We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of te... more We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual. Imagery in the 21st Century examines this revolution in various fields, with researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities meeting to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning and impact of the image in our time. The contributors explore and discuss new critical terms of multidisciplinary scope, from database economy to the dramaturgy of hypermedia, from visualizations in neuroscience to the image in bio art. They consider the power of the image in the development of human consciousness, pursue new definitions of visual phenomena, and examine new tools for image research and visual analysis.
"We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of t... more "We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's informatio explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual. Imagery in the 21st Century examines this revolution in various fields, with researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities meeting to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning and impact of the image in our time. The contributors explore and discuss new critical terms of multidisciplinary scope, from database economy to the dramaturgy of hypermedia, from visualizations in neurosciences to the image in bio art. They consider the power of the image in the development of human consciousness, pursue new definitions of visual phenomena, and examine new tools for image research and visual analysis. The goal is to expand visual competence in investigating new visual worlds and to build cross-disciplinary exchanges among the arts, humanities, and natural sciences.
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Zahlreiche Informatikerinnen und Informatiker arbeiten in DH-Projekten mit und kooperieren mit Ge... more Zahlreiche Informatikerinnen und Informatiker arbeiten in DH-Projekten mit und kooperieren mit Geisteswissenschaftlern-und das zum Teil seit vielen Jahren und nicht erst seit dem jüngsten "DH-Hype". Während sich aus den Geisteswissenschaften heraus die DH nun organisieren und ein klareres Bild des "Faches" zeichnen, bleibt die Perspektive der Informatik jedoch weiterhin unscharf. Um hier zu einer ersten Bestandsaufnahme zu kommen, wurden im Rahmen eines von der DHd veranstalteten Workshops am 3. November 2014 in Leipzig die folgenden Fragen bzw. Themenkomplexe in Form von ausgewählten Beiträgen und einem an dem Instrument des Knowledge Café orientierten offenen Gesprächs diskutiert (vgl. auch die Webseite des Workshops und den Call for Papers http://informatik-dh-workshop2014.topicmapslab.de/):
Warburg, who was born in 1866 and died in 1929, the son of the owner of a bank, who sold his stat... more Warburg, who was born in 1866 and died in 1929, the son of the owner of a bank, who sold his status and his rights of a firstborn to his brother-like Esau did at one time. The brother is called Max and not Jakob, and the price was not a plate of lentils but every book he, Aby, wanted. The deal became dearer than Max thought when he took over the Warburg Bank and promised to buy the desired literature. Aby Warburg became one of the first and one of the most famous Kulturwissenschaftler, scholar in the field of cultural studies, and he built the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg, whose stock emigrated in 1933 to the Warburg Institute in London. Warburg deserves to be called the inventor of iconology. Art history defines iconology as "description and classification of image content aiming to understand the significance of this content." 1 In a way this is the key problem of all scientific use of images. My other patron is Niklas Luhmann, one of the greatest sons of my town Lüneburg, born 1927, died 1998, sociologist and constructor of modern systems theory, who started his "filing box because of the simple consideration that" his "memory was bad" already at the age of 25. 2 He communicated with his filing box; it was an eminent source of his productivity and he treated it so well that in the end it answered him, surprised him, and gave back more than he had put into it. In other words: The concern is that of media of knowledge. On the shoulders of these two giants stands my humble contribution, the attempt to combine the sharp-eyed gaze at the details of an image with a comfortable filing box by an implementation in software. God Is in the Details-A Science of the Sharp-Eyed Gaze-Thinking in Images Images have a poor scientific reputation. They count only little, if exact conclusions have to be drawn. Since modern times precise thinking is done with text, because
