Last week I promised a Part II on Faces and the Digital based on an interesting podcast: The Digital Human: Visage, but this has morphed into...
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Student of Digital Humanities Minor, Leiden University
Part I: What’s in a Face?
High-Tech Faces The World’s first AI news presenter developed by Xinhua (China state news agency) and Sogou (Chinese search engine company) was recently unveiled ‘during China’s...
Continue reading...Mind the Ga p: Sans Forgetica
Do we need more typefaces or individual fonts? As my last blog mentioned – we do a lot of reading on and off screen. Therefore, the...
Continue reading...RSVP: What the Dickens!
In Charles Dicken’s Bleak House, a major theme of the book is reading and the inability to read – who can and who cannot read. One...
Continue reading...Fragments
Fragmentation and risk taking Maffessoli observes that the idea of the ‘individual’ is in retreat and is suffering fragmentation; and that the individual Self seeks a...
Continue reading...Who moved my data?
‘These would be a lot easier to identify with leaves‘. Standing amongst a thicket of white-frosted shrubs and broken twigs, minus temperatures, up to my hiking...
Continue reading...“All the world’s a stage”
UrbanDash – a Virtual Reality game with as goal to get from Amsterdam Central Station to Herengracht in the shortest possible time without arguing with other...
Continue reading...Casper – your friendly ‘ghost’ tracker
Skyward. I was looking for a way into my next blog theme. I’m interested in the natural world and how the digital world impinges on that....
Continue reading...Dealing with bears on the (internet) road
Returning to my first blog, and Canada, ironically digital media helps me stay in touch with wilderness. YouTube films, for example, are reminders of a geography,...
Continue reading...Pre-Myst generation
There are a couple of everyday, digital media terms that really bother me: ‘digital natives’, because it presupposes you can classify people into generations and dismiss...
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