![]() ![]() The Arcades Project serves as a starting point and is translated in a twofold way. The Atlas of Arcadia refers to two unfinished, historical oeuvres of the 20 th century: Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project 1 and Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas 2. This emphasis on the image is intended at the same time to test the limits and possibilities of image-based scientific practice. The results of the research are therefore not primarily articulated through theoretical texts but rather in the form of an image atlas, which will be presented in the form of an exhibition as well as publication. ![]() It is also following in this spirit that the artistic research project concentrates on images, all the while re-contextualizing and commenting upon them by means of other images. As the representatives of the pictorial (respectively iconic) turn or the Bildwissenschaften have repeatedly stated, images have become constitutive for us. It retraces how different functions of the urban space are progressively relocated into the virtual world created by new media, a world that immerses us in a new visual universe. ![]() What happens when public space has become identical with the private shopping mall? What effect do surveillance cameras have on the equally criticized and celebrated anonymity of the city? What does it mean that digital cameras in cell phones can document every moment of our lives and almost immediately publish the images in the worldwide web? How is our experience of community affected if communication does no longer occur in real places but is absorbed by social networks?Ītlas of Arcadia is a project that researches the social, societal and ideological implications of the urban and technical developments of the past twenty years. ![]()
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