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Book ^

Rezeption und Tradierung als Komplexes Netzwerk. Der CENSUS und visuelle Dokumente zu den Thermen in Rom. (Diss. HU-Berlin, May 2, 2007) Munich: Verlag Biering & Brinkmann 2009. German, 340 pp., 225 figs., 8 pl., 25 maps and 570 figs. in appendix. ISBN: 978-3-930609-56-7.
Eprint-URL: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2009/700/
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Articles ^

Netzwerke komplexer Netzwerke in der (Kunst)Wissenschaft. in: Barbara Job, Alexander Mehler, and Tilmann Sutter (ed.): Interdependenz und Dynamik sozialer und sprachlicher Netzwerke. Bielefeld: Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF) 2011.
Preliminary URL: http://www.schich.info/pub/2011/Schich_2011_Bielefeld_Preprint.pdf [in print]
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Exploring Co-Occurrence on a Meso and Global Level Using Network Analysis and Rule Mining. (with Michele Coscia), MLG‘11 Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs. ACM KDD San Diego, CA, USA.
URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/mlg2011/papers/paper_22.pdf
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Revealing Matrices. in: Beautiful Visualization. Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts.
Edited by Julie Steele and Noah Iilinsky. Sebastopol, CA: O‘Reilly 2010, pp. 227-254. ISBN: 978-1-4493-7986-5
URL: http://revealingmatrices.schich.info
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L’immagine delle Terme di Traiano nel Codice Destailleur e in altre vedute d’epoca. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma CXI 2010, pp. 339-352/375-382.
Preprint URL: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2009/709/
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The Network of Subject Co-Popularity in Classical Archaeology. (with César Hidalgo, Sune Lehmann, and Juyong Park), Bollettino di Archeologia on line I 2010, Volume Speciale, Poster Session 8, pp. 49-57.
URL: http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/bao_document/poster/6_SCHICH_e_altri.pdf
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Human activity – from the Renaissance to the 21st century. (with Albert-László Barabási), in: Perelló, Josep; Alsina, Pau (ed.): Cultures of Change. Exhibition Catalogue, Barcelona: Arts Santa Monica 2009-2010, pp. 86-89.
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Dissecting the Canon: Visual Subject Co-Popularity Networks in Art Research. (with Sune Lehmann and Juyong PaComplex Networksrk), 5th European Conference on Complex Systems, Jerusalem, September 3, 2008.
URL: http://www.jeruccs2008.org/node/114
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How Simple Life Deconstructs Utopia. (with Steffen Krämer), in: Stephan Doesinger (ed.): Space Between People. How the Virtual Changes Physical Architecture. Munich: Prestel 2008 pp. 30-45. ISBN: 3-791339-91-5.
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Caracalla-Thermen. in: Christina Strunck (ed.): Rom. Meisterwerke der Baukunst von der Antike bis heute. Festgabe für E. Kieven. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag 2007 pp. 58-61. ISBN: 3-865681-86-7.
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Terme e basilica di Massenzio. in: Fiore, Francesco Paolo (ed.): La Roma di Leon Battista Alberti. Umanisti, architetti e artisti alla scoperta dell‘antico nella città del Quattrocento. Exhibition Catalogue, Rome 2005 pp. 274-281. ISBN: 8-876243-94-1.
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The functions of the Roman imperial baths in the 16th century. in: Roma moderna e contemporanea, 17.2009(2010), 1/2, pp. 185-187. [submitted in 2004].
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Project Report ^

Bildkonstruktionen bei Annibale Carracci und Caravaggio: Analyse Report von kunstwissenschaftlichen Datenbanken mit Hilfe skalierbarer Bildmatrizen. Projektbericht (with Sibylle Ebert-Schifferer), Rome: Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History) 2009.
URL: http://www.biblhertz.it/deutsch/forschung/bildmatrix/index.htm
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Editing ^

Special Section: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks. (with Isabel Meirelles and Ernest Edmonds),
Leonardo 44:3, June 2011, pp. 239-267, URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/44/3
Leonardo 45:1, February 2012, pp. 77-89, URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/45/1
Leonardo 45:3, June 2012 [to appear].

