DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)
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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.
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Rethinking Gamification
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Interferences and Events: On Epistemic Shifts in Physics through Computer Simulations
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Perverse Bienen: Artificial Life und der Apfel der Erkenntnis
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Wissenschaftsgeschichte zwischen Digitalität und Digitalisierung
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Gaia's Game
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Vom Wahn- und Wahrsprechen des technologisch Unbewussten
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The Great Pacific Garbage Catch: Müll als Medium einer ›Plastic Oceanography
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Culture, Technology, and Process in “Media Theories”: Toward a shift in the understanding of media in organizational research
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Gamification and Governmentality
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Absorbing the gaze, scattering looks: Klimt’s distinctive style and its two-fold effect on the eye of the beholder
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The display makes a difference: A mobile eye tracking study on the perception of art before and after a museum's rearrangement
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Giovan Battista Della Porta's construction of pneumatic phenomena and his use of recipes as heuristic tools
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Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'
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Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks
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Symbol Systems as Cognitive and Performative Hybrids: A Reply to Axel Gelfert
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