Schröter, Jens
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Publication Access status: Open Access , Filter(n) – Geschichte Ästhetik PraktikenBei genauer Betrachtung scheint es, als sei der Filter allgegenwärtig: Von alltäglichen Gebrauchsgegenständen wie z.B. Kaffee-, Aktivkohle- und Pollenfiltern über den Moog Ladder Filter beim Moog Synthesizer, automatisierte Software-Filter im Zuge von Bewerbungsverfahren, bis hin zur 2016 im amerikanischen Präsidentschafts-Wahlkampf viel beschworenen Filter-Bubble oder eben fotografischen Filter-verfahren, wie sie derzeit prominent in einer Reihe von Apps Anwendung finden. Trotz dieser Präsenzen des Filters wurden in der Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft Operationen und Technologien des Filterns bislang weder systematisch noch in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite thematisiert. Ziel des Heftes ist es, hierzu einen Anstoß zu geben und sich mit dem Filter, aber auch mit den Praktiken des Filterns, seiner Geschichte und seinen Ästhetiken zu beschäftigen. Die Beiträge verhandeln dabei ganz unterschiedliche Beispiele: von Wahrnehmungsfiltern über Photoshop und Filtern in der Musik hin zu einer Ökonomie des Filter(n)s und dem Prozess der Verdauung.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:20,22491 1763 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Kulinarische SensorikEating is never just a matter of the palate – it is a medial, technical, and cultural event. This issue explores how digital sensors, AI, and social media are reshaping our perception of taste, smell, and texture. From electronic noses and machine tasting to food photography and AI-generated recipes, culinary culture emerges as a field where senses, media, and technologies intersect in new ways.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:25,25 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Media Cultures of Value: Economy, Politics, and Art in Web3Values don’t just fall from the sky. They are shaped by media, infrastructure, and social practices. With new protocols and media objects – such as smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs – Web3 not only extends platform capitalism but also redefines value, labor, and community. While these technologies reinforce proprietary markets and corporate governance structures, they simultaneously open up alternative new ways of organizing life, challenging traditional economic and social models. This issue builds on the hybrid workshop “Digital Biedermeier – or Radical Democratic Utopia? NFTs as Interfaces of Cryptocurrencies”, organized by Johannes Bennke at the Humboldt University Berlin and Mirjam Schaub at University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg in October 2023. The issue brings together eight contributions by media scholars, artists, and curators who examine different media cultures of value – exploring protocols, infrastructures, labor, NFTs, art, and political stakes of Web3 governance.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:25,14 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , NavigierenNavigation is no longer unique to the context of professional seafaring, but has become an integral part of networked digital everyday life enabled through smartphones and web browsers. Indeed, finding one’s way through online and offline spaces increasingly presupposes and produces specific forms of media competence one could call »navigational«. In this, a ›media cultural studies‹ perspective on the situated and ›technologized‹ media practices of navigation becomes imperative to understanding the contemporary media landscape. Issue 1/22 of Navigationen answers this call by presenting polyperspectival approaches to »navigating«. The contributions discuss the bodily, cultural, and media-technical facets of navigation, as well as its historical forms, the work on and in the data produced by and with navigational media, and the theorization of post-digital ›sensor media cultures‹. In doing so, the issue acknowledges that not only do data, things, and bodies need to be ›navigated‹ in the context of logistics, but that the increasingly autonomous wayfinding processes of non-human actors change the notion of navigation itself. As (German language) media cultural studies has so far lacked a convincing compilation of heterogeneous approaches to studying navigation, this issue provides an overview of the field, its researchers and questions. Despite the spatial turn in the humanities and a recent surge in geomedia studies, an approach towards the media and practices of navigation that combines historical, ethnographic, technical and theoretical perspectives, has remained a desideratum until now. The issue fills this gap.