Digital Studio

The Digital Studio is a collaborative research hub hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. By building capacity and connections, the Digital Studio aims to humanize and leverage digital technologies to transform the ways in which teaching, research and scholarship shape the social, ethical and cultural dimensions of our world.

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With a strategic focus on high quality projects in the humanities, arts and social sciences, we provide a range of activities and programs to support researchers and industry partners working with data and digital environments.

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Current Exhibition

20 March 202331 March 2023

This is us: pandemic storytelling, remembering and archiving by older Asian migrants in Victoria

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The Digital Studio collaborates on digital and data projects with researchers in many diverse fields, provides support and advice on cutting-edge digital methodologies for humanities and social science research, and hosts international speakers, researchers, and interns. The tiles below provide useful guidance to current projects hosted by or in partnership with the Digital Studio.

Current Projects

Graduate Internship Projects

Each year the Digital Studio hosts a Graduate Internship program in which Arts researchers have the support of an intern to realise a small component of a digital project. In alignment with our strategy to develop emerging digital and data humanists it provides graduates with training and mentoring in digital methods and data science and allows them to contribute to innovations in project development. The tiles below provide insights into the 2020 projects.

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All graduate internship projects

Want to get involved with the Digital Studio internship program? We welcome applications from research students to undertake the internship, and from academics and external organisations interested in hosting an internship and supervising an intern.

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Past Projects

Digital Studio people

Digital Studio Director

Professor David Goodman

Professor David Goodman is Director of the Digital Studio, and a history professor.

Ed., and MA in History at the University of Melbourne, and a PhD in History at the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Sydney 1986-89 in American and Australian histories, and has taught at the University of Melbourne since 1990, first in Australian studies and then in American history. His 1994 book Gold Seeking - Victoria and California in the 1850s was published by Allen and Unwin and Stanford University Press; his 2011 book Radio's Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s was published by Oxford University Press, New York. His recent publications have been on the history of broadcasting in the United States; he is now completing a study of the local debate about American entry into World War 2.

David Goodman academic profile

Digital Chamber Researchers

Thomas Keep

Tom Keep is a PhD candidate in Archaeology, under the supervision of Dr Gijs Tol and Associate Professor Andrew Jamieson of the University of Melbourne, and external supervisor Dr Rhodora Vennarucci at the University of Arkansas. He is interested in how the value of archaeological research can be most widely, equitably, and engagingly distributed in the digital era. He has previously worked as a research assistant at LithodomosVR under University of Melbourne alumnus Dr Simon Young.
Samuel Holleran

Sam Holleran’s PhD examines public participation in the reimagination of urban burial sites and he is a member of the DeathTech Research Team at the University of Melbourne. He is also an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work examines the power and politics imbued in urban design, and in particular, the use of everyday objects in cities, like street furniture, parks, and signage. He has worked as an art director, researcher, and educator in the field of civically-engaged design with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) in New York City and the Chair for Architecture and Urban Design at ETH-Zürich. He tweets @sam_holler.
Andrew Fuhrmann

Andrew Fuhrmann is a PhD candidate in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is currently researching the work of Melbourne-based contemporary dance choreographer Lucy Guerin AO. He also has a research interest in performing arts archives and curates the Theatre and Dance Platform with Rachel Fensham, an archival project initiated by the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne.
Rodrigo Gonzalo Encinar

Rodrigo Gonzalo Encinar is a researcher, visual artist, and designer. His research revolves around analytical explorations of representation, focusing on the latent possibilities of the photographic and moving image archives in the digital age for the study of movement.
Rodrigo's PhD studies the Beryl De Zoete collection of moving images made in Bali during the 1930s. The project discusses data-as-artifact in an era of disembodiment, where the roles of the ones involved in the production and preservation of knowledge are being challenged. By examining the affordances of motion capture and motion analysis technologies for the study of movement and their application to the documentation of dance, the research redefines the concepts of the authentic and the valuable within the fields of performance, dance, media, and archive studies.

Interested in joining the Digital Chamber community? We welcome applications from researchers, particularly early career researchers, working in fields relating to digital humanities and social sciences.

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Digital Studio Visiting Fellows

Visiting fellowships

The Digital Studio supports international knowledge exchange across the digital humanities, arts and social sciences, by hosting a range of fellows and visiting researchers.

Are you interested in being hosted by the Studio as a visiting fellow?

For more information please Contact us.

Past fellows

Dr Rafael Cabredo

The Digital Studio hosted Dr Rafael Cabredo from 19 October to 14 December 2019, in partnership with Graduate House as part of the United Board Fellowship program.

Biography

In a fast-paced information age, leaders need to be agile and adaptive to the changing educational landscape. All decisions and actions should be supported by verified data and be grounded in established values of the institution.

