think big and outside the box. keen to combine her general interests in music, technology, science and engineering with her passion Seb Madgwick for making things. Seb Madgwick is the director of the popular sensors company x-io.co.uk Technologies, making inertial measurement units (IMU). He is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Bristol. His passion is in understanding how and why things work and then to use that knowledge to make new and better things.

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Hester Reeve Alex is founder member of the Live Coding movement, Live Notation: a notational interaction Hester Reeve navigates her complex and performs solely through live use of interactive between a live artist and a live coder relationship as an artist with the programming languages. He has performed widely over the past 12 years as one third of Slub (http://slub.org) and • Queenhithe Suite 11.15 – 12.00 world through her conceptual persona HRH.the. Her practice one half of Silicone Bake (http://siliconebake.lurk.org), A live, notational interaction between a live artist incorporates the artist’s body- including at major arts venues (e.g. Tate Modern, Institute (Hester Reeve) and a live coder (Alex McLean). Hester agency, drawing, writing, lens based of Contemporary Arts, Arnolfini) and festivals (e.g. Sonar, and Alex will develop their own systems of notation media, forms of philosophical Transmediale, Ars Electronica, STRP, Sonic Acts). during the performance, one via the body and physical dialogue and explores at its heart Alex is active across the digital arts, for example as mark making, the other through digital code. issues of individual identity politics organiser of monthly Dorkbot events in Sheffield and and rituals of meaning making between abstract London, and recently chaired the first International concepts and physical matter. Public showings include Conference on Live Interfaces (http://lipam.lurk.org). former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago, LIVE Biennale He coordinates much of the activities of TOPLAP, Vancouver, Women’s Library Gallery London and most the organisation for the promotion of live algorithm recently Arnolfini Bristol. Hester is also Senior Lecturer programming (http://toplap.org), and is currently guest in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. editing a special issue of the Computer Music Journal Alex McLean on the topic with Nick Collins and Julian Rohrhuber. He collaborates with artist EunJoo-Shin, on works exploring Alex McLean is a Research Fellow in non-vocal communication though installation art Human/Technology Interaction at (http://comms.me). ICSRiM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music), University of Leeds. His current research interests surround the use of programming languages in live interaction, including programming languages augmented with visual and tangible language elements. Within the AHRC Digital Transformations theme, Alex collaborates with Hester Reeve on the Live Notation project, approaching philosophical aspects of liveness from the joint perspectives of live performance art and live coding.

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1. Makers’ Guild & Tinkerspace 2. body>data>space Spa University. Supported using public 3. RCA Information Experience Design funding by the Arts Council of England. Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: • Ghislaine Boddington Visions of Our Communal Dreams • Kevin Walker (RCA) • Fiddian Warman • Michael Takeo Magruder Contacts: • John Fass (RCA) • Daniel Charny • Joseph Hyde (Bath Spa University) • Ghislaine Boddington • Brock Craft • Kirsten Campbell-Howes • Marie Proffit • Michael Takeo Magruder The RCA Space Program will present an • Paul Harter • Joseph Hyde (Bath Spa University) Weaving the human body into the experiment in idea networking. Grounded • Marie Proffit Makers’ Guild is a membership organisation digital domain - body>data>space in research on cognitive architecture and for makers of all flavours. Exemplars creates innovative connections between Visions of Our Communal Dreams, information theory, we will send messages showcased include the Minecraft to performance, architecture, virtual worlds Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew through the noisy channels of social space, 3DPrinter software Printcraft, technology and new media, producing immersive Baker, Erik Fleming and David Steele, aiming to create algorithms for social artisans Lost Values and Formlabs’ Stereo experiences converging tele-presence, 2011-12 interaction. At our Moot Point, the Mootbot Lithography printers. Daniel Charney & connectivity, motion capture and the will mediate the physical and digital. Fiddian Warman will also discuss unfolding body. We work internationally to share and A virtual/physical art installation exploring plans for the Brixton Tinkerspace. extend future scenarios of virtual/physical issues of hybridity, embodiment and blended space. collective creativity in the Avatar Age. 4. Designing With Data me and my shadow, Joseph Hyde with Visions of Our Communal Dreams, Contacts: Phill Tew 2011-12 commissioned for the Robots & Avatars • Chris Speed (University of Edinburgh) Telepresence/motion capture portals project by body>data>space and the • Jane MacDonald (University of Edinburgh) simultaneously active in 4 cities, enabled National Theatre in association with • Duncan Shingleton participants to interact with each other, FACT, Liverpool; KIBLA, Maribor; and the project their full bodies into a joint virtual Department of Digital Humanities, King’s Four simple projects demonstrate ways world and sculpt 3D shapes. College London. Funded by the EU Culture of designing with different forms of data. Programme with additional support from Data. The iPhone apps: Take Me I’m Yours ‘me and my shadow’ commissioned by King’s College London’s Creative Futures / Comob Net / Tales of Things / Walking MADE, a co-operation project between Fund. Supported using public funding by Through Time, all offer playful digital centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains the Arts Council of England. disruptions of geographic, historical, social (Paris, France), body>data>space (UK), and material networks. Transcultures (Belgium) and boDig (Turkey), Funded by the EU Culture programme with UK co-producers National Theatre in association with Bath

