Cases Studies on Digital Heritage in China by Chen Jing陈静

The speaker will share several digital heritage projects conducted by her team in the past five years, such as the restoration of Chinese traditional color, machine learning-based image analysis, and digital curation of artifacts based on metadata to discuss how digital visual knowledge production has reshaped the epistemology of cultural heritage.

About the Speaker:

Chen Jing陈静 is an Associate Professor of the School of Arts at Nanjing University and the founding member of the Innovation Center for Digital Humanities Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Social Science and Humanities of Nanjing University. Her current interest focuses on Digital Art and Digital Humanities, especially visual knowledge production with digital technology. She published essays in Chinese and English and curated exhibitions of painting, VR artworks, and Generative Art.

This session is supported in conjunction with the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society.

Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available on the ground floor of St. Cecilia’s Hall.

This event is generously supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences research themes initiative, Edinburgh Global, the Edinburgh Research Organisation, and Una Europa.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum, The University of Edinburgh, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom