1 Postdoc and 2 Doctoral Positions in Digital Art History
FNS Project: VISUAL CONTAGIONS
Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2025
Application deadline: Sep 15, 2020
The project VISUAL CONTAGIONS (dir. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Chair for Digital Humanities at the University of Geneva, is recruiting one postdoc in digital humanities/ digital art history and/or artificial vision, and two PhD students in digital humanities / digital art history. The fellowships are to be filled respectively for 2 years (or 3 years part-time) and 4 years. These posts are to be filled from 1 January 2021 (with a possible later start). At least a written and oral comprehension of French is required.
VISUAL CONTAGIONS studies the global circulation of images in the print age over a century, from the 1890s to the advent of the Internet. It describes and analyses how some images circulated more than others – in reproductions, copies, pastiches, imitations -, through which channels and in what chronology they were disseminated. The ambition is to understand what makes an image successful, but also to identify how the circulation of images has contributed to the globalization of cultures, and whether or not it reveals the symbolic domination of certain countries and cultures over others, depending on the period.
The major part of the project concerns visual studies and art history, on 3 main subjects: worldwide circulation of styles, global diversity or convergence of representations of women, international diffusion of a visual grammar of political resistance. The project also intersects with social, economic and cognitive questions on the circulation of images. Finally, VISUAL CONTAGIONS involves an experimental collaboration with contemporary artists interested in visual globalization, in artificial vision techniques, and how another world history of art can be written.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2020. The profiles are described on the website dh.unige.ch. For further details please contact Pr. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, chair for Digital Humanities (beatrice.joyeux-prunel@unige.ch).