\r\n2. Computer-assisted technologies for research in the humanities (in areas such as AI-assisted translation and computer vision)<\/strong>
\r\n3. Autonomous agents and surveillance (including UAVs)<\/strong>\r\n
\r\n\t\tTime Left Till Start Of Conference:\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\tDay\r\n\t\t\t\tHour\r\n\t\t\t\tMinute\r\n\t\t\t\tSecond\r\n\t\tParticipate<\/h2>\r\n\t\t
The event is open to all. Please register and indicate the sessions you would like to attend.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tREGISTER\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n 0<\/strong>9:00-09:15<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Welcome remarks by Elaine Ho\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 09:15-10:15<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Keynote by Bart Defrancq\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 10:15-10:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Break\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 10:30-12:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Workshop by Bart Defrancq\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 12:30-13:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Lunch\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 13:30-14:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Keynote by Lauren Tilton\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 14:30-14:45<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Break\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 14:45-16:45<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Workshop by Lauren Tilton\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 09:15-10:15<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Keynote by Adam Fish<\/p>\r\n 10:15-10:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Break\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 10:30-12:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Workshop by Adam Fish<\/p>\r\n 12:30-13:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Lunch\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 13:30-14:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Keynote by Kuldeep Bandhu Aryal<\/p>\r\n 14:30-14:45<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Break\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 14:45-16:45<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Workshop by Hum Qing Ze\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 09:00-10:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Position papers<\/p>\r\n 10:30-11:00<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Break\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 11:00-12:30<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Position papers<\/p>\r\n 12:30-13:00<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Closing remarks\u00a0<\/p>\r\n 13:00\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lunch \u00a0<\/p>\r\n Misgiven in evidence: Machine Translation and witness statements<\/i><\/p>\r\n Around the world millions of criminal cases involve multilingual processes. In most parts of the world these still imply the intervention of a human agent \u2013 an interpreter \u2013 to make communication possible. However, with the rise of LLM-based technologies offering good quality translations around the clock at a low price, it is likely that judicial authorities will eventually turn to speech technologies to communicate with speakers of non-dominant languages. I will address the legal and technical ramifications of such practices.<\/p>\r\n\t Bart Defrancq<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of interpreting at Ghent University and\u00a0course leader of the interpreting programs. He is the current president of CIUTI, a global association of translation and interpreting programmes. Bart\u2019s research focuses on simultaneous conference interpreting and police interpreting. He advocates corpus-based research methods and technological tools to support interpreters.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t Distant Viewing<\/em><\/p>\r\n Scholars from a range of backgrounds are turning to computer vision as evidence and as an object of study. Bringing together data science, digital humanities, and media studies, this talk will introduce the concept of distant viewing, a theory and method for understanding how computer vision views digital images. We will then turn to how distant viewing can facilitate the study of visual culture. The talk will end with a conversation about the role of interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and credit in pursuing computationally-driven research.<\/p>\r\n\t Lauren Tilton\u00a0<\/b>is an associate professor of\u00a0Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond, and director of the Distant Viewing Lab. She is co-author of\u00a0Humanities Data in R: Exploring Networks, Geospatial Data, Images and Texts\u00a0<\/i>(Springer 2015) and\u00a0Layered Lives\u00a0<\/i>(Stanford 2022). Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as\u00a0American Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0Digital Humanities Quarterly<\/i>, and\u00a0Digital Scholarship in the Humanities<\/i>. