Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History
Pubblicato il 01-10-2026 - Biblhertz in Torino
Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art HistoryMax Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing”
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History invites applications for postdoctoral research fellowships in digital and computational art history within the Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing,” led by Dr Leonardo Impett.
The group investigates the reciprocal relationship between artificial intelligence and visual culture. It combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture to study both AI as a cultural phenomenon and computational methods as tools for new historical research.
These fellowships are intended for researchers who wish to develop their work as part of a collaborative research group. Successful candidates will work closely with Dr Leonardo Impett and the Machine Visual Culture group,
and will be expected to contribute actively to the group’s shared research agenda. Applications should therefore explain not only the applicant’s own research profile, but also how they would contribute to one of the following three projects.
Projects
- Intellectual Histories of Art History
This project uses distant reading, NLP, citation analysis, and other computational methods to study the intellectual and institutional histories of art history. Relevant materials may include art-historical writing, historiography, theory, criticism, catalogues, periodicals, archives, correspondence, bibliographies, and other corpora through which the discipline has defined its objects, methods, and concepts.
Fellows may work with large-scale published and archival corpora, including online journals and periodicals, bibliographic datasets, and the digitised holdings of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. In particular, the gro