In September 2023 HADES will welcome members from the Center for AI and Digital Ethics research stream "Art, AI and Digital Ethics". The team will discuss themes arising from this research stream and current work. Save the date now and tuned for more information. View the current program of work here: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/caide/research/art,-ai-and-digital-ethics When: Thursday, 21 September 2023 3:30 PM Speakers: Gabby Bush, …

When: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEDT Speakers: Dr. Andrew Yip Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom REGISTER NOW We live in a post-digital world in which physical and social spaces are hybrid spaces and born digital artefacts themselves have become significant cultural objects with complex lives and afterlives. The affordances of the post-digital world give us new ways to …

  Title: Academic ethics and the lives of data When: Thu, 17 Aug 2023, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEST Speaker: Danny Butt Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom REGISTER NOW   Abstract “Only capital and data globlalize. Everything else is damage control.” — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak This seminar discusses ethical approaches to public “human data” in a world of networked social media platforms, automated information aggregation and large …

Welcome! Thanks for joining us at HADES today. Our speakers today are Amanda Belton and Usha Nata from Melbourne Data Analytics Platform. They are excited to be talking about colours in visual research outputs that include cartography, data visualisations and information designs. If you want to dig into some colourful context here is their curated selection of resources and references. Go …

  Title: What Colour to Use? Accurate, accessible & appealing research outputs When: Thursday, 20 July 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm AEST Speakers: Amanda Belton & Usha Nattala Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Resources and references from the presso and chat: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/hades/2023/07/20/resources-for-colours-in-research-outputs/ Abstract Amanda Belton and Usha Nattala will discuss how to use colour in visual research outcomes. Colours can encode data, attract attention and be pleasing or jarring …

  Title: Can your phone improve your wellbeing? Ethical, human-centred design and evaluation of a music recommender system that incorporates user mood and personality When: Thu, 18 May 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEST Speaker: Xanthe Lowe-Brow Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Suggested further reading supplied from Xanthe! Ferwerda, B., & Schedl, M. (2014). Enhancing music recommender systems with personality information and emotional states: …

Register here. Title: Can a building have a heart? Melbourne Connect’s AI artwork When: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEST Speaker: Dr Robert Walton, Mr Zaher Joukhadar Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: The Heart is a site-responsive, slow Artificial Intelligence artwork to be lived with over decades. It reveals the pulse of a superorganism: the community visiting, living, and …

Register here. Title: What the Hell is Digital Anthropology? When: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEDT Speaker:  Dr Joanne Byrne Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: Digital technologies are a fixture of contemporary life: checking social media on the tram, alt+tabbing between slack, your emails, and work tasks throughout the day, skimming this abstract to see if you should come …

With Daniel Guadagnolo, Elspeth Brown and Danielle Taschereau Mamers Thursday 23 February 3.30pm - 5pm Hybrid - in person at the Interactive Cinema Space, Arts West (North Wing, room 353), and online Register now For the first HADES seminar of 2023, we have three speakers from the University of Toronto, Mississauga, presenting on their work in the digital humanities, digital manipulative marketing, queer public history, …

Our November seminar saw our community gather to hear about "Negative digital urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city". Details below. Register here. Title: Negative digital urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city. When: Thursday, 17 Nov 2022 2:30 PM Speaker:  David Bissell Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: On-demand digital platforms are shaping processes of urbanisation by transforming governance processes, worker …

Register here. Title: Education research goes into the Metaverse When: Thursday, 20 Oct 2022 3:30 PM Speakers:  Dr Kathryn Coleman, Jessica Laraine Williams, Amanda Belton Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: How might we think differently with born digital and digitised data? What if we built new dataverses to help us see through data differently while reworlding data from site to cite?  In this …

Register here. Title: Seminar by contemporary artist Eric Jong their work applying novel technologies and exploring power and empathy through visual art. When: Thursday, 21 Jul 2022 3:30 PM Speaker:  Eric Jong Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: Contemporary Artist Eric Jong presents their long-form investigative driven art practice through some of his key research projects. Interested in the application of novel technologies and …