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming\u00a0Debates in the Digital Humanities<\/i>\u00a0volume on computational humanities.\u00a0Her most recent project,\u00a0Distant Viewing<\/i>, focuses on large scale image analysis using computer vision including an open source toolkit (https:\/\/github.com\/distant-viewing\/dvt<\/a>) and forthcoming book on The MIT Press<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t Planetary Media Studies: The Mediation of Life and the Emergence of an Intelligent Technosphere<\/em><\/p>\r\n We human, non-human, and more-than-human intelligences come into being through mediation\u2013the thermodynamic flows of energy, information, heat, and molecules. We emerge, decay, and regenerate following the laws of evolution and entropy as they are known on Earth. Life, thus, is based on mediation as it exists on this planet and in this galaxy. Digital media studies, then, is primed to contribute to the study of life and this planet and beyond. Through an investigation into the speaker\u2019s drone and activist video work, this talk will focus on planetary media studies\u2013an approach to digital media studies that emphasizes the contingencies of communication on this planet and in this galaxy. By looking at an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-owned satellite Earth station, the talk will introduce a planetary media studies that connects the specifics of cultural production to the universal aspirations of planetary science. By peering at the speaker\u2019s drone-based biological conservation in Indonesia and coal mine surveillance in Australia, the talk will proceed to analyze how entropy weaves together biological and technological life on Earth. By considering the speaker\u2019s drone-based fieldwork with renewable energy protesters in Greece, the talk will discuss the emergence of a self-regulating technosphere. The talk will conclude through a glance at the speaker\u2019s new research into exoplanet telescopes on and off the Earth, considering how planetary media studies can contribute to envisioning life as it is, could be, and might have been. In sum, the talk offers a vision of digital media studies that is grounded in physics and cosmology and capable of oscillating between the specific diversities of intelligent life on Earth and a universe of physical forces. Implementing planetary media studies requires an experimental methodology of engagement with the more-than-human intelligences with which we cohabit this planet.<\/p>\r\n\t Adam<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>Fish<\/b>\u00a0is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts and the Media, at the University of New South Wales. He is a cultural anthropologist, documentary video producer, and interdisciplinary scholar who works across social science, computer engineering, environmental science, and the visual arts. Dr.\u00a0Fish\u00a0employs ethnographic, participatory, and creative methods to examine the social, political, and ecological impacts of new technologies. He has authored several books including:\u00a0Hacker States\u00a0<\/i>(MIT 2020, with Luca Follis, Lancaster University, UK), about how state hacking impacts democracy;\u00a0Technoliberalism\u00a0<\/i>(Palgrave Macmillan 2017), an ethnography of the politics of internet and television convergence in Hollywood and Silicon Valley; and\u00a0After the Internet\u00a0<\/i>(Polity 2017, with Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA, US), which reimagines the internet from the perspective of grassroots activists, citizens, and hackers on the margins of political and economic power.\u00a0After the Internet\u00a0<\/i>was translated into Spanish in 2021. His most recent completed project was based on four years of collaboration with marine conservation drone operators across the world and resulted in the forthcoming book\u00a0Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones<\/i>\u00a0in 2024 with Duke University Press. Alongside this he is finishing a book on drone studies with Michael Richardson (UNSW) for MIT Press.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t Beyond the Block: Unlocking Social Impact with Blockchain in Decentralized ID and Cash Systems<\/em><\/p>\r\n The potential of blockchain technology in decentralized ID systems and unrestricted cash transfers is immense, offering innovative solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in the development sector. Decentralized IDs offer secure, verifiable identities, improving access to vital services and empowering marginalized groups like refugees with portable digital identities. Blockchain also enables transparent, efficient cash transfers, removing intermediaries and lowering fraud risks. Smart contracts automate fund disbursement, ensuring timely assistance and increased donor accountability. Additionally, blockchain enhances commodity traceability, fostering ethical, sustainable practices. By revolutionizing how we tackle global issues, blockchain fosters more inclusive, resilient development solutions.