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5. Timestreams, Active Ingredient 7. British Museum 9. DARIAH and EHRI 11. FACT Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: • Rachel Jacobs • Dominic Oldman • Sally Chambers • Clara Cassian • Jess Blum (University of Nottingham) • Dave Hogan • Mike Bryant (KCL) • Roger McKinley • Daniel Pett • Tobias Blanke (KCL) • Kiel Gilleade Timestreams • J Mahmud DARIAH, the Digital Research artplayer.tv Active Ingredient is a collaboration with • T Stapleford Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, Horizon, University of Nottingham, Carlo A free to use, online video platform for Video footage of a new virtual autopsy aims to enhance and support digitally- Buontempo Climate Scientist at Hadley the arts, aimed at showcasing and system using CAT scan data. Also, enabled research and teaching across the Centre, UK MET office and British Brazilian redeploying video content produced by demonstrations of the Portable Antiquities humanities and arts. We bring together artist Silvia Leal exploring the relationships UK arts organisations. web site (www.finds.org) and previews digital technologies, tools and services between energy and climate change. of components from the ResearchSpace from our members across Europe. We ARtSENSE Timestreamed Inflatibles project (www.researchspace.org) will be will demonstrate these technologies, European Research project enhancing the Natali Tubenchlak & Hugo Richard in available. Additionally, example applications encouraging participants to interact and visitor experience in a gallery/museum collaboration with Active Ingredient. and devices from the Museum’s Samsung experiment with them. setting using wearable technology and Digital Discovery Centre. biosensensing to adapt content to the 6. Accept Cookies, LMU 10. CoDE Research Institute user’s engagement with the artefact. 8. emoto - FutureEverything/CX Contacts: Contacts: 12. Bare Conductive • Ben Dalton Contacts: • Rob Toulson • Drew Hemmett (Lancaster University) • Richard Hoadley Contacts: We are making edible cookies from digital • Joel Porter (Lancaster University) • Shreepali Patel • Matt Johnson cookies. Have you noticed websites • Lara Salinas (Lancaster University) The Cultures of the Digital Economy • Bibi Nelson asking more about cookies recently? • Maria Alejandra (Lancaster University) • Becky Pilditch What information can browser fingerprint • Lujan Escalante (Lancaster University) Research Institute (CoDE) at Anglia Ruskin characteristics like these give away about University, Cambridge engage in research Bare Conductive Ltd will be on hand online activity? What big data archives A data art project that captured and that bridges arts and humanities with to demonstrate its unique electrically are being fed as people use the web? Bring visualized the online emotional response science and technology. In particular CoDE conductive paint. Attendees will have your laptop along for a browser check-up. to the London 2012 Olympics. It featured are working on projects involving music a chance to play with demonstrators a real-time web-based visualisation and a technology, digital artworks, creative and speak with the founders about the “data sculpture” archive of the collective communication, serious gaming and potential of this exciting technology. response to the games. Created by Moritz mobile applications. Stefaner, Drew Hemment, Studio NAND. A FutureEverything project for London 22 2012 Festival. Contributors

