Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH

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)

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

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

> 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

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

👌 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!

🤌 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.

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...

📖 Explore these advancements & more at dvstudies.net.
#AIinArt #LatentSpaces #ComputationalCreativity #DigitalHumanities #DigitalArtHistory #AI #MachineLearning

✨ 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!

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

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
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more insights in follow-up posts!
🌐 dvstudies.net
#AIxCulture #DigitalHumanities #ArtHistory #DigitalArtHistory #AI #AIandCities #DigitalVisualStudies #AIart #UrbanStudies

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!).

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.
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👁️ 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:

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

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!!

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

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 🙌

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!

👀 👉 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

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

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

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: &