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27JUN 2025
General
Digital Provenance Research: a computer-assisted image search in auction catalogues
The project The German Sales database is essential for provenance research, providing access to thousands of auction and sales catalogues. These offer insights into the 20th century art market, make object sales transparent and sometimes also contain information on prices, consignors and buyers. The catalogues can currently be searched in full text. Although this access […]
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24SEP 2024
Events
“2 Minuten Wissen”: Can digital maps provide safety?
The format “2 Minuten Wissen” presents exciting projects and research areas of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology. The DHSS is represented with a contribution by Dominik Kremer and Sabine Lang, which asks whether detailed digital maps of gang activity and shootings can give residents a sense of security in their daily lives. […]
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16APR 2024
General
„Emotions“ – An online-exhibition with AI-generated images
Is that art? Are there similarities between AI-generated images and traditional art? How do image generators work? What are potentials and risks of AI-generated images? As part of the seminar “Von der Leinwand zum Pixel: Digitale Kunst erstellen, beschreiben und ausstellen”, which took place in the winter semester 2023/24, students in the Department of Digital […]
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05MAR 2024
Events
A Report from the #DHd2024
This year’s conference of the association “Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries” (DHd) took place in Passau from February 26th to March 1st, 2024, which marked the DHd conference’s 10th anniversary! By the way: The first conference also took place in Passau. The conference’s motto was “Quo Vadis?” (Where are you going?) and therefore asked explicitly […]
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16FEB 2024
Events
Invitation to the opening on March 8th: The AI-Experiment
The opening of the AI-Experiment, which was initiated by Bernhard Egger (junior professor for Cognitive Computer Vision) and realized together with Swiss artist and layer Hans Furer, will take place on March 8th, from 6 pm. The vernissage will be framed by various talks by Sabine Lang (the history of digital art), Bernhard Egger (how […]
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13OCT 2023
Events
The DHSS attends a conference on similarity and methods
The conference „Ähnlichkeit und Methode: Digitale Perspektiven für die Arbeit mit historischem Bildmaterial statt“ took place at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel between October 11th and October 13th. The term similarity and possible similarity dimensions were discussed by various disciplines, such as art history and archaeology. In particular, methods for image recognition, which enable […]The conference „Ähnlichkeit und Methode: Digitale Perspektiven für die Arbeit mit historischem Bildmaterial statt“ took place at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel between October 11th and October 13th. The term similarity and possible similarity dimensions were discussed by various disciplines, such as art history and archaeology. In particular, methods for image recognition, which enable […]
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