About the SPP
The DFG Priority Program (SPP) “The Digital Image” combines exemplary projects from a multi-perspective point of view and addresses the central role that the image plays in the complex process of the digitization of knowledge in theory and practice.
The 12 projects explore various topics and aspects around the digital image. The SPP also aims to promote close networking and productive exchange between the individual research projects.
Our upcoming events
Our next conference, entitled “The Social Dimension, Political Perspectives and Economic Constraints,” will be held from April 28-30, 2021
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SPP Projects
Pictorial Picture Critique in Social Media. Explicit and Tacit Theorizing of the Digital Image
Japanese Handscrolls and Digital Explorations: Materiality, Practices and Locality
Behind the Digital Image. Photographs on Community Platforms and Twitter as Repositories for Machine Learning and Journalistic Publications
Architecture Transformed – Architectural Processes in the Digital Image Space
Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art
Browser Art. Navigating with Style
Digital Past. Facticity and Fiction in the Visualization of History
Adaptive Images. Technology and Aesthetics of Situational Imaging
Schemata. 3D Classification and Categorisation of Ancient Terracotta Figurines
Image Synthesis as a Method of Knowledge Production in Art History
Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Museum and Heritage Contexts
Network of Research
The DFG Priority Program “The Digital Image” is a network of 12 projects based at various German universities. Within the program each of these projects addresses its own particular questions about the subject. Although each research project is independent, the goal of the interdisciplinary program as a whole is to exchange new perspectives on, and approaches to, this complex topic.
Blog
From Memes to Memeing and Back Again
On social media, users reflect on the Corona pandemic with memes in many different ways to address the current crisis. Originally, memes themselves were described as viruses that spread from
Kevin Pauliks
10. March 2021
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Japanese Handscrolls and Digital Explorations: Materiality, Practices and Locality
Japanese illuminated narrative handscrolls (emaki) are distinct in their materiality. Consisting of alternating script passages and paintings that unfold from right to left, emaki has a horizontal orientation and an
JapanRed
26. November 2020
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Reading the source code for Adobe Photoshop (part I)
Critical Code Studies For my project on digital image processing, I will not only look at the ‘surface’ of Adobe Photoshop (i.e. its interface, its paradigmatic functions, typical uses and effects).
Till A. Heilmann
14. October 2020
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