13. RunCoCo, University of Oxford 15. Digital Humanities @sotonDH 17. Embodiments Ingham & Aldworth 19. Bodleian Printed Image-Match Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: • Ylva Berglund • Graeme Earl • Karen Ingham (Swansea Metropolitan • Giles Bergel • Hembo Pagi (University of Southampton) University) • Alexandra Franklin RunCoCo: How to Run a Community • Gareth Beale (University of Southampton) • Tom Smith Collection online offers advice, training, • Ben Mawson (University of Southampton) The Integrating Broadside Ballads project and support to those looking for new ways • Iyad Assaf How do we define notions of the ‘self’ in at the Bodleian Library, Oxford will of working with the public for impact, an age of increasing disembodiment and demonstrate a system developed at outreach, and engagement. We work with The @sotonDH hub acts as a focal point digitization? Advances in extraordinary Oxford for matching woodcut illustrations local, national, and international projects for Digital Humanities research and digitized medical imaging technologies on early printed broadside ballads. using IT, social media, and crowdsourcing teaching at University of Southampton. are rapidly redefining the philosophical Image-match can identify copies of a to create and enhance digital collections. This stand will provide an overview of our tensions between mind, body and identity. whole printed sheet, recycled woodblocks, work including an opportunity to image ‘Between’ is an exhibition and public copies and even reused elements of 14. RCUK Digital Economy PATINA Project any interesting objects you bring along, engagement project that explores this woodblocks. The technology has broad and music that you can walk inside. complex terrain. further applications. Contacts: • Graeme Earl 16. Web Science Doctoral Training Centre 18. Enlightenment Intertextuality 20. Conversational Kiosk • Ema Findley • Peter Bennett Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: • Graeme Earl • Glenn Roe (University of Oxford) • Sandra Pauletto The PATINA project explores intersections • Javier Pereda between digital, physical and personal • Nicola Beale This project examines how text-mining Conversational Kiosk is a digital research space and their implications for • Terhi Nurmikko applications – in this case sequence installation by the Voice Expressivity & the design of research spaces. Working alignment algorithms – can facilitate the Emotion Working Group of the EPSRC with interaction technologies, which The Web Science team invites you to discovery and comparison of intertextual Creative Speech Technology Network provide the means to capture, record come and try out our innovative interfaces relationships (borrowings, citations, (http://crestnetwork.org.uk/index.php). and replay researchers’ activities, it with the Web, including a tangible user plagiarism, allusion, etc.) over large 18th- A digital entity talks to you using a investigates supporting intuitive archiving, interfaces to engage with cultural heritage century digital collections; expanding our synthesized voice. It will listen to what sharing and publication of interactions collections online through gaming, and understanding of the international scope you have to say and respond expressing its with research objects. replicas of cuneiform tablets showing and breadth of the circulation of ideas own thoughts. how the Web links digital abstraction of during the Age of Enlightenment. archaeological data with digital surrogates and physical objects.

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21. Old Maps and the Spatial Turn BombSight (Portsmouth/National Archives) 22. Creative Exchange 24. The Open Knowledge Foundation is mapping London’s WW2 bomb census Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: using mobile technology. You will be able • Humphrey Southall (University of • Nick Taylor (University of Newcastle) • Sam Leon (Open Knowledge Foundation) to explore the area around the Mermaid, Portsmouth) • Jon Hook (University of Newcastle) overlaying documentary context: • Leif Isaksen (University of Southampton) • Tom Bartindale The Open Knowledge Foundation is a • Kate Jones (University of Portsmouth) www.bombsight.org not-for-profit organisation dedicated to The Creative Exchange is bringing together promoting the digital commons. We build • Kimberly Kowal ((British Library) Pelagios (Open University, University pioneering companies and the best tools and communities to develop, share of Southampton, Austrian Institute of There has been much recent attention academic thinkers. Together we will create and use open knowledge. Technology), is linking together online given to the humanities’ “spatial turn”, new products, experiences and business resources about the ancient world using Our work in the cultural domain promotes but in practice this has meant linking opportunities that empower anyone, common references to places in the open access to research and digital cultural historical travel writing to modern GIS anywhere to access, explore and create Pleiades gazetteer of the ancient world. heritage. data, or old photos to Google Maps. with the newly accessible collections of Meanwhile, cartographic history has http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com media, public information and data trails 25. Digital Scholarship @ British Library focused on the history of map-making, YAMA (Yet Another Map Annotator; AIT/ that form the digital public space. not of places. We present projects and Southampton) enables users to capture Contacts: technologies all working to embed the mass of textual information embedded 23. Digital Media Kingston • Nora McGregor historical maps from major collections in within historic maps, and so contribute to • Rossitza Atanassova Contacts: modern digital scholarship, and to exploit historical gazetteer construction: • Adam Farquhar the unique power of maps to grab the • Karen Cham (Kingston University) http://rsimon.github.com/toponym_ public’s attention: • Darrel Greenhill (Kingston University) The British Library holds over 150 million identification • Christian Mornard (Kingston University) items dating as far back as 2000 BC with Old Maps Online (Portsmouth/British Georeferencer Metadata Hub (Klokan) rapidly growing digital collections including Library/National Library of Scotland/ DMK is an interdisciplinary project at enables maps held by libraries in image newspapers, books, maps, manuscripts, Klokan Technologies) is a global search Kingston University that aims to transcend servers like Zoomify to be incorporated into sound and moving images, websites, and portal which is itself a map, not a form: the inherited boundaries between the arts geospatial mash-ups, translating from the more. We are passionate about working and sciences and education and industry www.oldmapsonline.org Open Geospatial Consortium’s standard API with researchers to make use of our digital to ensure creative expression, theoretical to proprietary access protocols: collection to create new knowledge. BL Georeferencer (British Library/ analysis, scientific rigour and technological Klokan) successfully crowd-sources the www.klokantech.com innovation underpin our research lead geo-referencing of old maps, and moot innovation that can drive the market place. attendees should themselves be able to contribute: www.bl.uk/maps

