Category: digital humanities
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Can AI Truly Give Us a Glimpse of Lost Masterpieces?
Recent projects used machine learning to resurrect paintings by Klimt and Rembrandt. They raise questions about what computers can understand about art. In 1945, fire claimed three of Gustav Klimt’s most controversial paintings. Commissioned in 1894 for the University of Vienna, “the Faculty Paintings”—as they became known—were unlike any of the Austrian symbolist’s previous work.…
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DH Monday: Conference CFP – DH Unbound 2022 (online / May 17-19, 2022)
Call for Papers – DH Unbound 2022 in English, Spanish, or French. Submit your proposal by January 15, 2022. Reviving a collaboration that began with the Joint CSDH/SCHN and ACH Conference in 2015, DH Unbound 2022 (May 17-19, 2022) facilitates connections between ACH, CSDH/SCHN, and other organizations sharing our commitment to creating virtual and hybrid…
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New Online Resource: Vasari Diagram – Open Access Web Interface to Reveal Wikipedia Networks of Old Masters
Just launched: The web interface “Vasari Diagram” – an open access tool for data visualization, designed to make accessible and easy to study the networks and semantic connections of old masters in Wikipedia. Painters are not only present in Wikipedia by their own pages but also by numerous other pages, referring to them. Who mentions…