Dr. Sabine Lang

Dr. Sabine Lang

Research Assistant (Postdoc)

Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)

Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse 61
91052 Erlangen
Germany

Office hours:

by arrangement (in person or online)

Research focus

Digital art history and provenance research

  • The collaboration of computer vision and art history
  • Potentials and challenges of digital technologies for provenance research
  • Development and application of digital methods, especially pattern recognition
  • Critical reflection of digital methods
  • Gaps in the digital space (types, causes)
  • Knowledge representation, especially the visualization of gaps and problematic contents in the digital space

Board Memberships and Functions

  • Women’s representative for the Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies
  • Assistant representative of academic mid-level staff for the Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies
  • Assistant member of the Commission for Ethics in Security-Relevant Research

 

Since 04/2022

Research assistant (postdoc)
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)

03/2021 until 03/2022

Provenance researcher (focus on Nazi confiscated art)

03/2020 until 03/2021

Traineeship, art cataloging
Ketterer Kunst, auction house, Munich

02/2016 until 10/2019

Research assistant (postdoc)
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing
Computer Vision Group (Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer)
Research focus: visual similarities, object recognition, style transfer
Project website: https://ommer-lab.com/research/computer-vision-in-the-digital-humanities/
(website now embedded within the homepage of the Machine Vision & Learning Group, LMU, Munich)

04/2013 until 05/2016

PhD in art history
Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen
Dissertation “Studies on Roland Penrose, English Surrealism and Farley Farm as an Artist House and Representation of the Artist’s Oeuvre” (German: “Studien zu Roland Penrose, dem Englischen Surrealismus und der Farley Farm als Künstlerhaus und Repräsentantin des künstlerischen Werkes”)
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-11010

JOURNALS

  • Ufer, Nikolai, Max Simon, Sabine Lang and Björn Ommer: Large-scale interactive retrieval in art collections using multi-style feature aggregation. PLOS ONE 16(11) (2021),
  • Lang, Sabine and Björn Ommer: Transforming Information into Knowledge: How Computational Methods Reshape Art History. Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (2021), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/15/3/000560/000560.html.
  • Lang, Sabine and Björn Ommer: Reconstructing Histories: The Analysis of Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods. Arts, special edition: Computational Aesthetics, 7:64 (2018), https://doi.org/10.3390/arts7040064.
  • Lang, Sabine and Björn Ommer: Attesting Similarity: Supporting the Organization and Study of Art Image Collections with Computer Vision. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 33:4 (2018), 845-56, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy006.

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

EDITED VOLUMES

MONOGRAPHS

  • Lang, Sabine: Studien zu Roland Penrose, dem Englischen Surrealismus und der Farley Farm als Künstlerhaus und Repräsentantin des künstlerischen Werkes. Dissertation, University Library Tuebingen (2016), http://hdl.handle.net/10900/69596.

PUBLICATIONS WITHOUT PEER-REVIEW

  • Lang, Sabine: Sensible Inhalte im Netz. „Provenienzforschung und Fotografie“ I: Auswirkungen der Digitalität auf den Umgang mit Fotografien. Blog of the Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (01.02.2024), https://kulturgutverluste.de/mediathek/blog.
  • Lang, Sabine: Wie hat sich Provenienzforschung durch Digitalität verändert? RETOUR-blog for provenance researchers  (07.08.2023), https://retour.hypotheses.org/2916.
  • Lang, Sabine: “[…] nicht die Ausnahme, sondern der Normalfall[!]“ Die digitale Lücke in der Kunstgeschichte und Provenienzforschung. Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften 8 (2023), https://doi.org/10.17175/2023_002.

Last updated: February 2024

July 2024

Title: “Ein Blick zurück: Die Geschichte der Digitalen Kunst“ / “Looking Back: The History of Digital Art“
Talks in German and English on the occasion of the presentation of the “AI-Experiment” as part of the Nuremberg Digital Festival
March 2024 Title: “Ein Blick zurück: Die Geschichte der Digitalen Kunst“
Talk on the occasion of the presentation of the “AI-Experiment” in the accompanying program to the German Congress for Art HistoryFriedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
March 2024

