Metamorphosis and the Digital

Workshop

Public event without registration
Beginn: 14.10.2025 14:45
Ende: 15.10.2025 15:30
Vortragende(r): Workshop
Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
Kontakt: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it

Following the conference Metamorfosi nelle/delle immagini (Rome, September 2024), this second edition, Metamorphosis and the Digital, explores the intersections of iconology, intermediality, and digital humanities at a moment when multimodal AI is reshaping the study of images and texts.

Starting from a reflection on the ICONOS project, the conference asks how art historical traditions of metamorphosis might engage with new digital and AI-driven approaches. Among the questions addressed are how digital catalogues of myth and their reception could be reimagined, how intermediality informs the study of images, and how generative and multimodal AI challenge existing iconological methods. Bringing together an international group of art historians, literary scholars, and computer scientists, the meeting seeks to foster transdisciplinary dialogue on the future of image studies in the digital age.

Please follow the event also online through the platform ZOOM :
14.10.2025 https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/62900347785?pwd=R3kFcpR9l4FextjM9FP3mULsXkAZgv.1
15.10.2025 https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/61834969259?pwd=XgcPna9pVEEhjYIXLN6N5Bs8yD61VY.1

Programme

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

14:45 – 15:00 Welcome and opening remarks

15:00 – 16:00 Keynote Lecture Michele Cometa (Università di Palermo), Chi ha paura della Digital Art History?

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 – 17:40 Panel 1

16:20 – 16:40 Claudia Cieri Via (Sapienza Università di Roma), Iconologia nell'era dell'AI. Il progetto ICONOS e il futuro degli archivi digitali di storia dell'arte

16:40 – 17:00 Francesco Cassini & Beatrice Tomei (UCL & Sapienza, ICONOS Project), Parole e immagini: considerazioni a margine

17:00 – 17:20 Federico Mari (Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico) with Alessandro Augelli, Simone Cama, Elena Martini, Gabriele Onorato (Sapienza University of Rome), & Alessia Silvi (Stanford University), ICONOS 2.0: metodologie digitali per il dialogo tra testi e immagini

17:20 – 17:40 Discussion

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome

10:10 – 11:10 Panel 2

10:10 – 10:30 Marco Maggi (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Echoes of the Earth. Intermediality, Natural Environments, and AI

10:30 – 10:50 Giuditta Cirnigliaro (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Soaring Artists in the Margins: Intermedial Renaissance Metamorphoses

10:50 – 11:10 Discussion

11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Panel 3

11:30 – 11:50 Alessandro Trevisan (University of Cambridge) Image/Word: Toward an Epistemology of Multimodal Large Language Models

11:50 – 12:10 Emmanuel Iduma (University of Cambridge, online) Between the Camera and the Machine: Changing Ontologies of the Photojournalistic Image

12:10 – 12:30 Discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Panel 4

13:30 – 13:50 Maria Giulia Dondero (Université de Liège), Stylistic stereotypes and composition rules in AI-generated Images

13:50 – 14:10 Leonardo Impett (Bibliotheca Hertziana), Deepfake images, deepfake objects, deepfake worlds

14:10 – 14:30 Discussion

14:30 – 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 – 16:30 Round Table: Metamorphosis and the Digital
Open discussion with all participants plus Alessandro Adamou (Bibliotheca Hertziana)

Scientific Organization: Leonardo Impett