DH^CH / Vera Chiquet

Vera Chiquet is currently the director of the Swiss Agricultural Museum, after having served as deputy head of the Department Professorship Digital Humanities at the University of Basel. An art history and sociology scholar by training (PhD), she focuses on new methods in the humanities—mainly computational and experimental approaches to explore visual and social practices. She initiated the DH CH Network and has been active in promoting critical and visual studies through both academic and applied digital research. Since publishing her book Fake Fotos, she has continued to investigate historical and contemporary image practices. She also supports a wide range of digital research initiatives through her start-up Virtual Culture.

• From Canonical Works to Algorithmic Bias: Rethinking Cultural Authority in the Digital Age