Iconology, visual culture and media aestetics

The article contains fragments of three chapters form the book Image Science. Iconology, Visual Culture and Media Aesthetics (Chicago 2015), titled The are no Visual Media , Back to the Drawing Board  and Foundational Sites and Occupied Spaces . W. J. T. Mitchell created in his previous works the key concepts which imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation – an “image science”. Author, continuing with his influential line of thoughts, amplifies interdisciplinary studies of visual media. The chapters also delve into such topics as conections between new media and architecture or the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings. Image science  is a call for a method of studying images that overcomes the “two-culture split” between the natural and human sciences.The article contains fragments of three chapters form the book Image Science. Iconology, Visual Culture and Media Aesthetics (Chicago 2015), titled The are no Visual Media , Back to the Drawing Board  and Foundational Sites and Occupied Spaces . W. J. T. Mitchell created in his previous works the key concepts which imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation – an “image science”. Author, continuing with his influential line of thoughts, amplifies interdisciplinary studies of visual media. The chapters also delve into such topics as conections between new media and architecture or the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings. Image science  is a call for a method of studying images that overcomes the “two-culture split” between the natural and human sciences

Panofsky - Warburg - Cassirer. From Iconology to Image Science

Neither the art historians Panofsky and Warburg nor the philosopher Cassirer had any interest with their cultural-historical research in fact-based, historical questions. An approach that had become common in the 19th century due to the loss of validity of the speculative aesthetics. On the contrary, instead of this substantial understanding as the documentary concept represents, these researchers focused on a functional understanding of art historical sources. Nevertheless, in contrast to this starting point, Panofsky invented a methodological procedure, the so-called iconological method, which in turn led back to a documentary-focused historical analysis of artistic artefacts that is still recognized today. The goal is to rediscover the original background of Panofsky´s method. This should make it clear that the original idea of the image concept pursued by Warburg and Cassirer, which had been lost or obscured by the aftermath of National Socialism in Germany, can be made fruitful in a new light today. This path may open up iconology to “image science”/Bildwissenschaft and thus transform the former from a purely historical approach to an understanding relevant to cultural processes and thus to human action

Image Science and Analysis Group Spacecraft Damage Detection/Characterization

This project consisted of several tasks that could be served by an intern to assist the ISAG in detecting damage to spacecrafts during missions. First, this project focused on supporting the Micrometeoroid Orbital Debris (MMOD) damage detection and assessment for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) using imagery from the last two HST Shuttle servicing missions. In this project, we used coordinates of two windows on the Shuttle Aft flight deck from where images were taken and the coordinates of three ID points in order to calculate the distance from each window to the three points. Then, using the specifications from the camera used, we calculated the image scale in pixels per inch for planes parallel to and planes in the z-direction to the image plane (shown in Table 1). This will help in the future for calculating measurements of objects in the images. Next, tabulation and statistical analysis were conducted for screening results (shown in Table 2) of imagery with Orion Thermal Protection System (TPS) damage. Using the Microsoft Excel CRITBINOM function and Goal Seek, the probabilities of detection of damage to different shuttle tiles were calculated as shown in Table 3. Using developed measuring tools, volume and area measurements will be created from 3D models of Orion TPS damage. Last, mathematical expertise was provided to the Photogrammetry Team. These mathematical tasks consisted of developing elegant image space error equations for observations along 3D lines, circles, planes, etc. and checking proofs for minimal sets of sufficient multi-linear constraints. Some of the processes and resulting equations are displayed in Figure 1

Mixed Reality Images: Trilogy of Synthetic Realities III

The interplay of physical reality and digital media technologies is getting enhanced by new interfaces. The age of hyper-reality turns into the age of hyper-aesthetics and immersive image technologies - like mixed reality - enable a completely novel form of interaction and user relation with the virtual image structures, the different screen technologies, and embedded physical artefacts for interaction. "Mixed Reality Images" contributes to the wide range of the hyper-aesthetic image discourse to connect the concept of mixed reality images with the approaches in modern media theory, philosophy, perceptual theory, aesthetics, computer graphics and art theory as well as the complex range of image science. This volume monitors and discusses the relation of images and technological evolution in the context of mixed reality within the perspective of an autonomous image science