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26. EACT, Creative Economy Hub 27. MeYouandUs 29. 3D Printing Research CFPR UWE 31. KCL: Bring Your Own Data Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: Contacts: • Jon Dovey (Watershed) • Alastair Eilbeck • David Huson (UWE) • Faith Lawrence (KCL) • Matt Davenport • James Bailey • Peter Walters (UWE) • Alaistair Gill (KCL) • Charlotte Crofts • Katie Vaughan (UWE) • Tim Watts (KCL) MeYouandUs are new media artists James • Philip Gooch (KCL) Re-spatializing the archive Bailey and Alastair Eilbeck. Their practice To demonstrate the research undertaken • Raffaele Viglianti (KCL) focuses heavily on intervention in public at the University of the West of England Fresh from the REACT Heritage Sandbox, spaces to produce artwork that has an in our AHRC funded projects we will have The large data sets which are becoming examples of academic research on open framework making participation live demonstrations of 3D Scanning and increasingly available can be mashed up, innovative mobile platforms. This session integral to its success. The artists’ roles are 3D printing, videos of our 3D printed visualised, linked and integrated in many will open up mapping the cultural layers of to develop mechanisms, which allow the ceramic process and samples of 3D printed different ways, offering new means of space and place and introduce experience participants to produce ‘the work’. artworks, 3D printed ceramics and 3D exploring research data. On this stall, digital design. This workshop is for anyone printed soft robotics. humanities practitioners from King’s College interested in transforming cultural history London will demonstrate and discuss and site-specific archives for mobile devices. 28. Chi-TEK and MzTEK 30. Choreographic Language Agent techniques to explore datasets and will help Contacts: you investigate data that you bring along. • Sophie McDonald Contacts: • Emilie Giles • Nick Rothwell 32. Aestheticodes, HORIZON Chi-TEK, a play on the acronym for CLA development was supported by Contacts: Computer-Human Interaction, is a Portland Green Cultural Projects. • Steve Benford (University of Nottingham) showcase of technologically modified Luke Church’s research was supported • Tony Quinn teapots by internationally acclaimed by Kodak. • Richard Mortier (University of women interaction designers and artists. Nottingham) Chi-TEK, with the support of ACE Grants Nick Rothwell’s work was supported for the Arts, is a celebration of the talent in part by a Digital Futures in Dance Aestheticodes enables designers to create and innovation women bring to arts and residency at Dance Digital. aesthetically rich decorative patterns technology. Collaborators: that contain visual codes that can be • Wayne McGregor | Random Dance recognised by computers. These might • R-Research patterns might decorate a wide variety of • OpenEndedGroup everyday objects enabling us to interact • Crucible/Computer Lab, University with them using devices such as mobile of Cambridge phones and tablets.

