What is the significance of accuracy in the production of scientific knowledge? How does a specific conception of accuracy, depending on the discipline and subject area, determine the way in which knowledge is found and represented? In which representations, media and practices is it realized in order to indirectly modify the results - images, literary texts, economic forecasts and -  the methodological formation of the disciplines themselves? Does accuracy rely on an idealizing mode of operation, is it a stylistic ideal that can at best be approximated? What are the implications and exclusions that distinguish accuracy as an epistemic virtue?

The aim of this interdisciplinary research project is to analyze the historical development, theoretical shaping, and practical effectiveness of those procedures that shape knowledge acquisition in artistic, social science, and humanities contexts under the standard of accuracy beyond the natural sciences and engineering. In addition to basic explanations of concepts and terms, the conditions and formations of cultural techniques, rhetorics and modes of representation of accuracy will be explored on the basis of selected case histories, and it will be analyzed in which way the notions of 'exact' work are similar even between the disciplines, in which they differ, and in which they mutually influence each other.

Radiophonic Cultures - Sonic environments and archives in hybrid media systems (Prof. Dr. Ute Holl)

The interdisciplinary research project Radiophonic Cultures explores the emergence of new sonic spaces and cultures of listening in radiophonic arrangements from early radio to its current digital reorganization. Going beyond a definition of the radio as institution, the concept of radiophonics followed in this research encompasses a larger history of the forms of production, composition, transmission, and perception of sounds as well as of the changing conceptions of sound and music that is linked to the radio and its apparatus, technologies, experiments and discourses. The research group, consisting of media scholars, radio researchers, musicologists and composers, examines the mutual interdependencies between technologies of the radio studio, musical composition, practices of archiving and modes of reception. Thus it aims at understanding more closely the impact of radiophonics on sonic environments and communication and grasping the aesthetical and political potentials of a future radio under hybrid media conditions.