Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, March 21–23, 2024, Chicago
Session CFP: “Enhancing Early Modern Visual Resources in the Digital Space”
Submission Deadline: August 4, 2023
This panel seeks to showcase digital humanities projects that enhance the accessibility, visibility, and tractability of resources designed to analyze visual and material culture of the Early Modern era. Proposals are invited from projects that explore methods and structural solutions for maximizing the capabilities of digital resources to display and analyze visual and material sources and relate them to textual and contextual information. Reflections on the nature of interdisciplinary working practices, the impact of AI in this context, the limitations of technological strategies, and other challenges faced by visually-oriented digital projects focused on the Early Modern era are welcome, as are projects that offer solutions to issues surrounding global archival accessibility. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, projects that present:
- Innovative strategies for digitizing and displaying Early Modern visual and material sources;
- Structural solutions for organizing and interlinking visual and textual sources in a user-friendly way;
- Machine learning solutions that attempt to raise new research questions or offer fresh perspectives on the intricate relationships between image and text;
- Reflections on the benefits and limitations of producing digital outputs alongside or instead of print publications.
This panel is promoted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut’s new digital commentary ‘Dante Depicted: A Commentary on Image, Text, and Exegesis around the Commedia’.
Paper proposals should be submitted by August 4th to Rafael.uriarte@khi.fi.it or Rebecca.bowen@khi.fi.it, including a paper title (15-word maximum); a paper abstract (200-word maximum); your resume (max 3 pages).