<\/p>\r\n\t Kuldeep Bandhu Aryal<\/strong> is the co-lead and senior manager for frontier technology and partnerships at the BRAC Social Innovation Lab. He is a Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation, and Innovation Lead at Field Ready International and has a demonstrated history of innovation management in the development and humanitarian sectors in both Nepal and Bangladesh over the past 7 years. With overlapping personal and professional values, Kuldeep seeks to promote open-source innovations and whole-of-community approaches to make resource-constrained communities more resilient during times of crisis and disasters.\u00a0 Kuldeep has extensive experience in using Frontier Technologies and exploring solutions for challenges faced in various humanitarian responses. Kuldeep has explored and implemented the use of Digital Fabriaction to promote local manufacturing of aid supplies. He was the lead during the development of\u00a0 South Asias first blockchain based cash transfer system called \u201cSikka\u201d during his engagement with the Nepal Innovation Lab in Kathmandu.\u00a0He\u2019s currently a fellow at the Ethereum Foundation where he is exploring the use of blockchain for the creation of a decentralised unique ID system to link with various humanitarian response verticals. Kuldeep is also engaged with building solutions to improve supply chain in responses through distributed manufacturing technology as well as exploring decentralised feacal sludge management technologies for the Rohingya response.\u00a0With Field Ready International, Kuldeep is also leading projects around plastics recycling to increase the lifespan of infrastructure in the Rohingya refugee camps. He was recognised by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundations as a Goalkeeper in 2021 for using local manufacturing for making PPE for the frontline workers during the COVID Response.<\/p>\r\n Automatic speech recognition in the era of Large Language Models <\/i><\/strong>–<\/i> by Bart Defrancq<\/i><\/p>\r\n \u00a0This workshop will illustrate the profound impact neural automatic speech recognition (ASR) and its combination with other technologies will have on many disciplines. I will focus on the following areas:<\/p>\r\n The workshop will invite participants to use a series of different ASR systems to give them a balanced picture of its potential. It will also advise future users to thread carefully, as multiple issues of accessibility, data management, accountability and confidentiality are still unsolved.<\/p>\r\n\t Images as Data <\/i><\/strong>– by <\/em>Lauren Tilton<\/em><\/p>\r\n Working with images as data offers exciting possibilities for scholars. The workshop will introduce computer vision and distant viewing. We will begin by unpacking how computers view images and then turn methods such as color analysis, face detection, and object detection to analyze images.\u00a0 We will be working in a Collab notebook.\u00a0No programming experience is expected.<\/p>\r\n\t Drone Counter-mapping of a Contentious Site: A Speculative Workshop\u00a0<\/strong>– by Adam Fish<\/em><\/p>\r\n This workshop will practically explore the possibilities of using a small personal videography drone for counter-surveillance.\u00a0We will begin with a design fiction that we are activists interested in using a drone to document some Earth-based activity\u2013a housing development, an act of industrialization, a natural context, an ecological dilemma, a protest, etc. We will go through the process of thinking critically and practically about how to undertake a drone video project.<\/p>\r\n The workshop will begin with a 30 minute mini-lecture introducing the practice of amateur and activism drone surveillance. Key concepts and practices including surveillance, counter-surveillance, counter-mapping, drone activism, vertical vision, geofencing, elementality, technicity, governmentality, biogovernmentality, and design fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Afterwards, we will crowdsource ideas for a drone project, do background research on the site to be filmed, investigate the legality of flying on this site, and do preliminary geospatial mapping via Google Earth investigating where we might be stand as we fly the drone. We will discuss how to fly a drone. We will go outside the workshop room and fly a drone in a legal and safe manner. Participants will each be given an opportunity to fly the drone. We will return to the workshop room, upload the footage, view it, and discuss it. We will imagine that the footage is of the contentious site or event. We will discuss what we will do with the footage. Will we edit it? Does it need a captioning or a description? How will we distribute it? What other media should we pair with this footage?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n This speculative workshop will simulate the process of drone counter-mapping and prepare the participants to better understand the political implications and limitations of the democratization of the atmosphere.<\/p>\r\n\t Quadratic Funding is (not) hard <\/em><\/strong>– by <\/em>Hum Qing Ze*<\/em><\/p>\r\n The workshop starts by providing an overview of funding mechanisms in Web3 before explaining what quadratic funding brings that is unique and why it maximises social utility. We will dive deeper into quadratic funding and enact a demonstration together before brainstorming what are some potential use cases you could apply it to.