Comments & Reviews ^

Letter: History repeats itself. The Economist, print edition Jul 16th 2011, p. 17.
URL: http://www.economist.com/node/18956507

Editorial: Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks. (with Isabel Meirelles and Albert-László Barabási), Leonardo 43:3, June 2010, p. 212.
URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/43/3

Comment: Re: Q: digital image databases. [Fundamental thoughts from a researcher‘s point of view]. in: H-Arthist Mailing-List, March 22, 2005.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/20050522-H-Arthist

Conference Review: Datenbanken in den Geisteswissenschaften. Arbeitsgespräch in der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rom, 18. Juli 2003. in: H-SOZ-U-KULT, September 10, 2003.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/20030910-H-SOZ-U-KULT

Book Review: Anna Schreurs: Antikenbild und Kunstanschauungen des neapolitanischen Malers, Architekten und Antiquars Pirro Ligorio (1513-1583). Köln 2000 in: Kunstform 2 (2001) No. 02.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/Kunstform-2-2001-2

Databases ^

THERMAE. Visual Documents on the Imperial Baths in Rome.
URL: http://thermae.schich.info [in preparation]

The Electronic Inventory of the Glyptothek in Munich. (with Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Wurnig et al.) DVD Munich 1996-2002.
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Manuals ^

Numerous public and internal manuals for Projekt Dyabola in English and German: General Dyabola User Manual (2001). Project manuals for the CENSUS (1999 with Vinzenz Brinkmann), the Winckelmann-Database (2000), and Subject Catalogues of Publications on the Ancient World (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) (2001).
URL: http://www.dyabola.de/en/manual/manual.htm

Patent ^

Method producing scalable image matrices. PCT/EP2007/006900 (pending), assignee: Max-Planck-Society, priority: August 7, 2006.
URL: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2008017430

Teaching ^

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks. Two hour seminar with international students via video conference, Media Art Histories master programme, Department for Image Science, Donau-Universität Krems, October 2, 2011.

Complex Structure in Digital Collections. Two day lecture within the Digital Collection Management certified programme, Department for Image Science, Donau-Universität Krems, June 14-18, 2010.
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Tutorium zur Zwischenprüfung Kunstgeschichte [Survey of Western Art History]. Tutorial for undergrad students (with Stefan Hertle), Institute for Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, winter semester 1999/2000.

Talks ^

Visualizing the Ecology of Complex Networks in Art History. Contributed talk at the ‘CAA 100th Annual Conference‘, Los Angeles/CA, February 22–25, 2012. [accepted]

Ecology of Complex Networks in Art Research. Invited talks:
Google tech talk, Google Cambridge Office, Cambridge/MA, February 14, 2012 [invited]
Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library, Providence/RI, December 13, 2011
Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Medford/MA, November 29, 2011.

Frequenz, gemeinsames Auftreten, und komplexe Überlappung archäologischer Gegenstände seit der Renaissance. Invited talk at ‘Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt und Veränderungen der Buchkultur – die Illustration als Medium der Altertumswissenschaften‘, German Archaeologic Institute (DAI), Rome, November 17-18, 2011.

Das soziale Netzwerk des römischen Barock und die Ökologie komplexer Netzwerke in den Kunstwissenschaften. Lecture at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History), Rome, November 15, 2011.

Media Art Histories Archive Roundtable. Invited participant‚ ‘REWIRE – Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology‘, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK, September 28-30, 2011.

Towards Understanding the Ecology of Art History – Archives, Networks, and Complexity. Invited talk at ‘The First Young Investigator Conference – EITC-YIC 2011‘, Maxwell Dworkin Building, Harvard University, Cambridge/MA, August 18–19, 2011.

Towards Understanding the Ecology of Art History – Archives, Networks, and Complexity. Invited talk at ‘Visual Archives in the Digital Age. An international symposium‘, Jacobs University Bremen, June 14–15, 2011.

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks. Introductory talk at the respective Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2011, Ludwig Museum for Comtemporary Art, Budapest, June 7, 2011.

Towards Understanding the Ecology of Art History – Canons and Tails (Christ to Coke). Invited talk (with Martin Kemp) at the Oxford eResearch Centre (OeRC), Oxford University, May 31, 2011.

Untangling the Complex Overlap of Subject Themes in Classical Archaeology. Invited talk (with Michele Coscia) on behalf of Gregory Crane at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville/MA, April 26, 2011.

Untangling the Complex Overlap of Subject Themes in Classical Archaeology. Contributed talk (with Michele Coscia) at the ‘39th Annual International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology (CAA)‘, Beijing, April 12-16, 2011.

Networks in the Experience of Art – Some Associations. Invited talk at ‘The Non-Linear Experience in Music‘, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Universität Bielefeld, March 1-4, 2011.