»Was nun folgt, ist Spekulation, o weit ausholende Spekulation, die ein jeder nach seiner besond... more »Was nun folgt, ist Spekulation, o weit ausholende Spekulation, die ein jeder nach seiner besonderen Einstellung würdigen oder vernachlässigen wird.« Sigmund Freud, Jenseits des Lustprinzips. 1 Der Begiff des Kriegs-Spiels lässt sich an Obszönität kaum überbieten, bedeutet das Eine doch Gewalt, Tod und entsetzlicher Schrecken, das Andere die freie Entfaltung nach lustvoller eigener Vorgabe. Doch gerade an diesem Paradox entfaltet sich seit Jahrtausenden eine Kultur, die das Schreckliche bannt, verdrängt, symbolisiert, darstellt und in Technik umwandelt. Denn dass und wenn wir aufeinander nicht sofort mit allem einschlagen, was sich dazu eignet, wenn wir Aggression nicht unmittelbar ausleben, sondern dafür Sport und Spiel treiben, wenn wir also regelmäßig nur so tun als ob, dann ist das eine Kulturleistung. Das Spiel ersetzt im besten Fall den Kampf-im Virtuellen, im Als-Ob. Die Ursprünge dieser Verschiebung sind noch immer zu sehen: Das Schachspiel kennt Pferde, Ritter-der im Englischen noch »knight« und im Deutschen »Läufer« heißt-den Turm, mit strategischem Weitblick ausgestattet, den Bauern, den man opfert, um Königin und König nicht zu verlieren. Man zieht besonders gern, wenn man auch schlagen kann, der Verlierer-König ist zum Sterben matt, und was derlei kriegerische Metaphorik mehr ist. Und selbst der Krieg nimmt Distanz zu sich, wenn er durch eine Strategie vorbereitet wird, so, als wäre er nur ein Spiel. Krieg und Spiel gleiten aneinander entlang, längs einer Verschiebungslinie, die das Reale gerade noch eben vom Virtuellen trennt. Und das Medium des Virtuellen ist heutzutage, seit Alan Matheson Turings Aufsatz über das Berechenbare 2 : natürlich der Computer. Und so gibt es neben einem instrumentellen Verhältnis zwischen Krieg und Computern, der Tatsache, dass Computertechnik speziell zu Kriegszwecken erfunden wurde, auch Computer in der Rolle der buchhaltenden Maschine, der Bühne, auf der sich Simulationen abspielen und des Mediums des Virtuellen, das schließlich sogar eine Medienkunst des Krieges hervorbrachte. Und, nicht zuletzt, sorgen Computer dafür, dass der Krieg und seine Spiele selbst sich verändern, was man Fortschritt nennen könnte, wenn man unbedingt wollte.
When John Perry Barlow declared Cyberspace as independent from the common territory and sphere of... more When John Perry Barlow declared Cyberspace as independent from the common territory and sphere of influence by economy and state in 1996 he could not know what happened afterwards. All the dreams of immateriality and exclusion from state power had to recede from a reality of internet infrastructures that became more and more massive, resource consuming and dominant. What developed into the metaphor of The Cloud at the same time settled as a highly influential new power rivalling with democratic institutions of the state on its territory. According to Galloway it is the new means of power, the protocol, that reigns technology and society. The key question of this paper is if there is a close connection between the family of internet protocols and the regulatory means of state. My tentative answer is: yes, indeed, there are close connections between the two spheres that seemingly were incompatible: heaven (The Cloud) and earth (the state territory) couple strongly. The approach is done by Luhmannian Systems Theory, the term being "interpenetration" and "structural coupling". The example will be the Chinese Social Credit System. The main thesis is that the Chinese Social Credit System couples its protocol to the laws and regulations of state and economy, also conceptualized as being protocols, via the internet as its common language. It turns out that the coupling and interpenetration could be highly efficient thus for the first time enabling a co evolution of a highly mobile turbo capitalist economy and a strict authoritarian state territory, a marriage between heaven and earth. .