Title: “Ein Blick zurück: Die Geschichte der Digitalen Kunst“
Exhibition opening of the „AI-Experiment“
Department Computer Science
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
December 2023 Title: “Problematische Inhalte im Netz: Wie gehen die (digitalen) Geisteswissenschaften damit um?“
FAU Scientia
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
October 2023 Title: “Können KI-gestützte Verfahren bei der Objektsuche in historischen Auktionskatalogen helfen?“
Long Night of Sciences, Erlangen
October 2023 Title: “Einblicke in den Kunstmarkt: Das Potential computergestützter Bildsuchverfahren für die Recherche in Auktionskatalogen“
Session “Ähnlichkeit und Methode: Digitale Perspektiven für die Arbeit mit historischem Bildmaterial“, Wolfenbuettel
Herzog August Library and University of Hildesheim
July 2023 Title: “»Mind the Gap«: Von Lücken in der Provenienzforschung und ihrer Präsenz im Digitalen“
Researchers‘ Day, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
July 2023 Title: “Digitale Provenienzforschung: Welches Potential hat Künstliche Intelligenz für die Forschung zur Herkunft von Objekten?“
Collegium Alexandrinum
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
February 2023 Title: “When science meets art: How computer technologies impact art history”
Chair for Science, Technology and Gender Studies
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
February 2023 Title: “Sind wir ersetzbar? Als Kunsthistorikerin in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften“
Lecture series “Kunstgeschichte und Beruf“
Institute for Art History, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
July 2022 Title: “Shifting Value(s): Vom Wert der Digitalisierung und digitaler Methoden und ihren Folgen für das Objekt“
Summer School “Was ist der Wert der Dinge? Konzepte einer Sammlungsökonomie“
Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuettel
July 2022 Title: “Provenienzforschung im Kontext des Digitalen: Von Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen und Tendenzen“
Researchers‘ Day, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
May 2022 Title: “Beyond Digitization: Computer Vision and Art History in Collaboration”Workshop “Computational Methods for Theatre Studies?”
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
April 2022 Title: “Verborgene Geschichten: Provenienzforschung und der NS-Kunstraub“
Community centre Waldstetten, adult education centre, Schwaebisch Gmuend
September 2018 Title: “Der künstlerische und künstliche Blick auf das digitale Bild”
Workshop “Der digitale Blick – Mixed Methods in der Bildanalyse“
Brandenburg Center for Media Studies, Potsdam
April 2018 Title: “Understanding Art: A Critical Assessment of Potentials and Challenges”
Symposium “Searching Through Seeing”
Frick Collection, New York
July 2017 Title: “Revisited: Die Methode der Ordnungsbetrachtung im digitalen Kontext“
Workshop “(Art-)History goes Digital“
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich
March 2017 Title: “Muster erkennen! Strukturelles Sehen in der Kunstgeschichte“
Workshop “Kompetenzdiagnostik und Kompetenzentwicklung in der visuellen Informationsverarbeitung“, Heidelberg

CONFERENCE TALKS

February 2024 Title: “Konzepträume: Ein Vorschlag zur besseren Abstimmung von Theoriehintergrund und digitalen Datenanalysen“
Digital Humanities in the German-Speaking Countries (DHd), Passau
February 2024 Title: “Whose fault is it? Identifying causes of gaps during the data life cycle”
CAA Annual Conference, Chicago & Online
Session: “Blanks No More? Digital Art History and the Unknown”
January 2024 Title: ”Problematic and Sensitive Content”
Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 (PLW 2024), Berlin & Online
Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10557132 (slides)
January 2024 Title: “Gaps in Provenance Information“
Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 (PLW 2024), Berlin & Online
Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10557182 (slides)
October 2023 Title: “Immer FAIR?! Problematische Inhalte in den Datenbeständen der Provenienzforschung“
FORGE 2023, Tuebingen
March 2023 Title: “Mind the Gap”: Von Lücken in der Provenienzforschung und ihrer Präsenz im digitalen Raum“
Digital Humanities in the German-Speaking Countries (DHd), Trier / Luxembourg
July 2019 Title: “Finding Visual Patterns in Artworks: An Interactive Search Engine to Detect Objects in Artistic Images”
Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands
September 2018 Title: ”Reflecting on How Artworks are Processed and Analyzed by Computer Vision”
Workshop “VISART”
European Conference on Computer Vision, Munich
June 2018 Title: ”Urban Art in a Digital Context: A Computer-Based Evaluation of Street Art and Graffiti Writing“
Digital Humanities Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
August 2017 Title: ”An Interface for Art Historical Research”
Digital Humanities Conference, Montreal, Canada

OTHER FORMATS

April 2023 Participant in the panel-discussion about “Digitale Provenienzforschung“, organized by the Digital Art History Group, “AG kuwiki (Kunstwissenschaften + Wikipedia)”, “Ulmer Verein”, online

Last updated: July 2024

 

Talk about the history of digital art at the vernissage of the “AI-Experiment” on March 8, 2024.

 

Interview about AI in arts and culture with the “funklust”-team during the AI-week on June 10, 2024: https://www.funklust.de/2024/06/funklust-ki-woche-ki-in-kunst-kultur/