Digi-comm. Sensoric Image Science 

- and its relevance for the Department and cooperation with others

The research topic focuses on some main approaches, which are:

• Affect and interaction via screen media.
• Internal image formation and external images. Intermediate images between experience and the experienced.
• Sensory images (a smooth surface, music, a sound, temperature - all of which are converted into images by our sensory apparatus and sensory system).
• Mechanical industrialisation/technology (around 1900) and digital industrialisation/technology (around 2000). From linear progression to unexpected events (what will the next click bring?).
• Humane technology (digital technology does not alienate and degrade, but expands - so it appears - the space for human interaction and the human senses and body. It understands itself as a positive technology).
• Anthropomorphising or putting a face on the new technology, its media and firms and institutions (branding, story-telling, 'connecting people' Nokia).
• Simulations - the new digital technology is particularly suitable for creating simulations - artificial intelligence, artificial life, robots, third life, synthetic biology, etc. - how do these simulations relate to other human simulations such as imagination, recollection, dreams, symbols. metaphors and thoughts such as what if ...
• The small narratives (miniblogging on walls, thumbs up, emoticons, and uploads of images, links or videos, are all small narratives - which are also known from sociolinguistics). Which story was not told, but is also embedded in these compact narratives?
• The digital code's all-embracing intervention in our lives - in contrast to other technologies and media the digital code intervenes in every area of society, and nothing and nobody remains untouched. Why and how?

Bent Fausing: "The screen's society. The thin skin"

There are screens everywhere in society. It is harder to find a space without than with a screen. What does it mean that we receive experiences, affects and interactions via screens? What is the screen's aesthetic and which sensory or perceptual images are formed in dialogue with the viewer's inner images? What is the overall sensual and sensory involvement and relation via screens? These are the central questions for the project. The project involves four concrete examples of screens - the photograph (a continuation of the book page, the mirror and the painting), TV (TV and web commercials for mobile phones, for example), the mobile phone's display and the computer screen (web design, social networks), which in cultural-historical terms are anchored in specific epochs, the mechanical industrialisation of the 19th century, and today's digital industrialisation.

Mogens Olesen: "E-learning. Digital opportunities and problems in teaching"

The traditional school is challenged by the digital media, which in several ways create new frameworks for how teaching can be practised. E-learning can be defined as learning that is fully or partly based on digital aids. The project seeks to depict the various aspects of teaching that are affected by e-learning. It is examined how traditional teacher and pupil roles are affected, since the interactive media open up opportunities for more activating, pupil-centred learning. In general terms, e-learning concerns digital potentials that can help to re-define the school as institution. The network-based structure creates better opportunities for collaborative learning processes – between pupils, and between teacher and pupil. The mobile learning tools make it possible for learning to be moved to outside the school walls, achieving greater integration with the rest of society.

Louise Yung Nielsen: "Young people and body in digital worlds" (Ålborg University's Section in Copenhagen)

Based on young people's practice in digital worlds, the project examines how young people practice the relations between body, technology and media. On social media, the body is often perceived as being absent, but it is actually very much present - but just in new forms.We therefore need to rethink the old dichotomies of body-mind, offline-online and subject-object, since media and technologies are phenomena of becoming, rather thanphenomena dividing and producing dichotomies. The project works with fashion blogs as a case and will consider the digital media, as well as clothes and media as technologies of the self.

Anna Mrozewicz: "East bloc noir. Representations of 'Eastern Europe' in Danish literature, essayistic, film and pictorial art in around 1980 - 2013"

Based on imaginary geography and critical cultural geography, the intention is to describe Danish ideas of and changes in the understanding of 'Eastern Europe' in the last part of the Cold War, up through the 1990s and to the present day. A significant question is how remote 'Eastern Europe' has drawn closer for younger Danish artists in the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and especially after the eastward expansion of the EU. The absence of clear borders in the globalised post-1989 world, characterised by the opportunity for freer movement and symmetrical exchanges in both directions, has opened up new identity-related questions, which are strongly expressed in newer literature and art concerning 'Eastern Europe'.

Especially in relation to the young artists' image formation and experience of 'Eastern Europe', focusing not only on intellectual (as was previously the case), but also on physical, sensual and emotional experience, often anchored in the new digital media's opportunities, a media-aesthetic analysis that takes account of these dimensions is relevant and needed.

Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen: "From book printing to digital publication - media transition and changed reader roles in text-critical editions"

The starting point for the PhD project is an analysis of the changes in the reader roles entailed by the transition from printed to digital media. The reader of a book edition functions in a stable, closed media in which no influence on the actual representation form is possible, whereas the reader of a digital edition is able to interact with the edition and thereby become reader, user and publisher. The project works specifically with text-critical editions of literary classics that in book form can be said to have anticipated the digital edition, due to the use of hypertext links between main texts, notes, variations and introductions. Read abstract. The project is part of the research project Danish Edition History (Danish website). Krista was co-organiser of a research seminar on e-books held by the Information Science Academy on 10 May 2013.

Merete Carlsson: "Touched and moved. Corporeal approaches to contemporary media art"

We are increasingly surrounded by information and communication technology. We carry mobile phones and iPods close to our bodies, we are connected via wireless networks and we are monitored and scanned by IT systems, and we thereby constantly interact with computer-generated dimensions of time and space. This has consequences for our understanding of aesthetic experience and of corporeality. In contemporary media art, the human body is problematised as a finite entity, and we must therefore abandon such distinctions as viewer/work and body/technology, and instead analyse the new nuances in the relations in which our bodies are involved via the new media.