Welcome to The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network

Birkbeck College at the University of London

London, United Kingdom

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EHCN Representative:

Joel McKim

Birkbeck College, University of London

Dr. Joel McKim is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture and the Director of the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology. He is also the director of Birkbeck’s MA Digital Media programmes. His work focuses on the study of digital images and the impact of digital technologies on architecture, art and design. He was recently a Visiting Research Fellow at the V&A Research Institute working on a project entitled "A Prehistory of Machine Vision: Exploring the V&A Computer Art Collection." He’s the author of Architecture, Media and Memory: Confronting Complexity in Post-9/11 New York and is currently working on his second book entitled Rendered: Digital Animation in Art, Architecture and Design.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari/

https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005964/joel-mckim

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Featured Projects

Digital Experimentations and Technological Transformations: Interviews with (Post) Pandemic Theatre and Performance Artists

This interview-based research project explores how artists have experimented with digital technologies to adapt to the new realities produced by the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to sustain and innovate their practices. The project builds on the collaboration generated by the OSUN Digital Theatres Collaborative Network Course (led by Dr Ramona Moss and Dr Nina Tecklenburg) to create an accessible archive of digital experimentations and transformations in theatre and performance practice, featuring artists from Austria, Colombia, Spain, South Africa and USA.

Interviews:

Beatriz Cabur interviewed by Dr Seda Ilter (Birkbeck, University of London)

Bettina Malcomess interviewed by Dr Myer Taub (Wits University, South Africa)

Magoa Hanke interviewed by Dr Sanjay Kumar (Central European University, Austria)

Marike Splint interviewed by Dr Miriam Felton-Dansky (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)

Rolf Abderhalden interviewed by Dr Carmen Gil Vrolijk (Universidad de the Andes, Columbia)

Video editing: Beatriz Cabur
Principal Investigator: Professor Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck, University of London)

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Featured Events

Terramorphosis II: Patterns EHCN Symposium

Climate Journalism 101 Workshop

Designing for Extended Reality (XR) Introductory Workshop

EHU DAAD Go East Summer School: Platformization, Digital Disinformation and Non-Democratic Politics: Belarus in Comparative Perspective

Related Working Groups

Decolonizing Museums Reading Group