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n *Qing Ze<\/strong> is currently organising Ethereum Singapore and has prior experience with Gitcoin leading its grassroots team as Gitcoin was transitioning towards becoming a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). GitcoinDAO runs quarterly grants rounds utilising quadratic funding for the Web3 community and thus as part of the grassroots team, QZ has had to onboard many newcomers to the space as they sought to become grantees to receive funding. Now he is at clr.fund<\/a>\u00a0which is a tool for communities to utilise quadratic funding to allocate resources to projects that are important to their ecosystem.<\/p>\r\n PayNow as boundary infrastructure: Platform capitalism and the resurgent state<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tDylan Brady The superaggregator black box: metrics<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tMark Balnaves Digital Media Interventions for Participatory Governance in Malaysia<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tJoanne Lim Bee Yin Affirming Life and the Dignity of All In Deep Human Qualities: Understanding the Useless Class in a Mass Man Artificially Intelligent World<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tFaris Bin Ridzuan Visual Technologies at the Shore<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tChitra Venkataramani Empowering ethnic and linguistic minorities in crisis communication in Hong Kong: An ethnographic approach<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tChuan Yu Digital Participation and Our Sense of Self<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tMia Ching Lee An eye-tracking study on multimodal input in machine-assisted interpreting<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tZhu Xuelian Machine translation as a potential new partner in the revitalization process of Basque<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tNora Aranberri Linking the Digital Humanities to Biodiversity History in Singapore and Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tStefan Huebner 3-Dimensional Digital Archive: The Case to Record Heritage Objects and Sites Through 3DScanning, Photogrammetry and 3D Modeling<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tCheng Shao Meng (Merlin) Computational Methods in Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\tBen Blumson Registration and participation is free.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\t\t\tWhere will this event take place?<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\r\n\t\t The event is conducted fully in-person, at the AS8 04-04 Seminar Room located in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore | 10 Kent Ridge Cres, Singapore 119260<\/p>\r\n\t\t\tMust I attend all 3 days of this event?<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\r\n\t\t You are free to choose which days and sessions you wish to attend.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n\t\tSCHEDULE\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProgramme Details\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n
\r\n\t\tDay 1, 17 May\r\n\t<\/h4>\r\n\t
\r\n\t\tDay 2, 18 May\r\n\t<\/h4>\r\n\t
\r\n\t\tDay 3, 19 May\r\n\t<\/h4>\r\n\t
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\r\n\tAssoc Prof Bart Defrancq<\/h3>\r\n\t
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\r\n\tAssoc Prof Lauren Tilton<\/h3>\r\n\t
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\r\n\tAssoc Prof Adam Fish<\/h3>\r\n\t
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\r\n\tKuldeep Bandhu Aryal<\/h3>\r\n\t
\r\n\t\tWORKSHOP DETAILS\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n\t
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\r\n\t\tSANDPIT POSITION PAPER PRESENTATIONS\r\n\t<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n\t\tDAY 3 \u2013 19 May\r\n\t<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProgramme Details\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n
\r\n\t\tSESSION 1: 09:00 \u2013 10:30\r\n\t<\/h4>\r\n\t
\r\nAssistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore\r\n\t
\r\nSenior Lecturer, Monash University Malaysia\r\n\t
\r\nProfessor, University of Nottingham Malaysia\r\n\t
\r\nMasters Student, Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore\r\n\t
\r\nAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, National University of Singapore\r\n\t
\r\nAssistant Professor, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University\r\n\t
\r\nSenior Lecturer, Singapore University of Social Sciences\r\n\r\n\t\tSESSION 2: 11:00 \u2013 12:30\r\n\t<\/h4>\r\n\t
\r\nPhD Candidate, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University\r\n\t
\r\nAssociate Professor, Faculty of Arts, UPV\/EHU\r\n\t
\r\nSenior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute\r\n\t
\r\nDepartment of Communications & New Media, National University of Singapore\r\n\t
\r\nAssociate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore\r\n\r\n\t\tFAQ\r\n\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t\tDo I need to pay to participate?<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCollapse<\/i><\/a>\r\n\t\t