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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH
@dvstudies.bsky.social
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The Center for Digital Visual Studies (DVS) is an innovative interdisciplinary laboratory exploring the intersection of Computer Science and Art History, a part of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History – hosted at the UZH (CH)
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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jun 16
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 · Jan 15
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!!!
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#AIUrbanStudies #SmartCities #DigitalHumanities #AI #MachineLearning #urbanstudies
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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jan 15
👌 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 · Jan 15
🤌 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 · Jan 15
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...
CLIP and the City: Addressing the Artificial Encoding of Cities in Multimodal Foundation Deep Learning Models
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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jan 14
📖 Explore these advancements & more at dvstudies.net.
#AIinArt #LatentSpaces #ComputationalCreativity #DigitalHumanities #DigitalArtHistory #AI #MachineLearning
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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jan 14
✨ 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 · Jan 14

✨ 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 · Jan 14
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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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jan 14
more insights in follow-up posts!
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#AIxCulture #DigitalHumanities #ArtHistory #DigitalArtHistory #AI #AIandCities #DigitalVisualStudies #AIart #UrbanStudies
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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jan 14
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 · Jan 14
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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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jun 16
👁️ 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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
👀 👉 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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
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 · Jun 16
Details here:
Practical implementation and theoretical analysis of visual similarity in (digital) art history, with hands-on introduction to the ImageGraph tool. Come discuss how digital methods can assist art historical research methodologies!
From Concepts to Tools
Practical implementation and theoretical analysis of visual similarity in the context of (digital) art history, with a short hands-on introduction to the ImageGraph tool and invites participants to discuss how digital methods can assist art historical research methodologies.
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Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social · Jun 16
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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