Image Science And Model Didcatico

RESUMEN El objetivo de la investigación es determinar las concepciones respecto a la ciencia de un grupo de cinco docentes de educación básica en una institución oficial, y su influencia con el modelo didáctico que implementan en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las ciencias naturales. Para identificar y analizar las concepciones y su relación con el modelo didáctico, se sigue un método de investigación cualitativa descriptiva, se definen como categorías de análisis: imagen de ciencia, metodología de la enseñanza, teoría del aprendizaje y modelo didáctico; se emplean técnicas en la recolección de la información como: la observación de las prácticas, la entrevista semiestructurada y la encuesta utilizando el cuestionario o Inventario de Creencias Pedagógicas y Científicas de los Profesores INPECIP diseñado y validado por Porlán et al. (1997). Los resultados obtenidos muestran una correspondencia entre concepciones epistemológicas y su relación con el modelo didáctico en la enseñanza de las ciencias. ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to determine the conceptions about the science of a group of five primary school teachers in a public institution, andhis influence with the didactic model implemented in the teaching and learning of science. To identify and analyze the concepts and their relationship to the teaching model, it follows a descriptive qualitative research method, are defined as categories of analysis: images of science, teaching methods, learning theory and teaching model, techniques are used in collection of information such as: observation of practices, the semistructured interview and the survey using the questionnaire or Belief Inventory Educational and Scientific INPECIP Teachers designed and validated by Porlán et al. (1997). The results show a correspondence between epistemological and its relation to the didactic model for teaching science

Anthropology in systematic image science

Postoji običaj da se ljude karakterizira kao jezično nadarene životinje. Pritom se naročito misli na uporabu predikativnih rečeničnih struktura.No, izvanredna sposobnost da se misli u slikama, jest, prema svemu što empirijski znamo, svojstvena samo ljudima. Postoje li pojmovni razloziza ovu empirijsku podudarnost? Je li, drugim riječima, homo sapiens u biti homo pictor? Takvo pitanje jednako dobro zalazi u filozofsku antropologiju,kao i u sustavnu znanost o slici

Anthropology in systematic image science

Postoji običaj da se ljude karakterizira kao jezično nadarene životinje. Pritom se naročito misli na uporabu predikativnih rečeničnih struktura.No, izvanredna sposobnost da se misli u slikama, jest, prema svemu što empirijski znamo, svojstvena samo ljudima. Postoje li pojmovni razloziza ovu empirijsku podudarnost? Je li, drugim riječima, homo sapiens u biti homo pictor? Takvo pitanje jednako dobro zalazi u filozofsku antropologiju,kao i u sustavnu znanost o slici

Cultural Heritage Destruction: Experiments with Parchment and Multispectral Imaging

This chapter describes a highly collaborative project in digital humanities, which used tools and expertise from a diverse range of disciplines: medical physics, image science, and conservation. We describe this collaboration through three examples: the use of phantoms taken from medical physics, a historically accurate model of parchment degradation, and a detailed description of the steps taken to run experiments and collect data within a manageable budget. Each example highlights how procedures from a discipline were adapted for the project through collaboration. Whilst conservation focuses on developing methods to best preserve cultural heritage documents, we describe an unusual collaboration between conservation and image science to document through multispectral imaging the deliberate damage of a manuscript. Multispectral imaging has been utilised to examine cultural heritage documents by providing information about their physical properties. However, current digitisation efforts concentrate on recording documents in their current state. In this project, we aimed at recording the process of macroscopic document degradation using multispectral imaging, and the digital recovery of the writing using standard image processing methodologies. This project’s success lay in the intersection of knowledge of the processes of parchment deterioration and the specific processes that occur when a document is imaged: this has permitted us to construct a more successful and informed experiment. The knowledge acquired during the project allows us to address the issues related to the recovery of information from damaged parchment documents, and to determine which research questions can be addressed, and through which imaging methodology