Fashion & Modernization – How to Understand Costumes in Films
As part of our everyday lives we are using - intentionally or unintentionally - the language of clothes that is strongly connected to the modernization of fashion. In films this communication is used as a prominent construction element of the cinematic world and supports the representation of certain characters, their character traits, and transformations, to name a few. How this communication can be made visible by IT approaches and methods using ontologies, pattern languages, data analysis and (quantum) machine learning will be sketched in this talk.
Speakers
Johanna Barzen is working on interdisciplinary research in the fields of computer science, digital humanities, and quantum computing. As postdoc and senior researcher at University of Stuttgart, she is the lead of the research area Quantum Computing & Digital Humanities at the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS) and is internationally active e.g. as visiting scientist at TU Vienna or organizer of several international conferences and workshops. During the past ten years she developed the MUSE method as well as the supporting tool chain aiming at identifying costume patter languages in films. Ongoing research on (quantum) machine learning is currently improving the analysis of MUSE data through classical and quantum approaches. She studied media science, musicology and phonetics at the University of Cologne and gained first practical experience while working for some major television channels like WDR and RTL. Next to this she studied costume design at the ifs (international film school Cologne) and worked in several film productions in the costume department in different roles.