Introduction: The Experiment in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility

How did experiments change due to the possibility of technological reproducibility that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century? What happens to an experiment when it is made reproducible on film (recording) and is reproduced in film (playback)? In this introduction to the Wind Tunnel Bulletin about the "Experiment in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility", I do not want to provide an overview of possible answers to this question, given the character of the Bulletin as a publication medium for unfinished ideas and topics that give us food for thought, but from my own perspective put forward a few (and partly bold) hypotheses in connection with flow films recorded in the context of scientific experiments.

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Keywords

Walter Benjamin, Experiment, Scientific Film, Films of Experiments, Fluid Dynamics, Film Camera, Research Film, Flow Visualization, Aestheticization

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