Since its invention, virtual reality has promised strictly localized and simultaneously boundless... more Since its invention, virtual reality has promised strictly localized and simultaneously boundless mobility: it gives the user the impression of being in a whole new world while remaining in the same place and time. This paradox strips distant and simulated locations of their sense of danger and their exclusiveness, while eliminating the user's need to actually travel to reach them. You can practice flying a fighter jet or driving a tank without putting passengers and equipment at risk; you can engage in combat without actually risking your life; you can relax in a tropical paradise without having to fly to get there; you can fly through buildings without running the risk of falling-and all this while staying put. The cybemauts chase their phantasms from within a cube with an edge length of one meter, as if they were figures in a painting by Francis Bacon. Virtual reality is the only technologically possible method of immersing into computer worlds that remains thoroughly paradoxical. How this is possible and where this leads are the focus of this essay.
We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of te... more We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual. Imagery in the 21st Century examines this revolution in various fields, with researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities meeting to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning and impact of the image in our time. The contributors explore and discuss new critical terms of multidisciplinary scope, from database economy to the dramaturgy of hypermedia, from visualizations in neuroscience to the image in bio art. They consider the power of the image in the development of human consciousness, pursue new definitions of visual phenomena, and examine new tools for image research and visual analysis.
"We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of t... more "We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's informatio explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual. Imagery in the 21st Century examines this revolution in various fields, with researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities meeting to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning and impact of the image in our time. The contributors explore and discuss new critical terms of multidisciplinary scope, from database economy to the dramaturgy of hypermedia, from visualizations in neurosciences to the image in bio art. They consider the power of the image in the development of human consciousness, pursue new definitions of visual phenomena, and examine new tools for image research and visual analysis. The goal is to expand visual competence in investigating new visual worlds and to build cross-disciplinary exchanges among the arts, humanities, and natural sciences.
About the Author"
Zahlreiche Informatikerinnen und Informatiker arbeiten in DH-Projekten mit und kooperieren mit Ge... more Zahlreiche Informatikerinnen und Informatiker arbeiten in DH-Projekten mit und kooperieren mit Geisteswissenschaftlern-und das zum Teil seit vielen Jahren und nicht erst seit dem jüngsten "DH-Hype". Während sich aus den Geisteswissenschaften heraus die DH nun organisieren und ein klareres Bild des "Faches" zeichnen, bleibt die Perspektive der Informatik jedoch weiterhin unscharf. Um hier zu einer ersten Bestandsaufnahme zu kommen, wurden im Rahmen eines von der DHd veranstalteten Workshops am 3. November 2014 in Leipzig die folgenden Fragen bzw. Themenkomplexe in Form von ausgewählten Beiträgen und einem an dem Instrument des Knowledge Café orientierten offenen Gesprächs diskutiert (vgl. auch die Webseite des Workshops und den Call for Papers http://informatik-dh-workshop2014.topicmapslab.de/):
Warburg, who was born in 1866 and died in 1929, the son of the owner of a bank, who sold his stat... more Warburg, who was born in 1866 and died in 1929, the son of the owner of a bank, who sold his status and his rights of a firstborn to his brother-like Esau did at one time. The brother is called Max and not Jakob, and the price was not a plate of lentils but every book he, Aby, wanted. The deal became dearer than Max thought when he took over the Warburg Bank and promised to buy the desired literature. Aby Warburg became one of the first and one of the most famous Kulturwissenschaftler, scholar in the field of cultural studies, and he built the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg, whose stock emigrated in 1933 to the Warburg Institute in London. Warburg deserves to be called the inventor of iconology. Art history defines iconology as "description and classification of image content aiming to understand the significance of this content." 