Autor: Moritz

Conceptualizing Screen Practices

Together wir my colleagues Kathrin Friedrich, Christian Stein and Michael Friedman I have edited a volume on head-mounted displays. It is published as a special issue of media tropes entiteled: Conceptualizing Screen Practices: How Head-Mounted Displays Transform Action and Perception. Media Tropes is a highly recommendable, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary eJournal devoted to the study of media […]

Dronegun

Finally for consumer level: DroneGun provides a safe countermeasure against a wide range of drone models. It allows for a controlled management of drone payload such as explosives, with no damage to common drones models or surrounding environment due to the drones generally responding via a vertical controlled landing on the spot, or returning back […]

Seminar on imaging and interaction in surgical practice

Together with my colleagues Thomas Picht, Kathrin Friedrich, Matthias Bruhn, Kirsten Ostherr, Rebekka Lauer and Anna Roethe I will teach an interdisciplinary seminar on medical imaging at Charité University Hospital in the winter term 2016/17. My part of the course will focus on experimental imaging technology in medical practice with a particular focus on virtual […]

Der Blick als Waffe

Ich habe einen Essay mit dem Titel „Der Blick als Waffe. Zum prekären Verhältnis von Transparenz und Opazität bei Helmdisplays“ für den Ausstellungsband +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen beigetragen. Abstract: Im Gegensatz zu opaken Bildflächen verändert sich das Gezeigte bei transparenten Bildern in Abhängigkeit vom Standpunkt des Betrachters. Auf diesem Darstellungsprinzip basieren vor allem bildschirmbasierte Praktiken, die […]

Medical Screen Operations

I published a paper about the use of head-mounted displays in surgery in an special issue on screen practices. Abstract: Based on case studies in minimally invasive surgery, the paper investigates how head-mounted displays (HMDs) transform action and perception in the operating theater. In particular, it discusses the methods and addresses the obstacles that are […]

Image Guidance. Bedingungen bildgeführter Operation

Gemeinsam mit Kathrin Friedrich und Anna Roethe habe ich den Band Image Guidance. Bedingungen Bildgeführter Operation herausgegeben. Er erscheint in der Buchreihe Bildwelten des Wissens, die aus der Perspektive verschiedener Disziplinen untersucht, in welchen Kontexten Bilder ihre konstruktiven und instruktiven Eigenschaften entfalten, auf welchen historischen und theoretischen Entwicklungen sie beruhen und welchen unhintergehbaren Beitrag die […]

AoIR 2016: Internet Rules, Berlin Oct 5–8

AoIR 2016 is the 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the place of networked technologies in social processes. This year’s conference ist jointly hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research. AoIR 2016 will […]

The Body of War – Drones and Lone Wolves

An International SymposiumLancaster University, 24–25 November 2016 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: David Cook, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Rice University and author of Martyrdom in Islam (Cambridge). Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia and author of Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence (Routledge). Adam Harvey, American artist working on surveillance, […]