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
The Simulation of Everything: Social Simulations 1970 | 2010
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
06.07.2015 → 08.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
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
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
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
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
Der Stille Ozean: Ozeandynamiken und ihre Visualisierung 1930-2000
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
17.04.2015 → 18.04.2015Activity: 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
Vorlesung und Diskussion: Computersimulation als Erkenntnismehtode
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
04.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Unterwachen und Schlafen. Anthropophile Medien nach dem Interface - 2015
Dawid Kasprowicz (Speaker)
31.01.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop „Kulturkontakt und Raumkonzept“ - 2014
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
30.01.2015 → 31.01.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Round-Table „Objekte in Raum und Zeit“ - RiR 2015
Martin Warnke (Participant)
28.01.2015 → 29.01.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop MECS - 2015
Martin Warnke (Organiser)
21.01.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Universität Konstanz
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
- 2014
Workshop "Informatik und die Digital Humanities" 2014
Martin Warnke (Participant)
03.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
All Surface: Blobs and the Liquefaction of Architecture
Sebastian Vehlken (Lecturer)
09.10.2014 → 12.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Projektvorstellung im Cluster "Informatik und Text": Relationen im Raum - Visualisierung topographischer Klein(st)strukturen
Martin Warnke (presenter)
25.03.2014 → 28.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- 2012
HyperKult XXI 2012
Martin Warnke (Organiser) & Rolf Großmann (Organiser)
14.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2010
Kolloquium ,,Medien, die wir meinen''
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2009
Prestigeverlust. Szenen des Austricksens zwischen Magie und Medientechnik
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
01.10.2009 → 03.10.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Institute for Advanced Study Berlin e.V.
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2009 → 2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
- 2008
Bauhaus University of Weimar
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2008 → 04.2009Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
- 2007
University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2007Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
- 2004
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- 2001
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer