The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (Italy) invites applications for a Digital Humanities Research Scientist within the Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing,” led by Dr Leonardo Impett.
The Machine Visual Culture research group investigates the reciprocal relationship between artificial intelligence and visual culture, focusing on how machine vision systems both shape and are shaped by histories of seeing. Combining digital art history with critical AI studies and media archaeology, the group explores AI both as a revolutionary methodology for the study of visual culture, and also as a cultural phenomenon in its own right with important implications for the humanities. Machine Visual Culture offers an interdisciplinary approach that positions AI as both a subject of cultural critique and a transformative approach to art historical research. The research group collaborates closely with international partners, in particular with Cambridge Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge.