Selected Conference Proceedings#
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., Streefkerk, E., Naudts, L., & Helm, P. (2026). From vulnerable data subjects to vulnerabilizing data practices: Navigating the protection paradox in AI-based analyses of platformized lives. In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 106–128. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3806735
Sosto, M., Martinez Pandiani, D. S., & Hollink, L. (2026). QueerGen: How LLMs reflect societal norms on gender and sexuality in sentence completion task. In V. Demberg, K. Inui, & L. Marquez (Eds.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 (pp. 4305–4326). Rabat, Morocco: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.225
Martinez Pandiani, D. S.. (2026). Tracing a Memetic Journey: From South American Death Flights to Free Helicopter Ride Memes. In: AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.15240
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., Tjong Kim Sang, E., & Ceolin, D. (2026). OnToxKG: An ontology-based knowledge graph of toxic symbols and their manifestations. In: Verma, H., Bozzon, A., Mauri, A., Yang, J. (eds) Web Engineering ICWE 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15749.Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97207-2_9
Tjong Kim Sang, E., Martinez Pandiani, D. S., & Ceolin, D. (2025). Evaluating locally run large language models on toxic meme analysis. In: Verma, H., Bozzon, A., Mauri, A., Yang, J. (eds) Web Engineering ICWE 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97207-2_10
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., Lazzari, N., & Presutti, V. (2024). Stitching gaps: Fusing situated perceptual knowledge with vision transformers for high-level image classification. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SSW240008
Pescarin, S., & Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2022). Factors in the cognitive-emotional impact of educational environmental narrative videogames. In: De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M. (eds) Extended Reality. XR Salento 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13446. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15553-6_8
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., & Presutti, V. (2022). Coded visions: Addressing cultural bias in image annotation systems with the descriptions and situations ontology design pattern. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022: Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., & Presutti, V. (2021). Automatic modeling of social concepts evoked by art images as multimodal frames. In Proceedings of the Workshops and Tutorials held at LDK 2021 co-located with the 3rd Language, Data and Knowledge Conference.
Selected Journal Articles#
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., Tjong Kim Sang, E. & Ceolin, D. (2025). ‘Toxic’ memes: A survey of computational perspectives on the detection and explanation of meme toxicities. Online Social Networks and Media, 47, 100317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2025.100317
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2024). The wicked problem of naming the intangible: Abstract concepts, binary thinking, and computer vision labels. Future Humanities, 2, e11. Wiley Online Library. https://doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.11
Ciroku, F., De Giorgis, S., Gangemi, A., Martinez-Pandiani, D. S., & Presutti, V. (2024). Automated multimodal sensemaking: Ontology-based integration of linguistic frames and visual data. Computers in Human Behavior, 150, 107997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107997
Martinez Pandiani, D. S., Lazzari, N., van Erp, M., & Presutti, V. (2023). Hypericons for interpretability: decoding abstract concepts in visual data. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 5, 451–490 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-023-00077-8
Daga, E., Asprino, L., Damiano, R., Daquino, M., Diaz Agudo, B., Gangemi, A., Kuflik, T., Lieto, A., Maguire, M., Marras, A. M., & Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2022). Integrating citizen experiences in cultural heritage archives: Requirements, state of the art, and challenges. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 15, 1–35. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3477599
Book Chapters#
Brooke, S. J. M., & Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2026). The hallucinated subjects: Gender, coherence, and the ontological politics of generative AI. In M. Detloff & T. J. Billard (Eds.), Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960256.003.0045
Veggi, M., Bonanno, V., Cerato, I., Ciortan, I.-M., Clay, A., Fiorenza, G., Martinez Pandiani, D. S., & Pescarin, S. (2026). Sense of care in the design of digital heritage applications. In S. Pescarin, C. Barandoni, A. Clay, G. Papadopoulos, & I. C. A. Sandu (Eds.), Chromatic Visions: Exploring Colour in Art, Archaeology and Digital Realities, Part I (pp. 128–161). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07792-9_4
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2024). Bridging the gap: Decoding abstract concepts in cultural heritage images. In F. Moral-Andrés, E. Merino-Gómez, & P. Reviriego (Eds.), Decoding Cultural Heritage: A Critical Dissection and Taxonomy of Human Creativity through Digital Tools (pp. 157–189). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57675-1_8
Panels#
Messi, J.S.; Martinez Pandiani, D. S.; Streefkerk, E.; Sosto, M.; Hanna, L. (2026). Against Technosolutionism: Governing Platforms as Systems of Care. Panelist at SPUI25, University of Amsterdam, February 23, 2026. https://spui25.nl/programma/against-technosolutionism-governing-platforms-as-systems-of-care
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. [Organizer]; Voto, C., Beretta, E. (2025). Creative frictions: Control, generative failure and speculative archives in GenAI. Panelist at GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future, University of Amsterdam, December 17–18, 2025.
