Dr Javier Pereda
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: J.Pereda@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 1972
I am a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration. I am currently in a secondment with Towards a National Collection (UKRI-AHRC) where I am part of the Programme Directorate. Towards a National Collection is a major national investment using digital technology to create a unified national collection of the UK’s museums, libraries, galleries and archives to maintain global leadership in digital humanities and art research. I am also the Co-Investigator for Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Indigenous and Spanish American Historical Collections (AHRC-NEH). This project seeks to lower these barriers by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into representative Indigenous and Spanish colonial archives in Mexico and the U.S. and training them to convert the "unreadable" archive into worldwide accessible data. The project has the potential to revolutionize how cultural institutions provide access to their colonial collections and how humanities researchers can undertake cutting-edge digital scholarship. I am part of the Europeana Tech group and a member of the International Committee for Museology of the International Council of Museums (ICOFOM-ICOM).
My research interests are deeply linked to heritage and culture. My areas of research focus on Latin American Studies, Film Studies, Human Information Interaction and Visualisation, as well as Masculinity in Culture. One of my most recent lines of research investigates how Tangible User Interfaces as part of Human-Computer Interaction can help users with low digital literacy to explore Semantic Web heritage collections. Furthermore, my research is deeply linked to the decolonisation of technologies in the cultural heritage sector and the production of narratives for subaltern cultures. I lead the Printeractive research group, where we explore the role of Interaction Design methods and their impact on the development of Art and Design practice. Our most recent research project Afrobits received a special commendation from the British Library for the best Artistic project and was shortlisted for the best research project award. Our team also came second in the People's Choice Awards.
📙 I am an editorial board member of the Radical Languages journal at the University of Atacama in Chile. We focus on the decolonisation of language and culture in academic environments. Please contact me if you would like to contribute. We receive articles in English and Spanish.
🎓 Supervision and PhD
I am currently supervising PhD students related to Digital Humanities, museum collections, artificial intelligence and bots. I am also part of the supervisory team for an ESRC/CASE fully funded PhD that explores the role of imperial violence in museum collections through the use of Big Data methods. This is a PhD in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, Lancaster University and the World Museum Liverpool.
*Current PhD Students:
• Ben Wills-Eve. Algorithms, AI and Public Interactions with History and Heritage Online
• Marjotte Miles. Museums, Big Data and the Violence of Empire. (ESRC/CASE)
Degrees
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, PhD, Web Science
University of Southampton, United Kingdom, MSc, Web Science
Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom, MA, Multimedia Production
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Universidad de la Comunicación, Mexico, PG Certificate in Creative Visualisation
Universidad Tecnológica de México, Mexico, BA, Graphic Design
Highlighted publications
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores P, Radburn N, South L, Monaghan C. Afrobits: An Interactive Installation of African Music and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Proceedings of EVA London 2020, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Candela G, Pereda J, Saez D, Escobar P, Sanchez A, Villa Tores A, Palacios AA, McDonough K, Murrieta-Flores P. An ontological approach for unlocking the Colonial Archive Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Poster
Bailey R, Pereda J. 2022. Achieving representation in sustainable socio-technical infrastructures 26th General Conference ICOM Prague Author Url Public Url
Roberts JC, Frankenberg-Garcia A, Rees G, Pereda J. 2017. Visualisation and graphical techniques to help writers write more idiomatically IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS)
Frankenberg-Garcia A, Lew R, Roberts J, Rees G, Pereda J. 2017. Best practices in combining learner needs, lexicographic data and text editors to help learners write more idiomatically eLex 2017
Journal article
Torrico Avila E, Flores Muñoz J, Pereda J, González Gonzáles JA, López Meraz . 2021. Latin American Young Researchers and the Academic Labour Market Employment. A Case Study Analysis Education Magazine (Inquiries Series), 1 :117-127 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Fray H, Pereda J. 2019. Conductive Circuits Printmaking Today, Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores P. 2011. The role of Lucha Libre in the construction of Mexican male identity Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 4 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Candela G, Pereda J, Saez D, Escobar P, Sanchez A, Villa Tores A, Palacios AA, McDonough K, Murrieta-Flores P. An ontological approach for unlocking the Colonial Archive Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Chapters
