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My animation for the Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School 2022 public event (Anti)Colonial archives in the digital age is an alternative form of record: a kind of visual minute-taking. As with all minutes (and indeed all archives?), it is partial, informed by my own impression of the talks and discussions that took place. It might […]

Twice a week, a group of Cambridge students from across the disciplines meet up online or in a room to find digital evidence of human rights violations for Amnesty International.  Cambridge’s Digital Verification Corps, hosted by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, is one of seven university student groups trained up by Amnesty to […]

‘Just fancy that! One does depend On one’s own creatures, in the end.’ (Mephistopheles commenting on Wagner’s Homunculus project in Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s ‘Faust: Part Two, Act II, translated by David Luke.)   Digital technologies and automated actors organise our daily interactions and spaces. Effortlessly we become actors on a new stage of emerging digital […]