Brief Biography

Vera Chiquet is currently 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 methods to explore visual and social practices, she initiated the DH CH Network and Event. Since her book publication "Fake Fotos" she is doing visual studies with old and new research questions and supports a wide variety of digital research projects with her start-up Virtual Culture and as chairman of Freunde der Fondation Herzog (Laboratorium für Fotografie)