Infrastructure project
Completed
Visual History. Institutionen und Medien des Bildgedächtnisses
Duration
2012 - 2015
The goal of the network project is to paradigmatically advance the fundamental scientific work being done across a variety of institutions that deal with modern image research. The individual projects tackle the question of the role and significance of state and private or private-sector institutions in the forming of collective pictorial memory. Their common goal is not to study the “objects” of this collective knowledge, but to research the institutions that generate, manage, utilize, archive and publish these images or, in some cases, prevent the production and circulation of certain images. In addition, an online portal has been set up that acts as an information and networking platform and provides encyclopedic knowledge on the institutions responsible for modern image-based research.
The Historical Image Archive in the Digital Age: Tradition, Collection and Digital Re-Contextualization