1 In a way this is the key problem of all scientific use of images. My other patron is Niklas Luhmann, one of the greatest sons of my town Lüneburg, born 1927, died 1998, sociologist and constructor of modern systems theory, who started his "filing box because of the simple consideration that" his "memory was bad" already at the age of 25. 2 He communicated with his filing box; it was an eminent source of his productivity and he treated it so well that in the end it answered him, surprised him, and gave back more than he had put into it. In other words: The concern is that of media of knowledge. On the shoulders of these two giants stands my humble contribution, the attempt to combine the sharp-eyed gaze at the details of an image with a comfortable filing box by an implementation in software. God Is in the Details-A Science of the Sharp-Eyed Gaze-Thinking in Images Images have a poor scientific reputation. They count only little, if exact conclusions have to be drawn. Since modern times precise thinking is done with text, because
»Was nun folgt, ist Spekulation, o weit ausholende Spekulation, die ein jeder nach seiner besond... more »Was nun folgt, ist Spekulation, o weit ausholende Spekulation, die ein jeder nach seiner besonderen Einstellung würdigen oder vernachlässigen wird.« Sigmund Freud, Jenseits des Lustprinzips. 1 Der Begiff des Kriegs-Spiels lässt sich an Obszönität kaum überbieten, bedeutet das Eine doch Gewalt, Tod und entsetzlicher Schrecken, das Andere die freie Entfaltung nach lustvoller eigener Vorgabe. Doch gerade an diesem Paradox entfaltet sich seit Jahrtausenden eine Kultur, die das Schreckliche bannt, verdrängt, symbolisiert, darstellt und in Technik umwandelt. Denn dass und wenn wir aufeinander nicht sofort mit allem einschlagen, was sich dazu eignet, wenn wir Aggression nicht unmittelbar ausleben, sondern dafür Sport und Spiel treiben, wenn wir also regelmäßig nur so tun als ob, dann ist das eine Kulturleistung. Das Spiel ersetzt im besten Fall den Kampf-im Virtuellen, im Als-Ob. Die Ursprünge dieser Verschiebung sind noch immer zu sehen: Das Schachspiel kennt Pferde, Ritter-der im Englischen noch »knight« und im Deutschen »Läufer« heißt-den Turm, mit strategischem Weitblick ausgestattet, den Bauern, den man opfert, um Königin und König nicht zu verlieren. Man zieht besonders gern, wenn man auch schlagen kann, der Verlierer-König ist zum Sterben matt, und was derlei kriegerische Metaphorik mehr ist. Und selbst der Krieg nimmt Distanz zu sich, wenn er durch eine Strategie vorbereitet wird, so, als wäre er nur ein Spiel. Krieg und Spiel gleiten aneinander entlang, längs einer Verschiebungslinie, die das Reale gerade noch eben vom Virtuellen trennt. Und das Medium des Virtuellen ist heutzutage, seit Alan Matheson Turings Aufsatz über das Berechenbare 2 : natürlich der Computer. Und so gibt es neben einem instrumentellen Verhältnis zwischen Krieg und Computern, der Tatsache, dass Computertechnik speziell zu Kriegszwecken erfunden wurde, auch Computer in der Rolle der buchhaltenden Maschine, der Bühne, auf der sich Simulationen abspielen und des Mediums des Virtuellen, das schließlich sogar eine Medienkunst des Krieges hervorbrachte. Und, nicht zuletzt, sorgen Computer dafür, dass der Krieg und seine Spiele selbst sich verändern, was man Fortschritt nennen könnte, wenn man unbedingt wollte.
When John Perry Barlow declared Cyberspace as independent from the common territory and sphere of... more When John Perry Barlow declared Cyberspace as independent from the common territory and sphere of influence by economy and state in 1996 he could not know what happened afterwards. All the dreams of immateriality and exclusion from state power had to recede from a reality of internet infrastructures that became more and more massive, resource consuming and dominant. What developed into the metaphor of The Cloud at the same time settled as a highly influential new power rivalling with democratic institutions of the state on its territory. According to Galloway it is the new means of power, the protocol, that reigns technology and society. The key question of this paper is if there is a close connection between the family of internet protocols and the regulatory means of state. My tentative answer is: yes, indeed, there are close connections between the two spheres that seemingly were incompatible: heaven (The Cloud) and earth (the state territory) couple strongly. The approach is done by Luhmannian Systems Theory, the term being "interpenetration" and "structural coupling". The example will be the Chinese Social Credit System. The main thesis is that the Chinese Social Credit System couples its protocol to the laws and regulations of state and economy, also conceptualized as being protocols, via the internet as its common language. It turns out that the coupling and interpenetration could be highly efficient thus for the first time enabling a co evolution of a highly mobile turbo capitalist economy and a strict authoritarian state territory, a marriage between heaven and earth. .
