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Dec
13
to Dec 16

Cultural Data Analytics Conference (CUDAN 2023)

CUDAN 2023 (midjourney)

Join us at our multidisciplinary conference exploring cultures and cultural production. We invite submissions across various fields including cultural analytics, digital humanities, computational linguistics, art history, and more. Explore material, conceptual, social, temporal, spatial, event, and network aspects of cultural data. Submit your work and contribute to the discussion.

Submit your abstract by July 24, 2023.

Visit the website for more details: https://cudan.tlu.ee/conference/

I am grateful to Max Schich for being part of the Programme committee.

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Face it. The New Challenges of Cognitive Visual Semiotics
Jan
25
to Jan 27

Face it. The New Challenges of Cognitive Visual Semiotics

  • Université de Liège (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A three-day symposium devoted to the most advanced semiotic theories for the modelization of visual meaning, focusing on the transition between visual cognition, image generation, and multi-dimensional image processing. A series of lectures aimed at advancing the state of the art in the semiotics of visual signification. A focus on the human face as a pivotal element at the crossroad between cognitive patterns, representative traditions, and technological devices. A tribute to open, interdisciplinary, and international semiotics, able to treasure established knowledge but also to renew it though daring attempts at hybridization and cross-fertilization. An open invitation to all visual semiotics friends, no matter what their school, to participate in a reconsideration of the discipline.

I am part of the advisory board of the ERC project FACETS. Thank you, Massimo Leone, for the invitation.

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Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter
Jan
16
to Jan 20

Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter

Das Belvedere Research Center setzt seine Konferenzreihe zur digitalen Transformation von Kunstmuseen mit der Ausgabe zum fünfjährigen Jubiläum fort. Der Fokus liegt diesmal auf dem Metaversum – einer verkörperten Virtual-Reality-Erfahrung – und dessen Verbindung zu Kulturinstitutionen. Der von Neal Stephenson in seinem Science-Fiction-Roman Snow Crash (1992) geprägte Begriff gelangte spätestens 2021 ins allgemeine Bewusstsein, als Mark Zuckerberg Facebook in Meta umbenannte und proklamierte, sich auf die Entwicklung des Metaverse konzentrieren zu wollen. Expert*innen zufolge ist die Entwicklung des Metaverse aufgrund fehlender Technologien noch Jahrzehnte entfernt. Dementsprechend vielfältig sind daher dessen Definitionen, die von „Kollektivraum in der Virtualität“ über „verkörpertes Internet“ bis hin zu „Ort der Simulation und Kollaboration“ reichen. Allen gemeinsam ist jedoch die zunehmende Nachfrage nach immersiven Erfahrungen zwischen Virtualität und Realität und das Zusammenwachsen von Netzwerken. Während einige Metaverse als leeres Buzzword, Marketinggag und Vermarktung einer Idee aus den 1990er-Jahren betrachten, nennen es andere „einen der wichtigsten Trends der Zukunft“, der alles revolutionieren wird (Matthew Ball), und sehen den Einstieg von Firmen und Institutionen als „notwendig“ an.

Ich bin Teil des Organisationskomitees. Vielen Dank, Christian Huemer, für die Einladung.

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International Conference On Digital Arts: The Unfocused (Artes Digitales)
Nov
29
to Dec 2

International Conference On Digital Arts: The Unfocused (Artes Digitales)

  • Universidad de Sevilla (map)
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I am happy to be invited for a keynote lecture at the International Conference On Digital Arts: The Unfocused. The title of my talk is Transformer Models, Imagination, and Aesthetics. New Paradigms in Visual Culture.

The 1st International Conference on Digital Arts promoted by the University of Seville, the Department of History of Art, the Faculty of Geography and History and the research group Vanguards, Latest Trends and Artistic Heritage (HUM-1030), is a multidisciplinary scientific meeting that proposes the cross-cutting theme of “the unfocused” as its backbone.

Thank you, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, for the invitation.

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Sep
2
9:00 PM21:00

Art History and Information Science. A Conversation on Interdisciplinarity.

Fireside chat

Art History and Information Science.
A Conversation on Interdisciplinarity.

Public event
Thursday, 2. September 2021, 09:00 PM CEST

Art history and computer science have recently approached the phenomenon of the artistic image from different angles. To make a digital art history successful, the interdisciplinary cooperation of both subjects is of paramount importance.

But how can this cooperation be organized? What experiences have been made with this in various institutions? And what can we expect from this collaboration in the future?

For this reason, we want to talk to three experienced experts in the field as part of the Digital Art History Summer School.

  • Amalia Foka is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science Applications for the Arts at the Department of Fine Arts & Art Sciences, School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina (see her article).

  • Sabine Lang has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI) and focuses on visual similarities between images (see her article).

  • Etienne Posthumus is a software developer specializing in digital humanities, metadata, and classification systems. He is the developer of the Iconclass browser and Arkyves (see the Iconclass AI Test Set).

Moderation and organization: Harald Klinke, who is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Digital Art History and has recently completed his book “Interfaces, Interactions and Infrastructures. Image-based application systems for art history and digital humanities” (available soon).

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