Digital Studio Seminar Series
Digital Studio Seminar Series
2020 research seminars and series
The Digital Studio hosts a diverse range of seminars, leading debates and discussion for digital scholars; whether critics, creatives or champions.
Semester 2
Redefining Digital Keywords: From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms
Curated by Dr Natalia Grincheva (Senior Research Fellow at the Digital Studio) In 2016 Benjamin Peters published his edited collection Digital Keywords (Princeton University Press). With provocative short essays from international digital media scholars in anthropology, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology, the book explored and critiqued the rich vocabulary of the growing field of digital humanities on 25 keywords, ranging from meme to surrogate, from forum to mirror, from cloud to digital. The pandemic outbreak has challenged and reconfigured human experience across physical, social and digital realities, and hence urges us to revisit our digital keywords vocabulary. This global webinar series will bring together leading digital humanities scholars to reflect upon their original contributions to the Digital Keywords. Each webinar will focus on two digital phenomena and their corresponding keywords to explore how their meanings are changing in the face of disruptions caused by lockdowns or social distancing, and what new cultural practices, social challenges and political implications emerge around the new digital vocabulary.
Semester 1
Seeing Double: The Multiple Worlds of Virtual Reality
Histories of virtual reality routinely tell a story of progress, in which early attempts to simulate the real are trumped first by photography, then film, and now by the digital. This is perhaps why digital VR is often quarantined from its non-digital doubles – photography and film, but also literature, painting, theatre, and architecture. This seminar series will highlight this diverse repertoire of virtual realities, focusing on the exchanges between digital and analogue, and on the relations that contemporary virtual realities have, or may have, with their pasts. This seminar series is presented by the Digital Studio in partnership with the Enlightenment, Romanticism Contemporary Culture research unit.
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Museums and Mixed Reality
Professor Keir Winesmith explores how museums attempt to make public facing experiences using mixed reality experiences.
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Pokémon Gone
This seminar considers Pokémon GO, its rapid uptake, and rapid decline.
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A Century of Virtual Reality
Dr Miriam Ross will present on the complex history of Virtual Reality.
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Exploring Digital Scenography in Opera Production
This seminar considers some recent trends in how digital scenography is being used in opera production.
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Virtual Reality and the Optical Explosion of the Senses
How do Virtual Reality experiences introduce new forms of perception and embodiment.
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Does the Future have a Past? New-Old and Old-New Virtual Realities
11 March 2020. In this seminar, Professor Peter Otto focuses on three immersive / interactive environments.
2019 research seminars and series
The Digital Studio hosts a diverse range of seminars, leading debates and discussion for digital scholars; whether critics, creatives or champions.
Digital Politics
The digital environment and the political sphere are now inextricably linked. Digital interference in elections, the rise of online activism, and everyday understandings of politics mediated via Twitter or Facebook, raise new issues for research. What are the digital trends, actors and interventions that are critical to the activity of democracy, policy formation, and political activism? This seminar series examined these intersections between the digital and the political. This seminar series is presented by the Digital Studio in partnership with the School of Social and Political Sciences and The Policy Lab.
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Online Political Engagement in Southeast Asia
Wednesday 23 October 2019Dr Aim Sinpeng, University of Sydney
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The weaponisation of fake news in Australia in the digital age
Wednesday 9 October 2019Associate Professor Andrea Carson, La Trobe University
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Data and Democracies: Developing Data Capacity in the Victorian Government
Wednesday 25 September 2019Brad Petry, Head of Data Analytics, Victorian Centre for Data Insights
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Vote Compass: an exercise in public engagement
Wednesday 18 September 2019Aaron Martin, Co-director of The Policy Lab
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The Possibility of Citizen Intelligence
Wednesday 4 September 2019 Richard de Rozario, The SWARM Project, University of Melbourne
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Digital technology and organisational fluidity in British politics
Wednesday 21 August 2019 Dr Anthony Ridge-Newman, Liverpool Hope University
Indigenous Australia and Digital Futures
Digital technology is rapidly changing the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ history and contemporary culture; both within Indigenous communities and for settler Australia. Presenting the work of researchers engaged with the influence of digital technologies on Indigenous futures in Australia, this seminar series interrogated questions of cultural expression, activism, relationality, sovereignty, and decolonisation within the digital world.
