Teaching

2023-10-15

Teaching #

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Schich #

Tallinn University, Estonia

Teaching at Tallinn University #

Cultural Data Analytics 1 & 2
– Spring/Fall 2021/2022/2023, responsible lecturer, Contemporary Media MA program of the Baltic Film, Media & Arts School, foundational introduction lectures and workshops co-taught with the CUDAN Senior fellows, followed by semester-long group projects using an inverted classroom method.

Cultural Data Analytics Research Lab Meeting
– Spring/Fall since 2021 ongoing, responsible lecturer, PhD and postdoc level research colloquium, working towards publications, bringing together students from the Baltic Film, Media & Arts School, the TLU School of Humanities, and the TLU School of Digital Technology.

Approaches to Cultural Data Analytics
– Annual since Spring 2021 ongoing, responsible lecturer, currently used as a university-wide PhD-level opportunity for students to obtain credit as active participants in our CUDAN Open Lab Seminar event series.

Introduction to Audiovisual Culture and Media Research
– Annual since 2020, co-lecturer (guest lectures on Cultural Data Analytics).

Advising at Tallinn University #

CUDAN Senior Fellows (6 postdocs, 4 ongoing) cf. https://cudan.tlu.ee/team/
– Dr. Andres Karjus (computational linguistics, since Fall 2020).
– Dr. Ksenia Mukhina (computational social science, since Fall 2020).
– Dr. Mila Oiva (cultural history, since Fall 2020).
– Dr. Mikhail Tamm (socio-cultural physics, since Fall 2020).
– Dr. Vejune Zemaityte (creative industry research, Fall 2020–Spring 2023).
– Dr. Tasweer Ahmad (computer vision, Fall 2020–Fall 2022).

CUDAN Junior Fellows / PhD supervision (5 ongoing)
– Mark Mets, PhD student in the TLU School of Humanities, Using cultural data analysis towards understanding homogenization, antagonization, and transmission bias of the cultural other (working title), supervisor with Marek Tamm.
– Tillmann Ohm, PhD student in the TLU School of Digital Technology, The Algorithmic Art Curator: Knowledge Graph Process Design for Narrative Selection (working title), supervisor.
– Hanna Jemmer, PhD student in the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, The use of data by local media organisations: practices and innovation opportunities (working title), supervisor with Indrek Ibrus and Ulrike Rohn.
– Mar Canet Solà, PhD student in the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Using artificial intelligence methods to enable and understand multimodal interaction in latent spaces of cultural meaning (working title), supervisor.
– Yan Asadchy, PhD student in the TLU School of Humanities, Forging your online identity: creativity, deception and communication in online dating practices in the digital age (working title), supervisor with Marek Tamm.

BFM PhD students (2 ongoing)
– Antonina Korepanova, PhD student in the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, A digitally transformed art school: collective artmaking using cultural data (working title), supervisor with Kai Pata.
– Raul Lobanov, PhD student in the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Potentiality of implementing linked data technologies in Estonian Public Broadcasting. Network science case study of audiovisual content data (working title), supervisor with Indrek Ibrus.

Teaching at UT Dallas #

Rome as Urban Systems
– Spring 2020, AHST 6322.001.20s – Topics in Data Driven Art History, https://go.utdallas.edu/ahst6322.001.20s.
Senior Seminar
– Spring 2020, ATCM 4397.003.20s, https://go.utdallas.edu/atcm4397.003.20s.
Social Networks
– Fall 2019, ATCM 3385.001.19f, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl86627.
Senior Seminar
– Fall 2019, ATCM 4397.002.19f, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl85513.
From Warburg to Deep Learning
– Spring 2019, AHST 6322.001.19s – Topics in Data Driven Art History, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl81654.
Senior Seminar
– Spring 2019, ATCM 4397.008.19s, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl81466.
Visualization and Info Design
– Fall 2018, ATEC 4364.001.18f – Topics in Design and Production, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl78093.
Freshman Seminar
– Fall 2018, ATCM 1100.004.18f & ATCM1100.006.18f, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl76464.
Understanding Urban Ecologies
– Spring 2017, ATEC 6389.003.17s – Topics in ATEC, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl63790.
Visualizing Cultural Histories
– Spring 2017, ATEC 6353.001.17s – Visualization Research, https://dox.utdallas.edu/syl63719.
Data-Driven Art History
– Fall 2016, HUAS 6312.001.16f – Art and Society, http://go.utdallas.edu/huas6312.001.16f.
Understanding Art
– Spring 2016, AHST 2331.001.16s, http://go.utdallas.edu/ahst2331.001.16s.
Using Information Design to Think
– Fall 2015, ATEC 6353.001.15f – Visualization Research, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl50508.
Form as Meaning
– Fall 2015, AHST 4342.001.15f – Topics in Art History, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl50294.
Visual Sample and Remix
– Spring 2015, HUAS 6375.001.15s – Imagery and Iconography, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl43868.
Understanding Urban Ecologies
– Fall 2014, ATEC 6389.001.14f – Topics in ATEC, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl39671.
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Arts and Technology
– Fall 2014, ATEC 6300.001.14f, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl43066.
Visual Sample and Remix
– Spring 2014, ATEC 4370.001.14s – Topics in ATEC, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl39803.
Using Information Design to Think
– Spring 2014, ATEC 6353.001.14s – Visualization Research, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl39804.
Networks and History
– Fall 2013, ATEC 6389.001.13f – Topics in ATEC, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl34939.
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Arts and Technology
– Fall 2013, ATEC 6300.002.13f, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl35727.
Ecology of Complex Networks
– Spring 2013, ATEC 6389.001.13s – Topics in ATEC, http://dox.utdallas.edu/syl33289.

