Daniel Chávez Heras

Daniel Chávez Heras

Lecturer (≈Assistant Professor) in Digital Culture and Creative Computing

King's College London

About

Daniel specialises in the computational production and analysis of visual culture. His research combines critical frameworks in the history and theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine learning technologies.

He has worked extensively in interdisciplinary design and creative industries, in Mexico and in the UK, with cultural institutions such as The British Council, and the BBC. He was senior research fellow at the Cultural Analytics Open Lab in Estonia, and is now Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where he is also part of the Computational Humanities Group, and research fellow at the Creative AI Lab, in partnership with the Serpentine Gallery.

Research themes and interests

  • Creative AI and interdisciplinary design
  • Synthetic media and generative approaches in computational humanities
  • Machine vision in moving image and media studies
  • Critical Technical Practice, systems literacy, and computing cultures

Scroll below for my publications and talks . Or, for a more agile approach and the latest updates, take a look at my public notes.

Projects

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The Shape of Computer Vision

A Pytorch implementation of a focal lenght classifier using EXIF data
The Shape of Computer Vision

Logia de los 7 Pixeles

Long-form video series of informal conversations on art and technology
Logia de los 7 Pixeles

FOFA

The first online short-film festival in Mexico: Festival Online Futuros Astimétricos
FOFA

Estudio PEC

Mini-documentary about the architecture firm Estudio PEC in Mexico City
Estudio PEC

Lost and Found

Short film created from urban exploration and found footage
Lost and Found

Travelogue no.1

Short film about travelling and living in-between cities
Travelogue no.1

Teaching

 
 
 
 
 

Modules convened

King’s College London

Sep 2022 – Present London, UK
  • Interdisciplinary Design
  • AI and Society (with Mercedes Bunz)
  • User-centered Research
  • Data Visualisation
 
 
 
 
 

Modules taught

King’s College London

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 London, UK
  • Introduction to Programming in the Humanities (Python)
  • Online Networks and Social Media
  • Digital Politics
 
 
 
 
 

Modules taught

UAEMex

Sep 2015 – Dec 2016 Estado de México
  • Practice-based Arts Research
  • Digital Animation
 
 
 
 
 

Modules taught

Tec de Monterrey

Sep 2011 – Aug 2015 Estado de México
  • New Media Aesthetics
  • Sound Design
  • Visual Narrative

Contact

  • daniel.chavez [at] kcl.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)20 7848 6261
  • Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS