Nicola Carboni

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

We are hiring 2 full professors in DH

Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de

2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space

⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025

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@fauphil.bsky.social

CFP: What Do (Digital) Images Want? A Decade of Data, Power, and Visual Knowledge in Art History — DAHJ The International Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ) marks its 10th anniversary at a crucial moment when digital images are not only omnipresent in daily life, but are generated by active agents...

New CFP: What Do (Digital) Images Want? Join us in exploring a decade of data, power & visual knowledge!
dahj.org/cfp/11

@nolauren.bsky.social presenting the new web-based, free, and open source distant viewing explorer to help anyone apply AI model to photo archives. Link here: distantviewing.org/dvexplorer/

Two great talks about image circulation across the press. One from @danielfoliard.bsky.social about High Vision and another by @ncarboni.bsky.social on viral contagions. visualcontagions.unige.ch/explore/ and highvision.hypotheses.org

AMDA_MAH_Presentation We are pleased to present a federated data platform project that we have been working on at the Museum of Art and History of Geneva spanning from December 2023 to November 2024. The idea behind the pr...

We presented at #ArtMuseum in the Digital Age conf. the new semantic data catalogue for Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire! Focus: challenges/results from normalizing, fixing, linking (NER), transforming (RDF) & hosting (Researchspace) 100k museum records. Presentation and notes here: bit.ly/4gcXGjp

If interested, take a look at “Plotting the Geopolitics of Twentieth-Century Modern and Avant-Garde Illustrated Periodicals” where we examine how images in avant-garde periodicals were reproduced and exchanged across magazines, countries, and cultural or social contexts! doi.org/10.21825/jep...

By combining digital and historical methods we investigated which kind of artists were reproduced, when they were reproduced, and most importantly, we analyzed historical, social and technological reasons behind their prominence. Article available here: doi.org/10.31664/zu....
#digitalHumanities

A scatter plot visualizing the international reproduction of artworks by artists in illustrated periodicals between 1840 and 1959. The x-axis represents the year of the artist’s birth, ranging from 1390 to 1863, while the y-axis indicates the number of countries where their works were reproduced, ranging from 4 to 11. Each artist is represented by a labeled circle. Larger circles indicate higher international influence scores. Notable artists include Da Vinci and Dürer (top left, high reproduction in multiple countries) and Picasso (top right, high reproduction and recent birth year). Other artists like Rembrandt, Manet, and Cézanne are spread across the plot, showing varying levels of international reproduction and birth years. The plot title and labels are in French.

Map showcasing the countries covered by the corpus analyses

For #digitalArtHistory fellows looking at ways to study #art #circulation we just published "Greater Aura? The 19th and 20th Century Circulation of Art Reproductions in the Press through a Digital and Historical Perspective". We analyzed which images circulated internationally between the 1880-1960.

Switzerland is an amazing place to live, and basel is a wonderful city! Great opportunity for people in #digitalHumanities

I didn't explored paintings yet, but "L'automobile al passo del Penice" seems a fantastic place to start. I noticed there is even a seminar about it. Thanks for the suggestions 👍

Finished few days ago wind and truth myself, i am gonna reuse some of these recommendations! If you didn’t read it yet, i would suggest you give a try to jade city! 3 book series, very well written characters, lots of politics and it flows spectacularly well. Although only a fantasy (not high)

this 👇 love the format (I should probably start doing it myself too)

Seems interesting! Looking forward to see the results!

We are building one (expect in Jan-feb) for french with two colleagues, using it to try to establish the temporal and spatial dimension of the textual content. Happy to share it, but the corpus is only theatre plays for now (and in tei)

Quality and clarity of the writing Excellent

Quality and clarity of the writing Poor

#AcademicChatter
Just got a Review. Answers on "Quality and clarity of the writing" section:
First reviewer: Poor.
Second reviewer: Excellent.
Me: ....what on earth should I do with this 😅

And we are thrilled to be able to count with you both in Lisbon at NOVA FCSH! It's going to be an amazing DH2025! 🥳

“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.

it's tuesday evening and we're korean

There may be many reasons behind it, including visual etiquette, relationship between illustrated press and automotive industry, use of different media. I wrote about it in an article called "Mediatization of the Early Automobile" that you can find here: bit.ly/4g4sHXc

A Car in the form of shoes cut the feet pass through the street of a city and the feet of the pedestrians. Image published on July 16, 1905, in “Le Pêle-mêle”, a humoristic Parisian weekly periodical. Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France - Gallica: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5517413n

evidence of negative sentiment towards the automobile,
such as protests and accidents, was mostly absent, with the exception of satirical publications. Only few images (less than 50 out of a corpus of 5000 extracted from in 185 journals published in 45 cities between 1891-1950) contains incidents

The iconography of the car in its early days is particularly interesting. If written sources tell us a lot about the protest against motorists, images tell us something different. By collecting and extracting images from the press, it is easy to notice the preponderance of positive representations

Spatiotemporal visualization of artist's address in Paris. The visualization showcase artist living in the same address over time

Graphical representation of the basic modeling of an exhibition using CIDOC-CRM

Table representing exhibition Ontological Patterns per analysed dataset

Fantastic stay in Athens for #MTSR24 talking about #exhibition data integration, and artist circulation. Slide on speakerdeck: bit.ly/496VMPu #digitalArtHistory #digitalHumanities #cidocCRM

Whenever I see #dataBS I go “data bullshit” in my head.

It happened. I couldn’t access bluesky and i had to go on twitter to check if there was an issue. Twitter has officially become a backup platform for me…that was quick!

It is sunny and the temperature is 19 degree in athens, greece

Temperature in annecy is 5 degrees and it rains

Love conferences in greece! Athens vs Annecy today #MTSR24

Great initiative by the Rijksmuseum. They continue to be a leader in open access within the museum/heritage world. Data is represented using #linkedart (application profile of of #cidoccrm)

Not really about code or decision, but in the text/markdown editor world iA Writer 7 introduced an authorship function that can dim the text if pasted by a llm (Info here: ia.net/writer/suppo... )