SPP 2172:  The digital Image

• Subject Area: Humanities ; Construction Engineering and Architecture ; Chemistry ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402352280

The program "The Digital Image" examines from a multi-perspective point of view, with a starting position in art history and media studies, in the bringing together of exemplary projects from various subjects with more or less affinity to each other, the central role that the image in its digital appearance has in the complex process of the digitalization of knowledge in theory and practice. The intention is a critical thematization and reflection of this dimension as a profound epistemological upheaval. In our understanding, this can only take place in a decidedly transdisciplinary exchange, ideally also with special inclusion of the information sciences. The goal and particular challenge of coordination is to stimulate and ensure fruitful exchange among the individual projects, which come from the broad field of the humanities and social sciences, but whose research paradigmatic orientation is very different in each case. The intersections arise on the one hand from the examination of visual culture, visual arts, the visual cultural heritage on the other hand from the historical, theoretical and practical-reflective examination of digital methods and here especially the addressing of the field of the image.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes

Projects

• 4D Imaging: From Image Theory to Imaging Practice (Applicants Friedrich, Kathrin ;  Queisner, Moritz )
• "Architecture Transformed" – Architectural processes in the digital image space (Applicants Lengyel, Dominik ;  Locher, Hubert )
• Browser Art. Navigating with Style (Applicant Hinterwaldner, Inge )
• Capturing Movable Images. Screenshots as Theorizing Media Practice (Applicant Ruchatz, Jens )
• CD-ROM Art: Exploring Images of the Digital Imaginary (Applicant Filser, Barbara )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Kohle, Hubertus )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Locher, Hubert )
• Curating the Feed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Image Feeds and their Curatorial Assemblages (Applicants Bareither, Christoph ;  Stein, Benno ;  Wirth, Sabine )
• Designing habits. The digital image as application (Applicant Bruhn, Matthias )
• Glocalizing the Digital Image: Ethics, Agency, and Innovative Methods (Applicant Runge, Evelyn )
• Granularities of dispersion and materiality: Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora (Applicant Dörk, Marian )
• Image Synthesis as an Epistemic Method Towards Understanding Art (Applicants Bell, Peter ;  Ommer, Björn )
• Jameson 2.0. Cognitive mapping in contemporary art (Applicant Leeb, Susanne )
• Japanese Handscrolls and Digital Explorations: Materiality, Practices and Locality (Applicant Trede, Melanie )
• Pre-modern elements of a digital image theory (Applicant Grüner, Andreas )
• Reflection-driven Artificial Intelligence in Art History – Explainable Hybrid Models for Image Search and Analysis (Applicants Ewerth, Ralph ;  Kohle, Hubertus )
• Schemata. 3D Classification and Categorisation of Ancient Terracotta Figurines (Applicant Yahyapour, Ramin )
• The Digital Past. Facticity and Fiction in Visualizations of History (Applicant Geimer, Peter )
• The Interactive Gaze – On the Status and Ethics of Surveillance Images in Digital Games (Applicant Hennig, Martin )
• The Processed Picture: Imaging in the Age of Photoshop (Applicant Heilmann, Till Andreas )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hubert Locher