Voto, C.; Beretta, E.; Martinez Pandiani, D. S., Da Hora, N.; Lee-Morrison, L. (2025). AI enunciations: Redefining identity, space, and meaning across disciplines. Panelist at the Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images Conference, Venice, May 8–10, 2025.
van der Haak, B.; van Noord, N.; Martinez Pandiani, D. S.; Ayub, A. (2025). Human-aligned AI in video. Panelist at University of Amsterdam Data Science Center (DSC) Away Day with the HAVA (Human-Aligned Video AI Lab) at the Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam, June 18, 2025.
Selected Lectures and Talks#
Helm, P. & Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2026). Rendering Vulnerability: AI, Trauma, and the Infrastructures of Recognition. Keynote lecture at International Conference on Rethinking Trauma, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 2-4, 2026. https://rethinkingtrauma.conference.ubbcluj.ro/keynotes/
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2026). Algorithmic Mediation of Intimacy as/and Vulnerability. Guest lecture at New Media and the Digitalisation of Everyday Life Summer School, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 6, 2026.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2026). Cultural boundaries in latent space: Iterative image prompting as method and meaning-making. STS NL 2026 (Deep Learning and Culture), Twente, The Netherlands, April 15-17, 2026.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2026). Memes, memory, and digital coloniality: Tracing the global afterlives of South American death flights. Global Digital Humanities Symposium (GDHS) 2026, Virtual and In-Person, Michigan, United States, 13-17 April 2026.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2025). Follow the glitch: Generative failures and creative navigation. GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2025.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2025). Tracing a memetic journey: From South American death flights to free helicopter ride memes. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR 2025), Niteroi, Brazil, 15-18 October 2025.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2025). AI, culture, and critical thinking: Navigating opportunities, biases, and ethics in the digital age. AMI AGM: Vision, Values and Voices — Annual General Meeting of the Association Montessori Internationale, Delft, The Netherlands, 12 April 2025.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2025). Enacting vulnerability: AI, childhood, and the co-construction of vulnerable data subjects. Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Amsterdam, 21 May 2025. Kick-off lecture of the IAS-DSC fellowship.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2024). Leveraging LLMs for detection and interpretation of toxic memes. Internet Research with Foundation Models Workshop at CAT4SMR (Capture and Analysis Tools for Social Media Research), Amsterdam, 3 September 2024.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2024). Relación texto-imagen en memes: Construcción (en curso) de un modelo de IA para la detección automática de “narrativas tóxicas” [Text-image relationship in memes: (Ongoing) Construction of an AI model for automatic detection of “toxic narratives”]. V Congreso Internacional PRISMA: Lenguaje e Inteligencia Artificial: Aproximaciones lingüísticas y desafíos interdisciplinarios, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile, 28-30 May 2024.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2024). Toxic memes workshop. AI, Media & Democracy Lab, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2 April 2024.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2024). Coding the encoder: Situating subjective and contextual aspects in high-level image annotations. International Conference on Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage, Rennes 2 University and the MSHB (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme en Bretagne), France, 7-9 Feb 2024.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2023). Collapsing meaning in hypericon images: Abstract concepts, distributed reality, and perceptual bias. Operational Imaginaries: Images of Abstraction, Operational Media and Experience, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25-26 May 2023.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2023). The wicked problem of naming the intangible: Abstract concepts, binary thinking, and computer vision labels. FACEing Binarism. Towards a more equitable AI symposium, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, 30 March 2023.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2022). Seeing the intangible: Interpretable visual understanding of high-level abstract concepts. User-Centric Data Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25 November 2022.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2022). Tip of the iceberg: Abstract concepts in high-level visual understanding. IMT School for Advanced Studies’ seminar: Semantic Representation, Abstractness and Abstraction, Lucca, Italy, 27 April 2022.
Martinez Pandiani, D. S. (2022). Coded visions: Cultural bias in assigning meaning to digital images. Digital Humanities & Digital Communication Spring Seminars, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, 28 March 2022.