Dr. Darío Negueruela del Castillo is the scientific coordinator of the Center for Digital Visual Studies (Max Planck Society – University of Zurich) since January 2020. Dr. Negueruela del Castillo’s current research focuses on the implicit urban theory of Foundation Multimodal Deep Learning Models through his project “Clip and the City,” which examines how to leverage these models’ general learner capacities for urban analysis. He is also actively involved in the critical spatial curation of large collections using AI, demonstrated in his project “Newly Formed City” for the Helsinki Biennial. His research spans architecture, urbanism, affect, and spatial and visual perception with an emphasis on imagination and spatial agency. Among others his current projects ‘On the Urbanity of Images’ and ‘Multimodality and Digital Apophenia’ explore the processes of machinic imagination, mimesis. and love and artificial desire.