Since its invention, virtual reality has promised strictly localized and simultaneously boundless... more Since its invention, virtual reality has promised strictly localized and simultaneously boundless mobility: it gives the user the impression of being in a whole new world while remaining in the same place and time. This paradox strips distant and simulated locations of their sense of danger and their exclusiveness, while eliminating the user's need to actually travel to reach them. You can practice flying a fighter jet or driving a tank without putting passengers and equipment at risk; you can engage in combat without actually risking your life; you can relax in a tropical paradise without having to fly to get there; you can fly through buildings without running the risk of falling-and all this while staying put. The cybemauts chase their phantasms from within a cube with an edge length of one meter, as if they were figures in a painting by Francis Bacon. Virtual reality is the only technologically possible method of immersing into computer worlds that remains thoroughly paradoxical. How this is possible and where this leads are the focus of this essay.
Carmen Wedemeyer: "Umarmungen" -ein hypermediales Bild-Text-Archiv zu Anna Oppermanns Ensemble. B... more Carmen Wedemeyer: "Umarmungen" -ein hypermediales Bild-Text-Archiv zu Anna Oppermanns Ensemble. Buch deutsch/ englisch, 54 Seiten, sechs Farb-und neun Schwarzweiß-Abbildungen, CD-ROM, deutsch/englisch, 520 MB Bild-, Text-und Videomaterial, Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt. 48 Mark
Entlang der Leitdifferenzen »analog/digital« und »Virtualität/Intermedialität« analysieren die Be... more Entlang der Leitdifferenzen »analog/digital« und »Virtualität/Intermedialität« analysieren die Beiträge des Sammelbandes mediale Übergangsphänomene der Digitalisierung und damit parallel laufende Virtualisierungsprozesse und Hybridisierungen in den Wissenschaften und Künsten. Wie in der interdisziplinär angelegten gleichnamigen Workshopreihe begegnen sich hier Repräsentanten von Hard Sciences, Gesellschafts-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften, Philosophie, Kunst und Musik und bringen aus ihren jeweiligen Blickrichtungen neue Einsichten zum Thema Kultur und Technik ein. Der Band publiziert ausgewählte Beiträge der jährlich in Lüneburg stattfindenden Workshopreihe »HyperKult« und setzt damit das mittlerweile Maßstäbe setzende »HyperKult«-Buch von 1997 fort. Mit Beiträgen von Wolfgang Coy, Susanne Grabowski, Rolf Großmann, Michael Harenberg, Ute Holl, Thomas Hölscher, Hans Dieter Huber, Jochen Koube, Frieder Nake, Jörg Pflüger, Claus Pias, Uwe Pirr, Christoph Rodatz, Britta Schinzel, Ma...
We study the Cramér type moderate deviation for partial sums of random fields by applying the con... more We study the Cramér type moderate deviation for partial sums of random fields by applying the conjugate method. The results are applicable to the partial sums of linear random fields with short or long memory and to nonparametric regression with random field errors.
