Contemporary networked image cultures are inseparable from platform capitalism.
The international conference «React & Respond» (Zurich, 2–4 Oct 2025) explores the aesthetics, politics, and labour of platform capitalism with scholars and artists across disciplines.
Program: https://arthist.net/archive/50541️
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#PlatformCapitalism #DigitalCulture #AlgorithmicInfrastructures #MediaStudies #VisualCulture #DigitalArt #CriticalAI @bildoperationen
Intersemiotic Translation Before and After Generative AI
IAVS/AISV 2026 Congress
Panels are now published: from AI & semiotics of the sacred, heritage in tension, games & XR, photographic narratives, to political images in the age of AI and many more. The congress explores how intersemiotic translation (verbal, visual, audiovisual, gestural, musical) is transformed in the era of generative AI.
Topics include:
Epistemology of digital images
Politics of visibility and circulation
Big (Image) Data and digital methodologies
Algorithmic aesthetics
Image infrastructures and metadata
CFP: WHAT DO (DIGITAL) IMAGES WANT?
A Decade of Data, Power, and Visual Knowledge in Art History
The International Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ) marks its 10th anniversary with a special call for papers. We invite submissions that critically explore the desires, demands, and politics of digital images in today’s visual culture, questioning what digital art history means in an age of algorithmic image-making.
JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data
Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100%
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films…
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory
UZH: Lecturer Teaching
JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data
Department of Art History seeks a scholar to teach and research at the intersection of global visual cultures and computational analysis.
Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100%
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films, digital media & archives.
https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/lecturer-teaching/f44ac514-61e7-4a09-bc87-a5986ca17159
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #ArtHistory #DigitalArtHistory
#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship
PhD in Visual & Multimodal Anthropology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Join the EA:RTH research group to explore environmental tensions through collaborative, ethnographic, and multimodal methodologies. Strong focus on storytelling and field-based visual methods.
Deadline: 15/08/2025
An old favourite of mine:
X Degrees of Separation by Google Arts & Culture explores unexpected visual connections between artworks using image similarity algorithms.
Still a fascinating experiment in computational curation.
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/xdegrees/
Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.
More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/
The newly established Anders Sandrew Chair in Digital Art History at Uppsala University will be hosted by the Department of Art History.
Digital Art History combines art, architecture, film, and design with digital tools to visualize and interpret culture. It redefines how we engage with visual heritage in the digital age.
#DigitalArtHistory #ArtHistory #DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #UppsalaUniversity #CulturalHeritage #Humanities #DigitalTransformation
How the T. rex became the king of pop culture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-YBI0HykY
#scicomm #artsci #paleoart #visualculture
tep into the world of John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Madame X , a defining piece of late 19th-century art.
Once scandalous, now celebrated, this painting captures the evolving standards of beauty and identity. Explore its enduring impact and why it still matters today.
Algorithm, Image, Art by @machine_agency
An essential and critical inquiry into how algorithmic media reshape visual culture—from ancient optics to generative AI.
Lee draws on art history and media archaeology to make sense of the aesthetics and epistemology of machine-generated images.
#AIArt #MediaArchaeology #VisualCulture #MachineLearning #DigitalArtHistory #AlgorithmicMedia #ArtTheory
Article: “An Interface to View Collections of Visual Art” presents LadeCA.View—a visual tool to explore, describe, and analyze large image collections in the digital humanities.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42803-022-00061-8
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory #InterfaceDesign #DigitalCollections #LadeCA #MuseumTech
Call for participation: Digitale Perspektiven auf visuelle Phänomene (München, 17.–18.09.2025) – ein interdisziplinäres Barcamp zur computergestützten Bildanalyse. Bewerbung bis 30.06.2025. Reisekostenstipendien verfügbar.
#DigitalHumanities #DigitaleKunstgeschichte #VisualCulture #DH #Barcamp #CFP
https://arthist.net/archive/49294
Body talk, body shaming
New CFP: What Do (Digital) Images Want? Join us in exploring a decade of data, power & visual knowledge!
#DigitalArtHistory #AI #VisualCulture #CFP #DH #ArtHistory
https://dahj.org/cfp/11
We celebrate 10 years of International Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ)—connecting global voices & reshaping art history through digital methods, collaboration & critical debate.
Postdoctoral Scholar – Visual and Digital Cultures
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Full-time 3-year postdoc in #ERC project ReWorkChange on remote work and social change. Ethnographic research in #Mexico required. PhD in #Anthropology, #Sociology, #CommunicationStudies or related fields. Fluency in English and Spanish essential. Start: 01/10/2025.
Deadline: 22/05/2025