How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from…
How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to pinpoint the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis, as well as from…
How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwr̃zler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from …
This book offers a unique analysis on the use of automatic facial recognition algorithms that are increasingly intervening in society from a critical visual studies perceptive. [...].
Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animate…
New Approaches to Cinematic Space aims to discuss the process of creation of cinematic spaces through moving images and the subsequent interpretation of their purpose and meaning. Throughout seventeen chapters, this edited collection will attempt to identify and interpret the fo…
Mit der Digitalisierung haben sich normative und ritualisierte Erzählformen sowie Darstellungsweisen in den medienästhetischen Feldern des Audiovisuellen verändert. Die gegenwärtige Medienkultur zeichnet sich durch verschiedenartige Phänomene der intermedialen Verkreuzung von vo…
Ausstellungen sind konstitutiv für die "Ordnungen des Wissens" einer Kultur - so etwa für den Kanon der Kunstgeschichte. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches steht die "Documenta 11" aus dem Jahre 2002, an der sich eine Entwicklung symptomatisch ablesen lässt: Nach dem Bruch von 1989 un…
