Speakers

Dr Daniel Chávez Heras is a lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.  He 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.  Daniel works with cultural institutions such as the British Film Institute, the British Council and the BBC. He is the author of Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship (2024, Edinburgh University Press).  At King's he is a fellow of the digital Futures Institute, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Creative AI Lab and the Computational Humanties Research Group.