Head of Textile and Fashion Design at ARUCAD, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elham Etemadi Participated in International Workshop

Head of Textile and Fashion Design at ARUCAD, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elham Etemadi Presented a Paper at an International Workshop on AI and Art History Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elham Etemadi, Head of Textile and Fashion Design at Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD), presented a paper online at the international workshop AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis, organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The two-day workshop brought together international researchers to explore current possibilities and limitations of AI-supported methods in art historical research, focusing on topics such as artwork analysis through artificial intelligence, datasets, image classification, controlled vocabularies, as well as ethical and legal dimensions. The event fostered discussions among scholars from different countries on emerging approaches at the intersection of art history and artificial intelligence.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elham Etemadi presented her paper, The Algorithmic Canon and the Politics of Non-Western Visibility in the Age of AI, in the panel Bias, which focused on questions of representation and prejudice. In her presentation, she critically examined how AI systems may reproduce Western-centered art historical narratives and discussed the implications of these mechanisms for the visibility of non-Western art.

Providing an important platform for international academic exchange, the workshop contributed to the global visibility of ARUCAD’s research at the intersection of art, design and technology, while further strengthening the university’s international academic presence.