Creative Practice

DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity WG [Call for Participants; Survey open]

DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity WG issues a call for participants

The working group DARIAH Visual Media and Interactivity (VMI working group) aims to create a central point of contact for European researchers interested in the use of visual media, whether as the central theme of their studies or as a means of advancing their research and dissemination activities. This objective involves raising awareness of the tools available and contributing to the development or customisation of new visual and annotation tools; offering training opportunities; and identifying examples of best practice or success stories.

In order to strengthen and connect these communities, the VMI working group invites researchers engaged in work on visual or audiovisual corpora to complete the (short) survey below and to share it widely.

https://groupes.renater.fr/limesurvey/index.php/522643?lang=fr

You are also welcome to get involved in the working group (a one-day seminar is currently being organised for 4 February 2027 and will take place in Tours, France), so please do not hesitate to contact us!

Visual Media and Interactivity

Doing Sound Synthesis: Symposium and Exhibition [1-3 October, Graz]

Graz Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Symposium and Exhibition

Thinking sound synthesis, composing sound synthesis, developing sound synthesis, programming sound synthesis, questioning sound synthesis, experimenting with sound synthesis, probing sound syntheses. What is it that we are doing in the artistic practice of sound synthesis?

As an artistic endeavour, doing sound synthesis is a knot of practices. It is not limited to the mere production of sound; rather, it seeds paths of speculation that grow into different, unthought, unseen and unheard potentials.Doing Sound Synthesis, a mini-symposium and exhibition within the artistic research project Speculative Sound Synthesis, brings a collection of such speculative seeds together.

Works by A. Isa Araújo, Adam Pultz Melbye, Fulya Uçanok and Martin Rumori, as well as by the project team – David Pirrò, Leonie Strecker and Ina Thomann – will be exhibited, performed and discussed over three days at the Tennenmälzerei in Graz. The programme also includes the presentation of the new artistic research project Composing Tools as Computer Music Discourse by Gerhard Eckel, Ludvig Elblaus, Alisa Kobzar, Ina Thomann, and Zlata Zhidkova, and closes with the presentation of the forthcoming Speculative Sound Synthesis publication.Doing Sound Synthesis – mini-symposium and exhibition 

October 1–3, 2026 
Tennenmälzerei, UNESCO-Esplanade 9, 8020 Graz 
Exhibition daily from 14:00 
Lecture performances and moderated talks from 18:00

Programme:
https://speculative.iem.at/docs/Events/doing_sound_synthesis_2026/

Participation is free.

We kindly ask you to register by sending a short email to speculative@iem.at.We look forward to welcoming you in Graz.the Speculative Sound Synthesis teamSpeculative Sound Synthesis is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) – PEEK AR 713-G. It is hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

https://speculative.iem.at/

contact: speculative@iem.at

(re)Imagining the future for Digital Arts and Humanities in Ireland [4th March, 2027, Save the Date]

📌 Save the date for a DARIAH-IE Networking Day hosting the UK-IE Digital Humanities Association’s Regional Meeting

📆 March 4th, 2027 | 📍 Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin  | 🕰️ 10:30 – 16:00

Save the date for a national event bringing together practitioners, researchers and academics working in digital arts and digital humanities across Ireland.

Hosted by DARIAH-IE, Ireland’s national node of DARIAH the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, the day will also see the first meeting of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association (UK-IE DHA) Regional Event Series.

This jointly organised event will bring together a broad range of stakeholders, reflecting the strength of collaboration between the DARIAH-IE infrastructure and the UK-IE DH Association.

The day is designed to:

  • Introduce the affordances of engagement with DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA
  • Provide the opportunity to talk to – and hear from – colleagues across the island
  • Share knowledge across HEIs
  • Encourage participation in and engagement across DARIAH Working Groups and UK-IE DHA Community Interest Groups
  • Invite discussions on training needs, collaborations and events

Whether you are new to digital arts and humanities or already active in the field, this is a chance to connect with colleagues from across the island and help shape the future of both DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA.

