Digital Visual Studies is a cooperation project funded by the Max Planck Society and hosted by the University of Zurich, starting January 2020. The aim of the project is to expand Art History towards the Digital Humanities, modernize its methodologies, and contribute to forming the first generation of Digital Visual Humanists. Headed by an Executive Committee, it includes six Predoctoral Fellows and several Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellows working in the areas of visual, textual, and spatiotemporal research.
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The project is tightly connected with a first-rate 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, among others.