Dr Rafael Cabredo is the Dean of the College of Computer Studies at De La Salle University in the Philippines. Digital humanities is a burgeoning domain for researchers at De La Salle University, with new collaborations established between the College of Computer Studies and the College of Liberal Arts supporting the development of a number of local digital heritage projects – from documenting native dance and local languages, to using natural language processing to analyse historical texts and literature. Dr Cabredo’s research draws on classical music training to blend music theory with computer science techniques, such as discovering how different chord progressions evoke emotional responses in listeners.

Project outline

As an Honorary Fellow in the Digital Studio, Dr Cabredo explored how the digital humanities are delivered at the University of Melbourne, examining models for interdisciplinary practice and collaboration that can help inform research at his home university. He engaged with academics across faculties at Melbourne to share perspectives and approaches that support the continuing development of digital humanities tools and methods in the Philippines.

Dr Liz Stainforth

The Digital Studio hosted Dr Liz Stainforth from June to October 2018, as part of the Australian Endeavour Fellowship Scheme.

Biography

Being based in the Digital Studio was a brilliant experience. Taking part in the Studio’s Digital Heritage Seminar Series, provided invaluable networking opportunities and connected me with other Digital Humanities researchers.

Elizabeth Stainforth completed her doctoral studies in 2016 and has since worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and as a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Her research explores digital heritage and memory cultures, and she is currently working on a collaborative book-length project about digital archiving practices (provisional title: All and Each: Dialogues in the Digital Archive). She has been an Associate Editor for parallax journal and published articles in journals including Museum and Society and Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Project outline

Elizabeth’s Endeavour Research Fellowship explored digital heritage culture in Australia, and the ways in which digital cultures inform wider social transformations. The study focused on Trove, a digital heritage aggregator hosted by the National Library of Australia, which provides online access to a range of Australian cultural heritage resources. Trove is one among a number of aggregators, including Europeana, Digital NZ and the Digital Public Library of America, that point towards the reimagining of library and museum spaces online. This development raises important questions about the negotiation of public space, collections preservation and cultural engagement in the digital environment. The project had two distinct but related aims: first, to investigate the development of Trove, alongside comparable initiatives, in order to promote new understandings of their infrastructures; and second, to look at the social context for digital heritage, with an emphasis on the collections of Australian public heritage institutions.

Facilities in the Digital Studio

The Digital Studio's spaces are available to be used by Faculty of Arts researchers, staff and partners.

If you haven’t used the Digital Studio spaces before please register first.

Planning a large or a public event? Please email digital-studio@unimelb.edu.au or call 9035 7936 to discuss your requirements.

Would you like help promoting your event? Please email digital-studio@unimelb.edu.au to have your event advertised on our Twitter and website.

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Rooms

Workshops, training and technology

Can’t attend a seminar? Watch live online! See upcoming live seminars or watch the videos of past live events.

Upcoming Events

Small Data is Beautiful: Analytics, Art and Narrative

18-19 February 2022. Taking inspiration from the ‘small is beautiful’ mantra of the 1970s which provoked counter-cultural economic and scientific expertise in the name of planetary survival, this symposium invites scholars working on computational methods in the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss their research with ‘small data’.

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Contact the Digital Studio

Email: digital-studio@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9035 7936
Twitter: @digitalstudioUM

Office hours at the Information Hub (Room 3.10)

Generally the office will be staffed Mondays and Fridays, but please email Admin assistant Daisy Norfolk at d.norfolk@unimelb.edu.au if you would like to arrange a specific time to meet in the office.

Applications and Forms

Want to host or participate in a Digital Studio Graduate Internship?

Digital Studio Graduate Internships

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Digital Chamber Residencies

Want to undertake a research fellowship at the Digital Studio?

Digital Studio Fellowships

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Booking Digital Studio Spaces

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Digital Studio Event Promotion

Location

The Digital Studio is located on the 2nd and 3rd floor, West Wing of the Arts West (Building 148). Access is from Level 2 of the North Wing of Arts West, during 9.00am - 5.00pm, or via the lifts/stairs in the rear foyer of the Arts West ground floor.

This is us: pandemic storytelling, remembering and archiving by older Asian migrants in Victoria

Exhibition Launch

22nd March 2023

The This is us: pandemic storytelling, remembering and archiving by older Asian migrants in Victoria photography exhibition launch began with a bang on the mild Wednesday afternoon with an enthralling panel discussion from a diversity of speakers. Mr Matthew Guy, from the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, Ms Angela Ng, from MiCare Aged Care & Community Services, Dr Surjeet Dogra Dhanji from the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, Lela Zhou, JP, from Aus Channel Media, and the panel discussions moderator, Dr Shashini Gamage, from the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne brought to the panel many different perspectives from their respective disciplines to discuss messaging to and communication with aging, culturally and linguistically diverse Australians.

