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We invite you to our conference “On the epistemic Dimension of Color in the Sciences“ on November 17 and 18, 2016

in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung in the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-University, Berlin.

From amazingly colorful antique relics to the attempts to standardize colors in biomedical imaging – color gains in relevance in the sciences.  Yet the epistemic role of color, its long-standing neglect due to historic symbolic, in part gendered, ascriptions, and the function of color in visualizations for internal scientific use have not received much attention in the sciences and humanities to date.

Therefore, in this conference we invite participants to investigate the epistemic dimensions of color in the sciences, across disciplines and across history.

If you would like to take part, please register by October 25 by sending an E-Mail to [log in to unmask]

Program, November 17

16:00 Registration, Welcome & Coffee

17:00 Ulrike Boskamp, Keynote

(Institute for Art History, Free University Berlin)

Coding and Gendering Colour: Scientific, Epistemological and Aesthetic Discourses in 18th Century France

Chair: Bettina Bock von Wülfingen

18:00 Wine reception on site for all participants  

Program, November 18

9:30 Coffee

10:00 Welcome & Introduction: Color in Diagrams

Bettina Bock von Wülfingen

10:30 Wolfgang Coy (Computer Sciences, Humboldt-University, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung)

    Colors we see – The CIE Color Spaces in Print and Projection

Ricardo Cedeño Montaña (Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-University)

The Technical Illusion of Colour: from the Trichromatic  Theory to the Encoding of Electromagnetic Signals

Chair: John Nyakatura

11:50 Brief Coffee Break

12:00 Aldo Badano, Keynote 

(Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA)

Color Visualization of Medical Images: Needs and Consistency Approaches

Chair: Bettina Bock von Wülfingen

13:00 Lunch on site

14:00 Daniel Baum (Zuse-Institut Berlin, Working Group Image Analysis in Biology and Materials Science, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung)  A Data Visualization Perspective on the Use of Color

Margrit Vogt (Institute for Language, Literature and Media, University Flensburg)

Color as a Provocation: On the Changes of Color Perception circa 1900 in European Metropolises

Chair: Martin Grewe

15:00 Brief Coffee Break

15:20 Nils Güttler (ETH Zürich, Science Studies)  Meanings of Color in Geobotanical Maps in 19 th Century

Linda Báez-Rubí (The Warburg Institute, University of  London, School of Advanced Study, Cluster of Excellence

Image Knowledge Gestaltung / Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM)

Catholic Physics and the Theories of Paintings and of Light Regarding the Imprimatura of the Virgen de Guadalupe

Chair: Jochen Hennig

16:20 Brief Coffee Break

16:30 Alexander Nagel (Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History)

Many Things All At Once: Preserving the Knowledge of Ancient Sculptural Polychromy on a Site and in a Museum

Dominique Grisard (Honorary Visiting Fellow at City University London)

Pink and Blue Science. The Popular Trickle-Down of the Psychology of Color

Chair: Kathrin Mira Amelung

17:30 Finalizing remarks.