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发挥的积极作用做出根本性贡献。该项目的重点是明确的重建，这是一个纪录片的性质归因于（电影纪录片，在历史博物馆的可视化）。我们应该问，在数字重建和模拟领域，可以观察到哪些新的历史接受形式，例如，通过沉浸在模拟的过去中的新的直接性的承诺，实际上“体验历史”-这是虚拟现实领域当前历史模拟的中心主题之一。这个项目的目标是发展一个真正的图像历史和数字重建理论的标准，在数字化的变化条件下的历史想象力的批判。

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.