digital-media

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Beat the Oracle is a free-to-play World Cup 2026 prediction game where you go head-to-head with an algorithm. An "Oracle" — a prediction engine built on 125 years of international football results — has already simulated the entire tournament. It rates all 48 teams, decides every match with a single probability formula, and runs the…

Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, is set to open in downtown L.A. on June 20. Arriving as debate about AI reaches new heights, Dataland seeks to place an experience of the natural world squarely in the digital realm.

Editors’ Summary: This article uses two case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of newly developed algorithms designed to detect rhyme within the ELTE Poetry Corpus, which includes the complete works of 53 canonical Hungarian poets. The author used this rhyme pattern detecting algorithm to generate a rhyming dictionary of Hungarian poetry, as well as an […]

This spring, six CDH Graduate Fellows arrived with their research in progress, asking six different questions across multiple disciplines ranging from History and Comparative Literature to Music and English. Their findings? Working with data and computational methods rarely unfolded the way they expected, and while oftentimes arduous, the labor uncovered “strange and beautiful” discoveries. "We a…

This project analyzes how sports broadcasting has evolved amid major technological, economic, and legal shifts. It examines the rise of streaming platforms, the fragmentation of viewing options, and the financial pressures reshaping production models and regional networks. This study was done by conducting interviews with individuals who are directly involved in the industry and have insight into…

The rapidly evolving relationship between technology, journalism, media, and democratic societies presents some of the most important challenges and opportunities of our time. From artificial intelligence and digital platforms to data governance, misinformation, civic engagement, and public interest technology, addressing these issues requires collaboration across disciplines, professions, and co…

These are expanded notes from a talk I gave at composition.codes on December 21, 2025. Slides here. Video here. SaySynth is a synthesizer I built on top of macOS’s text-to-speech framework — more popularly known as the say command. But to explain why I built it and why I think it matters, I want to take a detour through the history of speaking machines more broadly. A Typology of Speaking Machine…

Record-breaking box office for Backrooms and Obsession has opened the door for twentysomething YouTube creators as the industry rethinks what audiences want At this time last year, the idea of a wide-release feature film-maker cutting their teeth on YouTube was, if not unheard of, certainly still a niche origin story. Siblings Michael and Danny Philippou had just released Bring Her Back , the fol…

In the newsletter: Our global writers share the shows captivating local audiences, from Côte d’Ivoire’s hottest soap to the next best thing out of Canada since Heated Rivalry • Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s high time for another of our occasional glances at what the world is watching; the TV popular on the beats covered by some of the Guardian’s many global corres…

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate immersive storytelling environment quality in hospitality, tourism, and event contexts. As immersive storytelling has become increasingly adopted to create engaging and interactive experiences, it has gained importance as a strategy for enhancing visitor engagement and experience design. Despite its practical relevance, immersive storytelling rem…

Harlem Renaissance author, anthropologist, and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God . As part of the modern American literary canon, Their Eyes Were Watching God is assigned in countless secondary and post-secondary classrooms across the United States each year. Yet students find the book difficult to understand and educators find…

The Perimeter, London Testicles have faces and a fox licks a phallus as the French artist mixes online anxiety, family life and saucy erotica in works charged with meaning Camille Henrot used to deal with the vast and unknowable. She used to ask the big questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Why do we do what we do? Her 2014 show at the Chisenhale in London was about the origins of humanit…

The latest in the art world reflects a moment of rapid transformation across museums, auction houses, galleries, and… The post The Latest in the Art World: Auction Records, Digital Museums, and Global Art Market Shifts appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

As part of a growing anti-tech movement, startup dumb.co is pushing flip phones as a way for young people to find ‘social and spiritual freedom’ “They aren’t as dumb as they look,” our facilitator said, referring to the dark gray flip phone in his hand. He just as easily could have been talking about us, the 28 New York residents before him who had signed up to use the device for the entire month…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07747-2 The application of modern digital immersive experience in art: analysis of the emotional experience feedback of visitors in different cultural contexts

I recently built a project called Hot Game Hub — a gaming website that combines structured game pages with editorial-style content. Instead of focusing only on rankings or lists, the idea was to create a platform where users can both explore games and read related content in one place. In this post, I’ll share how it works and what I learned while building it. The Core Idea Most gaming websites t…

Galaxy Robot Park in South Korea hopes to attract tourists to concerts and fashion shows, but can robots ever replicate K-pop’s connection with fans? Four child-sized humanoid robots take the stage at an arena in eastern Seoul, and as the opening beats of a song by K-pop star G-Dragon begin, they start to dance. Arms swinging, legs stepping in sync, heads bobbing, wigs and baggy clothes swishing,…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07681-3 A hierarchical generative framework for the computational re-animation of Dunhuang dance

From synthpop to drum’n’bass, the company had a roster of edgy stars – and let them do what they wanted. As a new podcast is launched, artists and staff remember the extreme work environment ‘My eyes have started to fucking flicker because you just mentioned London Records,” says Goldie, having an involuntary physical reaction at the mere thought of his old label. “If a nightclub could be a recor…

Hamamatsu Corporation announced a new collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine of USC focused on real-world digital pathology workflow improvement.