Advising at UT Dallas #

Individual instruction below the PhD level is not detailed here due to FERPA, a US federal law. From 2013 to 2020, I have engaged in individual instruction at UT Dallas in Arts & Technology and in Aesthetic Studies, including 9 PhD, 11 MA/MFA, and 3 undergrad students. A great number of undergrad students have furthermore prepared their capstone under my supervision as instructor of the ATEC Senior Seminar (see above). The products listed below are public information.

PhD supervision (9 graduated) – Robin Yolanda Sinckler, Aesthetic Studies PhD, 2022, co-supervisor, The Image of the Black in Texas Art. – Virginia Malloy Curry, Aesthetic Studies PhD, 2021, co-supervisor, The Architecture, Collections, and Social Agency of Three American Athenaea: Redwood, Boston, and Caltech. – Jacquelyn Delin McDonald, Aesthetic Studies PhD, 2020, co-supervisor, Modeling Fame: A Closer Look at the Work of Elisabeth Ney. – Yvan Tina, ATEC PhD, 2020, co-supervisor, Artificial Theaters / Staging Life in the Age of Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence. – Leslie Elaine Reid, Aesthetic Studies PhD, 2020, co-supervisor, Abu Dhabi, Lens, and Los Angeles: The Avant-Garde Architecture of Three 21st Century Universal Art Museums. – Priyanka Sharma, ATEC PhD, 2018, supervising chair, Trends in Consumer Trend Analysis, candidate now Lead Online Marketing Manager, AT&T Digital Marketing. – Louis Burns, ATEC PhD, 2017, co-supervisor, Social Gaming as a Particiatory Urban Design Process, candidate now building non-profit Urban Prosperity Network.
– Judd Bradbury, ATEC PhD, 2016, supervising chair, The Data Narrativist [outlining an emerging C-level executive role], candidate now Clinical Assistant Professor, Information Systems, UT Dallas JSOM. – Debra Gibney DeWitte, Aesthetic Studies PhD, 2016, co-supervisor, Public Exhibitions of Drawing in Paris, France (1860-1890) [data-driven], candidate previously(!) co-authored a highly rated Art History book on Amazon.com!

Teaching previous to UT Dallas #

Schich, Maximilian & Katharina Zweig: Vernetzungen und Verstrickungen / Digital Humanities and the New Science of Complex Networks [three day course] (September 10-12, 2012), Marsilius-Kolleg, Rupert-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany, http://www.marsilius-kolleg.uni-heidelberg.de/studien/sose2012.html

Complexity of Space Documentation: Ambiguity, Heterogeneity and Dynamics. [Three hour seminar] (August 8, 2012), Université d‘Été, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, https://yverdonlesbainsfuture.wordpress.com/courses/

Complex Structure in Digital Collections [2 hour excerpt] (October 2, 2011), Media Art Histories master programme, Department for Image Science, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria

Complex Structure in Digital Collections [2 day lecture] (June 16-17, 2010), Digital Collection Management certified prog., Department for Image Science, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria

Schich, Maximilian & Stefan Hertle. Tutorium zur Zwischenprüfung Kunstgeschichte [Survey of Munich and Western Art History], WS 1999/2000 undergrad course, Institute for Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany