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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

@dinp.bsky.social referred to women working on the Synchotron as the invisible hands or scanning girls which reminds me of the practice of thanking female ‘secretaries’ who contributed to scientific publications without proper recognition. #SHOT2025

Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 16d

Through interviews & re-enactments, Pfau confirmed sharply gendered & hierarchical labor practice at the Synchotron. Despite division of workspaces, expertise wasn't strictly compartmentalized. While this work enriches our understanding of experimental practice, it is highly case dependent #SHOT2025

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 16d

Through interviews & re-enactments, Pfau confirmed sharply gendered & hierarchical labor practice at the Synchotron. Despite division of workspaces, expertise wasn't strictly compartmentalized. While this work enriches our understanding of experimental practice, it is highly case dependent #SHOT2025

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

Sebastian Doering introduces the maison du son which will open in Petange in 2028. Applying a media archaeology object oriented approach combined with topic oriented storytelling. Functional preservation is used to conserve, repair, restore, reconstruct, digitise, and virtualise sounds 📻 #SHOT2025

Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

I understand your reaction and value your perspective, so I’m sorry to tell you that the person you are referring to was wearing it because of the bad air quality in the room, not Covid. The Belval campus is toxic if you work there 8+ h/day due to it being built on a former industrial site I learned

Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

@sarambsimon.bsky.social is presenting about the system surrounding the invention of punch cards (Hollerith & Billings) in the 1890s US census in a session organized by @marhicks.bsky.social. It’s technological success vs administrative disaster/infrastructural failure. #SHOT2025

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

Nice (and even better than my) summary of an amazing session @shothisttech.bsky.social

Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 16d

And now it's time for an afternoon session on "The Analog in Migration: When the World Embraced Multimedia."

Our first speakers are Alina Volynskaya & Fed Pailler (@uni.lu) who describe the CD-HIST project, which looks at the analog-to-digital transition through the lens of the CD-ROM. #SHOT2025

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

Yseul Byeon discussed the format of a Korean television program called ‘Finding my Dispersed Family’. The producer wanted to create an apolitical tv show which led to accidental organic growth of a family search campaign. The program led to a government managed database now including DNA matches.

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

Theodore Gordon author of ‘The Composers Black Box’ discussed electronic music as a new medium for composers in the 1960s. He showed experiments with electronic equipment using magnetic tape and reflected on theories about the medium as the message @shothisttech.bsky.social

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 16d

💿 Aline Volynskaya and Fred Pailler research the history of the CD(-ROMS) @c2dh.uni.lu supervised by @valeriesch.bsky.social. They consider multimedia as a Gesamtkunstwerk and the CD as a medium to possess and hold multimedia whereby it functions as a (passive) container. Fascinating evolution!

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 17d

@lukestark.bsky.social works on‘Reordering Emotion: Histories of Computing and Human Feelings from Cybernetics to AI’ (MIT press, 2027) juxtaposing Wiener’s Cybernetics (1949) influenced by psychology with the omission of emotion from CS at Darthmouth’s AI project (1956) @shothisttech.bsky.social

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 17d

Elizabeth Petrick’s history of AI agents used HCI to research the 1990s Apple spinoff General Magic developing internet smart agents for devices such as the Sony Magic Link using a desktop metaphor as the interface to a network of communication where agents interacted independently with other agents

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 17d

@aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social talks about the conceptualisation of AI winters or lack thereof as “boom-and-bust cycles” that are “perspective dependent” @shothisttech.bsky.social

Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 18d

“I blink therefore I am” - @tamikothiel.bsky.social on the Thinking Machine’s Connection Machine’s translucent panels showing the status lights next to the chips inside the machine. @shothisttech.bsky.social

Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · 18d

So happy to join the conference @shothisttech.bsky.social again organised at the @c2dh.uni.lu, my alma mater. First session by @tamikothiel.bsky.social.

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · Sep 5

In an exploration of tools for enriching textual and visual data I was invited to present Madoc. Cultural Heritage institutions, researchers and students looking for support in creating projects in Madoc or applying for grants employing Madoc, feel free to get in touch!

CLARIAH-VL+ @clariahvl.bsky.social · Jun 17

🗓️ The program featured 4 platforms offering unique solutions for textual & visual data in DH research:
🔍 1. Madoc (Dr. @sytzevh.bsky.social): a collaborative crowdsourcing annotation platform built on #IIIF, enabling transcription, image segmentation, metadata enrichment, OCR correction, ... #Madoc

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · Sep 5

After working on linking the Dutch Civil Registry in collaboration with @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social at CLARIAH-NL I'm hoping to continue working on a linking belgian person observations. Reactions to the idea at the DHBeNeLux conference were positive!

CLARIAH-VL+ @clariahvl.bsky.social · Jun 5

At the poster session, Els Lefever, Cynthia Van Hee (@uantwerpen.be) & @sytzevh.bsky.social presented their research on the LeTTuce PoS-Tagger (a CLARIAH-VL SIC), an innovation in multilingual NLP, and on publishing and linking Belgian person observations using citizen science…

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Sytze Van Herck @sytzevh.bsky.social · Sep 5

First time appearing as an expert in Digital Humanities where it all started, celebrating 10 Years of the Digital Humanities Master at KULeuven. What a great trajectory it has been so far.

CLARIAH-VL+ @clariahvl.bsky.social · May 26

After an introduction of the Advanced Master’s (with reference to @dariaheu.bsky.social WG efforts on DH employment & job profiles), M. Fantoli first presented NIKAW (detecting Ancient World People) and then moderated an expert panel (with Julie Birkholz & @sytzevh.bsky.social) about DH scholarship

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