“Augmented Images” International Symposium, 6-7 October 2022, ULiège

Final program of the symposium “Augmented Images. New Challenges in the Era of Big Data Algorithms and Digital Environments” organised by Maria Giulia Dondero (FNRS/ULiège) and Enzo D’Armenio (FNRS/ULiège), with the collaboration of Ralph Dekoninck (UCL) and Thierry Lenain (ULB), on October 6 and 7, 2022, at the University of Liège.

PROGRAM
Salle Wittert, October 6, 2022

9:00-9:30 Opening Address by Anne-Sophie Nyssen, the President of the University of Liège

9:30-10:00 Maria Giulia Dondero (FNRS/ULiège) & Enzo D’Armenio (FNRS/ULiège) Introduction

Chairs of the session: Maria Giulia Dondero (FNRS/ULiège) and Enzo D’Armenio (FNRS/ULiège)

10:00-10:45 Lev Manovich (City University of New York) What Computers Can and Cannot See? New Opportunities and New Challenges for Visual Culture Analytics

10:45-11:30 Virginia Kuhn (University of Southern California) The Gesture and the Archive: Sacred Poses and Computer Vision

11:30-12:15 Massimo Leone (University of Turin/University of Shanghai/Fondazione Bruno Kessler) The Augmented Face: Digital Mask or Digital Veil?

Chairman of the session: Ralph Dekoninck (UCL)
14:30-15:15 Yannis Skarpelos (Panteion University Athens) Modeling Plastic Signs in Big Visual Corpora

15:15-16:00 Bruno Bachimont (University of Technology Compiègne) How Can Augmented Images Meet the Variability of Representation of Reality? Repeated Computations versus Aesthetic Creativity

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-17:15 Antonin Descampe (UCL) Machine Learning Methods to Detect Subjectivity in the News Press: Towards a Multimodal Approach based on Text and Images

17:15-18:00 Houda Lamqaddam (ULiège) Steps Towards a Grammar of Forms in Visual Arts as input for Computer Vision Algorithms

18:00 End of symposium day 1

Salle de l’Horloge, October 7, 2022

Chairman of the session: Thierry Lenain (ULB)
9:30-10:15 Johanna Drucker (University of California Los Angeles) Images after Optics: Augmentation Technologies beyond the Visible Spectrum

10:15-11:00 Andrea Pinotti (University Statale de Milan) Immersion/Emersion: On a Polarity in Digital Environments

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:15 Claudio Paolucci (University of Bologna) Prosthesis and Simulacra: A Semiotic Perspective on Virtual and Augmented Reality

Chairwoman of the session: Virginia Kuhn (USC)
14:30-15:15 Stephan Günzel (University of Europe for Applied Sciences) Augmented Identity. Introduction to a New Field in Media Studies

15:15-16:00 Sofia Pirandello (University Statale de Milan) Imagin-action. Augmented Reality Feedback on Human Imagination

16:00-16:45 Lia Yoka (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) More Art Historical Precedents to the Analysis of Big Visual Data

17:00 End of symposium day 2. Final remarks.

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