Images not only depict, but also support and shape the conditions for actions. This volume discusses the inseparable unity between presentation and action through interdisciplinary case examples. The essays analyze "image guidance" as a principle of presentation, perception, and action and reveal the aesthetic, operational, and epistemic conditions that allow visualizations to become means of instruction for action.

Images not only show something, they also prompt the viewer to carry out the action they define. The increasing interaction between technologies, entities and objects via visual interfaces such as graphical user interfaces, touchscreens or augmented reality applications makes the viewer - first and foremost - a user. The actions of designing, navigating and intervening can only be carried out when the viewer has the relevant knowledge in connection with the image. In order to demonstrate the inseparable unity of the logic of visualization and action in image-controlled operations,...