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

@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

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

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.

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

💿 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!

@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

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

@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

“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

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.

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!

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!

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.