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:22,11 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Tech Demo"Tech Demo" deals with the twofold connection between demonstration and technology. On the one hand, the volume focusses on technology demonstrations as cultural and instrumental practices in the contexts of technology- and media-development. On the other hand, the contributions highlight the technologization of demonstrations regarding the reliance of (political) demonstrations on media technologies. Building on this nexus, demonstrations appear as mediahistorically and -theoretically significant sites that reveal and negogiate intersections of technology, individual, and society, politics, performance, and aesthetics, as well as human and technical scopes of 'agency'.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:23,11 18 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Tech ImaginationsTechnologies and especially media technologies are pervasive in modern societies. But even more omnipresent are the imaginaries of modern technologies – what technologies are thought to be capable of or what effects they are supposed to have. These imaginations reveal a lot of the political and ideological self-descriptions of societies, hence the (techno-)imaginary also functions as a kind of epistemic tool. Concepts of the imaginary therefore have experienced an increasing attention in cultural theory and the social sciences in recent years. In particular, work from political philosophy, but also approaches from science and technology studies (STS) or communication and media studies are worth mentioning here. The term "techno-imagination", coined by Vilém Flusser in the early 1990s, refers to the close interconnection of (digital) media and imaginations, whose coupling can not only be understood as a driver of future technology via fictional discourses (e.g. science fiction), but much more fundamentally also as a constitutive element of society and sociality itself, as Castoriadis has argued. In the first part of the issue several theoretical contributions add new aspects to the discussion of socio-technical imaginaries, while in the second part a workshop held in January 2022 at the CAIS in Bochum is documented, in which the case of the imaginaries of “Future Internets” was discussed.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:23,26 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Unfälle. Kulturen und Medien der AkzidenzUnfälle sind Signum und Faszinationsobjekt der Moderne: Nicht bloße Anomalien technischer Systeme, sind sie für die Funktionslogik technologieabhängiger Gesellschaft ordnungsstiftend. Das Heft 2/22 der Navigationen verschreibt sich den alltäglichen wie außergewöhnlichen medienkulturellen Praktiken, Artefakten und Darstellungsstrategien der Prävention und Investigation, die sich auf den Unfall richten, ihn als zukünftigen Unfall etwa via Simulation bannen oder die Regelhaftigkeit des Akzidentiellen nachträglich ermitteln. Thematisiert wird der Unfall dabei in seiner gesamten Skalierung: Von den kleinen, unscheinbaren Unfällen des Haushalts über die Störung industrieller Produktion sowie den allgegenwärtigen Verkehrsunfall reicht das aufgerufene Störfallspektrum bis zum Unfall im Weltraum sowie noch darüber hinaus zum existenziellen Scheitern. Televisuelle und filmische Darstellungen von Unfällen werden dabei ebenso verhandelt wie das Unfallpotential digital vernetzter Medientechnologien, etwa im Falle autonomer Waffensysteme oder selbstfahrender Autos.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:22,25 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Zukünftige MedienästhetikA future media aesthetic is both a media aesthetic of the future and an aesthetic of future media. Media art has always explored unimagined and untried possibilities of various media, creating an imaginative glimpse of future media. Media art, one of the central art forms of the 20th and 21st centuries, saw it as one of its tasks to invent new media (Rosalind Krauss) - often precisely by resorting to technologies and processes that seem obsolete. Media art, then, does not merely reflect an underlying medium, as was claimed by (high) modernist aesthetics, and problematically enough, for all art. It first invents a medium. Media are thereby surrounded by imaginaries that precede their invention, accompany their enforcement, and resonate nostalgically in their disappearance. Media art can therefore be understood as a special case of such imaginaries - an imagination that is not (only) discursive, but material, demonstrative and performative. The planned issue gathers contributions that examine the practices of inventing future media through media art. One focus is on the important media art project Piazza virtuale by Van Gogh TV, which conceived the future medium of an interactive television at documenta IX in 1992, precisely on the eve of the spread of the Internet.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:21,22 14
