Videos #
Since June 2020, we had the great pleasure to host a substantial catalog of exemplary voices in Open Lab Seminar lectures and lab encounters, with a strong focus on ad-hoc discussion. The broad spectrum of perspectives and ideas presented and elaborated in this process feeds into an emerging constellation of relevant approaches in Cultural Data Analytics, which no single individual or small group of researchers could prescribe or define. The Open Lab Seminar voices, as listed below, were selected by the CUDAN community, and are complemented by the CUDAN team publications, as elaborated since 2020, and the 2023 CUDAN conference keynotes and peer-reviewed contributions.
So far 94 Open Lab Seminar sessions, typically of 2 hour length, are available on our Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@CUDANLab/videos
Less than a handful of Open Lab Seminar sessions have not been recorded, upon request by the speaker; these sessions are listed below for reference.
Video recordings of the 2023 CUDAN conference contributions are directly available via the conference page, now including direct links from individual contributions in the updated conference schedule.
2025 Spring Seminars #
Maria Rita D’Orsogna: America’s overdose crisis: A historical and data-driven perspective. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-05-26). VIDEO DETAILS
Marton Karsai: Socioeconomic patterns and their dynamics in social networks and language. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-05-12). VIDEO DETAILS
Maciej Eder: Computational Literary Studies: A gentle introduction. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-04-28). VIDEO DETAILS
Jorge Caballero: AI in Documentary Cinema: A Practical Approach Based on Artefacto Films Projects CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-04-21). [no recording] DETAILS
Atau Tanaka: Human Learning X Machine Learning. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-04-14). VIDEO DETAILS
Karl Friston: The physics of communication. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-04-07). VIDEO DETAILS
Theresa Heyd: Cringe: the sociolinguistics of digital affects. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-03-31). VIDEO DETAILS
Marta Bertolaso: Global Biodata Governance. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-03-24). VIDEO DETAILS
Andrea Baronchelli: From Local Interactions to Global Conventions. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-03-17). VIDEO DETAILS
Andrew Iliadis: Surveillance as a Service. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-03-10). VIDEO DETAILS
Taha Yasseri: Do We Discriminate Against AI Agents Based in Their ‘Gender’? CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-03-03). VIDEO DETAILS
Eliassi Rad: The Truth of the Matter in the Age of Generative AI. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-02-17). VIDEO DETAILS
David Sanchez: Sociolinguistics and Cultural Analytics with Twitter. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2025-02-10). VIDEO DETAILS
2024 Fall Seminars #
Iyad Rahwan: Machine Culture. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2024-12-16). VIDEO DETAILS
Alexandra Arkhipova: Necrospeech: Russian Talk and Silence in the Wartime. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2024-12-09). VIDEO DETAILS
Miriah Meyer: Troubling Visualization. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2024-12-02). VIDEO DETAILS
Vittorio Loreto: New scenarios for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2024-11-25). VIDEO DETAILS
Jevin West & Carl T. Bergstrom: Numbers, Statistics, and Algorithms: Seeing Through the BS. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2024-11-18). VIDEO DETAILS
2024 Spring Seminars #
Richard Rogers: Metapicturing: Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-05-27). [VIDEO] DETAILS
Mattias Röder: Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Music. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-05-20). VIDEO DETAILS
Sybille Krämer: The ‘cultural technique of flattening’ as creative potential. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-05-13). VIDEO DETAILS
Petter Törnberg: Simulating Social Media with Large Language Models. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-05-06). VIDEO DETAILS
Riccardo Gallotti et al. (Fondazione Bruno Kessler): Lab Encounter with the Complex Human Behavior lab. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-04-29). VIDEO DETAILS
Yusuke Sugano et al. (University of Tokyo): Lab Encounter with the Interactive Visual Intelligence Lab. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-04-15). VIDEO DETAILS
Clarisse Bardiot: Data in Context: Building Tools for Performing Arts Analytics. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-04-08). VIDEO DETAILS
James Evans: From Simulated Subjectivity to Collective Consciousness in Large Language Models. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-04-01). VIDEO DETAILS
David Kinney: Measuring Topical Distinctness in Stochastic Block Topic Models. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-03-25). VIDEO DETAILS
Dietmar Offenhuber: Autographic Design: the Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-03-11). VIDEO DETAILS
