Creative Practice

Stage to Data project announces seminar series [online and in person, Paris]

The Arts and Cultural Data

This seminar explores the challenges and applications of this field for the study of the arts and cultural data. It is part of the European ERC project From Stage to Data, led by Clarisse Bardiot, and brings together two rapidly developing fields: digital art history and culture analytics.

The Arts and Digital Humanities seminar has three objectives: to explore the foundations of the digital humanities and their applications to the arts, particularly the performing arts; to analyze the scientific and ethical challenges of using digital data in research; and to introduce participants to the latest work in the field through presentations by recognized researchers. The program brings together specialists in the digital arts and humanities with historians, philosophers and researchers in the humanities whose work directly informs our discussions. Each year, an artist is also invited to present a practice related to digital technology.

The seminar is aimed at Master’s and PhD students, as well as artists and cultural professionals. No previous experience in data analysis is required. The sessions, which last two hours and are sometimes held in English, take place both in person and online (via Zoom). The presentation (lasting approximately one hour) is followed by a discussion and then a social gathering.

The sessions will be recorded and made available on the From Stage to Data website and YouTube channel: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr

The full program is available at the following address: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr/en/events/arts&HN/

19/10 – Andreas Aristidou, University of Cyprus, CYENS Center of Excellence

Performing Arts in the Digital Age: Capture, Analysis, Visualization, and Interaction with XR Technologies

02/11 – Peter Broadwell & Michael Rau, Stanford University

Reworking Similarity and Consensus in Pose-Based Analyzes of Theater Recordings

23/11 – Nick Crossley, University of Manchester

Investigating Event Networks

07/12 – Pantelis Michelakis, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

Patterns of Performance: Computational Audiovisual Analysis and the Transformation of Theater Historiography

18/01 – Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University

Pressing Matters: Artificial intelligence, natural history, and co-creation using cultural data

01 / 02 – Ulla Kallenbach, University of Bergen & Anna Lawaetz, Royal Danish Library

The theatrical gaze and digital humanities: text, performance, archives

22/02 – Johanna Drucker, UCLA

Affective, Experiential, and other Non-Standard Metrics for Visualization in the Humanities

15/03 – Nicola Carboni, University of Illinois

From Pixels to Context: knowledge graphs for visual objects

05/04 – Pierre Couprie, University of Évry Paris-Saclay

The musicologist’s digital laboratory: from instrumented listening to multimodal analysis environments

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