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SUMMARY:Pose and Pathsoformel in Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas - Leonardo Impe
 tt\, EPFL
DTSTART:20170126T141500Z
DTEND:20170126T144500Z
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CONTACT:Alan Blackwell
DESCRIPTION:This talk will start with a discussion of the my project on Ab
 y Warburg’s Bilderatlas\, as part of my work with Sabine Suesstrunk and 
 Franco Moretti. The project was posed in the opposite way to most computer
 -science tasks: a clear database\, but no clear problem to solve. Through 
 the ‘operationalisation’ of some of Aby Warburg’s concepts - their c
 ritical conversion into a series of operations - I will present some of ou
 r work analysing the Pathosformel through human pose in the Bilderatlas\, 
 and the resulting tension between morphology and history.\n\nIn drawing so
 me conclusions about this ongoing project\, and where the road lies for co
 mputational art history more generally\, I will touch on some epistemologi
 cal and methodological uncertainties in the new field of the Digital Human
 ities. I’ll explain my own efforts to come to terms with the nature of t
 hese new types of research\, touching on Critical Technical Practice (from
  Artificial Intelligence research) and artistic research. Finally\, I’ll
  seek to explore the relationship between new forms of unscientific scient
 ific research (including the Digital Humanities) and artistic research\, a
 nd what common methodological\, epistemological and technical challenges w
 e share. 
LOCATION:SS03 Meeting Room\, Computer Laboratory
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