Almudena Nolasco Cirugeda: Unveiling socio-functional city activity through LBSN data. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-03-04). VIDEO DETAILS
Piotr Adamczyk: Cultural heritage collections: Will we ever have enough metadata? CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-02-26). VIDEO DETAILS
Daria Gritsenko: Algorithmic Governance - A Public Perspective. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-02-19). VIDEO DETAILS
Juan-Luis Suarez et al.: Lab Encounter with The Cultureplex Lab of Western University, Canada. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-02-12). VIDEO DETAILS
Michele Coscia: Leveraging Rich Node Data for Cultural Analytics. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2024-02-05). VIDEO DETAILS
2023 Fall Seminar #
Damiano Cerrone (UrbanistAI): Participatory Urban Planning. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-09-18). VIDEO [no details]
2023 Spring Seminars #
Luis Bettencourt: Culture and Innovation in Urban Networks. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-05-08). VIDEO DETAILS
Helle Sjøvaag was : Communication Infrastructures, Distribution Flows and Datafied Media Industries. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-04-24). VIDEO DETAILS
Nathan Schneider (metagov.org): What Could Community Governance Feel Like? CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-04-18). VIDEO DETAILS
Daria Morozova: Impact of Narratively Constructed Perceptions of AI on Creative Work. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-04-10). VIDEO DETAILS
Ana Clemente: Hedonic evaluation of multisensory objects. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-04-03). DETAILS
Dustin S. Stoltz: Finding the Body and Sound in Word Embeddings. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-03-20). VIDEO DETAILS
Eduardo G. Altmann: Complex-systems Approaches to Social Data. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-03-13). VIDEO DETAILS
Noshir Contractor: People Analytics. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-03-06). VIDEO DETAILS
Robin Mansell: Digital Governance: Comparing Myths and Practice. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2023-02-27). VIDEO DETAILS
Boris Müller & Ilias Kyriazis: Data Visualisations as Cultural Images. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-02-13). VIDEO DETAILS
Taylor Arnold & Lauren Tilton: Distant Viewing: Theory and Method. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2023-02-06). VIDEO DETAILS
2022 Fall Seminars #
Elaine Chew: At the Heart of Music: From Perception to Physiology Analytics. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-12-12). VIDEO DETAILS
Pascal Falter-Braun, Anne Ruxandra Carvunis, Jörg Menche & Maximilian Schich: Systems Biology meets Cultural Data Analytics. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-12-05). VIDEO [DETAILS](https://cudan.tlu.ee/events/https://cudan.tlu.ee/events/2022-12-05-Systems Biology meets Cultural Data Analytics/)
Emőke-Ágnes Horvát: Science on the Web: How networks bias academic communication online. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-11-21). VIDEO DETAILS
Armand Leroi: The Evolution of (Almost) Everything. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-11-14). VIDEO DETAILS
Andreas Fickers et al.: Lab encounter with C²DH Digital History Lab (Inside the Trading Zone). CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-11-07). VIDEO DETAILS
Kay O’Halloran: Reflections on the Digital Age and Future Directions for Semiotics Research. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-10-31). [no recording] DETAILS
Luba Elliott: AI Art: Finding its Place between Technology, Contemporary Art, and NFT. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-10-17). VIDEO DETAILS
Ted Underwood et al.: Lab encounter with iSchool at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-09-26). VIDEO DETAILS
Mike Kestemont & Folgert Karsdorp: Application of unseen species models to the survival of culture. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-09-19). VIDEO DETAILS
Jer Thorp: Time, Space and Place: How to Break All Of Data’s Rules. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-09-12). VIDEO DETAILS
2022 Spring Seminars #
Frank Schweitzer: Cultural Data Analytics - The Bigger Picture. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-05-09). VIDEO DETAILS
Quinn Dombrowski: Coding, Childcare, and Badly-Behaved Tools. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-05-02). VIDEO DETAILS
Julio M Ottino & Bruce Mau: Explaining The Nexus. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2022-04-25). VIDEO DETAILS
Anne Kandler: From pattern to process. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-04-18). VIDEO DETAILS
Johan Lind et al.: Lab Encounter with Centre for Cultural Evolution Stockholm. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-04-11). VIDEO DETAILS
Sabine Süsstrunk: Visual Computing: Facts, Fakes, and Fiction. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-04-04). VIDEO DETAILS
Marc Barthelemy: Urban Science: a statistical physics perspective. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-03-21). VIDEO DETAILS
Martin Rosvall et al.: Lab encounter with Integrated Science Lab of Umeå University. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-03-14). VIDEO DETAILS
