Dinsdag 18 september – Lectorale rede van Dr. Sabine Niederer: Networked Images – Visual Methodologies for the Digital Age. Sabine leidt het lectoraat Visual Methodologies, waar ik onderdeel van uit mag maken. In haar rede laat ze aan de hand van praktische voorbeelden zien hoe je waardevol onderzoek kan doen, met en naar beelden – ook als die op gigantische schaal over het internet worden verspreidt.

Foto’s Bibi Veth.

Op het groepsportret het team van het lectoraat, van links naar rechts: Gabriele Colombo, mijzelf, Maarten Groen, Federica Bardelli, Marloes Geboers, Loes Bogers, Sabine Niederer, Carlo De Gaetano en Wouter Meys.

Over de rede en het lectoraat:

Every second, a tremendous number of images is being uploaded and viewed online. These images become ‘networked’ when users like, share, comment or tag them, and also when platforms and engines format, filter, feed and recommend them to others. Each platform and engine handles images in distinct ways, thereby revealing platform-specific technicities. Both the networkedness and technicity of online images call for an approach attuned to the medium.

Networked image research not only examines platform dependencies but also develops and designs images for research. These visualizations may be research protocol diagrams as well as maps for navigating and grouping content. Visualization and mapping practices guide researchers, designers, programmers, students and issue experts in their learning, analysis and public participatory work.

In her inaugural lecture, Sabine Niederer presents visual methodologies that take into account the contemporary state of digital images and demonstrates how visualizations may be put to use for collaborative research.