Agenda

Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities 

Venice, 8-12 July, 2024

The Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities provides advanced and in-depth training in theories, technologies and methods applied to historical monuments, artefacts and texts.

Focussing on cultural, archaeological, historical, literary, and artistic materials from Venetian sites and cultural heritage institutions, participants will engage in debates about digital cultural heritage and public humanities while enhancing their competences and skills in digitising materials and sources and in modelling, analysing and visualising multimedia humanities data. 

Programme

Day 1 - Gazing Upon Venice: an Eye-Tracking Experiment

Area 1 - Digital and Public Archaeology

• [OPEN EVENT in presence/online] Opening Keynote: Maurizio Forte (Duke University)
• Gazing Upon Venice: an Eye-Tracking Experiment
• Data acquisition with eye-tracking in Venice, data processing and analysis

Day 2 - The Shape of Knowledge: Editing Paul Klee’s Sketchbooks

Area 2 - Digital and Public Textual Scholarship 

• Capturing the Text: Imaging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
• Text Encoding and Prompt Engineering  
• Linking the Data
• Publishing the Edition: Tools and Technologies for Text Visualisation
• Aperitivo Talk: Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan)

Day 3 - Walking in the Past. Exploring History through Screens and Mobile Phones

Area 3 - Digital and Public History

• Guided tour of M9-Museum of the 20th century, Mestre
• Hidden Venice app activity
• [OPEN EVENT in presence/online] Keynote: Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)

Day 4 - Museum with a view. A Framework to Enrich and Describe Images

Area 4 - Digital and Public Art History

• Introduction & case studies at the Guggenheim Museum
• Image acquisition, description and reuse in museum space: frameworks and standards

Day 5 - At the Arsenale

• Digitising the Piraeus Lion
• Tour of the 60th Biennale, International Art Exhibition “Foreigners everywhere”
• Experiential workshop “Media Artivism: Towards Postdigital Rebellion”
• [OPEN EVENT in presence/online] Closing Keynote: Carolina Fernandez Castillo (University Carlos III of Madrid)

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Scientific managers of the event organization:
Franz Fischer, Stefano Dall’Aglio, Stefania De Vincentis, Federico Bernardini, Elisa Corrò, Paola Peratello e Marina Buzzoni 

With the collaboration of: 
CSPH, M9, IISG, CNR-ILC, CLARIN-IT, DiPText, Biennale Arte, Centro Studi Archeologia Venezia, AIUCD