Sabine Susstrunk’s Intro Lecture to Gallerie dell’Accademia

At first, Sabine asks us to think about how would we transcribe paintings? While we learned today that it is a science to text edit, what about image editing? It’s not just photoshop… She then shows The Dream of St Ursula (Carpaccio, 1495) : is this online representation similar to what we are going to…

Opening of the first Digital Humanities fall school in Venice

Yesterday, 25 selected Ph.D students from Ca’Foscari, EPFL and other universities have gathered in Venice for the first Digital Humanities Fall School. The first orientation and introductory course was done in the new Ca’Foscari Zattere Library. We formed 6 interdisciplinary groups that are going to work on new projects for the Venice Time Machine. Introductory…