Below is the English translation of your peer review text. I have kept the content unchanged and only rendered it in clear, natural academic English with consistent terminology. The most obvious strength of the blog is that the project does not move forward mechanically along a fixed path, but instead adjusts its methods actively as […]

Claude and I have been working together to do more stuff since my first blog post about Claude. We’ve added a whole lot of new things to our prototype Survey of Scottish Witchcraft site including a chatbot to ask questions about the data (a challenge received by Lesley Greer), ‘stories’ …

Week 2    Thoughts On Aesthetics and Politics 🐦Reflections following the lecture and the exhibition This week’s lecture on aesthetics and politics remind me of an exhibition I visited recently, Resistance, at Modern Two in Edinburgh. The exhibition focus on “How protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest”. It brought together works by thousands of […]

By Barbara Suim, from The Netherlands, studying MSc Comparative Literature Year of study: First year Accommodation: Private Work: Part-time student ambassador Day one On Friday, I returned from a trip to find my fridge in need of a restock. I like to cook at home and eat as healthily as my budget allows, which does mean I have to split my grocery shopping across three stops: the Real Foods store for organic products such as […]

In light of the reflective time of the awards season for film, Yasmeena Sulaiman looks at how even though the BAFTA awards have not always been an indicator of how the Oscars will go, the 2023 Academy Awards is different. Mar 19, 2023

1.Introduction: From Looking to Perceiving At the beginning of this semester, my understanding of the countermeasure exhibition is mainly at the level of visual arrangement: selecting works, placing them in space, and creating meaning through sorting. This assumption began to shift during a visit to the SSA 127th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, where […]