The Digital Past. Facticity and Fiction in Visualizations of History

该项目旨在对数字成像技术在我们对过去事件和时代的理解和想象中所起的积极作用这一问题做出根本性的贡献。该项目的重点是明确的重建，其中一个纪录片的性格归因于（电影文件，可视化的历史博物馆）。我们应该问，在数字重建和模拟领域中，哪些新的历史接受形式可以被观察到，例如，通过沉浸在模拟的过去中，通过承诺一种新的即时性，来真正“体验历史”——这是当前虚拟现实领域中历史模拟的核心主题之一。这个项目的目标是发展真实影像历史的标准和数字重建理论，对数字化条件变化下的历史想象进行批判。

The project is intended to make a fundamental contribution to the question of what active part digital imaging technologies play in our understanding and our imagining of past events and epochs. The project’s focus is explicitly on reconstructions to which a documentary character is ascribed (filmic documentations, visualizations in museums of history). We should ask which new forms of the reception of history can be observed in the field of digital reconstruction and simulation, for example through the promise of a new immediacy through immersion in simulated pasts, to actually “experience history” – which is one of the central motifs of current history simulation in the field of virtual reality. It is the goal of this project to develop criteria of a genuine image history and theory of digital reconstruction, a critique of historical imagination under the changed conditions of digitization.