[ecrea] Funding for industry-based PhD on 'Algorithmic Iconography'

Please share this scholarship opportunity with suitable candidates. 
We're looking for an excellent student for a funded industry-based PhD 
project on 'Algorithmic Iconography'. Please see the note below for how 
we conceptualise this.

The project will be based at the Manchester School of Art and is a 
collaboration with social media analytics agency Pulsar 
<http://www.pulsarplatform.com> and the Visual Social Media Lab, based 
at The University of Sheffield.

*Full details:* http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/research/studentships/art-and-design/
*Deadline:* 20 February 2015

Feel free to contact me with questions.

V best, Farida

*/// Algorithmic Iconography ///*

Iconography is a long-standing art historical approach that offers a 
rich basis for the analysis of images beyond the field of Art, including 
images on social media. Iconography traditionally has involved two key 
areas. The first entails the close interpretation of individual works of 
Art in terms of their cultural context and place within representational 
traditions. The second involves the mapping of iconic motifs across time 
and space, tracking the movement of images from one context to another, 
and their appropriation, adaption, and reuse. Both of these approaches 
offer fertile possibilities for the qualitative analysis of social media 
images. Recent developments in Computer Vision and pattern recognition 
algorithms also offer an exciting and timely opportunity to explore 
possible synergies between qualitative iconographical analysis and 
computational techniques for the analysis of large online image datasets.






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Dr Farida Vis
Faculty Research Fellow
Information School | University of Sheffield
E: (f.vis /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) <mailto:(f.vis /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)>