GRK 424:  Codification of Violence in Medial Transformation

• Subject Area: Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 1998 to 2007
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272311

Research on the codification of violence stands at the project's center, codification understood as the transmission of violence in the sign systems of symbolic representation. In contrast to social-scientific approaches, no empirical research into specific cases of potential violence is intended; rather, the emphasis is on analyzing the media, discursive structures, and aesthetic strategies facilitating a codification of violence in both European and non-European cultures from the Middle Ages to the present. What role does violence play in various cultural sign systems, in the gender difference, when perceiving the cultural other, as an aesthetic strategy? Literature and other arts and media here form a field of investigation into the historical semantics of the concept of violence.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Susanne Baer; Professorin Dr. Christina von Braun; Professor Dr. Hartmut Böhme; Professorin Dr. Susanne von Falkenhausen; Professor Dr. Johannes Helmrath; Professor Dr. Friedrich A. Kittler (†); Professor Dr. Thomas Macho; Professor Dr. Ernst Osterkamp; Professor Dr. Werner Röcke (†); Professorin Dr. Inge Stephan; Professor Dr. Horst Wenzel
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Joseph Vogl