Digital Visual Studies

Digital Visual Studies addresses questions that have arisen from developments in the digital humanities. Computer-aided processes increasingly determine the collection, management, and communication of research-related data – from sustained digitization of art historical sources and their automatized evaluation to formats of digital publishing. Considering the mediality of sources and tools, hitherto conventional conceptions of working in the humanities are changing. Apart from a reflection on these radical changes and their epistemological implications on the level of science history and theory, the Department encourages the acquisition and mediation of digital competences by introducing an extensive reorganization of the academic IT area at the Institute.
Digital Visual Studies (DVS) is also a research group of its own as a six-year cooperation project funded by the Max Planck Society (MPG) and hosted by the University of Zurich (UZH) as the Center of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (PhF) since January 2020. The project aims to expand Art History towards the Digital Humanities, modernize its methodologies, and contribute to forming a first generation of Digital Visual Humanists. The project is supervised by a PI (Tristan Weddigen), directed by a Scientific Coordinator (Darío Negueruela), and supplemented by an Executive Committee (Noah Bubenhofer, Tanja Michalsky). Digital Visual Studies supports and funds predoctoral, postdoctoral, and visiting fellows who work in the areas of visual, textual, and spatiotemporal research. The project seeks to foster avant-garde transdisciplinary research focused on methodological innovation and critical reflection in the field between computer vision and art history defined by its exploratory nature and driven by the research interests of its members in a bottom-up approach.

Events

AI & Cities 2024. Digital Double: Situating and Troubling AI Technologies for Architectural Reconstruction and Urban Simulation

Workshop
Program partially open to public
Oct 24, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - Oct 25, 2024 05:15 PM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Digital Research Infrastructures for Art History

Workshop
Public event without registration
Oct 16, 2024 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Towards a Novel Collaborative Cultural Analysis of the City of Rome II

Workshop
Jun 11, 2024 - Jun 13, 2024
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Datathink 2024 / AI & Cities: Sampling the Past, Interpreting the Present in Future Tense

Workshop and Winter School
Keynote conference open to public: March 5, 2024
Mar 4, 2024 - Mar 8, 2024
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Towards a Collaborative Cultural Analysis of the City of Rome

Workshop
Public event without registration
Jun 26, 2023 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Jun 28, 2023 12:00 AM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Image Systems and Urban Spatio-Temporal Navigation

Frédéric Kaplan
Feb 27, 2023 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Seeing like Dante: Similis and the Reader's Eye

Bill Sherman
Event on-site and online
Nov 23, 2022 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Past and Present Witnesses for Political Dissent in Belarus — Unofficial and Official Monuments in Dialogue

Iryna Herasimovich, Artur Klinaŭ, Antonina Slobodchikova, Mikhail Gulin
Event on-site and online
Nov 9, 2022 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Multimodal and Embodied AI for Digital Humanities

Lorenzo Baraldi
May 11, 2022 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Art to Numbers - Ph.D. Seminar

Workshop
Closed number Workshop
May 11, 2022 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
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