Complex Networks in Art History and Archaeology. Invited talk at ‘CompleNet – 2nd Workshop on Complex Networks‘, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, October 13-15, 2010.

Complexity of Space Documentation: Ambiguity, Heterogeneity and Dynamics. Keynote talk at the summer school on ‘Visualizations of Space: Concepts – Methods – Media‘, organized by the Graduate School ‘Topology of Technology‘, Darmstadt University of Technology, Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, September 27 – October 1, 2010.

High Throughput Humanities. Introductory talk at the respective satellite symposium at the '7th European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS'10', Lisbon University Institute ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, September 15, 2010.

Image Matrices: Learning from Klosterneuburg. Contributed talk at the MIT Hyperstudio ‚humanities+digital visual interpretations conference‘, Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge/MA, May 21, 2010.
Official Video-URL: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/7864
Hi-res Video-URL http://vimeo.com/12115271

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks. Introductory talk at the respective Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2010, Northeastern University, Boston/MA, May 10, 2010.
Video-URL: http://artshumanities.netsci2010.net/movies.htm

Netzwerke von Netzwerken in der Kunstwissenschaft. Invited talk at Interdependenz und Dynamik sozialer und sprachlicher Netzwerke, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Universität Bielefeld, April 28-30, 2010.

Ecology of Urban Space Documentation. Foraging and Remixing the City. Invited talk at the Critical Ecologies colloquium, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cambridge/MA, April 2-3, 2010.

Complex Networks in Art History and Archaeology. Lunch talk at Google Cambridge/MA, March 19, 2010.

High Throughput Humanities. Ignite talk (with Sune Lehmann and Gourab Goshal) at O‘Reilly Global Ignite Boston 7, Microsoft New England Research Center (NERD), Cambridge/MA,March 4, 2010.
Video-URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4RLQ2KC-cU

Trying to Understand the Coral Reef of Culture. A SciFoo09 session including an introductory talk and a podium style discussion with Martin Kemp and Brian Uzzi. Science Foo Camp 2009, Googleplex, Mountain View, California, July 10-12, 2009.

Evaluating Cultural Heritage Databases Using Degree Matrices. Contributed talk at NetSci09 International Workshop and Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Istituto Veneto Science Lettere ed Arti, Venice, June 29 - July 3, 2009.

Artifact Networks. Invited talk at NetHum09, Chiesa di S. Vidal, Venice, July 2, 2009.

Complex Networks in Archaeology. Lecture at the 37th Annual International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology (CAA), Williamsburg/VA, March 26, 2009.

On the Anatomy of Canon and Co-Popularity – Complex Network Structures in Art Research.Lecture at Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, organized by Guido Caldarelli and Vittorio Loreto, Rome, October 29, 2008.
Presentation via biblhertz.it (45Mb)

Zur Anatomie von Kanon und Co-Popularität – Antike Skulpturen in der Renaissance sowie Bildkonstruktionen bei Annibale Carracci und Caravaggio. Lecture at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History), Rome, October 27, 2008.
Presentation via biblhertz.it (45Mb)

Dissecting the Canon: Visual Subject Co-Popularity Networks in Art Research. Long Oral Presentation (with Sune Lehmann and Juyong Park) at the ‘5th European Conference on Complex Systems‘, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, September 12-19, 2008.
Publication

Generating 2-Dimensional Overviews from a Bi-Partite Classification of Images. Contributed Talk (with Sune Lehmann) at ‘NetSci‘08 - International Workshop and Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications‘, Norwich Bioscience Institutes, Norwich, UK, June 23-27, 2008.
AbstractPresentation (2Mb)

Palladio’s Imperial Roman Baths as a Central Node in the Complex Network of Visual Citation. Lecture at the ‘Society of Architectural Historians 61st Annual Meeting‘, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 23-27, 2008.
Awarded with the SAH Annual Meeting Fellowship of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Presentation (30Mb)

Adding Art Research Data to the Giant Global Graph. Presentation at the ‘Cambridge Semantic Web Gathering‘ (organized by Tim Berners-Lee), Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge/MA, April 8, 2008.
Review by Trent Adams

Implementing the CIDOC CRM in Metaweb‘s Freebase.com. Presentation at the ‘15th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization Meeting‘, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, December 4-7, 2007.
Implementation sketch in Freebase.com

Integrating ‘very old’ sources with modern research. Lecture at the ‘International Congress [on] Cultural Heritage und New Technologies: Workshop 12: Archaeology & Computers, Workshop 1: Publishing „old“ excavations with new technologies Part 3‘, Stadtarchäologie Vienna, November 5-7, 2007.
Abstract

Sample und Remix in Kopie und Rekonstruktion. Lecture at the international congress ‘The Originality of Copies. Copies as Produces and Media of the Transformations of Antiquity‘, SFB 644 Transformationen der Antike, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 2-3, 2007.

