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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

👉 Last days to apply! This is an excellent and rare opportunity. Very attractive funding and academic environment. Share the word! 👇 #digitalhumanities #dh #AI4culture #multimodality #multimodalAI

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

IMPRS-MDH opens a new field at the crossroads of art history, linguistics, & multimodal AI. Our research areas span epistemic modeling of multimodal reasoning, spatiality & world models, digital art &architectural history, & the culture of AI systems, &multimodal corpus & network history.

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We offer: Up to 5 fully funded positions. - Up to 4 years, PhD awarded by UZH with a structured curriculum with seminars and workshops in Zurich and Rome. 👉 Application deadline: May 31, 2026 - Start: from August 2026 Apply here: recruitment.biblhertz.it/position/212...

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

👉 We're hiring: Up to 5 PhD Fellowships at the new International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH), a doctoral school by the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and the UZH, funded by the Max Planck Society. 👉 Full call: www.mdh.uzh.ch/en/opportuni...

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Keynote: Joasia Krysa - Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Biennial, Chief Curator Helsinki Biennial 2023, co-curator Liverpool Biennial 2016 and dOCUMENTA 13, co-author of edited anthology Curating Intelligences: Reader on AI and Future Curating (2025)

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Paper abstracts (≤300 words), installations/experiments/objects (≤500 words), and practice reports/case studies/demos & prototypes (≤500 words) along with a 10-word bio per author to be sent to dario.neguerueladelcastillo@uzh.ch and nro@uma.es by 5 December 2025

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

GENERATIVE CURATION SYMPOSIUM Málaga, 28–29 Jan 2026 This symposium examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping curatorial practice and discourse #CallforPapers #Curating #GenerativeAI #OpenCall #ContemporaryArt #CuratorialPractice

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

> Guest Lecture at the Center for Digital Visual Studies We’re delighted to welcome Dean Kenning for a lecture on Diagrams and Diagramming, followed by a discussion with Geoff Cox. Dec 11, 18:00–19:30 KHIST UZH, Rämistrasse 73, RAK-E-7 ✨ Open to all

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Join curators, artists, scholars, and cultural-heritage practitioners as we rethink authorship, agency, narratives, and methodologies in a programmable curatorial landscape. Keynote: Joasia Krysa. Call for papers, installations, and practice-based contributions now open. Deadline: 5 December 2025.

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Hello! We just imported some our posts from our former Twitter/X account. These are old posts, but it may pove useful to search for older content that was posted in Twitter prior to our arrival on Bluesky.

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

From cityscapes in Rome, Madrid, and Montréal, to Bogotá, we combine historical context, contemporary digital imagery and machine learning to redefine visual urban analysis. More coming soon!!! www.dvstudies.net #AIUrbanStudies #SmartCities #DigitalHumanities #AI #MachineLearning #urbanstudies

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

👌 In "The City in a Bottle", we explored how to develop a machinic ekphrasis of urban imagery with Vision-Language models. With a concept bottleneck for visual reasoning, specialized urban knowledge based on foundational literature . By @darioneguer.bsky.social & A.Alfarano. To be published soon!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🤌 Using synthetic datasets, we revealed AI's understanding of urban structures globally with the project "World GIST" (Darío Negueruela and Iacopo Neri). Findings were shared at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference.

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

2024 in review(3): The Urbanity of Images: Exploring AI in Urban Studies 👉 DVS explored how multimodal models perceive cities with "CLIP and The City" by @darioneguer.bsky.social and Iacopo Neri. www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/24...

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

✨ Open-access publication: From Hype to Reality: AI in Art and Culture (E.Cetinic & D.Negueruela, Eds.) Includes: Evolving Methodologies: Computation in Art History by Pepe Ballesteros Zapata Exploring Transduction in AI-Generated Images by Nuria Rodríguez Ortega …and more!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

✨ Latent Spaces Research: Decoding how AI encodes cultural memory & aesthetics. By L.Schaerf, in VISART ECCV 2024. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2410.09094

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

2024 in Review (2): Transforming Art History with AI How can AI reshape art studies? At DVS, we tackled this with groundbreaking projects: ✨ ColorwAI: Generative models exploring historical textile colorways. By L.Schaerf, A. Alfarano, & E.Postma. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2407.11514 (more below)

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

3️⃣ Collaborated with @Cambridge, @Montréal, and @MAMBO to broaden our impact. 4️⃣ Empowered early-career researchers: 👩‍🎓 Valentine Bernasconi defended her PhD on hand gesture analysis. 👏 Jason Armitage completed his thesis on embodied multimodality (defense early 2025!).