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33. Making the Digital Physical 34. Dr Julianne Nyhan, Oral Histories Description of Hidden Histories project 35. danceroom Spectroscopy & activities at moot Contacts: Dr Julianne Nyhan is Contacts: • Paul Coulton (Lancaster University) lecturer in Digital The origin of the field now known as • Tom Mitchell • Dan Burnett (Lancaster University) Information Studies in Digital Humanities (DH) is usually traced • Laura Kriefman • Jeremy Davenport (Lancaster University) the Department of back to at least 1949, when Fr Roberto • Phill Tew • Hannah Stewart (Lancaster University) Information Studies, Busa, an Italian, Jesuit priest, began University College work on an index variorum of some danceroom Spectroscopy (dS) is an Two interactive projects providing London. Her research interests include the 11 million words of medieval Latin in incredibly accessible installation that examples of the CX theme for making the history of computing in the Humanities the works of St Thomas Aquinas and gives people the chance to see how their digital physical. The first is an air hockey and most aspects digital humanities with related authors. However, relatively energy fields interact with the otherwise game using 3D printed physical games special emphasis on meta-markup little is known about the history of the invisible atomic world. Fusing 3d imaging pieces as controllers the second is an languages and digital lexicography. She has field. The ‘Hidden Histories: Computing and rigorous quantum mechanics, dS ambient display made out of nine mobile published widely in Digital Humanities, and the Humanities c.1949–1980’ brings together gaming, science, dance, phones and controlled by a multimodal most recently she has co-edited Digital project is seeking to make an important art and people. sensor ball. Humanities in Practice (Facet 2012 contribution towards addressing www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title. this problem. Using an oral history php?id=7661) and is at work on another methodology, the project is conducting collection for Ashgate. Among other oral history interviews with members of things, she is Communications Editor of the Digital Humanities community. The Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, a member interviews focus especially on the social, of the European Science Foundation’s intellectual and cultural conditions that expert working group on Research shaped those scholars and their early Infrastructures in the Humanities and experiences of the field. A number of oral European Liaison manager of the UCL history interviews are at press in Digital Centre for Digital Humanities. She is also Humanities Quarterly and will be available PI of the ‘Hidden Histories: Computing and shortly. Further oral history interviews the Humanities c.1949–1980’ project. will be carried out during the Digital Transformations Moot. It is hoped these interviews will not only extend the wealth of information, reflections and memories that the project has already gathered but that they will also contribute towards an oral history record of the Moot itself.

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36. Snows of Yesteryear 38. King’s Visualisation Lab Contacts Contacts • Lorna Hughes • Martin Blazeby (King’s College London) • Cerys Jones The visualisation team at King’s College This project explores the ways that London specialises in visual representation extreme weather events are remembered, for archaeology, historic buildings, in order to understand how communities cultural heritage organisations, and have experienced, responded to and academic research. Martin Blazeby from survived extreme events through resilience the team will demonstrate some of the and adaptability. reconstructions undertaken by the team and discuss the techniques used. 37. Playing Shakespeare, London Knowledge Lab Contact: • Andrew Burn, Institute of Education

We developed an authoring tool for young people to make computer games based on Macbeth, in a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe. 13 year-old students demonstrated their games at the Globe in July. The project proposes new approaches to literature and drama through games, and new approaches to game design.

27 People – DTTAG

Digital Transformations Theme AHRC Staff Advisory Group • Professor Mark Llewellyn • Professor Tim Hitchcock Director of Research (University of Hertfordshire) Chair of the Digital • Dr Emma Wakelin Transformations Theme Advisory Group Associate Director of Research • Professor Andrew Prescott • Dr Philip Pothen (King’s College London) Digital Transformations Head of Communications Theme Leadership Fellow • Dr Pamela Mason • Professor Steve Benford Strategy and Development Manager, (University of Nottingham) Creative and Performing Arts Team • Professor Simon Biggs • Christie Walker (Edinburgh College of Art) Strategy Development Manager, • Professor David Gauntlett History and Thought Team (University of Westminster) • Susanne Hart • John Howkins Portfolio Manager, Creative and Performing Arts Team (The Creative Economy) • Dylan Law • Dr Torsten Reimer Portfolio Manager, Creative and Performing Arts Team (JISC ) • Becky Gammon • Professor Charlotte Waelde Events Officer (University of Exeter) • Professor Mike Wilson (University of Falmouth)

