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Common Image
Western humanism has established a reifying and predatory relation to the world. While its collateral visual regime, the perspectival image, is still saturating our screens, this relation has reached a dead end. Rather than desperately turning towards transhumanism and geoengineering, we need to readjust our position within community Earth. Facing this predicament, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image – understood as a multisensory perception across species; and common ethics – a comportment that transcends species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger than human communism.
The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies
This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.
Softimage
With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is not only part of a program, but it contains its own operating code: the image is a program in itself. Softimage aims to account for that new reality, taking readers on a journey that gradually undoes our unthinking reliance on the apparent solidity of the photographic image and building in its place an original and timely theorization of the digital image in all its complexity, one that promises to spark debate within the evolving fields of image studies and software studies.
The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture
This collection examines how the networked image establishes new social practices for the user and presents new challenges for cultural practitioners engaged in making, curating, teaching, exhibiting, archiving and preserving born-digital objects. The mode of vision and imaging, established through photography over the previous two centuries, has and continues to be radically reconfigured by a hybrid of algorithms, computing, programmed capture and display devices, and an array of online platforms. The image under these new conditions is filtered, fluid, fleeting, permeable, mobile and distributed and is changing our ways of seeing. The chapters in this volume are the outcome of research con...
»Wow, that's so postcard!« - De-/Konstruktionen des Tropischen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie
Die Tropen sind gleichzeitig eine geografische Region und eine machtvolle und einflussreiche kulturelle Konstruktion, deren Geschichte eng mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus verbunden ist. Welche Zusammenhänge bestehen zwischen der Kunstgeschichte, historischen Imaginationen der Tropen und heutigen Tropenbildern im Tourismus, in der Werbung und der Populärkultur? Anhand künstlerischer Positionen zeitgenössischer Fotografie geht Hanna Büdenbender den Konstruktionen und Dekonstruktionen der Tropen nach. Die Studie führt analog zum Orientalismus den Begriff des Tropikalismus ein, um damit die visuelle Konstruktion der Tropen als imaginäre Geografie offenzulegen.
Ein Bild und sein Doppelgänger
Der berühmte Narziss des Caravaggio hält seit seiner Entdeckung die Kunstwelt in Atem und viele Fragen offen: Worin liegt seine paradigmatische Stellung als »Inbegriff des Narziss« begründet? Warum wird in ihm überhaupt Narziss erkannt, obwohl viele narrative Stränge des Mythos fehlen? Und wie kommt es in der wissenschaftlichen Rezeption zu der auffällig kontrapunktischen Interpretation des Bildes? Johanna Hodde nähert sich diesen Fragen empirisch durch eine tiefenpsychologische Exploration des Erlebensprozesses während der Bildbetrachtung sowie einer anschließenden Bildreflexion im Lichte einschlägiger Bild- und Subjekttheorien.
Das dialogische Kunstwerk
Im Zuge der politischen Proteste um 1968 suchten Künstler*innen das direkte Gespräch mit Museen, Kunsthochschulen und ihrem Publikum, um politische und soziale Inhalte zu diskutieren. 1981 gründete sich die Group Material, die das Gespräch als entgrenzendes Format an der Verbindungslinie von Kunst und Gesellschaft nutzte und damit einer öffentlichen gesellschaftskritischen Kunst in den USA und Westeuropa den Weg ebnete. Fiona Geuß untersucht diese Gesprächsformate in kollektiven Kunstpraktiken, Performances und künstlerischen Interventionen im deutschsprachigen Raum und veröffentlicht Material aus den Archiven des Museum of Modern Art in New York und des Fales Archive, New York University.
Image – Action – Space
Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems and virtual reality applications merge images and operations. They turn viewing first and foremost into using and reflect the turn towards an active role of the image in guiding a user’s action and perception. From professional environments to everyday life multiple configurations of screens organise working routines, structure interaction, and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines the linking of screen, space, and operation in fields such as remote navigation, architecture, medicine, interface design, and film production asking how the interaction with and through screens structures their users’ action and perception.
World Guide to Scientific Associations and Learned Societies
A listing of international organizations and academic societies in all areas of study, culture and technology. Also includes national and regional associations. Includes a name index with acronyms, a subject and a publications index.
The Evolution of the Image
This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for notions of identity, memory, gender, cultural belonging and political action. Contributors focus on the political efficacy of the image in digital communities, as well as the representation of the digital self in order to offer a fresh perspective on the role of digital images in the creation and promotion of new forms of resistance, agency and identity within visual cultures.
