Digital Innovation & Creativity in Arts and Humanities Research

Digital Innovation & Creativity in Arts and Humanities Research

Sessions

Lightning Talks: Current Directions in Digital Innovation & Creativity in AHSS Research

Panel Discussion: “The future of digital innovation & creative technologies in AHSS research at University of Galway”

 

1:30        Words of welcome             Prof. Dan Carey

1:40

Lightning Presentations: 3 mins/3 slides

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Presentation 1

Prof. Marie Louise Coolahan;

Funding: ERC Consolidator Project;

RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early modern Women’s Writing, 15501700 is a research project about the impact of women writers and tehir works in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries.

Link: https://recirc.universityofgalway.ie

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Presentation 2

Dr. Mairéad Ní Chroinín

Funding: Arts Council of Ireland

Designing mechanics to encourage practices of ‘ecological perception’ through digital performance.

Through a Theatre Artist in Residence grant from the Arts Council of Ireland, in partnership with Nuns Island Theatre and the Moore Institute, I am exploring how interactive, immersive performances created with digital technologies can change our understanding of how we are connected with the environment around us.  This builds on the argument developed by Laura Sewall (ecopyschologist) that we must ‘practice’ different ways of paying attention to our bodies and the world around us in order to connect with the ways in which we are a part of, rather than separate from, the ecosystem in which we live.  Sewall argues that fostering this new ‘ecological perception’ is crucial to changing the negative human behaviours that have contributed to the environmental and climate crises.

In this project I am exploring the ways in which digital technologies such as sensor technologies, responsive audio, and mixed and virtual reality allows us to create performance mechanics that encourage the audience member to physically ‘practice’ these new forms of ‘ecological perception’.

 

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Presentation 3

Dr. Pat Collins

Measuring Place Resonance

Presentation 4

Dr. Conn Holohan

Funding: IRC (2019, 2022), SFI Discover (2023)

Immersive Empathy

Using Immersive Technologies to communicate the experience of homelessness – the objective of the project is to explore Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) immersive experiences in collaboration with clients from the Galway Simon Community to look at how we can capture and convey aspects of the experience of homelessness

Link: https://iempathy.universityofgalway.ie

 

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Presentation 5

Dr. Jacopo Bisagni – presented by Dr. Sarah Corrigan, postdoctoral researcher on the project.

Funding: IRC Laureate

IRCABRITT Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission.  The project explores the intellectual exchanges between Ireland, Brittany and Francia during the Carolingian age (c. AD 750–1000).

Link: https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie

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Presentation 6

Dr. Justin Tonra

Funding: European Assoc for Digital Humanities

Eververse was a yearlong project which synthesised perspectives from the humanities and sciences to develop critical and creative explorations of poetry and poetic identity in the digital age. Deploying tools and methods from poetic theory, data processing and analysis, and Natural Language Generation (NLG), Eververse used data from a quantified self device to automatically generate and publish poetry which correlated with the poet’s varying physical states.

Link: https://eververse.nuigalway.ie

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Presentation 7

Marie Boran – Archivist, James Hardiman Library

Funding:  IRC and Heritage Council

Irish Landed Estates project is running since 2005. It aims to create a signpost for those wishing to know more about landed estates in Ireland, c.1700-c.1914. It includes a short description of the estate with details of the families who owned it and any Big Houses. A principal element are the references to the location of archival and printed sources which provide more information on the estate.

Data for 11 counties in Connacht and Munster is currently available while work is nearing completion on three Ulster counties, Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan. The database, including an interactive map, is available at https://landedestates.ie/.

Link: https://landedestates.ie

 

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Presentation 8

Dr. Seán Crosson

Funding: CASSCS Strategic Research Development Scheme

Sport and European Cinema: This web resource has developed from ongoing research by Dr. Seán Crosson of the depiction of sport in film and is dedicated to capturing the extraordinary story of how sport has featured across the history of European cinema – and the fascinating insights relevant productions give us today into the development of specific sports, national cultures and European society more broadly. On this platform visitors will find an extensive database of primarily European fiction films featuring sport dating back to the first fiction production from 1910, Rogues of the Turf (UK), and includes relevant links to further databases (both international and national), information and (in some cases) streaming possibilities. The database will also allow visitors to explore data visualisations of some of the information gathered there, including with regard to time of release, country, associated genre and production company. In addition to the database, the platform also hosts case studies based on the research materials gathered, a list of relevant project publications, a bibliography of relevant texts on the subject of sport in the cinema, and a blog (that we welcome new entries to). Learning resources are currently being developed as part of a related EC funded project ‘Film Corner’.

Link: https://sportandfilm.eu

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Presentation 9

An tOll Rióna Ní Fhrighil presented by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Research Assistant on the project.

Funding: IRC Laureate

Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry (RoC) is an IRC-funded research project that examines how Irish poets respond to international human rights violations and crises in their poetry. RoC proposes a multilingual understanding of ‘Irish poetry’ and includes poems composed in Irish or in English as well as poems translated into Irish or English in the 20^th and 21^st century.

A significant output is an open-access, searchable database with details of relevant poems collected to date.

Link: https://roc.nuigalway.ie (In Progress)

 

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2:15  Panel Discussion

“The future of digital innovation & creative technologies in Arts and Humanities research

at University of Galway”

Chair:   Dr. Paul Dodd, Vice President for Engagement

Panellists:

• Dr. Pádraic Moran – Current IRC Laureate PI of project Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts (GLOSSAM), Co-ordinator of the Digital Humanities Research Group within the Moore Institute/CASSCS.
• Dr. Erin McCarthy – Current IRC Laureate PI of “STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1558–1660” and incoming ERC Coordinator PI of ‘Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700 (STEMMA)’.
• Dr. Conn Holohan, Director of the Centre for Creative Technologies and PI of the IRC funded Immersive Empathy Project.
• Prof. Rebecca Braun – Executive Dean, CASSCS
• David Kelly – Digital Humanities Manager, Moore Institute

2:50

Networking – Tea/Coffee