DH^CH / Ismini Makaratzi

Ismini Makaratzi is a PhD researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel, specializing in Digital Art History. She holds a Master’s degree in Digital Humanities and Art History from the University of Basel, a Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and Art History from the University of Crete, and a Diploma in Dance from the Higher Professional Dance School of D. Grigoriadou in Athens.

Her research critically examines how AI can be integrated into art history without compromising the interpretive practice. She develops hybrid methods for analyzing large-scale textual and visual corpora, with a particular focus on epistemological bias, the positionality of knowledge, and the role of human agency in digital humanities.

• Digital Art History
• AI and Interpretation
• Critical AI Studies
• Image-Text Analysis
• Interdisciplinary Methodologies
• History of Art Historiography
• Visual Epistemologies

• Large-Scale Image Collection Analysis: Opportunities - Challenges - Perspectives
• From Data to Meaning: AI and the Epistemologies of Interpretation in DAH