Theme 3: Digital Visualities
Guest lecture
Lecture: Deep Images
Guest speaker: Inge Hinterwaldner, Art History, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Abstract
Starting from early debates that sceptically gathered various arguments targeting and undermining the potential of digital imagery, I propose a shift of attention to something like a ‘deep referentiality’ in programmed applications as well as to imagery found in the depths of various layers in the digital fabric. These images—hidden at first sight—are placed there because there was hope someone would discover them. With this we understand that digital artworks have different ‘sites’ to explore. With multi-scale viewing and post-digital strategies, contemporary projects conquer further aspects of digital imagery, thereby inviting reconsidering traditional understandings, terms, or parameters involved.
Short bio
Inge Hinterwaldner studied Art History, Archaeology and History at the University Innsbruck in Austria. There she wrote her Master’s thesis on artistic commercials commissioned by the Austrian company Humanic, in 2000. In 2009 Inge Hinterwaldner received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Basel with a thesis on interactive computer simulations (The Systemic Image, German: Fink 2010, English: MIT Press 2017). Fellowships and grants allowed her to pursue her research at MECS in Lueneburg (2014), Duke University in Durham (2015), and MIT in Cambridge/MA (2016). 2016–2018 she was a professor for modern and contemporary art in the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since October 2018 Hinterwaldner holds a professorship for art history at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her research focuses on interactivity and temporality in the arts, computer-based art and architecture, model theory, and the interdependence between the arts and the sciences since the 19th century. Currently she is writing a book on Fluid Form Conceptions in the kinetic art since the 1960s. She co-edited several volumes, including those addressing medical and scientific visualizations as composites (2006), the relation between image production and modelling practices (2011, 2017), and disposable images (2016).
New Social Research Lecture series
Theme 4: Contested futures of biomedical care
Guest lecture, discussion (day 1)
Wednesday February 20, 2019, 14–16
Researcher workshop (day 2)
Thursday February 21, 2019, 10–16
Venue: LINNA 5014
Organiser
The New Social Research programme