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Reflecting on a past Year of Impactful Research 🌟 here are some highlights from the Center for Digital Visual Studies (DVS) in 2024: 1️⃣ Advanced AI in art history with the VORD project—stay tuned for results! 2️⃣ Presented at 12 global conferences, including ECCV, ICCC’24, and XCOAX. (more below)

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 09/02/2023

👁️ Call for Contributions!! From Hype to Reality: Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Art and Culture - Symposium, April 20 and 21, 2023 @dvstudies @UZH_dsi Deadline: Feb 26. details here:

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 01/11/2022

You should have seen this amazing interactive poster by our doctoral fellow @VBernasconi_ it got the Best Poster award at #dariahch22 😎 Well done!!!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 20/10/2022

And @Pepebzapata will tell about “Decoding the Expression of Light “ building upon a renewed epistemology for art history brought by computational methods. Cool, eh? Join us today in Mendrisio!!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 20/10/2022

Digital Visual Studies is coming to Mendrisio! We are today presenting our work @ DARIAH CH StudyDay @ USI & very happy to meet our #dh colleagues. Program here: . You can also tune in via zoom! With @EvaCetinic @VBernasconi_ @Pepebzapata @NegueruelaDario

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 12/09/2022

2 weeks to go! Get your applications ready and don’t hesitate to get in touch! Looking forward to reading your project proposals for a #phd doctoral fellowship in #digitalvisualstudies / #digitalhumanities #dh #dah 🙌

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2022

Happy to organize the Symposium “Unexpected realities: uncertainty and interpretation in digital visual studies“ @vsac2022 in Amsterdam next August 25th with @nannevn @DejanGrba @VBernasconi_ @EvaCetinic @NegueruelaDario & R. Champenois. Looking forward!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 05/07/2022

👀 👉 New Call for Ph.D. positions @dvstudies ! Fully funded interdisciplinary #digitalhumanities fellowships in Digital Visual Studies in #Zurich @UZH_en in collab with @BiblHertz #MaxPlanck @UZH_dsi Info: Application: 25 Sept

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 21/06/2022

Join us now for @sevamoo's lecture " Data Driven Modelling in Cities: A Way Beyond Representational Models" @dvstudies Digital Double

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 17/06/2022

In dialogue with our fantastic digital doubles: Arantzazu Luzárraga, Andrea Gorrini, Andrew Pringle, and Sayjel Patel. Don't miss it!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 09/05/2022

Multimodal and Embodied AI for Digital Humanities, Lecture by Lorenzo Baraldi @lorenzo_baraldi on Wed May 11, 16:00-17:30, organized by Digital Visual Studies at the Bibliotheca Hertziana @BiblHertz Open to the public! Details: &

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 09/05/2022

Art to Numbers, Ph.D. Seminar, on Wed May 11, 14:00-16:00, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana @BiblHertz organized by Digital Visual Studies. Come join us for a discussion on digital humanities #dh Details:

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 09/05/2022

From Concepts to Tools, Introduction to Visual Similarity and Hands-on intro To Toolbox for #dh with @EvaCetinic Join us this Wednesday, May 11, 10:00-12:30 at The Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome @BiblHertz Bring your own laptop! #digitalarthistory

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 09/05/2022

Digital Visual Studies comes to Rome! If you are around, come join us for the following activities we organize at the Bibliotheca Hertziana @BiblHertz on Wednesday, May 11: see the following tweets !!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 27/04/2022

Call for Ph.D. positions @dvstudies: we invite applications for fully funded interdisciplinary #digitalhumanities fellowships in Digital Visual Studies in #Zurich @UZH_en in collab with @BiblHertz #MaxPlanck. Info: Application:

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 02/02/2022

We are honored and delighted to host @ThesisAnti as a visiting scholar at our center for #digitalvisualstudies @maxplanckpress @UZH_en during the next weeks. Exciting conversations to come about the #networkedimage ! Welcome Geoff!

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2021

Today at #digitalvisualstudies @UZH_en we celebrate 😃the start of our new Postdoc Fellows @EvaCetinic and Lucia Jalón @disquietingoose with a fascinating conversation around research projects and ideas! Welcome, it's great to have you aboard! #digitalhumanities

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 04/06/2021

We at Digital Visual Studies are delighted to participate in this very interesting event 👇with presentations from our fellows @VBernasconi_ and Svenja Lange #DigitalVisualStudies #DigitalHumanities

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 07/05/2021

The correct link is this one 👉 Call for Postdoc Summer Fellowships 2021: 3-months #digitalhumanities fellowships at @UZH_en in collaboration with @comp_sci_durham and @BiblHertz @maxplanckpress Applications: .

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 05/05/2021

Call for Postdoc Summer Fellowships 2021: 3-months #digitalhumanities fellowships at @dvstudies @UZH_en in collaboration with @comp_sci_durham and @BiblHertz @maxplanckpress. Info: . Applications: .

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 21/04/2021

Join us today 10:15-11:30 ECT For Harald Klinke's seminar on "What’s next for Art History and Cultural Analytics: Features, Dimensions, Networks" details here:

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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · 16/04/2021

Delighted to host Harald Klinke @HxxxKxxx for a lecture and research seminar on "What’s next for Art History and Cultural Analytics: Features, Dimensions, Networks" next week April 21st, 10:15-11:30 ECT . Zoom details to come soon:

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