Here is an overview of the interviews with image workers and image thinkers: |
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click on the names to read the individual interviews or read here about the interview concept. |
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information science |
(particle) physics |
(astro)physics |
arts |
music |
science history |
media theory |
art history |
sociology |
musicology |
political science |
philosophy |
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click the name to read the detailed interview |
Thomas G. Dietterich |
David Jensen |
Frieder Nake |
Jennifer Neville |
C. David Page |
Lutz Priese |
Joseph Weizenbaum |
Michael Werman |
Reinhard Wilhelm |
Erwin Flückiger |
Andreas Glindemann |
Jens Kube |
Harald Lesch |
Jakob Staude |
Woody Vasulka |
Peter Weibel |
Ludger Brümmer |
Peter Geimer |
Barbara Könches |
Christa Maar |
Beat Wyss |
Jean Baudrillard |
Andreas Schelske |
Helga de la Motte-Haber |
Ekkehart Krippendorff |
Robert Hopkins |
Dominic M McIver Lopes |
Eva Schürmann |
Peter Sloterdijk |
Lambert Wiesing |
Klaus Rehkämper |
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Corvalis/ Oregon |
Amherst/ |
Bremen/Germany |
Amherst/ |
Madison/ Wisconsin |
Koblenz/ Germany |
Berlin/ Germany |
Jerusalem/ Israel |
Saarbrücken/ Germany |
Bern/ Switzerland |
Garching/ Germany |
Ny Alesund/ Spitsbergen, Norway |
München/ Germany |
Heidelberg/ Germany |
ZKM Karlsruhe/ Germany |
ZKM Karlsruhe/ Germany |
ZKM Karlsruhe/ Germany |
Berlin/ Germany |
ZKM Karlsruhe/ Germany |
München/ Germany |
Stuttgart/ Germany |
Paris/ France |
Lübeck/ Germany |
Berlin/ Germany |
Berlin/ Germany |
Sheffield/ UK |
Vancouver/Canada |
Frankfurt/Germany |
Karlsruhe/ |
Münster/Germany |
Oldenburg/Germany |
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date |
02/02/05 |
02/02/05 |
27/09/03 |
02/02/05 |
02/02/05 |
28/09/03 |
16/02/05 |
01/02/05 |
01/12/04 |
7/04/05 |
10/12/03 |
Oct. - Dec. 03 |
08/12/04 |
03/12/04 |
02/03/05 |
14/09/03 |
24/02/05 |
05/04 (in progress) |
10/12/03 |
11/11/03 |
19/02/05 |
18/03/04 |
28/09/03 |
11/03/04 |
06/04/04 |
28/09/03 |
26/09/03 |
21/01/05 |
11/02/05 |
26/04/04 |
28/09/03 |
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click the portrait to read the detailed interview |
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images in the professional field |
images structure data catching topological relationships |
currently in transcription |
images play a crucial role |
showing different aspects and relations of data |
images for communicating a result to a human expert |
very abstract notion of image |
images behave like a message |
"We are just starting to understand movement." |
explaining algorithms on data structures via images |
interview still in progress |
spectra are more important than images |
necessary represenation of measurement data |
avoids images because of its abundance of information |
currently in transcription |
"I don't believe in images." |
ZKM as an institution of basic reseach in images |
pereceptual inequivalence of visual and auditiv sensations |
I live from images: talking and writing about |
a structure of thinking behind my relation to images |
images play a crucial role in a media enterprise |
my profession is to talk about images if they are art |
resort from theorie in the magic of trivial images |
images as iconic space for social interaction |
images play a role because of a wider notion of art |
political sciences have not cared systematically about images |
still in transcription |
work on the value of images |
images as ways in which we are (per-)forming world- and self-relations |
thinking relies on images, metaphors and figures |
images as media are the object of my reserach |
question if mental images are really images |
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How do you perceive digital images? |
a pixel doesn´t necessarily corresponds to anything |
you won't see the difference |
you don’t really get a sense that there is more to that picture than what you are looking at |
"just made to be an accurate depiction" |
"I don't differ between digital images and images" |
drawing: taking images out of of the world and putting them into the computer |
digital images as everyday experience |
a poorer astronomy: by a lot of intermediary you loose the direct contact |
The question of Microesthetics: What happens between two frames? |
generation problem: "I grew up with printed reproductions of paintings" |
the time decides which medium is adequate for a certain purpose |
positive resistance |
digital images increase interesting communication |
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the eye can't see the difference |
digital simulation - a phenomenon in the tradition of thinking |
we have to study the psychological effects of images |
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classical <-> digital techniques |
concrete against discrete |
machine made images are much more precise |
molecular graphic as traditional image with 3d ability |
screen images: the poverty of pictorial representation |
a lot of people in the imaging process have no idea about the final use |
I still see analogue images |
low trust in digital images in private field |
a new camera by linking different imaging processes |
better quality & accessibility via databases |
very different arrangement in the structural the operational sense |
0% materiality: digital images as deontological phenomena |
3d-images with space construction like Renaissance |
the virtual image is no image it is a synthetic object |
algorithms as pictorial filter |
utopy since Varèse: fixing a musical idea by a machine |
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not as good as before |
The hermeneutic apparatus connected with the eyes makes a difference. |
renewals in the history of pictures not caused by technique |
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the scale of pixel based images |
pixel: regular and exact limitation |
De Chirico and nanotechnology: the problem of scale |
Malewitsch's black square as formal archetype of a pixel |
formalization begins with Alberti |
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what we perceive as image depends on the interface |
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work on the value of images |
