26 February 2024

Digital Humanities Initiative Talk Series – From Digitization to Graphesis: Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage

Date: 26 February 2024 (Monday)
Time: 5 pm (HKT)
On Zoom
Language: English

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Speaker:
Prof. Chen Jing陈静
Associate Professor
School of Arts, Nanjing University

About the talk:
This lecture aims to re-examine the concept of ‘heritage’ from the perspective of digital humanities. The speaker will present several digital humanities projects conducted by their team over the past few years as case studies. These projects include cross-disciplinary research on Chinese traditional color, image analysis of artificial objects using computer vision algorithms, and digital curation based on metadata. Through these examples, the lecture will illustrate how digital technology, from digitization to visual knowledge production (referred to as ‘graphesis’ by Johanna Drucker), has reshaped our understanding and epistemology of heritage.

About the speaker:
Prof. Chen Jing 陈静 is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Nanjing University, and a founding member of the Innovation Center for Digital Humanities Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Social Science and Humanities, Nanjing University. Her current research interests lie in Digital Art and Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on visual knowledge production using digital technology. She has published essays in both Chinese and English and curated exhibitions featuring painting, VR artworks, and Generative Art.