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Dynamics of Form
Focus topic 2023
Cultural and artistic forms as well as forms shaping societies forms are not firm and fixed, but always in motion. They emerge under particular conditions and they stabilize, establish and change across different times and cultural spaces. The question of the dynamics of forms allows us to pay closer attention to the forces at work in their migration and transmission. What is the relationship between their intrinsic potentials and the external influence of actors in changing historical, social, or political contexts? And how do art and culture reflect changes in their forms? Problems of form in the very literal sense are to be investigated, that is, geneses and adaptations, which possibly allow for insights into their dynamic preconditions precisely where the forms remain incomplete, or dissolve. What special role, then, do ephemeral, elusive, or distorted forms play? What cultural power do forms unfold in images and ideas? With these questions, the thematic focus invites to question theoretical traditions of form reflection and to discuss concrete artistic and cultural (non-)forms.
Research into the emergence and reproduction of forms as well as their flexibility and elasticity has a long tradition at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. With his philosophy of symbolic forms, Ernst Cassirer laid the foundation for a philosophy of human culture; Aby Warburg investigated the medial conditions of the distortion and transformation of pictorial formulas in the process of migratory movements. These traditions have been and are being continued in the projects ›Bilderfahrzeuge‹ (BMBF) on the materiality of pictorial traditions, in the project of digitizing the ›Image Index of Political Iconography‹ (DFG) as well as in the Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹ (DFG), in which dynamic conceptions of the arts are discussed.
The program of scientific lectures and conferences takes place in close cooperation with the NOMIS research group ›Traveling Forms‹ (University of Konstanz) and the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹.
Dynamiken der Form
![Mobile Memories – Annual Conference of the International Research Project »Bilderfahrzeuge«](https://www.warburg-haus.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Poster-Konferenz-Bilderfahrzeuge-FINAL.jpg)
Mobile Memories – Annual Conference of the International Research Project »Bilderfahrzeuge«
Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Thursday & Friday, November 10-11, 2022
From November 10 to 11, the public was cordially invited to the annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology«. Annual conference of the International Research Project Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the…
Bilder als Akteure des Politischen II / Bilderfahrzeuge
![Political Cargo – Public annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge«](https://www.warburg-haus.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bilderfahrzeuge-1.jpg)
Political Cargo – Public annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge«
Warburg-Haus, Friday & Saturday, October 29th-30th, 2021
Politische Fracht. Bilderfahrzeuge im globalen Austausch Political Cargo. Image Vehicles in Global Exchange We cordially invite you to attend the public annual conference of the international research project »Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology« is taking place at…
Bilder als Akteure des Politischen / Bilderfahrzeuge
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Book presentation with Fari Shams – European Civilization. Peter the Great and the Order of Things
Monday, October 25th, 2021, 6.30 pm. With Bill Sherman, Uwe Fleckner and Fari Shams. Moderated by Leena Crasemann
European Civilization. Peter the Great and the Order of Things We cordially invite you to the Warburg-Haus to the book presentation with Fari Shams on Monday, October 25th, 2021, at 6.30 pm! Her book is presented at the Warburg-Haus on the occasion of her exhibition at 8er Salon, Hamburg, from…
Bilder als Akteure des Politischen / Bilderfahrzeuge
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Tag der offenen Tür am Warburg-Haus
Dienstag, 25. Juni 2019, ab 12.00 Uhr, Festvortrag: 19.00 Uhr
Am Dienstag, den 25. Juni 2019 luden die Aby-Warburg-Stiftung und die Universität Hamburg herzlich ein zu einem Tag der offenen Tür am Warburg-Haus aus Anlass des hundertjährigen Jubiläums der Universität Hamburg, bei deren Aufbau nicht nur Aby Warburg und seine Familie maßgeblich mitwirkten,…
Aby Warburg / Bilderfahrzeuge / Die Künste im technischen Zeitalter / Universitätsjubiläum 2019
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Ringvorlesung BildFahrZeug: Zur Zirkulation von Artefakten
2.4.-2.7.2019, Dienstags, 12-14 Uhr, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Im Sommersemester 2019 findet Dienstags die Ringvorlesung BildFahrZeug: Zur Zirkulation von Artefakten statt, organisiert von Leena Crasemann, Uwe Fleckner und Yannis Hadjinicolaou, internationaler Forschungsverbund »Bilderfahrzeuge – Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology«…
Bilderfahrzeuge
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Online: Vortrag von James Cuno, J. Paul Getty Trust
Memory, Nostalgia, Repatriation. Political Claims on Antiquities
Was bedeutet heute Identität? Welche Relevanz hat sie für den Umgang mit Objekten in Museen und Sammlungen und den Transfer von Objekten? Wichtige Impulse, persönliche Gedanken und Anregungen weiterzufragen, gibt James Cuno, Präsident und CEO des J. Paul Getty Trust in seinem Vortrag. Die…
Bilderfahrzeuge / Publikationen