The "Culture and Globalization"Seminar:
next session 14 March 2025

Digital Soft Power of Heritage Media. Navigating Post-Human Environments

Continental Europe : 2:00PM. East Coast USA : 9:30 (Daylight Saving Time )

With Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader, LASALLE University of the Arts Singapore

Inscription and complete program: https://www.unige.ch/visualcontagions/seminars/dah-conversation/2024-2025_culture-and-globalization

Artl@s Bulletin: new issue: "Style Revisited"

Conférences "Cataractes" - face au déluge des images

Conférence inaugurale le 30 octobre 2024:

Marie-José Mondzain. "Images : Avis de Tempête"

Artl@s/Visual Contagions Seminar 2024-2025: "Culture and Globalization"

A Seminar organized by Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (UNIGE), Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE), and Catherine Dossin (Purdue University).

Program: https://www.unige.ch/visualcontagions/seminars/dah-conversation/2024-2025_culture-and-globalization

Last Publications

For a list of all the Visual Contagions, see the dedicated page here.

• Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, "Digital humanities in the era of digital reproducibility: towards a fairest and post-computational framework", International Journal of Digital Humanities (2024). DOI:  10.1007/s42803-023-00079-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-023-00079-6 (pdf : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42803-023-00079-6.pdf).

• Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Marie Barras, and Nicola Carboni, "Une Europe par les arts ? Les périodiques illustrés au-delà du Musée imaginaire". Artlas Bulletin  Volume 12, Issue 1 (2023) Europe and its Images, https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol12/iss1/12
• Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Nicola Carboni, Adrien Jeanrenaud, Cédric Viaccoz, Céline Belina, Thomas Gauffroy-Naudin et Marie Barras, université de Genève, "Un œil mondial ? La mondialisation par l’image au prisme du numérique – le cas du projet Visual Contagions", Sociétés & Représentations (L'Oeil numérique), n° 55, 2023, p. 203-226.
• Adrien Jeanrenaud, "L'affiche de film à l'épreuve de la vision par ordinateur", Humanistica, juin 2023,https://hal.science/hal-04133342v1
• Robin Champenois & Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, "Visual Contagions. Extraire et tracer la circulation d'images dans les imprimés illustrés" [Vision artificielle]. Humanistica, juin 2023, https://hal.science/hal-04108205
• Nicola Carboni, Marie Barras & Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, "Pister des circulations visuelles à l'échelle mondiale" [Histoire quantitative et mondiale de l'art], Humanistica, juin 2023, http://hal.science/hal-04094170v1.
• Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, "Une Europe des images?" Hermes 90, 2022, p. 97-103. https://www.cairn.info/revue-hermes-la-revue.htm?contenu=liste-numeros.

 The Project Visual Contagions

How does the circulation and dissemination of images take place on a global scale?

Is the flow heterogeneous? Is certain imagery indicative of a specific location or culture? The vast quantity and variety of printed matter, art magazines and other propaganda journals testify to a phenomenon of movement on a global scale. Visual contagions, linking one iconography to another, allow the establishment of visual block busters leading to an international reflection.
These are the enigmas that this project aims to answer by working on digitised illustrated printed material from the period 1890 and 1990, before the Internet.

The images retrieved from these periodicals, catalogues and posters will be matched and analysed via matching and pattern comparison algorithms. The goal of the project is, from the spatio-temporal quantitative analysis of images that are similar to each other but that were produced at different dates, to the close, traditional study of images and archives in context, to better understand "visual contagions" (or more precisely, the spatio-temporal circulation of styles, motifs, themes - etc., since the 19th century). Read more

 Comment parler d'images qu'on n'a jamais vues ?