Our June seminar saw our community gather to hear about "Digital mapping project on Guaraní Resistance and Deforestation, 1500-2021". Details below. Register here. Title: Guaraní Resistance and Deforestation, 1500-2021: A Digital Mapping Project When: Thursday, 16 June 2022, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm AEST Speaker: Freg J Stokes Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: Via a series of maps, this talk demonstrates how Guaraní resistance in …

Our May seminar saw our over 20 members of our community gather to hear about " Latent Geographic Associations; Theorising Mapping in Journalistic and Fictional Accounts of 19th Century Bushfires". Details below. Register here. Title: Latent Geographic Associations; Theorising Mapping in Journalistic and Fictional Accounts of 19th Century Bushfires When: Thursday, 17 March 2022, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEDT Speaker: Fiannuala Morgan, The …

Our March seminar saw our community gather to hear about creating and sustaining communities of practice. Details below. Register here. Title: Creating and sustaining a community of practice: driving research impact and visibility When: Thursday, 17 March 2022, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEDT Speaker: Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom Abstract: This presentation will discuss ideas based upon experiences of enabling …

See below for post workshop resources! Title: Workshop on making a data visualisation or information design for humanities and social sciences research When: Thursday, 24 February 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM AEDT Monday 29 Sept 2022, 11:30AM-1:00 PM AEDT Speaker: Amanda Belton & Geordie Zhang, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform Format: Hybrid Workshop via Zoom and Face to Face at Arts West Abstract: In this workshop you …

Our October seminar saw approximately 25 attendees join us for our second panel with scholars from the Digital Chamber. Details below. Moderator: Prof David Goodman Speakers: Dr Mia Martin Hobbs, Thomas Keep, Dr Reuben Brown Affiliations: Digital Studio, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom   Abstract: For the HADES panel this month, we are exploring the Digital Chamber, a space within the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts Digital Studio. for researchers working on digital humanities …

Speaker: Dr Solange Glasser, Dr Margaret Osborne, Ben Loveridge When: Thursday 16 September, 3:30-4:30pm  Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom  Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/170228797917 Abstract: In early 2020 we witnessed the practices and pedagogies of the arts and education sectors shift almost overnight, creatively adapting and modifying their practices to ensure survival and the continuation of their activities. The University of Melbourne’s shift to digital learning …

Speaker: Dr Hannah Gould  Affiliations: DeathTech @ UOM and the Centre for Palliative Care @ St Vincent’s Hospital  When: Thursday 19 August, 3:30-4:30pm  Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom  Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hades-mediating-mourning-sensitive-thano-technological-design-tickets-165865055847 Abstract: This paper draws on ethnography of contemporary funeral services and columbaria in East Asia to explore how digital technologies are increasingly being used to replicate, supplement, or enhance experiences of memorialisation and mourning. These developments respond to social distancing in …

In July we hosted our very first HADES panel. Check out the details below: Speakers: A panel discussion with Dr Emily Fitzgerald (MDAP), Ms Amanda Belton (SCIP) and Dr Trent Ryan (SCIP) as part of the Conversations in HADES seminar series  When: Thursday 15 July, 3:30-4:30pm  Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hades-bridging-the-data-gap-diverse-approaches-in-digital-humanities-tickets-162494335933   Abstract: Our first HADES discussion panel will examine the intersections of mixed methods research and the diverse approaches required for different types of data. …

The third seminar from our newly formed HADES seminar series was presented by Dr Robert Turnbull. This series brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Humanities and digital scholarship. We will hear from speakers on topics ranging from digital ethics and machine learning through to architecture and literary studies, but always with a focus on …

HADES Seminar Series: Humanities in the Digital Age We recently completed the second in our seminar series for the newly formed HADES group. This series brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Humanities and digital scholarship. We will hear from speakers on topics ranging from digital ethics and machine learning through to architecture and literary studies, …

HADES Seminar Series: Humanities in the Digital Age We recently completed the first a seminar series by the newly formed Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars group (HADES). This series brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Humanities and digital scholarship. We will hear from speakers on topics ranging from digital ethics and machine learning through to …