Screen-based technologies increasingly merge the levels of action and perception. With image production and transmission being possible in real time, screens are no longer spatially fixed and temporally subordinated devices that display static images, but are increasingly integrated into visual practices. The correlation of screen and operation in graphical user interfaces, touchscreens or augmented reality applications, turns the viewer first and foremost into a user. The workshop investigates the relationship of screen and operation in visual culture, interaction and architectural design, computer history, medicine and warfare. We will discuss the aesthetic, epistemic and operational modalities of screen operations in order to trace their political, technological and historical implications.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 13 (13.00–17.30) 

13.00 REGISTRATION 

13:30 WELCOME and INTRODUCTION 

14.00 PANEL1: AGENCY 

Chair: Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Tristan Thielmann (University of Siegen) 

Displaying Displays: A Praxeological Analysis of Computer Screens 

Lasse Scherffig (San Francisco Art Institute) 

From Action Capture to Interaction Gestalt

16.00 PANEL2: OPERABILITY 

Chair: Luisa Feiersinger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Pasi Väliaho (Goldsmiths, University of London) 

Projection and Empire: Notes on Robert Hooke‘s Picture Box and Other Operational Images  

Moritz Queisner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 

Medical Screen Operations. How Head-Mounted Displays Transform Action and Perception in Surgical Practice

Thursday, July 14 (9.30-16.00)

09:30 PANEL3: INTERFACE 

Chair: Margarete Pratschke (ETH Zürich) 

Carolin Höfler (TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences) 

Recoding the History: Parametric Modeling in Time Loops  

Jan Distelmeyer (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) 

Effective Orders. Interfaces and Digitalicity

11:30 PANEL 4: RESPONSIBILITY 

Chair: Svea Bräunert (Brandenburg Center for Media Studies)

Hamid R. Ekbia (Indiana University Bloomington)  

The Refracting Interface: Autonomy, Opacity, and Responsibility  

Nina Franz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 

Synthetic Vision. Screen-Based Practices in Remote Warfare

14:00 PANEL5: SCREENING 

Chair: Moritz Queisner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 

Kathrin Friedrich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

›Hanging Protocols‹: A Brief Media Archaeology of Radiological Screens 

Aud Sissel Hoel (NTNU Trondheim and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 

Theorizing and Analyzing Surgical Screen Operations: The Case of Preoperative nTMS