The Network of (Antique) Reception: Evolution, Self-Similarity and Transmission. Lecture at ‘Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks, Satellite Workshop of the 14th European Conference on Complex Systems‘, Dresden, October 1-5, 2007.

Beyond the Paragone: Addressability and Access. Lecture at ‘Archaeology and the Modern World Session 13: Is Invention the Mother of Necessity?’ at the ‘13th European Association of Archeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting‘, Zadar, Croatia, September 18-23, 2007.

Reception and Transmission of Visual Information as Complex Networks. Lecture at the ‘International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks‘, Transylvanian Summer School Series, Teleki Educational Center, Sovata, Romania, July 15-20, 2007.

Sample and Remix in Building Reconstruction. Lecture at the study day ‘Terme di Caracalla - le ultime ricerche‘, Istituto Storico Austriaco & Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Rome, March 1-2, 2007.

L‘immagine delle Terme di Traiano nel Codice Destailleur e in vedute d‘epoca. Lecture presented at ‘Giornata di studi: Scavi nelle Terme di Traiano sul Colle Oppio‘, German Archaeologic Institute (DAI), Rome. October 20, 2005.

The Functions of the Roman Baths in the 16th Century. Paper presentation at ‘Congresso AISU‘, Università Roma Tre, Rome, June 26, 2004.

Tradierung visueller Information am Beispiel der Kaiserthermen in Rom. CENSUS lecture,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 22, 2004.

Roman Imperial Baths and the Codex Destailleur. A Big Picture. Lecture presented at the ‘International Study Day on the Codex Destailleur‘, Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History), Rome, April 26, 2004.

Zur visuellen Tradierung der Kaiserthermen. Lecture at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History), Rome, November 27, 2003.

Die Internetoberfläche von Projekt Dyabola. ‘New Media Workshop‘ lecture, Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History) Rome, July 8, 2002.
Handout PDF

Panel Discussion with Ecke Bonk at Sarat Maharaj‘s seminar ‘Thinking Documenta & Doing Documenta‘, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. November 15, 2001.

The CENSUS of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. Presentation (with Peter Seiler and Tatjana Bartsch) at the convention ‘Prometheus - Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung und Lehre‘, University of Cologne, September 13, 2001.
Abstract

The New DYABOLA Web Interface. Presentation at the workshop ‘They Never Covered This in Library School: Basic Resources in Ancient Art and Archeology‘, Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), 28th annual conference, Pittsburgh/PA, March 18, 2000.

Exhibits ^

Network diagram of agents connecting the British, Belgian, Dutch, and French auction markets from 1801–20 using 230,000 records from the Getty Provenance Index® databases. Zoomable online exhibit at the official website of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles/CA, September 2011.
Zoomable URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/zoomify/index.html

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance 1947-2005: Revealing emergent complex structure within the data model definition of a scholarly database. Map exhibit at ‘Places & Spaces – Mapping Science, 7th Iteration on Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries‘, University of North Texas, Denton/TX, September 15, 2011 – January 24, 2012 (among other places).
Zoomable URL: http://scimaps.org/maps/map/the_census_of_antiqu_129/

An Emerging Big Picture of Classical Archaeology as a Complex System. Poster presented (with Michele Coscia) at ‘8th European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS‘11‘, Campus Altes AKH, Vienna, September 12-16, 2011.

Exploring Co-Occurrence on a Meso and Global Level Using Network Analysis and Rule Mining. Full paper (with Michele Coscia) presented as poster due to visualization content, MLG‘11 Ninth Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs. ACM KDD San Diego/CA, USA, August 20-21, 2011.

The Network of Subject Co-Popularity in Classical Archaeology. Poster presented (with César Hidalgo, Sune Lehmann and Juyong Park) at the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Palazzo della FAO, Rome, September 22-26, 2008.
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Dissecting the Canon: Visual Subject Co-Popularity Networks in Art Research. Poster presented (with Sune Lehmann and Juyong Park) at the International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, Semper‘s lecture hall of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 18-23, 2008. Best Poster Award.
Award-talk video URL: http://videolectures.net/cvss08_schich_dtcvs/
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