Arianna Salazar Miranda: Urban Analytics and City Design. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-03-07). VIDEO DETAILS
Yamir Moreno, Ciro Cattuto, et al.: Lab Encounter with Institute for Scientific Interchange Torino. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-02-28). VIDEO DETAILS
Jason Potts: Blockchain in Creative Industries. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2022-02-21). VIDEO DETAILS
Nancy Baym: The Future of Tensions at Work. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2022-02-07). VIDEO DETAILS
2021 Fall Seminars #
Isabel Meirelles: Data visualization in context. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-12-13). VIDEO DETAILS
Stefano Balietti: Experimental Markets for Creative Production. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-12-06). VIDEO DETAILS
Pan Hui & Lik-Hang Lee: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Metaverse. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-11-22). VIDEO DETAILS
Filippo Menczer: 4 Reasons Why Social Media Make Us Vulnerable to Manipulation. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-11-08). VIDEO DETAILS
Elizabeth Bruch: How Cities Shape Our Romantic Lives. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-11-01). [no recording] DETAILS
Stefania Milan: Citizen agency in the datafied society. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-10-25). VIDEO DETAILS
Simon Kirby: Cultural Evolution in the Lab shows how Language is Built. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-10-11). VIDEO DETAILS
Indrek Ibrus: Where is metadata coming from? CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-10-04). VIDEO DETAILS
Santiago Ortiz: Network Storytelling: in search of a new cultural medium. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-09-27). VIDEO DETAILS
Roberto Trasarti: SoBigData.eu: European Research Infrastructure for Big Data and Social Mining. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-09-20). VIDEO DETAILS
Denny Vrandečić: Building an Abstract Wikipedia. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-09-13). VIDEO DETAILS
John D. Boy & Justus Uitermark: On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-09-06). VIDEO DETAILS
2021 Spring Seminars #
Lucy Kueng: Hearts and Minds Harnessing Leadership, Culture, and Talent to Really go Digital. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2021-05-04). [no recording] DETAILS
Jari Saramäki et al.: Lab encounter with Complex Systems Research Group at Aalto University. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-04-26). VIDEO DETAILS
Stefan Thurner: On the dynamics of social fragmentation. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-04-19). VIDEO DETAILS
Björn Ommer: Digital Humanities - Next Frontiers Beyond Digitization. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-04-12). VIDEO DETAILS
John Hartley, Indrek Ibrus, Maarja Ojamaa: On the Digital Semiosphere. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-03-29). VIDEO DETAILS
Tim Tangherlini: Automated Methods for Conspiracy Theory Detection in Archival and Social Media. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-03-08). VIDEO DETAILS
Ruth Ahnert: Big Data? Orders of magnitude in digital humanities projects. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-03-01). VIDEO DETAILS
David McClure: The Open Syllabus co-assignment Galaxy: Mapping embeddings and disciplines. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-02-15). VIDEO DETAILS
Deb Verhoeven: Kinomatics: Big Data goes to the Movies. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-02-08). VIDEO DETAILS
Sune Lehmann et al.: Lab encounter with DTU/SODAS Social Complexity Lab Copenhagen. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2021-02-01). VIDEO DETAILS
2020 Fall Seminars #
Lab encounter with Estonian Society for Digital Humanities members. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-12-07). VIDEO DETAILS
Yong-Yeol Ahn: Capturing Latent Socio-Cultural Structures Via Mobility Embedding. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-11-30). VIDEO DETAILS
Cassini Nazir: Designing Collective Aspirations & Collaboration. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-11-23). VIDEO DETAILS
CUDAN Open Lab: Bring Your Own Discussion topic (BYOD). CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-11-09). VIDEO DETAILS
Peter Sheridan Dodds: Computational History and the Stories Surrounding President Trump. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-11-02). VIDEO DETAILS
Lab encounter with Nanjing University Digital Humanities Initiative members. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-10-26). VIDEO DETAILS
Sandra Laugier et al.: Lab encounter with DEMOSERIES ADG ERC project. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-10-19). VIDEO DETAILS
Simon DeDeo: Sense-making at Scale! CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-10-12). VIDEO DETAILS
Pia Tikka: Managing narrative complexity within the enactive virtuality framework. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-10-05). VIDEO DETAILS
Thilo Gross: Cultural Analytics from an Ecological Physics Perspective. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar (2020-09-28). VIDEO DETAILS
Lev Manovich: What Does Data Want? CUDAN Open Lab Seminar keynote (2020-09-07). VIDEO DETAILS