In one of his review articles Anton Zeilinger mentioned in 1999 that in former times one could on... more In one of his review articles Anton Zeilinger mentioned in 1999 that in former times one could only rely on Gedanken (thought) experiments to discuss the foundations of quantum physics, but that because of the tremendous experimental progress in recent years it became possible to base this discussion on actually performed experiments (Zeilinger 1999). Apart from these two options there is a third option to help contribute to this debate, namely performing computer simulations emulating thought and laboratory experiments. For the foundations of quantum physics, this requires a change of paradigm. In traditional, theoretical modeling the behavior of physical systems is described in terms of mathematical models. Usually differential equations, probability theory and so on are used to describe the system and its behavior. In this paper we replace this traditional modeling with a discrete-event simulation in which we model physical phenomena as chronological sequences of events. Although in the discrete-event approach we describe the behavior of systems in terms of simple rules, collectively these systems may exhibit complex behavior. Well-known examples of this approach are the Lattice Boltzmann model, used to simulate the flow of complex fluids, and the cellular automata from Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram 2002). The community "Collective Evolution," which promotes thinking outside of the box, published on their website their top three mind-boggling quantum experiments (Walia 2015). The first experiment on their list is the double-slit
The Depths of Illusion – Knowing Reality Through Computer Simulation, 2024
A long overdue investigation into the relationship between simulation and reality
What is the ep... more A long overdue investigation into the relationship between simulation and reality
What is the epistemological status of a computer simulation? Is it theory or experiment - or does it not rather form a no man's land in between, which also offers a place for deception and fraud? On the basis of empirical field research, Dippel and Warnke take a look at one of the most shocking phenomena of digitalization: the erosion of modern, fact-based truth production. Computer simulation produces something of its own through the analysis of large data sets and the recreation of elementary processes, whereby precision of world description and fundamental deception lie close together. "Depths of Deception" is an ethnography of the famous quantum physics double-slit experiment and the proposal of an Operational Realism. As an epistemological perspective, the latter recognizes that computer simulations have long been an indispensable basis of our lives, and precisely through them determine what is to be considered real. Last but not least, Dippel and Warnke therefore raise the question of the ethical consequences of algorithmic world design.
Interferences and Events On Epistemic Shifts in Physics through Computer Simulations, 2017
Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeav... more Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeavors such as the detection of gravitational waves and the exploration of subatomic worlds, simulations are essential; however, the epistemic status of computer simulations is rather controversial as they are neither just theory nor just experiment. Therefore, computer simulations have challenged well-established insights and common scientific practices as well as our very understanding of knowledge.
This volume contributes to the ongoing discussion on the epistemic position of computer simulations in a variety of physical disciplines, such as quantum optics, quantum mechanics, and computational physics. Originating from an interdisciplinary event, it shows that accounts of contemporary physics can constructively interfere with media theory, philosophy, and the history of science.
Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeav... more Computer simulations are omnipresent media in today’s knowledge production. For scientific endeavors such as the detection of gravitational waves and the exploration of subatomic worlds, simulations are essential; however, the epistemic status of computer simulations is rather controversial as they are neither just theory nor just experiment.
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What is the epistemological status of a computer simulation? Is it theory or experiment - or does it not rather form a no man's land in between, which also offers a place for deception and fraud? On the basis of empirical field research, Dippel and Warnke take a look at one of the most shocking phenomena of digitalization: the erosion of modern, fact-based truth production. Computer simulation produces something of its own through the analysis of large data sets and the recreation of elementary processes, whereby precision of world description and fundamental deception lie close together. "Depths of Deception" is an ethnography of the famous quantum physics double-slit experiment and the proposal of an Operational Realism. As an epistemological perspective, the latter recognizes that computer simulations have long been an indispensable basis of our lives, and precisely through them determine what is to be considered real. Last but not least, Dippel and Warnke therefore raise the question of the ethical consequences of algorithmic world design.
This volume contributes to the ongoing discussion on the epistemic position of computer simulations in a variety of physical disciplines, such as quantum optics, quantum mechanics, and computational physics. Originating from an interdisciplinary event, it shows that accounts of contemporary physics can constructively interfere with media theory, philosophy, and the history of science.