Full programme and registration details to follow, provisional timelines below:

  • October 20th, 2026 – Call for Papers and Provocations opens
  • November 27th, 2026 – CfP closes
  • December – Programme announced
  • January 11th, 2026 – Registration opens
  • February 11th, 2026 – Registration closes

A bursary call will also be announced in the coming months.

Keep an eye on our Event page for more info

For queries contact joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie or uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk 

Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art [Oxford, CfP extended to Sept 18]

Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art

According to Richard Dawkins, “There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”. So why are art and science sometimes considered as two separate fields, rather than two different sides of the same coin? And who says that scientists, engineers, and medical researchers take interest only in matters within the boundaries of the laboratories and hospitals? How might the perspective of art provide fresh avenues for understanding and contribute significantly to the enrichment of scientific knowledge? For poets, writers, and artists there are no such boundaries, for there is poetic wisdom in scientific knowledge, beauty in anatomy, and concepts worth celebrating in writing. And for biographers and memoirists, the medical humanities offer experiences that are worth preserving in prose. Our forthcoming conference seeks to deconstruct the common divide between two seemingly distinct disciplines of art and science, building bridges instead of boundaries, and showing the importance of creatively contemplating, cherishing, and preserving the beauty of what we learn and experience.

This conference, therefore, aims to bring together scholars, creatives, and other arts-based researchers from different disciplines working on topics related to transdisciplinarity, with a focus on the bridging of science with the arts. You may be a scientist or a medical practitioner who writes poems and stories or takes on another art (such as music, sculpture, the visual arts, etc.) or alternatively, you may be a creative inspired by science, or a practioner in a field that utilises creative approaches for scientific purposes—so the intertwining of your thoughts, ideas, and creativity are welcome, and we can’t wait to hear about your work that combines your creativity with science!

Send us your proposals by August 31st.  Presenters can either share academic papers and/or creative work (poetry, prose, photography, music, painting, etc.), as we highly encourage arts-based research. We welcome proposals from scholars (of all disciplines), creatives, graduate students, practitioners and professionals.

So whether you are working on research bridging art with creativity, or you have a piece containing astronomical images, eco-poetry, aesthetic reflections on chemicals and substances, lunar photography, artistic depictions of the human body, alchemical musings, art and arithmetic, psychological fiction (or non-fiction), an ode to omicron, or any other creative pieces arising from “scientific” inspiration, please share them with us!

We welcome 15-minute presentations on topics related (but certainly not limited to) the following fields:

  • Fiction as a mode for knowledge
  • Transdisciplinarity in its various forms
  • Music-based practices
  • A/r/tography
  • Physics as an inspiration in literature
  • Chemistry and the culinary, literary or visual arts
  • Astrophotography
  • Alchemy as an art and science
  • Psychology and the arts
  • Symbolic healing
  • Ecopoetics
  • Anatomy in painting
  • The medical humanities
  • Poetry and medicine
  • Photography and medical technology
  • Ruminations based on scientific theories
  • Space poetry
  • Art therapy
  • Music and mathematical formulas
  • Viruses and philosophy
  • The human body
  • Mental illness and the arts
  • Quantum physics and artistic expression
  • Technological advancements and their impact on artistic creation
  • Mathematical patterns in visual arts
  • Neuroscience and creativity
  • Climate change and environmental art
  • Data visualization as an art form
  • Ethical considerations in scientific art collaborations
  • Evolutionary biology and literature
  • Augmented reality and immersive storytelling
  • Artificial intelligence and its role in creative processes
  • Bioart and biotechnology in artistic practice
  • Intersection of robotics and performance art
  • Astronomy and music composition
  • Psychology of color in visual arts
  • Medical imaging techniques and artistic interpretation
  • Intersection of archaeology and art history
  • Cognitive science and theater/performance studies
  • Genetics and contemporary art practices
  • Philosophy of science and its influence on artistic discourse
  • Ecological activism through artistic interventions
  • Anthropology and the representation of cultures in art
  • Social sciences and documentary photography
  • Nanotechnology and its implications for artistic materials
  • Ethnomusicology and cultural expressions of scientific knowledge
  • Marine biology and marine-inspired art forms

DARIAH-IE August Digest

A micro-newsletter for August 2026

We don’t issue a newsletter in July or August but here’s a digest of upcoming CfPs, Events and Workshops of interest to keep you going !

