Centre for Digital Cultures
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) unites a large range of research and development activities dedicated to the digital shift. It engages in knowledge creation and transfer, experimental and interventionist media practices, and research in disciplines such as media, social and cultural studies. The CDC aims to both understand the epochal digital shift through excellent research, and to become one of the major European forces that shape digital cultures to come.
The CDC has seen a remarkable uptake of successful funding bids. The major projects are funded by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) and the State of Lower Saxony, by the German Research Council (DFG) and the VW Foundation respectively. Additional smaller projects are supported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Transmediale, and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The CDC has by now more than 80 researchers and cultural producers from all over the world. They work on questions such as:
- Transmedia: How can we understand and develop new formats for entertainment as well as culture and education, merging different forms of production, participation, distribution and aesthetics?
- User and Audience Research: What kind of methods enable us to understand new usage and consumption patterns, addressing digital cultures’ both global and local audiences?
- Gamification: Computer games have a growing relevance in contemporary life, not only due to the games themselves, but also through their metaphors and methods. What new opportunities arise?
- Common Media: Which new forms of citizenship and cultural/political engagement are developing in the digital age, and how can we understand, enact and strengthen them?
- Net based Public Broadcast: How can publicly funded provision of information, education, culture and entertainment adapt to the internet? How can new versions of basic provision be realized?
- Hybrid Publishing: Which avenues for the communication and dissemination of knowledge beyond classrooms and research articles can be constructed, adapting the cultural and economic logic of the digital age?
- Computer Simulation: From climate change to mass panics: Knowledge production based on computer simulation is shaping our worldview. How can we analyse and understand its effects?
Research and development at the CDC traverse boundaries between the academic sector, culture and the arts, industry, governmental bodies and civil society. It is a conducive, productive and experimental research environment, in which researchers and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, producers and hackers, thinkers and doers broker dynamic connections. Visions, blueprints and experimental findings get exposed to real-world conditions. The development of innovative teaching formats is a further crucial part of the mix: Leuphana Digital School is bringing knowledge and education online, and a new English-speaking Bachelor in Digital Media started in autumn 2013, developed in cooperation with Leuphana’s Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Hamburg Media School and Hongkong City University. The result is a new, open and engaged form of research and development for Europe’s digital cultures.
Topics
- Transmedia
- User and Audience Research
- Gamification
- Common Media
- Net based Public Broadcast
- Hybrid Publishing
- Computer Simulation
- Artistic Research
- New Teaching Formats
From Systems Engineering (SE) to Smart Infrastructures
Irina Kaldrack (Organiser)
25.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
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Laura Hille (Organiser)
15.11.2023 → 16.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Games for Change: Spiele zum Thema Rassismus und Heterosexismus
Niklas Schrape (Lecturer)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
GAME : the Italian journal of game studies (Journal)
Paolo Ruffino (Editor)
01.01.2013 → 31.12.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Gamification
Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)
08.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Gegen den Strich. Die neopragmatische Soziologie von Henrik Kreutz
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
06.12.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"Gemein Sein": Der Sensus Communis der Medien
Sascha Simons (Panel participant)
28.05.2015 → 29.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gescheiterte Anrufungen. Empirische Befunde zur Umweltkommunikation im Themenpark der EXPO 2000
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
17.10.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Hille (Member)
01.01.2019Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Ghosting the City – Zooming in on Otherwise Publics in Virtual Worlds
Cesrin Schneider (Speaker), Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker), Charlotte Niewerth (Speaker) & Juliane Bötel (Speaker)
03.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ghosts of the past, chimeras of the future: Snapshots from the Berlin State Library
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.07.2011 → 09.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Globalization of Contemporary Art Markets
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
03.10.2013 → 05.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Hochschule und unternehmerische Praxis 2008
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
10.04.2008 → 11.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Humanities, Cultural Sciences and Management Education
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
08.11.2012 → 10.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
HyperKult XXI 2012
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
12.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference 2016
Lisa Conrad (Participant)
09.12.2016 → 10.12.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Im Kreativitätsdispositiv
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
06.10.2016 → 07.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Improbable spaces: Looking back upon a future city
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
26.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Improbable Spaces. Signs of the future city in a university project
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
01.07.2007 → 04.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Indie Game Studies Year Eleven: panel at DiGRA - Defragging Game Studies - Atlanta, GA
Paolo Ruffino (Panel participant)
26.08.2013 → 29.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Informatik-Spektrum (Journal)
Martin Warnke (Reviewer)
01.06.2013 → 30.06.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
In Praise of Workarounds
Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)
05.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Institute for Advanced Study Berlin e.V.
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2009 → 2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Institutionelle Machtverteilung im globalen Feld und die Konsekrationsmacht von Institutionen
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
09.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Intendanz vs. kollaborative Leitungsmodelle
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
16.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Interaction of Art and (Social)Science
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
17.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Interaktion von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und Gerd Arntz
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
14.07.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Interdisziplinäre Workshop-Tagung im Rahmen des 29. KasselerDokumentarfilm- und Videofests 2012
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
16.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationa Conference Digital Cultures
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Federation for Information Processing (ifip) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Chair)
2009 → 01.2013Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Panel "L’image - document face au numérique: mise en crise ou mise en lumière?" 2012
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
05.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Inter- und Transdisziplinarität in den Kulturwissenschaften: Das Modell des Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
14.01.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Introduction DIGRA Conference 2015 'Diversity of Play'
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
14.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Involuntary Servitude
Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)
19.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - 2008
Florian Sprenger (Speaker)
02.10.2008 → 04.10.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - GfM 2013
Mercedes Bunz (Organiser), Jan Müggenburg (Organiser), Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
04.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jury Wettbewerb VIDA LIFE 15: Kunstwettbewerb
Andreas Broeckmann (Reviewer)
25.09.2013 → 28.09.2013Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Kafka’s bestiary of organizing
Robert D. Holt (Coauthor) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kafka’s bestiary of organizing
Robert D. Holt (Coauthor) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
10.11.2016 → 12.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kamion (Journal)
Clemens Apprich (Editor)
01.01.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Transfer
Knowing Colour - 2018/19
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2018 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Kolloquium: Creative Coding. Zum Stand der Kulturtechnik Programmieren
Martina Leeker (Organiser)
23.07.2010 → 24.07.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kreativ fördern und unternehmerisch handeln
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
12.05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Kreativität, Valorisierung und das Phänomen der Schwarzen Schwäne
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
22.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kultur und Arbeit
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
19.10.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
"Kunst, Kultur und Nachhaltigkeit"
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
15.09.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Künstlerische Arbeitsmärkte als Modell
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
15.12.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Künstlerische Arbeitsmärkte als Modell?
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
08.10.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Künstlerische Staatspräsentation: Der Beitrag Österreichs auf der 45. Biennale in Venedig 1993
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
22.09.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research