AI’s capabilities to create visual art, music, stories, and videos are improving exponentially. AI can teach innovative new strategies, unknown to humans, in games such as chess or Go and promises to revolutionize human problem-solving. These advances motivate important questions relating to AI and Human Creativity. Join us at the 2024 Mellichamp Mind and Machine…
Professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has received a Guggenheim Foundation award for a book project titled The Curator as Culture Broker: Representing Africa in Global Contemporary Art. The book uses historiographical, art historical and social network analysis to interrogate how African artists and artworks are represented in the discourse of global contemporary art.
UCSB Center for Black Studies Research presents: Associate Professor Roberto Strongman“Black Digital Devotions: Ethno-Religious Transnationalism and Data Gathering in the Era of Pandemic Travel Restrictions”Tuesday, April 20, 2:00 PM This talk explores the creation of a virtual devotional space for the Black Christ of Portobelo that would enable an alternative continuation of the pilgrimages that…
There will be a joint Library Carpentry workshop with UC Merced, teaching the fundamentals of working with messy data. This workshop is geared toward learners in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and those who work with messy data. The lessons include Git/Bash, Regular Expressions, and OpenRefine. Learners will learn to: automate repetitive, boring, error-prone…
Mark your calendar: “Identifiable Individuals and Reality: What Do We Describe and Why” Dr. Martin Doerr, from Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) A talk from the Center for Spatial Studies Fall 2020 series, Knowledge Representation and GeoHumanities Tuesday, September 17 | 11:00 am The virtual talk will argue “that only a smaller…
UCSB Library’s Research Data Services (RDS) recently became a member of the Data Curation Network (DCN), a group of professionals from U.S. academic institutions and nonprofit data repositories who seek to improve researcher support through their collective expertise around data curation services. UCSB is now one of 12 DCN partner institutions in the network. Members…