Calls for Papers 

Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027 — “Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space” 

Date: Online seminar series, 2026–2027 |   Location: Online 

A new cycle of the Entangled Histories seminar series seeks abstracts on medieval and pre-modern history through a digital lens, covering digital philology, manuscript studies, human-animal relations, folklore, and Indigenous perspectives, all viewed through the theme of borders and environmental sustainability. Proposals (250–300 word abstract, bio, affiliation) are for roughly 30-minute online presentations, with a possible publication opportunity in a special issue or edited volume with a major academic publisher. 

More info: https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/home 

Deadline: 31 August 2026

Call for Expressions of Interest: Special Issues of Digital Comparative Literature (ICLA-DCL) 

Date: Publication-based; first pieces expected from Autumn 2027 

The ICLA’s Digital Comparative Literature research committee invites short (max. 4,000 words) or long (max. 8,000 words) articles at the intersection of comparative literary studies and digital humanities: distant reading, digital archives, data visualisation for literature, electronic literature, and AI or machine translation for literary analysis. Accepted pieces will be placed with one of several partner comparative-literature journals. Submit a 500-word abstract plus a short biographical note. 

More info: https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2026/ICLA-DCL-journals-cfp.html 

Deadline: 7 September 2026 

Call for Abstracts: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27) 

Date: Conference: 14–15 January 2027   |   Location: King’s College London, Strand Campus, London 

The second edition of QDLCA brings together researchers using quantitative and computational methods to study how language changes over time and how those shifts relate to broader cultural dynamics. Keynote speakers are Prof Dirk Geeraerts (KU Leuven) and Dr Stefania De Gaetano-Ortlieb (Saarland University). The conference invites 20-minute presentation proposals, submitted as an anonymised 400-word abstract in .docx format, on computational or cross-linguistic approaches to diachronic change. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultural-analytics-2027-qdlca27 

Deadline: 13 September 2026, 23:59 BST 

Call for Papers: Oral Archives Journal, Volume 4 (2028) 

Date: Publication: Volume 4, 2028   |   Location: N/A — online submission 

The open-access, peer-reviewed Oral Archives Journal, published by Firenze University Press and USiena Press in collaboration with CLARIN-IT, is now accepting submissions for its fourth volume. The journal covers all aspects of oral archives, from creation to preservation, transcription, ethics, and reuse. Manuscripts of 30,000–50,000 characters are accepted in English, Italian, or French, alongside a 150-word English abstract, prepared for blind peer review. 

More info: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/index 

Deadline: 15 January 2027 

Conferences & Events 

Computational Humanities Seminar: “Knowledge-Guided Prompt Engineering for Explainable Bias Detection and Mitigation in Museum Exhibition Texts” 

Date: 2 September 2026   |   Location: Online

Mahnoush Pourhosseini Akbarie (Sapienza University of Rome / King’s College London) presents a human-in-the-loop framework combining expert annotation with knowledge-guided LLM prompting to detect and mitigate interpretive bias, gender, cultural, and algorithmic, in museum exhibition texts, and to generate bias-mitigated rewrites while preserving historical meaning. Part of the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities’ Computational Humanities seminar series; register in advance to receive the online joining link. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group 

Deadline: Register by 28 August 2026 

Computational Humanities Seminar: “The Laudisi Observatory: a computational pipeline for framing and agenda dynamics in French continuous news” 

Date: 9 September 2026   |   Location: Online

Yann De Boisvilliers (Paris-Dauphine / EHESS, PSL University) presents the Laudisi Observatory, a computational pipeline for tracking framing and agenda-setting dynamics in French rolling news coverage. Part of the same King’s College London Digital Humanities seminar series as the 2 September session, this talk explores how computational methods can surface patterns in how continuous news frames issues over time. Register in advance to receive the online joining link. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-laudisi-observatory-a-computational-pipeline-for-framing-and-agenda-dynamics-in-french-continuous-news 

