SLV LAB Conversations
SLV LAB Conversations
Playlist by SLV LAB ConversationsExplore emerging tech, digital experimentation and all things library-futures. SLV LAB is State Library Victoria's prototyping and innovation lab. We experiment with technology to open access to coll…10 clip(s) in playlist
The social life of mixed reality – Yoyo Munk
How can mixed reality technologies create emergent social experiences? Scientist-artist Yoyo Munk (US) joined SLV's Paula Bray and CEO Paul Duldig to discuss blending virtual geometries with shared physical space in their recent KAGAMI and Medusa projects. Yoyo asks how technological imperfections …
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Building better AI speech tech with global voices – Kathy Reid
Voice assistants and auto-captions are everywhere now, but they can quickly fall apart when someone speaks with an accent the system wasn’t trained to recognise, or in a language it rarely “hears”. In this episode of the SLV LAB Conversations podcast, we were joined by technologist, linguist and …
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Mapping Planetary AI – Kate Crawford [lecture recording]
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems pull data from across the internet, library databases and our online presence, it generates a significant change in our relationship with knowledge. But what do we really know about this pervasive technology? Do our societies have robust guardrails in place t…
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Mozilla Common Voice – Kathy Reid [lecture recording]
On 18 March 2026, Kathy Reid delivered a lecture at State Library Victoria exploring Mozilla Common Voice, language bias in speech tech and Mozilla Data Collective’s approach to ethical data stewardship for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. Kathy Reid works at the intersection of open so…
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How AI can help libraries – Ines Vodopivec [lecture recording]
“Artificial Intelligence is here. It’s not going to go away. We can hate it, we can refuse it, we can have doubts. But it’s here – and maybe we can use it for our own purposes and our own workflows in our institutions.” Dr Ines Vodopivec is convinced that AI (Artificial Intelligence) isn’t a novelt…
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Three decades of hacking and history – Tim Sherratt
From the dial‑up days of 1993 to today’s data‑rich cultural landscape, historian and technologist Tim Sherratt has been rewiring how we see public collections. In this SLV Lab Conversation with State Library Victoria's Chief Digital Officer Paula Bray, Tim retraces a 30-year career so far shaped by…
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Mapping colonial bushfires through historical newspapers – Fiannuala Morgan
We caught up with Dr Fiannuala (Finn) Morgan to talk about her fascinating project, Historic Fires Near Me – an experimental visualisation of nineteenth century bushfire reporting which forms part of her ongoing research reconstructing Australian bushfire records from 1850 to 1900. The idea was spa…
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Creating a more accessible online world – Scott Hollier
There's a common misconception that assistive technologies only benefit a few – namely those with special access needs. However, innovations like voice assistants, text-to-speech and captions are things most of us use everyday, and at some point in our lives we or someone we know will rely on assis…
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Rethinking Ethics in the Age of AI – Vanessa Bartlett & Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Galleries. Libraries. Archives. Museums. Every day, artists and cultural workers face tough ethical calls on AI. Could artists show us a new way forward? What if ethics wasn’t about ticking boxes, but about how we act, care and respond in the moment? In their new book Decentring Ethics: AI art as …
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Why do libraries need innovation labs? – Paula Bray
What does an innovation "lab" look like inside a library – and why do other cultural institutions like galleries, archives and museums need them now? On 1 May 2025, on the cusp of launching SLV LAB at State Library Victoria, Ana Tiquia (Head of Innovation and Research, State Library Victoria) and …
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