Origins of Pictures. Anthropological Discourses in Image Science
ISBN:
978-3-86962-057-2
Verlag:
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2013
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Format:
Buch
Seitenanzahl:
560
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Anyone talking about pictures by necessity refers to those using pictures. It is therefore essentially the competence of using pictures that they must consider. Such a competence is not a common ability even among higher developed mammals, at least as far as we know today. This fact raises the question yet unanswered whether and to what extent that ability has to be conceived of as a strictly anthropological one. In an interdisciplinary approach,the first international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Science (GiB) titled Origins of Pictures has taken a closer look at the role of pictures for the conditio humana.The goals pursued at the conference were first to present empirical findings of the origins of picture uses. In particular, research in paleo-anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology, and developmental psychology has been considered. Furthermore,those findings have been related to philosophical considerations concerning the conditions of the conceptual formation of picture competence.
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Biografische Anmerkung
KLAUS SACHS-HOMBACH, born in 1957, studied philosophy, psychology and German language and literature at the University of Münster. After his PhD in 1990 at the University of Münster and his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Magdeburg he was appointed professor of philosophy, focussed on cognitive science, at the TU Chemnitz in 2007. Since October 2011, he holds the chair of media studies at the University of Tübingen. JÖRG R. J. SCHIRRA, born in 1960, studied computer science, physics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychology at the University of the Saarland. After an extended research stay in Berkeley, California, he was responsible for establishing of programme of computational visualistics at the department of computer science at the University of Magdeburg where he later gained his secondary doctorate (habilitation). He is currently representative head of the chair for philosophy and cognitive science at the Technical University of Chemnitz and part of a visual studies team working on an online glossary of visual philosophy.
