Dissertations

Dissertations Ongoing as of 2024

Acting as First Supervisor

Chanyoung Park, Sites of Artistic Encounter, second supervisor PD Dr. Sophie Junge, University of Zurich.
Laura Wagner, On the Fault Lines of Our Visual Culture: The Dynamics of Personalized Text-to-Image Model Creation and Sharing, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Amanda Wasielewski, Uppsala University.
Maria Teresa de Rosa Palmini, A Comprehensive Exploration of Artistic Understanding in Text-to-Image AI Models, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer, University of Zurich.
Caterina Martinelli, Repositioning Italian Postwar Sculpture: Mauro Staccioli’s Early Work in Political Context, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Joris van Gastel, University of Zurich.
Ludovica Schaerf, Exploring Critical Computer Vision, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Leonardo Impett, University of Cambridge.
Jose Ballesteros Zapata, Decoding the Expression of Light, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Leonardo Impett, University of Cambridge.
Giulia Beatrice, ‘Africa sintetica, dinamica, simultanea’: Colonial Iconographies and Contexts in Italian Futurism, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Claudio Zambianchi, Università degli Studi di Roma – La Sapienza.
Nora Guggenbühler, Maria auf Reisen. Vervielfältigung und Verbreitung marianischer Gnadenbilder in der hispanischen Welt, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Michele Bacci, Université de Fribourg, third supervisor Prof. Dr. Joris van Gastel, University of Zurich.
Amir Saifullin, ‘Montage’ and ‘Projection’ as Modes of Organization of Knowledge and Vision in Early Soviet Visual Culture, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Sylvia Sasse, University of Zurich.
Laura Valterio, Striving for Eternity. Material Experimentation in Seventeenth Century Roman Painting, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Joris van Gastel, University of Zurich.

Acting as Secondary Supervisor

Flavia Hächler-Villanova, Italienische Cassoni, first supervisor Prof. Dr. David Ganz, University of Zurich.
Jason Armitage, Embodied Cognition in Virtual Environments with Diachronic Analysis of Linguistic and Visual Inputs, first supervisor Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich.

Dissertations Completed 2022–2024

Acting as First Supervisor

Zofia Jackson, The Textility of Late Medieval History. The Trojan War Tapestries, Origin Myths, and Political Affairs in 15th-Century Europe, second supervisor PD Dr. Mateusz Kapustka, University of Zurich, third supervisor Prof. Dr. Corinne Mühlemann, Universität Bern.
Valentine Bernasconi, Computational and Historical Analysis of Hands and Gestures in Early Modern Art, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Leonardo Impett, University of Cambridge, third supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Bell, Universität Marburg.
Virginia Marano, Exiled Bodies and the Making of Diasporic Home. Spaces of Memory in the Work of Jewish Women Sculptors in Postwar New York, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Giovanna Zapperi, Université de Genève, third supervisor Prof. Dr. Roger Fayet, University of Zurich, fourth supervisor Prof. Dr. Joachim Pissarro, Hunter College of The City University of New York.
Géraldine Meyer, Spur, Schrift, Zitat als Zeichen des Widerstands. Mira Schendels künstlerisches Schaffen in Brasilien 1964–1974, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, University of Zurich.

Acting as Secondary Supervisor

Regula Schmid, Fritz Boscovits: Plakate und Karten aus der Frühzeit der Schweizer Werbegrafik, first supervisor Prof. Dr. Roger Fayet, Abschluss HS24, University of Zurich.
Clim Wijnands, The Portrait’s Touch: Interacting with Paintings in Sixteenth-Century Italy, first supervisor Prof. Dr. Hanneke Grootenboer, Radboud University.