Martin Warnke (computer scientist)

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Martin J. Warnke (born August 3, 1955 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ) is a German theoretical physicist and computer scientist . He is professor for digital media and cultural informatics at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg and director of the DFG research group "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation".

Life

Martin J. Warnke attended the Leibniz School in Berlin-Kreuzberg , which he graduated from high school in 1974 . In 1975 he began studying physics and mathematics at the Free University of Berlin . In 1977 he moved to the University of Hamburg , where he continued his studies and graduated in 1981. In 1984 he received his doctorate in the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on the subject of "Investigations into collective modes in superfluid 3He-B in strong magnetic fields and the Paschen-Back effect of high-frequency mode quintuplets".

From November 1979 Warnke, at that time still a student at the University of Hamburg, was a research assistant to Diethelm Stoller in the subject “Mathematics” at the University of Lüneburg (today Leuphana University of Lüneburg ). The computing center of the Lüneburg University of Applied Sciences, founded in this way with the initial equipment of a Hewlett-Packard desktop computer, was entrusted in 1981 - later with Michael Riebau and Martin Schreiber - with the use of a Siemens BS2000 and the operation of Radio Shack TRS-80 computers. From this facility, the computing and media center of the University of Lüneburg emerged in the mid-1990s, which, in addition to its function as a computing center, was perceived throughout Germany as a facility interested in culture and media studies. At that time, the term cultural informatics was coined here.

In 1984 Warnke became an academic adviser for computer science at the University of Lüneburg and was involved in the establishment of the “cultural informatics” department in the “cultural studies” department. Between 1997 and 2010 he was head of the computer center at the University of Lüneburg. In the Society for Computer Science , Warnke was the spokesman for the “Computer as a Medium” specialist group between 1991 and 2004 and the “Computer Science and Society” department between 2001 and 2008. He is one of the co-founders and organizers of the HyperKult conference series held between 1991 and 2015 . In 1993, together with Martin Schreiber, Diethelm Stoller and Karl Clausberg, he organized the conference “Interface II - Weltbilder-Bildwelten. Computer-Aided Visions ”.

In 2008 Warnke received his habilitation in the field of computer science / digital media at the Faculty of Environment and Technology at Leuphana University Lüneburg . In 2010, together with Rolf Großmann , he founded the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at the Faculty of Cultural Studies, where he has held a professorship for digital media and cultural informatics since then. Between 2012 and 2014 he headed the DFG project “Meta-Image. Research environment for the image discourse in art history ”. Since 2013 Warnke has been director of the DFG research group "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (mecs) together with Claus Pias .

Warnke is chairman of the Art Association Springhornhof in Neuenkirchen .

Work and meaning

Together with Wolfgang Coy , Georg Christoph Tholen u. a. Martin Warnke was involved in founding the interdisciplinary teaching and research area of ​​cultural informatics in the 1990s. He is one of the first computer scientists in the German-speaking region who dealt with media and cultural studies issues on the subject of "digital media". With the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, he and Rolf Großmann founded the first cultural studies institute in the German-speaking region that explicitly deals with research into digital media.

In his work, Warnke was strongly influenced by the constructivist theory of Heinz von Foerster , the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann and the work of Friedrich Kittler . He has published numerous essays on the history and theory of the computer as a medium, the internet and media use in art history .

A central question of his numerous projects and publications in the last few decades concerns the possibility of networking and annotating digital or digitized images based on the model of hypertext structures in the World Wide Web. In 1989, together with Carmen Wedemeyer, he had the idea of ​​using the Hyper-Card software to create online documentation for the Ebstorf world map . After completing this project, the two of them devoted themselves to creating a hypermedia image-text archive for the artist Anna Oppermann as part of a follow-up project . a. in 2004 on the occasion of the reopening of the Anna Oppermann rooms in the Kunsthalle Hamburg . These two projects developed into the HyperImage research project funded by the BMBF between 2006 and 2009 and the Meta-Image project funded by the DFG between 2012 and 2014.

Fonts

Monographs and editions

  • Computer science: elementary introduction to the design, analysis and machine processing of algorithms. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1989.
  • with Wolfgang Coy and Georg Christoph Tholen (eds.): HyperKult: history, theory and context of digital media. Stroemfeld, Basel 1997.
  • with Claus Pias and UM Schneede (ed.): Anna Oppermann in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2004.
  • The arrow of time in the digital: synthesis, mimesis, emergence. Foundation Verbundkolleg Information Society, Berlin 2004.
  • with Wolfgang Coy and Georg Christoph Tholen (Eds.): HyperKult II: for determining the location of analog and digital media. transcript publishing house for communication, culture and social practice, Bielefeld 2005.
  • Introductory theories of the Internet. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2011. (Introduction)

Important essays

  • Aesthetics of the digital: The digital and the predictability. In: Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History. 59/2, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2014.
  • Databases as citadels in the web 2.0. In: G. Lovink, M. Rasch (Eds.): Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and the Their Alternatives. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2013, pp. 76-89.
  • God Is in the Details, or The Filing Box Answers. In: O. Grau, T. Veigl (Ed.): Imagery in the 21st Century. The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA 2011, pp. 339-348.
  • Size does matter. In: C. Pias (ed.): Futures of the computer. Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich 2005, pp. 17–28.
  • The medium in Turing's machine. In: M. Warnke, W. Coy, GC Tholen (Ed.): HyperKult: History, Theory and Context of Digital Media. Stroemfeld, Basel 1997, pp. 69-82.
  • Computer as a medium. In: Journal of Semiotics. 15, 1993, pp. 448-449.

Lectures and interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leuphana project unlocks art-historical knowledge through the logic of the Internet Landeszeitung from January 10, 2012
  2. ↑ Ramon Reichert, Review of Theories of the Internet ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rezenstfm.univie.ac.at
  3. ↑ Interview The Philosophical Radio
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DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin