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Dissertation Abstract‚
October 18, 2008 version
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So far the book (and the 3-page abstract) are presented in German language, but make extensive use of visual argument.
Dr. des. Maximilian Schich M.A.
Reception and Transmission
as Complex Networks.
The CENSUS and Visual Documents on
the Imperial Baths in Rome.
My dissertation investigates phenomenons concerning
the migration of the images, i.e. processes of reception and transmission
of visual information and meaning. While I prepared the thesis
within the framework of art history and archaeology, its results
are also relevant to many other fields. The given area of research
complements text-focused citation research and proves particularly
promising concerning the explication of implicit references between
documents, as far as they contain any images.
With the analysis of two data sets the Census
of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance and a collection of Visual
Documents on the Imperial Baths in Rome I have
shown, that the processes of reception and transmission of visual
information constitute complex networks in the sense of discrete
mathematics: namely the bipartite network of reception and the
directed network of transmission.
Furthermore I have shown, that the investigation of the bipartite
network of reception, which is comparably easy to explicate, facilitates
the reconstruction of implicit events of transmission. In order
to achieve this goal I have developed a new method using scalable
image matrices, for which I have applied for a patent with Max-Planck. Besides the reconstruction of transmission,
the method also proofs valuable concerning questions in any other
diachronic, synchronic or achronic dimension of visual object
data, both on a macroscopic and on a microscopic scale. |
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