Pereda J, Heathcote D. 2020. First Thing, Everything: InterDesign Manifesto Delorie OL. Creative Manifestos: Inspirational Statements to Celebrate Self-Expression :58-58 Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated 9781454939214 Publisher Url
Pereda J. 2017. Exploración del Patrimonio Cultural a través de Interfaces Tangibles en la Red Jiménez-Badillo D. Arqueología Computacional. Nuevos enfoques para el análisis y la difusión del patrimonio cultural. 1 :265-283 INAH. Mexico City 978-607-539-027-7 Author Url
Scholarly edition
Pereda J, Heathcote D. 2019. First Thing, Everything: InterDesign Manifesto DOI Author Url Public Url
Conference publication
Pereda J. 2019. A TUI to Explore Cultural Heritage Repositories on the Web Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '19: Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores P, Ritsos P, Roberts J. 2017. Tangible User Interfaces as a Pathway for Information Visualisation for Low Digital Literacy in the Digital Humanities IEEE VIS 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, 2nd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities Author Url Public Url
Pereda J, Isaksen L. 2014. Developing downloadable TUIs for online pedagogic activities TEI'14 Eighth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Munich, Germany, 16 - 19 Feb 2014., TEI'14 Eighth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Public Url
Pereda J. 2014. Installation for Interpretation of Archaeological Sites. The Portus Visualisation Project CAA2012 Proceedings of the 40th Conference in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Southampton, United Kingdom, 26-30 March 2012, :91-101
Pereda J. 2011. Lucha Libre: visualizing behind the mask. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011), :268-273 DOI Publisher Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores P, Radburn N, South L, Monaghan C. Afrobits: An Interactive Installation of African Music and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Proceedings of EVA London 2020, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Software/Code
Pereda J, Fray H, Weakley A. 2019. A Liverpool Bestiary. Database CMS
Pereda J. A Downloadable Tangible Query System for Semantic Web Cultural Heritage Author Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Pereda J. Online Cultural Heritage: Facilitating Complex Query Making Through Tangible User Interfaces Earl G, Yin Y, Isaksen L.
Internet publication
Pereda J, Fray H. Printeractive Workshop at LJMU Arts Author Url
Highlighted activities
Industrial connections:
Towards a National Collection (UKRI), Senior Researcher, https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/. 2022
Research Grants Awarded:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-CASE), Museums, Big Data and the Violence of Empire, Dr Deana Heath , Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores , Dr Emma Martin, Grant value (£): 100,000.00, Duration of research project: 4 years. 2021
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC-UKRI) and National Endowment for the Humanities (US), Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Indigenous and Spanish American Historical Collections, Grant value (£): 361,236.00, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2020
Award:
Afrobits - Best Research Project Finalist, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
Afrobits - Special Commendation Artistic Project, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of Europeana Professional, Europeana, https://pro.europeana.eu/network-association/task-forces. 2018
ICOFOM - International Committee for Museology (ICOM-ICOFOM), International Council of Museums (ICOM), https://icofom.mini.icom.museum/.
Professional activities
Conference presentation:
Where do I stand? Deconstructing Digital Collections [Research] Infrastructures: A perspective from Towards a National Collection, Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation, British Library, Oral presentation. 2023
Building the Future of Digital [Research] Infrastructures, Creative Commons Global Summit 2023, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlaltelolco, Mexico City, Oral presentation. 2023
El Taller 3.0, a new vision for AI and the Digital Humanities to approach Mexican historical documents, Creative Commons Global Summit 2023, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlaltelolco, Mexico City, Oral presentation. 2023
Unlocking the Colonial Archive Project, XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Austin, Texas, Oral presentation. 2022
Achieving representation in sustainable socio-technical infrastructures, 26th ICOM General Conference, ICOFOM – International Committee for Museology, Prague, Poster presentation. 2022
GLAM Challenges and Opportunities in UK collections. Towards a National Collection, Museums Association Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund, Online, Oral. 2022
Towards a National Collection and the Future Of Digital Humanities, Between Technology and Theory: Digital Humanities Projects in Progress, The Warburg Institute, Oral. 2022
Design Thinking for Online Cultural Heritage Engagement, SPARC - UKIERI Digital Heritage Workshops, Oral presentation. 2021
Afrobits: An Interactive Installation of the Trans Atlantinc Slave Trade, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London, Oral presentation. 2020