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Professor Andrew Prescott With Professor Robert Shoemaker of the and the intersection between the two. Professor Steve Benford (King’s College London) University of Sheffield (in collaboration with Her work is necessarily international in (University of Nottingham) AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for Digital the Humanities Research Institute at Sheffield, nature, but also has strong comparative, I am Professor of Collaborative Transformations and the Higher Education Digitisation Service European and domestic influences Computing and Head of the School of at Hertfordshire) he has also created an appropriate to the subject areas. Computer Science at The University Andrew Prescott was from 1979-2000 a on-line and entirely searchable edition of Professor Waelde’s focus is on the of Nottingham. I am also a member of Curator in the Department of Manuscripts the Old Bailey Sessions Proceedings, 1674 interface between intellectual property the Mixed Reality Laboratory and of at the British Library, where he acted as to 1834 (www.oldbaileyonline.org). This law and changing technologies, the Horizon. British Library co-ordinator for a number comprises some 52,000,000 words of text, changes in the law wrought by those of digital projects, including most notably and represents the largest body of published technologies, and the impact that those My research addresses advanced Electronic Beowulf, edited by Kevin S material detailing the lives of non-elite people changes have on the way that the law is interaction and communication Kiernan of the University of Kentucky. ever produced. both perceived and used by the affected technologies for rich and dynamic social From 2000-2007 he was Director of the communities. Her work explores ways in interaction. Specific areas of interest Centre for Research into Freemasonry in Professor Charlotte Waelde which the law may be better calibrated include: mixed reality, augmented the Humanities Research Institute at the (University of Exeter) to meet the needs of stakeholders. reality, virtual reality, physical interfaces, University of Sheffield. He has also worked distributed systems and their application Charlotte Waelde joined Exeter Law School at the University of Wales Lampeter and to entertainment and education. in 2010. She is Professor of Intellectual Professor David Gauntlett University of Glasgow. He has served on the Property Law. Previously she was a member David Gauntlett is Professor of Media I have co-authored the book Performing advisory boards of many digital humanities of the Law School at Edinburgh University and Communications, and Co-Director Mixed Reality with Gabriella Giannachi projects in Britain and America. where she took her Ph.D and was appointed of the Communications and Media (published by MIT Press). The book Professor of Intellectual Property Law in 2008. Research Institute, at the University of documents the emerging field of mixed Professor Tim Hitchcock She was Associate Dean for Innovation and Westminster, UK. His research concerns reality performance, including the works (University of Hertfordshire) Teaching in the College of Humanities and the disruptive potential of digital media in of Blast Theory and other artists, and Chair of the AHRC Digital Transformations Social Sciences from 2007-2010. Professor everyday life. He is the author of several introduces our theory of trajectories Theme Advisory Group Waelde was a founder member and a co- books, including Creative Explorations to explain them alongside general Tim Hitchcock has spent the last twenty director of the AHRC Research Centre in (2007) and Making is Connecting: The extended user experiences years helping to create a ‘new history from Intellectual Property and Technology Law social meaning of creativity, from DIY and below’ which puts the experiences and (SCRIPT) at Edinburgh University which was knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 (2011). Professor Simon Biggs agency of the poor and of working people one of only a handful of centres that was He has produced the website Theory.org. (University of Edinburgh) at the heart of our understanding of the refunded by the AHRC for a second term of five uk for 15 years, and made several popular Simon Biggs is a media artist, writer and history of eighteenth-century Britain. He years in 2007(to 2012). YouTube videos. He has conducted curator with interests in digital poetics, collaborative research with a number of has authored or edited ten books on the Professor Waelde’s research and teaching affective, interactive and performance the world’s leading creative organisations, histories of poverty, gender and sexuality. focus on intellectual property and internet law environments, interdisciplinary research including the BBC, Lego, and Tate. 29 Theme Advisory Group

