DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)
Organisational unit: Projectteam
Organisation profile
Computer simulations have revolutionised the sciences. Their impact left a mark in nearly every possible field of study – from microbiology, to climate research, and even astrophysics.
What new kinds of knowledge arise through computer simulations? How do they change our understanding of the sciences?
At the Institute of Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), we set out to find answers to these broad questions. We seek to accomplish this in diverse ways: by analysing historical and contemporary case studies , by building an interdisciplinary network of international fellows , and by organising trans-disciplinary lectures, workshops, and conferences .
In an age of computer simulations, MECS is one of the few institutions worldwide specifically focused on understanding their wide-ranging impacts.
- 2015
Vorlesung und Diskussion: Computersimulation als Erkenntnismehtode
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
04.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop Methoden der Medienwissenschaft - 2015
Martin Warnke (Moderator)
11.03.2015 → 12.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Der Stille Ozean: Ozeandynamiken und ihre Visualisierung 1930-2000
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
17.04.2015 → 18.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Conference Fiction and Simulation. Theories, Methods, Practices - 2015
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
27.04.2015 → 30.04.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zombieland: Agent-based Computer Simulation
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
27.04.2015 → 30.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop Grey Zones of Simulation - 2015
Dawid Kasprowicz (Speaker)
26.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Contagious Agents: From Generative Social Science to the Computer Simulation of Epidemics
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
28.05.2015 → 29.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
DFG-Round-Table zur Etablierung eines Schwerpunktprogramms „Das digitale Bild“
Martin Warnke (Participant)
19.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Crumpled Times: Temporal and epistemological depths of Computer Simulations
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
25.06.2015 → 26.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Dealing with Climate Change. Calculus & Catastrophe in the Age of Simulation - 2015
Isabell Schrickel (Organiser)
25.06.2015 → 26.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
MECS Workshop "Cultural Analytics, Information Aesthetics, and Distant Readings"
Isabell Schrickel (Organiser)
04.07.2015 → 05.07.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Simulation of Everything: Social Simulations 1970 | 2010
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
06.07.2015 → 08.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Hyperkult XXV - 2015
Martin Warnke (Organiser) & Rolf Großmann (Organiser)
09.07.2015 → 11.07.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zur Zukunft der Vergangenheit – falls es eine geben wird
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
11.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
3. Medienwissenschaftlichen Symposion der DFG - 2015
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
19.08.2015 → 22.08.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Seminar: Media Arts Culture und Digitales Sammlungsmanagement
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
15.09.2015 → 16.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Die Unmöglichkeit einer Insel
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
30.09.2015 → 03.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"Matter of Typography" Workshop am Exzellencluster "Bild Wissen Gestaltung" - 2015
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
09.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Science and Art of Simulation Workshop - SAS 2015
Martin Warnke (Participant)
12.10.2015 → 13.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
University of Vienna
Martin Warnke (Visiting researcher)
13.10.2015 → 15.10.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research