Deadline: Register by 1 September 2026 

ONB Labs Symposium: “Collections as Data – Biases as Data” 

Date: 9–10 November 2026   |   Location: Oratorium of the Austrian National Library, Josefsplatz 1, Vienna 

The fourth ONB Labs Symposium brings together GLAM and Labs practitioners to address bias in cultural heritage data, spanning gender, cultural, and algorithmic bias in collection, digitisation, and AI use, through presentation sessions, research reports, project presentations, and a panel discussion on mitigation practices. Free to attend but places are limited; a detailed programme and registration will follow on the ONB Labs website. Attendees can also catch the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow beforehand. 

More info: http://labs.onb.ac.at/en/ 

Training & Workshops 

WissKI How-to-Tutorial: Linked Open Data & Semantic Modelling 

Date: 29–30 September 2026   |   Location: Online 

A free, three-module tutorial (90 minutes each, over two days) run jointly by the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab and SODa, covering the fundamentals of ontology-based research data modelling using WissKI, an open virtual research environment built on Drupal. Modules cover introductory semantic modelling, ontology modelling with Protégé, and moving from diagram to WissKI implementation. Register for one, two, or all three modules depending on prior familiarity with the topic. 

More info: https://winoda.de/en/event/wisski-bits-how-to-tutorial/ 

Opportunities 

Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence — Call for Applications 

Date: Residency dates to be confirmed with award   |   Location: Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway 

The Arts Council and the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway are inviting mid-career and established digital artists to apply for the second year of this Digital Artist in Residence programme, part of the Arts Council’s Digital Arts Policy. The residency offers a stimulating environment and financial support, up to €18,000, to focus on digital arts practice, following a successful 2025 pilot programme. 

More info: https://artscouncil.ie/funding-opportunities/arts-council-digital-artist-in-residence-university-programme/arts-council-digital-artist-in-residence-at-university-of-galway/

Deadline: 11 September 2026, 17:30 

History and Art Journal — Call for Editors, Peer Reviewers & Copyeditors 

Date: Ongoing / rolling   |   Note: honorary, remote roles 

Following the launch of its inaugural volume, a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed annual journal deposited with the British Library and hosted via Zenodo/CERN, History and Art Journal is expanding its editorial structure and inviting scholars and heritage professionals to join as Section Editors, Peer Reviewers, or Copyeditors and Layout Designers. These are honorary roles offering editorial experience and named recognition in the journal’s permanent metadata. 

More info: https://www.historyandartjournal.org 

Other 

New Article: “Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives” 

Drawing on fifteen interviews with GLAM professionals and a computer-vision test on colonial photographs from the Archives Nationales d’Outre-mer, this open-access article by Jaillant, Kidd and Zhao proposes a framework combining automated triage, human review, clear labelling of AI-generated descriptions, and consultation with source communities for handling sensitive colonial archival images responsibly. Part of the British Academy-funded GENIAC project on AI and colonial archival images. 

More info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x 

Scholarly Editing, Volume 43 — New Issue Live 

The latest volume of Scholarly Editing, a small online journal focused on editorial practice and scholarly digital editing, is now live on a newly redesigned website. As always, the issue includes newly published micro-editions: small-scale digital editions of texts that have not been favoured by the established literary canon. The journal is open to hearing from anyone interested in submitting work of their own. 

More info: https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/ 

TaDiRAH Update — Session at EADH 2026 

Date: 16 September 2026, 9:00–10:30am   |   Location: Room 303, al. Mickiewicza 9b, Kraków (EADH 2026) 

As part of EADH 2026, a session on the continued development of TaDiRAH (Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities) will cover its governance, multilingual expansion, interoperability, and integration with the German data-competence centres HERMES and SODa. The presenters, Ksenia Stanicka-Brzezicka, Canan Hastik, and Marlon-Benedikt George, welcome anyone with an interest in TaDiRAH to join the discussion at the conference. 

More info: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/programme