and co-creation. His work has been and his collaborators. In particular, his organisations like the Department of Digital presented internationally, including Tate work on storytelling has led him to work Humanities at King’s College London, the Modern, Pompidou, Academy de Kunste, on the interface between storytelling and Digitisation Centre at the Bavarian State Library Maxxi, Macau Arts Museum, Walker Art digital technology and the way in which the in Munich, the IT and the History departments Center, Art Gallery of New South Wales. internet has enabled the telling and sharing at the University of Munich and an international He has spoken at numerous conferences of ‘extraordinary’ stories of the everyday software company. Torsten has a Ph.D. in and universities, including ISEA, ePoetry, experiences of people. modern history. SLSA, ELO, and Cambridge, Brown, Cornell, He is currently the Principal Investigator on UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, Paris8, John Howkins (The Creative Economy) three AHRC-funded projects: ‘ASPECT’, looking Sorbonne, Bergen Universities. Publications at the use of storytelling and technology to John Howkins first published his ideas on include Remediating the Social (ed, 2012), reframe the public debate around climate creativity and innovation in ‘The Creative Autopoeisis (with James Leach, 2004), change, in partnership with DECC; ‘Taking Economy’ in 2001, revised 2007. His following Great Wall of China (1999), Halo (1998), the Field’, a Knowledge Transfer Partnership book, ‘Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Magnet (1997), Book of Shadows (1996). with the MCC, using technology to collect Proper Job’ was published in 2010. He is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, and disseminate the stories and oral histories He is Chairman of BOP Consulting and has University of Edinburgh. http://www. of grassroots cricket communities in the UK advised global corporations, international littlepig.org.uk and Sri Lanka; and ‘The University of the organisations, governments, and individuals. Village’, a Connected Communities project in Professor Mike Wilson He has worked in over 30 countries including collaboration with the Universities of Surrey (University of Falmouth) Australia, Canada, China, France, Greece, India, and Glamorgan and BT, exploring the use of Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, UK and USA. Mike Wilson is Professor of Drama and Superfast Broadband to link universities and One of his major interests is the use of Dean of Research and the Graduate School rural communities. at University College Falmouth. He is intellectual property laws to support the creative also a member of the AHRC Peer Review Dr Torsten Reimer (JISC) economy. He was the Director of the Adelphi College and a member of the Programme Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Dr Torsten Reimer is programme manager Advisory Boards for the RCUK’s programme Property. He devised the London Intellectual at JISC. As part of JISC’s Innovation group on the Digital Economy (led by EPSRC) Property Advisory Service now called Own It. He he works with the academic sector to and the AHRC’s programme on Digital organised special forums in London and Shanghai develop and support innovative ideas and Transformations. in 2010 to mark the 300th anniversary of the practices in digital research, including areas world’s first copyright law. His main research interests lie in the field like digital infrastructure (such as grid and of popular and vernacular performance cloud computing), research methods (from He is Visiting Professor, City University, London, and he has published extensively on text analytics to visualisation) and policy England, and Vice Dean and Visiting Professor, Storytelling, Grand-Guignol and Brecht development. Before joining JISC, Torsten has the Shanghai School of Creativity, Shanghai worked in digital research and technology for Theatre Academy, China. 30 Acknowledgements

The AHRC would like to thank the following people for helping to make the Digital Transformations Moot possible: • The speakers, performers and contributors • Bronac Ferran • Professor Andrew Prescott (Digital Transformations Theme Leadership Fellow) King’s College London • Professor Tim Hitchcock (Chair) University of Hertfordshire • The members of the Digital Transformations Theme Advisory Group • Kirsty Pitkin Event Amplifier

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Communicate The Venue Get in touch The Mermaid Conference Centre is located on the North We have set up the Digital Transformations Moot bank of the River Thames at Blackfriars, with fantastic Crowdvine site, found here: views of the Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe and The Shard. Near the Mermaid, you will also find the www.digitrans.crowdvine.com New Exchange Shopping Centre, St Paul’s Cathedral, This is an event network where delegates can network the Millennium Bridge and plenty of pubs and bars in and discuss issues around Digital Transformations before, Blackfriars and St Paul’s. during and after the event. It is easy to register on A map can be found here: Crowdvine, so we hope to see the community grow on www.the-mermaid.co.uk/location Crowdvine soon. Transport links are excellent. The nearest tube stops are: Twitter For those of you who use Twitter, we wanted to remind • Blackfriars – newly opened tube and train station, with you that the hashtag for the Moot is #digitrans and our direct services from Luton and Brighton. Simply turn right Twitter accounts are @AHRCDigiTrans and @AHRCPress as you leave the Blackfriars North exit, and it is just a two minute walk. Wifi • Mansion House – on the District/Circle line, it is a short Login: digitrans1 6 minute walk to the venue. Password: mootling • St Paul’s – on the Central line, it is approximately a four Livestreaming minute walk. The event will be live-streamed. Please tell your colleagues that they can watch at http://digitrans.crowdvine.com/ pages/watch-live and on the AHRC website at http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/watchthemootlive

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