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AI and the Headline Archive

Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

Description

Artists Tom Schofield, Sam Skinner and Nathan Jones from Torque Editions use artificial intelligence and speed reading technology to explore aspects of British Library nineteenth-century newspaper collections, focussing on headlines and story titles. This event will discuss how new discoveries can be made about human-computer reading capacity and media flows by applying artistic and ‘hacker’ techniques to historical data.
Period24/09/2020
Held atThe British Library, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Small Data
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Reading
  • archive