the imaging knowledge base


	Here is an overview of the interviews with image workers and image thinkers:
	click on the names to read the individual interviews or read here about the interview concept.

?		information science									(particle) physics	(astro)physics				arts		music	science history	media theory	art history		sociology		musicology	political science	philosophy
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
		Corvalis/ Oregon	Amherst/ Massachusetts	Bremen/Germany	Amherst/ Massachusetts	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/ Germany	Münster/Germany	Oldenburg/Germany
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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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
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						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
classical <-> digital techniques - a difference?				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			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
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		what we perceive as image depends on the interface				work on the value of images			computer images are mosaics - elements can be driven and changed
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						"deep connection between visualising and mathematics"
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							mathematics and logic in music exist since Pythagoras			no			mathematics is also a kind of physicalization in the sense of causal processes	feeling: a vague notion
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 5 or 7"	"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
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	I don't look at images published only in the internet									the world is illusion, it has no reality	trust: a new parametre of social orientation		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
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			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"
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							content is just a commercial notion to sell information				digital media not just as code : "they should be viewed as systems"				"content" doesn't implicate content
images and data		molecular biology: images are now replaced by networks			pictures as basic tool to find relevant information in datamining				I take large pictures to get get a one line description.	difference between generic data and data for applications		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	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		images as measures (Peirce)	the notation is just the skeleton of a work, you still need some flesh around							images invite to interpret too much
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			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