About

Digital Visual Studies is a cooperative project funded by the Max Planck Society and hosted by the University of Zurich, starting January 2020. The project’s aim is to establish Digital Visual Studies as to expand Art History towards the Digital Humanities, to modernize its methodologies, and to contribute in forming a first generation of Digital Visual Humanists. The project, headed by an Executive Committee, includes Predoctoral Fellows, Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Fellows, who work in the areas of visual, textual, spatiotemporal and multimodal research. Digital Visual Studies is connected with a national and international network of partner institutions and digital initiatives, such as the Digital Society Initiative at UZH; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; Swiss Art Research Infrastructure SARI, University of Zurich / ETH Zurich / SIK-ISEA, the EPFL, The University of Cambridge.
This cooperative project seeks to generate avant-garde research and methodological, technical, and intellectual innovation.

DVS also engages in a reflexive artistic research practice, with latest comissioned curatorial pieces for the Helsinki Art Museum for the Helsinkin Biennial 2023, and the Bogota Museum of Modern Art MAMBO in 2024-25.

Team

P.I.: Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen (Director at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History and Full Professor for the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Zurich)
Scientific Coordination: Dr. Darío Negueruela del Castillo
Associate Digital Humanities Researcher: Leonardo Impett
Administrative collaborator: Angela Di Pietro

Executive Committee:
President: Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen Member MPG: Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky Member UZH: Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer

Ph.D. fellows:
Ludovica Schaerf
Pepe Ballesteros

Scientific Collaborator: Iacopo Neri

Former fellows:
Dr. Shin Koseki

Dr. Eva Cetinic
Dr. Lucía Jalón Oyarzun

Dr. Valentine Bernasconi
Dr. Jason Armitage

Network

Digital Visual Studies profits from close contact with outstanding research institutions.

1. Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (BHMPI), Rome
2. Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
3. Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence
4. Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI), University of Zurich / ETH Zurich / SIK-ISEA
5. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI), Florence

Reports

2020 Annual Report

2021 Annual Report

2022 Annual Report

2023 Annual Report

2024 Annual Report