Anna Irene Siebold
Anna Irene Siebold
PhD project
Analysing, interpreting and presenting history using digital media and research methods. Investigation of their history-producing mechanisms (working title)
Abstract
Digital media and the technologies and methods used to organise, analyse and present them are increasingly shaping the historical practices of the humanities. The term "big data of the past", the use of digital databases and network theories, which has become commonplace in many areas, and the increasing use of machine learning, digital mapping or data modelling attest to this. Analogue knowledge systems and the associated classification and ordering systems are consequently being replaced and new ones are coming into force. However, it is not only the concrete work processes in research that are changing; it is to be expected that the result itself - the historiography - will also change. Under the auspices of the Critical Digital Humanities and with special consideration of visuality, the dissertation project examines the history-producing mechanisms of the new research tools.
Research interests:
- Theory of the digital humanities
- Epistemology of the digital
- Knowledge production and transfer
- Digital History
Short biography
10/2015 - 09/2019
M.A. Art History in a Global Context with a focus on Europe and America, Freie Universität zu Berlin. Thesis topic: Facts and fictions: (Re-)constructions of events in documentary practice
04/2018 - 10/2018
Editor, steirischer herbst'18
03/2018 - 05/2018
Co-curator of the group exhibition Apophenia, gr_und, Berlin
09/2016 - 07/2017
Editor, documenta 14, Kassel and Athens
08/2012 - 03/2016
Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department I)
10/2010 - 09/2014
B.A. Culture and Technology with Art Studies as core subject, Technische Universität Berlin / University of Copenhagen. Thesis topic: The "Insect Amusement" by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. A work of art for entomology
Publications and lectures
Siebold, Anna, and Matteo Valleriani. "Digital Perspectives in History." Histories 2, no. 2 (June 2022): 170-77. doi.org/10.3390/histories2020013.
El-Hajj, Hassan, Maryam Zamani, Jochen Büttner, Julius Martinetz, Oliver Eberle, Noga Shlomi, Anna Siebold, Grégoire Montavon, Klaus-Robert Müller, Holger Kantz, and Matteo Valleriani. "An Ever-Expanding Humanities Knowledge Graph: The Sphaera Corpus at the Intersection of Humanities, Data Management, and Machine Learning". Database Spectrum, 16 May 2022. doi.org/10.1007/s13222-022-00414-1.
Siebold, Anna. Drowning in Material, in: Apophenia, Berlin 2018, pp. 5-11.