After this, the action moved upstairs to the 3rd floor where the framed photographs and digital videos and virtual gallery resided, and the exhibition curator and principal project lead of the Moving Beyond the Pandemic project Wilfred Wang gave thanks to attendees, photographers, and organisers. Then Professor of Art History and Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Claire Roberts officially launched the event with a speech. Hot canapes were served and a large crowd of attendees mingled and enjoyed the wonderful photography entries.

The winner of the first category, Moments in phone: memories, stories, and impressions during COVID-19, was Shirley Jeremic with the photograph titled "Memories and stories during the Covid-19." The winner of the second category, Spring after lockdown: changes and persistence of living with COVID-19, was Mau Pak So with the photograph titled "Life is as short as a dewdrop." The Digital Studio sends its congratulations to the winners and all competition entrants and their families and communities. To see this wonderful gallery online, you can visit the virtual gallery and or take a look through the photo booklet.

The Digital Studio would also like to give huge thanks to the curators, Wilfred Yang Wang and Titania Yuhan Huang for deciding to use the Digital Studio space and bring it alive with this stunning exhibition, to Tianyi Yang for flyers design and curatorial support, and Lucia Chen for photo collection and coordination. The project Moving Beyond the Pandemic: Engaging Asian Migrant Communities with COVIDSafe Content is a wonderful initiative and we highly recommend you look at their website to find out more about the project and the incredible people behind it.

The exhibition runs 20th - 31st of March, 2023 between 9am - 5pm in the Digital Studio, Level 3 and 2, West Wing, Arts West, University of Melbourne, Parkville. Make sure to take the back elevator located behind the study desks to locate the West Wing.

Exhibtions

20 March 202331 March 2023

This is us: pandemic storytelling, remembering and archiving by older Asian migrants in Victoria

Event

Digital Chamber Residency

Digital Studio Fellowships

Digital Studio Seminar Series

Digital Studio Graduate Internship Program

Current Exhibition

Current Projects

Find and Connect

Death Tech Project

Who is Nature?

CIRCUIT: Mapping Theatre in Australia

Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Collections

Melbourne History Workshop

Execution Ballads

Australian Women’s Register

Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government

Graduate Internship Projects

Geoparsing and the coverage of South Pacific states in Australian newspapers 2010 - 2020

Acts of Resistance: Blackbirding in the South Pacific (1880-1885)

Bittersweet: A Cultural History of the Smile

Artists on Captain Cook’s Voyages to Batavia

Textiles, Trade, and Meaning in the Courts of Northern Italy at the time of Isabella d’Este

A Social Network Analysis of Late Twentieth-Century Heritage Conservation

Who is Nature? VR visions from Indigenous Latin America and Australia

Revisualising Ralph Reid's family history index

Doctors Down Under Exhibtion

Gender Sensitive International Development in Decentralised Governance Contexts: Women's Collective Action in Rural Indonesia

Narrative Now: Creating a podcast series

Kulu Language Institute website

Otto Rank's Homosexuelle Neigungen [Homosexual Leanings] (critical edition and translation)

Revitalising Indigenous-State Relations: Geospatial Map

Plain Speech and Death Metaphors in Times of Crisis

Founding an Australian Recipe Archive

Past Projects

Living with COVID.info

Visualising Venues

HASS Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (DEVL)

Deep Mapping: Creating a Dynamic Web Application Museum "Soft Power" Map

Investigating Actual and Perceived Videotext Complexity in Second Language Video Comprehension

Visualising Special Music Collections

Awaken digital experiences

UoM Digital Incubator

Theatre and Dance Platform

Digital Studio people

Digital Studio Director

Professor David Goodman

Digital Studio Project Officer

Digital Chamber Researchers

Digital Studio Visiting Fellows

Visiting fellowships

Past fellows

Dr Rafael Cabredo

Biography

Project outline

Dr Liz Stainforth

Biography

Project outline

Digital Studio Steering Committee

Membership

Facilities in the Digital Studio

Rooms

Digital Lab

Digital Workshop

Collaborative rooms

Immersive rooms

Exhibition space

FAQs – Booking spaces in the Digital Studio

Workshops, training and technology

Digital Research in Action

Digital Studio Live

Zeta Book Scanner

SCIP Digital Resources

Upcoming Events

Small Data is Beautiful: Analytics, Art and Narrative

Watch past live events

Breaking the Social Media Prism: A Talk by Professor Chris Bail, Duke University

Digital Face-off: The future of news on global technology platforms

Digital Research in Action: Introduction to the Australian Data Archive

What is a HASS Data Commons?

“Zooming” In and Out to Examine the “Virus”