Afrobits An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, British Library Labs Awards Symposium, Oral presentation. 2020
A TUI to Explore Cultural Heritage Repositories on the Web, Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Tempe, Az, Oral, Demo. 2019
Exploring Online Cultural Heritage. Integrating Queries Through Tangible User Interfaces on the Web, Virtual Heritage Network, Maynooth University, Ireland, Oral presentation. 2015
Online Cultural Heritage. Integrating Queries through Tangible User Interfaces on the Web, Virtual Heritage Network, Maynooth, Ireland, Oral presentation. 2015
The New Online Museum Manifesto, Museums and the Web, Baltimore, USA, Oral presentation. 2014
Web Based Tangible User Interfaces for Online Museums, DigiFest, Southampton, Uk, Poster presentation. 2013
Web Based Tangible User Interface for an Online Constructivist Museum: The God Collector Experiment, Museums and the Web, Portland, Oregon, USA, Demo Talk. 2013
Web Based Tangible User Interfaces for Constructivist Museums, Digital Transformations Moot, London, Oral presentation. 2012
Media Coverage:
Museums Journal - A Tangled Web 2023
A Conversation on Decolonial Praxis with Dr Javier Pereda 2021
Publica INAH libro sobre arqueología computacional y difusión cultural 2018
Diabolique Magazine, Wrestling with the Strange: The Fantastical World of Lucha Libre 2017
Europeana, Europeana Research Grants: The Long List 2016
Nowhere Men TV, Livin' La Vida Lucha 2015
University of Oregon, NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers, Oaxaca, 2015. https://blogs.uoregon.edu/mesoinstitute/about/curriculum-unit-development/gender/ 2015
Award:
Wikimedia Commons - Wiki Loves Mexico, Wikimedia Foundation, https://wikilovesmexico.com/. 2022
Afrobits - Best Research Project Finalist, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
Afrobits - Runner Up People's Choice Awards, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
Afrobits - Special Commendation Artistic Project, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
International Advertising Association (IAA) Award, Creative Visualisation. 2004
Industrial connections:
Towards a National Collection (UKRI), Senior Researcher, https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/. 2022
Research Grants Awarded:
Institute of Art and Technology QR, Facilitating Citizen Science on Museum Collections. An Analysis of Decolonial Narratives Through El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Grant value (£): 2,300. 2021
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-CASE), Museums, Big Data and the Violence of Empire, Dr Deana Heath , Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores , Dr Emma Martin, Grant value (£): 100,000.00, Duration of research project: 4 years. 2021
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC-UKRI) and National Endowment for the Humanities (US), Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Indigenous and Spanish American Historical Collections, Grant value (£): 361,236.00, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2020
International Travel Grant, LJMU, ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Grant value (£): 20,000. 2019
Liverpool John Moores University, Printeractive. Developing a practice towards the integration of interaction design and printmaking., Hannah Fray, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2018
Liverpool John Moores University, Towards an LJMU Linked Data Repository, Hannah Fray, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2018
CASIAD Research Fund, Visualising Beyond the Mask, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2009
CASIAD Research Fund, Socio-cultural relationships of Mexican Wrestling in Latin America., Grant value (£): 2,000. 2008
Other invited event:
Multifaceted Engagements with Cultural Heritage, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, Workshop working with the use of Semantic Web technologies in the Heritage sector. The workshop incorporated 3D scanning and rendering technologies as part of a standard digitisation process for cultural objects. Funding granted by AHRC, in collaboration with Lancaster University.. 2019
Masterclass ‘Multimodal Engagements with Cultural Heritage’, Maynooth University, Ireland, 3-day Masterclass that introduced participants to methods of creating and reusing cultural heritage artefacts at the intersections of digital and physical methodological approaches. It provided participants with the theoretical background, best practices, and hands-on experience of A) Converting physical objects to digital and printed interactive 3D models, and B) Querying and visualising online cultural heritage through user interfaces.. 2016
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, University of Oxford, A workshop on the Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on the semantic web.. 2013
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of Europeana Professional, Europeana, https://pro.europeana.eu/network-association/task-forces. 2018
ICOFOM - International Committee for Museology (ICOM-ICOFOM), International Council of Museums (ICOM), https://icofom.mini.icom.museum/.
Member ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), https://www.acm.org/.
External collaboration:
King's College London, Making the Connected World.
Other Professional Activity:
Printeractive Workshop. An open workshop between designers, makers and artists..
Printeractive. A Printeractive Pop Up at The Walker Gallery.