Set between the Culture Futures Lab’s “Hacking the Asian Waves” and Mechademia 2026, we had the opportunity to attend the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium on May 28 at the National University of Singapore. The symposium was organized by Bertha Chin, Michelle Ho, and Weiyu Zhang. Two packed parallel sessions provided broad and rich insights into contemporary fan studies within the Southeast and East Asian research communities. The plenary session featuring Anthony Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lori Morimoto (Temple University Japan), and Wikanda Promkhuntong (Mahidol University) provided a more casual and personal, yet still serious, discussion on the directions and futures of transcultural fandoms in East and Southeast Asia.
Continue reading “The JVMG-Project at the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium”Announcing the Hacking the Asian Waves event
We are excited to announce that we will be participating in the second Culture Futures Incubator: Experimenting with VR, AI & data tools for speculative prototyping event of the Culture Futures Lab at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore titled Hacking the Asian Waves: Shaping Cultural Flows in the Global Cultural Imagination organized by Natalia Grincheva.
The event will feature three sprints alongside each other. Sprint one will be Where Dragons Wander. Remediating Chinese Motifs through VR led by Benedict Yu & Amber Yin. Sprint two is going to be Will the Korean Wave Crash? Traversing (Anti-) Hallyu Geographies headed by Natalia Grincheva. And third, our collaboration with Sheuo Hui Gan – adding a large-scale data view to her theoretical framework of the visual clash – will be the sprint Visual Clash: Remaking the Everyday through Anime’s Grammar led by Sheuo Hui Gan, Magnus Pfeffer & Zoltan Kacsuk.
The event will take place on the 26th of May at LASALLE College of the Arts, UAS, and is free to attend, but pre-registration is required, so please register here to take part.
Second JVMG Lab in Kyoto
Following the success of the first JVMG Lab in Stuttgart we are happy to report that a second JVMG Lab has now also been held at the end of February in Kyoto at Ritsumeikan University with participants from various universities and institutions in Japan.
First JVMG Lab in Stuttgart
The very first JVMG Lab event was held at Stuttgart Media University on November 20-21. We had twelve brave and curious participants join us from all across Europe and beyond to explore how the JVMG knowledge graph could be utilized for their research questions and interests.
Report on the JVMG Manga Metadata Workshop
– A report by Saskia Dreßler –
In the last week of June we held a workshop at Stuttgart Media University on the various questions related to developing a manga metadata framework suited for manga research. We had participating researchers from Europe, Japan and even Latin America, all coming from different areas of the arts, humanities and digital humanities and dealing with the topic of manga from different angles. The aim of the workshop was to examine a range of manga research from the perspective of the type of metadata that would be required to facilitate such work as well as discuss the current state of available metadata frameworks and data for information on manga and its contents.
JVMG Project Phase One Wrap-Up Workshop
Last week of January we had a fantastic experience hosting the JVMG project phase one wrap-up workshop at Stuttgart Media University with an amazing line-up of collaborators and supporters, some of whom have already contributed to the success of the project over the past three and a half years and others who we are hoping to work and collaborate with going forward. But what made this workshop so special was the lively dialogue between so many different backgrounds and interests, from the representatives of the online enthusiast communities, through academic research librarians, developers and researchers working on various digital humanities and large scale database projects in musicology, literary and fan studies and Japanese media, to researchers from game and media studies, anime and manga research, Japanese studies and even law, from all across Europe, Japan and even North America.
JVMG Project Phase One Wrap-Up Workshop Announcement
We are very much looking forward to welcoming a number of invited guests to Stuttgart for our Phase One Wrap-Up Workshop of the JVMG project on January 27-28.
Continue readingWorkshop on Digital Humanities, Linked Open Data and Games Research at Stuttgart Media University
On the 15th of August we held a small one-day workshop on the topics of digital humanities, linked open data and games research at Stuttgart Media University with colleagues from Leipzig University as well as a researcher from France starting work at Ritsumeikan University. The four presentations and the ensuing discussions revolved around some of the core interests of the JVMG project, but also offered interesting perspectives on potential future directions for expanding the project.
Taking part in the “Pimp your publication” workshop
On the 9th of April we had the pleasure of participating in the Pimp your publication: Potenzielle Einsatzszenarien von Graphentechnologien im digitalen Publizieren workshop co-organized by the two working groups Graphen & Netzwerke and Digitales Publizieren of the Verbandes Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Continue readingInformation Commons for Manga, Anime and Video Games, first meeting
We are very happy to report that we held the first Information Commons for Manga, Anime and Video Games meeting on the 12th of March. The participants of the meeting were present and former colleagues from the Ritsumeikan University Center for Game Studies in Kyoto working on the datasets for the Japanese Media Arts Database, members of the startup Animeshon from South Tyrol, and, of course, everyone from the JVMG project.
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