UCL Centre for Digital Humanities


New Project – MiCLUES

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 09:52 AM PDT

We recently started a project called MiCLUES to develop dynamic smartphone-based visitor guidance algorithms and software for the Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments.  The aim is to enable visitors to make better use of the combined physical and digital collections and to chart both curated and personalised paths through the museum.

The project is a collaboration between the RCM and UCL and is funded by Share Academy.  Share Academy is an Arts Council England funded programme that aims to develop and foster relationships between London specialist museums and academics at UCL and the University of the Arts London.  It has funded 15 projects to help establish best practice and produce guidance for the museum and Higher Education sectors. For more information visit the London Museums Group website: www.londonmuseumsgroup.org

AHRC Big Data Project – Digital Music Lab

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 09:44 AM PDT

We recently started a new project in the area of big music data.  Digital Music Lab – Analysing Big Music Data is an AHRC project funded under the Big Data call of the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme.

Our goal is to develop research methods and software infrastructure for exploring and analysing large-scale music collections, and to provide researchers and users with datasets and computational tools to analyse music audio, scores and metadata.

The project is being carried out collaboratively between City University London, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, and the British Library.

Sounds Like DNA – a new web installation for generative music at UCL

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 09:36 AM PDT

As part of our ongoing research and teaching in computer music here at UCL, we’ve been working with a London theatre company, Penny Dreadful Productions.  They have a new show currently touring called How to Be Immortal which presents three true-life stories about love, death and DNA and explores these through music and drama.  It has been developed with input from UCL scientists.  To give an interactive element to accompany the show, we have collaboratively developed an exciting web installation entitled Sounds Like DNA, where you can generate your own music that interprets DNA codes connected with various characteristics set by sliders.  You can reach the installation here: bit.ly/DNAsound

 

‘An urban contradiction – journey under the sun’, photography exhibition by a DH student

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 04:40 AM PDT

Eirene Evripidou, one of our Digital Humanities students, has a photography exhibition and book launch coming up at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens.   'An Urban Contradiction – Journey under the Sun' is Eirene's first photographic exhibition and includes photographs taken in both London and Athens, focusing on the sometimes hidden parts of the urban landscape.

Further details:

An urban contradiction – Journey under the sun

Photography Exhibition by Eirene Evripidou

Official Opening: Tuesday 11 March 2014, at 20:00

Where: Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (Piraeus 206, Tavros) Exhibition Area – 2nd floor

FREE ENTRANCE tel. 0030 210 3418579

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