The workshop will introduce the method of distant viewing for analyzing digital images. We will start with looking at how pixels form images, then turn to how we can analyze the pixels using computer vision. We will use a combination of ready-made tools including the Distant Viewing Explorer and Python programming. The workshop assumes no coding experience.
Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond. She specializes in computational approaches to studying 20th- and 21st-century visual culture. Her most recent co-authored books include Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (MIT Press), Humanities Data in R 2nd Edition (Springer) and Computational Humanities (University of Minnesota Press). Tilton's award-winning scholarship has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Mellon. She is editor-in-chief of Computational Humanities, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press. She is President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) — the scholarly association for digital humanities in the United States — and president of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO), the global DH association.