Lauren Tilton

Every Shot, Zero-Shot: The Decoupling of Framing and Duration in Sound-Era Hollywood and Prestige Film

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

We study the visual pacing of 1,236 feature films from three overlapping film corpora: the Academy Award Best Picture nominees (1927–2009), the corresponding ten highest-grossing films in the United States in the same time period (1927–2009), and the British Film Institute's Greatest …

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Every Shot, Zero-Shot: The Decoupling of Framing and Duration in Sound-Era Hollywood and Prestige Film

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

We study the visual pacing of 1,236 feature films from three overlapping film corpora: the Academy Award Best Picture nominees (1927–2009), the corresponding ten highest-grossing films in the United States in the same time period (1927–2009), and the British Film Institute's Greatest …

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Sitcom Form and Function: Pacing and Production in a Collection of Thirty U.S. Series

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Using an original corpus of thirty U.S. situational comedies (sitcoms) spanning over 4,500 episodes, we investigate how visual and aural pacing evolve over time and across modes of production. We find a clear trend toward faster pacing in visual editing, spoken dialogue, …

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Seeing Formalism or Formal Viewing: Computational Formalism for the Analysis of Visual Media Forms and Contexts

Lauren Tilton, Justin Wigard

By Lauren Tilton, Justin Wigard. In this article, the authors revisit published work and explore forthcoming research to demonstrate computational formalist studies of history, culture, and context in visual media (particularly television, photography, and comics).

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Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities

Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren et autres

Abstract We present the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, a new publication designed to host open-access, peer-reviewed proceedings from digital humanities (broadly defined) conferences and workshops. The Anthology provides a home for conference proceedings, offering essential structures such as DOIs and …

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Distant viewing archives

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting

Lauren Tilton

In Shadow of the New Deal, Josh Shepperd sheds light on reforming public media during the 1930s and 1940s. While the significant loss of educational radio stations in 1934 risked public radio's future, an alliance of radio experts, scholars, professional organizations, and …

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Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research

Lauren Klein, Meredith Martin, André Brock, Maria Antoniak et autres

The effects of generative AI are experienced by a broad range of constituencies, but the disciplinary inputs to its development have been surprisingly narrow. Here we present a set of provocations from humanities researchers -- currently underrepresented in AI development -- intended …

Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform

Tim van der Heijden, Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Distant Viewing the Amateur Film Platform See https://www.amateurfilmplatform

Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

In the 1970s, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sponsored Documerica, a large-scale photography initiative to document environmental subjects nation-wide. While over 15,000 digitized public-domain photographs from the collection are available online, most of the images were scanned from damaged copies of …

Explainable Search and Discovery of Visual Cultural Heritage Collections with Multimodal Large Language Models

Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton

Many cultural institutions have made large digitized visual collections available online, often under permissible re-use licences. Creating interfaces for exploring and searching these collections is difficult, particularly in the absence of granular metadata. In this paper, we introduce a method for using …

Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning, by Amanda Wasielewski

Lauren Tilton

Little attention has yet been paid to how computers “view” art despite the growing cultural importance of machine vision technologies. Putting in conversation the work of computer scientists and art historians, Amanda Wasielewski, a digital humanist and art historian at Uppsala University, …