This seminar series was presented by the Digital Studio in partnership with the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration.
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The Indigenous Data Network: Restoring Community Control over an Intangible Asset
Wednesday 29 May 2019Dr James Rose, University of Melbourne
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IndigenousX as a Form of Digital Disruption
Wednesday 1 May 2019Luke Pearson, Founder and CEO of IndigenousX
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Immersive Culture: Sharing Traditional Knowledge with ‘Torres Strait Virtual Reality’
Wednesday 3 April 2019Rhett Loban, Macquarie University
Other seminars
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Picturebooks, Poetic Provocations, & Doin’ the Dozens: Pathways Towards Decolonising the Mind
Monday 9 December 2019Dr Denise Chapman, Monash University
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Digital Environments: Communication in Immersive Media
Wednesday 18 April 2019 Pauric Freeman Maynooth University, Ireland
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Multispectral Imaging for the Study of Early Renaissance Cartography
Wednesday 4 March 2019Chet Van Duzer, Brown University
2018 research seminars and series
The Digital Studio hosts a diverse range of seminars, leading debates and discussion for digital scholars; whether critics, creatives or champions.
Digital Heritage Seminars
Digital technologies are transforming the ways in which we experience, encounter, and preserve the past. And in the future, today's world will be understood as a result of how we imagine and curate the contents of this digital revolution. This seminar series showcases leading researchers at the University of Melbourne who, with partners in the museum, arts and cultural sector, are pushing the boundaries of what constitutes digital heritage.
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Digital Heritage Workshop
Wednesday 17 October 2018 Panel discussions asking: what is required for a career in digital heritage now and into the future?
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Digital interactions
Wednesday 17 October 2018 Dr Nicole Tse Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
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Digital environments of Indigenous song
Wednesday 3 October 2018 Dr Sally Treloyn Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
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Re-photography as a tool for citizen heritage
Wednesday 19 September 2018 Professor Hannah Lewi Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
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Creating a short film digital archive
Wednesday 5 September 2018 Donna Hensler Victorian College of the Arts
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New imaginaries of digital heritage space
Wednesday 22 August 2018 Dr Liz Stainforth Visiting Fellow from the University of Leeds
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Ghost signs: Digitising street art
Wednesday 8 August 2018 Professor Robyn Sloggett and Dr Lachlan McDowall, Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
Digital Humanities Marathon
Digital technologies are transforming the ways in which we experience, encounter, and preserve the past. And in the future, today’s world will be understood as a result of how we imagine and curate the contents of this digital revolution. This seminar series showcases leading researchers at the University of Melbourne who, with partners in the museum, arts and cultural sector, are pushing the boundaries of what constitutes digital heritage.
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Digital Humanities Marathon: Digital City
Wednesday 30 May 2018 Professor Scott McQuire The University of Melbourne
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Digital Humanities Marathon: Digital Design Experience
Wednesday 16 May 2018 Associate Professor Adrian Dyer RMIT University
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Digital Humanities Marathon: Digital Intimacy
Wednesday 2 May 2018 Professor Kath Albury Swinburne University of Technology
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Digital Humanities Marathon: Digital Linguistics
Wednesday 11 April 2018 Dr Simon Musgrave Monash University
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Digital Humanities Marathon: Digital Bodies
Wednesday 28 March 2018 Professor Frank Vetere The University of Melbourne
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Digital Humanities Marathon: Digital Embodiment
Wednesday 14 March 2018 Professor Kim Vincs Swinburne University of Technology