computer images are mosaics - elements can be driven and changed |
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images in mathematics |
"BN diagram corresponds to a mathematical formula" |
no images in mathematics but "mental content" |
space doesn't come through when I just see the math equation |
images help to communicate the intuition of the mathematics |
"I imagine a proof as an image" |
a proof can’t be done with pictures as it is done in the end with symbols |
aesthetics of mathematics are more important than images |
algorithms as untouchable area: you can’t open a box to change an image |
arts and maths have in common that they are inutility |
you see the representing geometry in Massacio's Trinita |
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"deep connection between visualising and mathematics" |
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Alhambra or the music of Bach: Do you feel the maths? |
no |
"Art is based on axioms too - or better to say on paradigms." |
mathematics in the music of Bach let me feel a kind of constraint |
two traditions in mathematics: a classic based on harmony and a dark modern one |
difference between working with code in music and mathematics |
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mathematics and logic in music exist since Pythagoras |
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no |
mathematics is also a kind of physicalization in the sense of causal processes |
feeling: a vague notion |
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infinity/sublime |
infinity as asymptopia - it doesn´t tell you very much of how it would behave in reality |
modern mathematics: embedding finite problems in the continuity of infinity |
"The concept is that it goes on forever but in reality it's a sort of truncated in my head." |
"infinity is a pain for me" |
"I consider infinity as a figure like |
"There are things which are not computable." |
"Thinking about infinity seems all right, but a lot of things can be wrong." |
applicable as model but not imaginable |
the sublime is not man's work |
After Kant an aesthetic idea is what exceeds conceptions. |
infinity of the universe transcends the imagination |
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trust |
images can lead us astray proofing something about an algorithm |
absolutely no trust: I know how they are made |
It is all so nebulous, diluted. |
low trust in digital images in private field |
the web has fundamentally changed our trust in images |
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the world is illusion, it has no reality |
trust: a new parametre of social orientation |
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I do trust historical photographies |
you can trust digital images because of their witness |
Under the conditions of complexity you are condemned to trust. |
oldfashioned question |
we need to learn that images are able to lye |
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web based images and their place |
images in the web: giving many users in many places the same experience |
the web didn't change my experience of images |
web based images as a radical jeopardize of classical images |
no place |
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internet adress as the most stable location |
internet as absorbing medium beyond time and space |
internet seldom used |
virtual images: "they move around with me" |
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images as "content" |
technic doesn't work with information but just with data |
It’s that ability to have this entity be both a logical statement and a number. |
no symbolic desire: images in the web are no longer really images |
"content" as a progessive attack of the communication industry against modernism |
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content is just a commercial notion to sell information |
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digital media not just as code : "they should be viewed as systems" |
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"content" doesn't implicate content |
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images and data |
molecular biology: images are now replaced by networks |
pictures as basic tool to find relevant information in datamining |
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I take large pictures to get get a one line description. |
difference between generic data and data for applications
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quantity of measurements decides if we can talk about an image | classical painting comparable with physical measurements |
images are not used anymore to understand the world, but the data
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code as non-visual representation of sound |
interpretation of an image and the findings - neurology needs to differ |
reception of art as a changing recontextualisaton of image data |
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images as measures (Peirce)
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the notation is just the skeleton of a work, you still need some flesh around |
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images invite to interpret too much |
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relation abstract images/music |
images spatially have richer relationships than music |
you find patterns in sound representations as easily as in visual ones |
I don’t immediately see a relationship |
"If I hear music and I close my eyes, then I see colors and pictures." |
music and abstract art: parallels in formalization |
The idea of uniting audiovisual aesthetics is so obsolete. |
anthropological affinity between seeing and hearing |
no semantic parallel between a melody and a dancer on a stage |
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no analogy: abstract images as cool phenomena |
music and visual images converge in the notion of an inner image |
in music the ordinary world has disappeared |
images: higher of potential of identification than music |
complex relationship between pitures and music |
one of the great puzzles of the last 100 years |
an image making analogue to music |
music as concept to talk about abstract images |
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