Digital Humanities

This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world

Alex Saum-Pascual proposes that new artistic representations could help bridge the gap between knowing a technology is harmful and actually changing our behavior It’s easy to forget that the cloud isn’t an amorphous ball of fluff, says UC Berkeley Professor Alex Saum-Pascual — that it is, in fact, physical internet infrastructure that takes many forms in many…

artificial intelligence, Digital Humanities, electronic literature, Environmental Impact, internet infrastructure, UC Berkeley

How a Stanford digital media artist is challenging AI’s assumptions

Professor Morehshin Allahyari exposes the cultural biases baked into tech tools, while pushing for more thoughtful, equitable uses of AI With image-making tools like DALL-E and Midjourney, artificial intelligence is disrupting the art world, but artists like Morehshin Allahyari are also disrupting AI. Allahyari, an assistant professor of art and art history in the School…

AI art, creative AI, critical technology, cultural bias, Digital Humanities, queer history

Modern magic unlocks Merlin’s medieval secrets

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300 have been discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin…