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
  1. The Post-Media Condition of Organization

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  2. The Production of Value – a Sociological Perspective

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  3. The Rise and Fall of 'Measurement'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  4. The Sap of Organizational Life

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    05.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. The secret in Digital Culture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    06.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  6. The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker) & Hannah Mormann (Speaker)

    31.10.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    06.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. The Terms of Media II: Actions - 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    08.10.201510.10.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. The West and the Rest. Nicht-westliche Kunst im Feld der internationalen zeitgenössischen Kunst

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    27.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside

    Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)

    21.06.201323.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. The work of disconnection

    Timon Beyes (Keynote Speaker)

    21.06.201822.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  12. To the streets, then!” The redistribution of affect through walking

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Towards a European Program on Entrepreneurship, Humanities and Social Sciences

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    24.09.201525.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  14. Towards a Research Program in Design, Inovation and Aesthetics

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  15. Towards heterochronies: the messy temporalities of contemporary art

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    09.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Towards organizational geographies of resisting: Refugee camps as (un)safe havens

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    22.05.201424.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Transcontinental guidance and exploration of digital cultural heritage (DHX).

    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Speaker)

    03.09.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Transformationen des Kunstfeldes

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. Transmediale - 2013

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    02.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Transparency and Secrecy

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    26.01.201627.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  21. Überall Theater - auf dem Wege in die Inszenierungsgesellschaft?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Übersetzungen der Bilder. Am Beispiel von Texten Pierre Bourdieus

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    22.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Umweltkommunikation im Themenpark der EXPO 2000 (mit Christoph Behnke)

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    18.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  24. Universität Konstanz

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  25. Université Paris-Dauphine

    Timon Beyes (Visiting lecturer)

    2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  26. University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2007

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  27. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Timon Beyes (Editorial Board), Wendy Chun (Editorial Board), Götz Bachmann (Editorial Board) & Mercedes-Sabine Bunz (Editorial Board)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  28. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Timon Beyes (Editor)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  29. UN Konferenz "Know Your Privileges" - 2015

    Lisa Conrad (Moderator)

    12.06.201513.06.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  30. Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics, Labour

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    28.06.201629.06.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  31. Un/Stable Infrastructures

    Sascha Simons (Panel participant)

    08.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Upsetting participation? Modes of ordering art spaces

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.07.200812.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. Urban Atmospheres BA Seminar - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  34. Urban Heterotopia: Zoning Digital Space

    Clemens Apprich (Speaker)

    12.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  35. Urban Management

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    21.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  36. Video, Affekt, Aktivismus: Authentizität und Zeugenschaft von Web-Video-Ereignissen

    Sascha Simons (Panel participant)

    13.11.201414.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  37. Visual Archives in the Digitale Age

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    15.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. Vortrag "Four Scenarios for Extended and Encapsulated Bodies"

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    19.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  39. Was ist Erfolg? Kriterien und Bewertungsmassstäbe für internationale Stiftungsprojekte

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.09.201028.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  40. Was kann die systemtheoretische Perspektive zum Verständnis von NPO beitragen?

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    25.05.200426.05.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  42. Was weiss die (Wirtschafts-)Uni von der Praxis?

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    20.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  43. Welt spielen. SimEarth als Grenzfall zwischen wissenschaftlicher Simulation und Computerspiel

    Niklas Schrape (Speaker)

    05.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  44. Wer entscheidet über den öffentlichen Raum?

    Timon Beyes (Panel participant)

    08.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  45. Western Sydney University

    Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)

    01.02.201731.03.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  46. What kind of management for nonprofit-organizations?, Invited lecture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    26.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  47. What makes sense and what can be sensed: reconsidering the question of organization

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  48. What’s next? Kunst nach der Krise (Art after the crisis)

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  49. Who's afraid of public spaces? Entrepreneurship and politics

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    21.05.200524.05.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  50. Wiederkehr der Utopie?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    08.01.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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