Sculpting Time with Computers Workshop

Abstract

This workshop brought together a group of researchers in the fields of digital and computational humanities, computer vision, film, digital preservation and archives, cultural history, and creative computing, to explore together emerging computational approaches to the study of time in moving images. Over two days, we onsidered the modelling of moving images as computational artefacts, and reflected on the past, present, and future of computational moving image studies. We discussed and actively experimented with several ways of encoding the flows of moving images in time: from shot lengths measurements to high-dimensional representations, we explored computational techniques that might afford new perspectives on the constitution and analysis of cinematic time.