Coordination Funds

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Hubert Locher
• Subject Area: Art History ; Architecture, Building and Construction History, Construction Research, Sustainable Building Technology ; Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing ; Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology ; Communication Sciences ; Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 509711434

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
• Subproject of: SPP 2172: The digital Image