Giulia Taurino on AI and Photograph Collections

​Can AI help institutions make millions of historic photographs accessible to public users? Join Giulia Taurino in a discussion on the potential of AI image description to revolutionize how we engage with visual history.

​Giulia Taurino, Ph.D. is a research scientist specialized in AI for the management and preservation of cultural heritage collections. Her work focuses on forms of content organization in online repositories and digital archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and applications of AI in the arts, heritage and museum sectors.

​Her latest projects include the development of textual corpora for AI research, metadata enrichment in photo-archives, and the design of computational tools for the study of art provenance. Past and present affiliations include Northeastern University, The Alan Turing AI & Arts Interest Group, Getty Research Institute, metalab (at) Harvard, MIT Data + Feminism Lab. Giulia holds a doctoral degree in Media Studies and Visual Arts from the University of Bologna and the University of Montreal.