Data Materiality Episode 1: Vicki Mayer on Data Centres, Media Aura and Jobs

At very long last, the first episode of Data Materiality is out. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology. … Continue Reading

Places available on City Maps PhD workshop with Clancy Wilmott

With apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019 at Birkbeck’s University Square Stratford campus. This workshop is part of a series I am co-organising with my Birkbeck … Continue Reading

Dr Lorraine Lim: some memories

Last week, Lorraine Lim, a Birkbeck colleague and friend, passed away surrounded by her partner and family in Singapore. I can still hardly believe, or accept, that I’m writing these words. And I’m not sure my blog is where I should be writing them. But over the last few days, as I’ve debated this in … Continue Reading

Ordinary Digital Humanities: Video of symposium with Lesley Gourlay, Grace Halden and Tim Markham

An edited video is now available for the ‘Ordinary Digital Humanities’ symposium that I organised during Birkbeck Arts Week in mid-May 2017. The event asked what might it mean to think about the digital humanities as ordinary, and focused on the implications of digitisation at the level of everyday academic life – beyond, or perhaps … Continue Reading