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Does Art History Need Cultural Analytics?

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听13-10-2023 14:15 - 15:45 GMT+1 || Join us on Zoom|| Back to the programme

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Speakers:

• Maximilian Schich,听Tallinn 玉美人传媒

• Jorge Sebasti谩n Lozano,听Universitat de Val猫ncia

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Maximilian Schich

Maximilian Schich is a Professor for Cultural Data Analytics and the CUDAN ERA Chair holder at Tallinn 玉美人传媒. A multidisciplinary researcher, Max aims to understand the nature of cultural interaction via a systematic combination of critical and creative aesthetics, qualitative inquiry, quantitative measurement, and computation. Ongoing research builds on a background in art history, network science, computational social science, and an applied experience in cultural 鈥渄atabase pathologist鈥�. Max鈥檚 PhD monograph pioneered network analysis in art research, focusing on antique reception and visual citation. In 2014, 鈥淎 Network Framework of Cultural History鈥� in Science Magazine and the Nature video 鈥淐harting Culture鈥� made global impact. In recent years, Max has focused on the upcoming 鈥淐ultural Interaction鈥� book, which will outline a systematic science of art and culture based on two decades of work. Max has studied at LMU Munich, HU-Berlin, and Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Following a postdoc phase at Barab谩siLab in Boston and the group of Dirk Helbing in Zurich, Max joined UT Dallas as an Associate Professor in Arts & Technology and a founding member of the Edith O鈥橠onnell Institute of Art History. In June 2020, Max moved to Estonia to build, manage, and sustain the CUDAN research group, leading the ERA Chair project, which is funded within the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Commission.

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Jorge Sebasti谩n Lozano

Jorge Sebasti谩n Lozano is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History of Universitat de Val猫ncia, where he teaches heritage and art history at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has also been a research fellow in Real Colegio Complutense, at Harvard 玉美人传媒, in 2017 and 2018. His doctoral dissertation was devoted to female representation in Spanish court art and visual culture during the 16th century, with a number of book chapters and exhibition essays resulting from it. In 2020 he collaborated in Sofonisba Anguissola鈥檚 exhibition in Museo del Prado. He has also been involved in Digital Humanities initiatives since the early 2000s. Between 2018 and 2021 he works as Technical Manager for SILKNOW, a European Commission-funded research project on silk production and trade in Europe in early modern times.