Join us for a free lecture and workshop about how computers view and how can we harness AI to view images at scale.
Workshop: Distant Viewing Explorer
Date: 20 May 2025
Time: 10am-12pm
Led by Lauren Tilton & Taylor Arnold, University of Richmond
This workshop will focus on DV Explorer (distantviewing.org/dvexplorer), which introduces the ways computer vision and related-AI technologies can support the analysis of images. We will end with how one can scale up their analysis using DVScripts (distantviewing.org/dvscripts), a guide to using python for distant viewing.
Register using this form https://forms.office.com/e/du976MqZWv
Lecture: Distant Viewing and the Multimodal Turn
Date: 21 May 2025
Time: 3.15-5pm
Management School – Lecture Theatre 3
Lauren Tilton and Taylor Arnold, University of Richmond
How do computers view? How can we harness AI to view images at scale?
Distant viewing offers a theory and method for the large-scale analysis of images using computer vision. This talk will introduce the concept and then turn to specific AI methods for the analysis of images. We will then turn to how distant viewing can support multimodal analysis, specifically looking at multimodal large language models.
Learn more about Tilton and Arnold’s work:
- Distant Viewing Lab: https://distantviewing.org/
- Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton, Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images. MIT Press, 2023, https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546133/distant-viewing/
Organised by Lancaster University Data Science Institute & Centre for Digital Humanities and N8CIR.
These events are generously co-sponsored by N8 CIR, who will provide travel bursaries to students and colleagues from N8 institutions to attend the lecture and/or workshop. Please apply at https://n8cir.org.uk/training-and-events/upcoming-events/n8-cir-bursaries/.