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Janina Wellmann (MPIWG, TU Berlin)
Attention to life moving on screens may be a recent phenomenon in contemporary life sciences, but moving matter was always part and parcel of the scientific study of life. It was eagerly explored and had profound epistemic consequences for the whole of biology from the start. Constitutively fugitive, motion is hard to portray. Evading perception and representation alike, it slips from being inconspicuous, acting everywhere in the background, into being invisible. Despite this virtual invisibility, however, motion has been present in every epoch of picture-making and has never ceased to challenge the intellect. Science, art, technology, and the mind have been taxed by the question of how to capture, freeze, pick motion out of flux, given that ephemerality is its most essential property.