Media Studies and Image Science
Speaker: Klaus Sachs-Hombach, Professor of Philosophy, Rhetoric and Media Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany; internationally recognised as a founding figure and leading scholar in the field of iconology/image science.
Moderator: Gao Xin, Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Nanjing University.
Content Summary:
This lecture aims to re-examine the foundational theories of image science through the lens of contemporary media studies, outlining key frontier issues and emerging research directions in the field. Its central argument is that understanding images must go beyond their formal representation and instead regard them as communicative acts embedded within complex media ecologies.
