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
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities
Lisa Conrad (Organiser), Timon Beyes (Organiser) & Clemens Apprich (Organiser)
07.06.2018 → 08.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- Guest lectures
Affordances of the Aesthetic
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
25.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
After Globalization
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
15.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Alan Sekula - Cultural Capital, Human Capital
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
13.01.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Algerien und das revolutionäre Subjekt. Pierre Bourdieu und Frantz Fanon
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
14.07.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
An aesthetics of displacement. On Thomas Pynchon’s symptomatology of enterprise
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
05.07.2007 → 07.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arbeit, Managementphilosophie, Kunst
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
16.01.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
12.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development. A Triangle to be Articulated (mit Beatrice von Bismarck)
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
20.01.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art market research. Some non-obvious results
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
25.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Aufstieg und Niedergang der öffentlichen Sphäre. Die Theorie von Jürgen Habermas und ihre Kritik
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
04.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für angehende Kunstkritiker/innen
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
28.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
BBC Fusion Summit: Playful interfaces for playful human beings: the future of game interfaces
Paolo Ruffino (Lecturer)
28.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Bourdieus Fotografie zu den Ökonomien des Elends
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
22.06.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
City of enterprise, city as prey? On urban entrepreneurial spaces
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.06.2004 → 08.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
19.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
15.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
30.01.2014 → 31.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
10.11.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
11.01.2018 → 12.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
14.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Cybernetics, Management, Organization: The case of St.Gallen
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
16.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das Feld der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kunst: Strukturwandel und Reproduktion
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
28.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das Konzept der ästhetischen Erfahrung als soziale und politische Falle
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
07.04.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das Kunstfeld. Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
04.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Den Tod des Autors begraben
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
27.11.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Bologna-Prozess aus der Perspektive der Cultural Theory
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
03.02.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Dunkle Transhumanismus
Laura Hille (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Internet-Theoretikerin Dr. Mercedes Bunz "Im Gespräch"
Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)
07.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Kulturwissenschaften im Bildungssystem der Zukunft
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
19.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Kulturwissenschaften im Bildungssystem der Zukunft
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
05.07.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Kunst auf dem Weg in die blaue Ökonomie
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
15.06.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Kunst, der Markt und die Idee des kollektiven Intellektuellen
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
02.09.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Kunst in der Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit und die ‚Krise der Kunstkritik’
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
24.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Symbolgrafik als dritter Weg
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
13.11.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
25.08.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
25.08.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Übersetzung von Bildern. Pierre Bourdieu als Beispiel
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
30.01.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die zeitgenössische Kunst, die "Künstlerkritik" und der Kapitalismus. Die kritische Soziologie der Kunst im Spiegel der "Soziologie der Kritik"
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
03.04.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Digitalization – a panel discussion with Andrus Ansip (European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission)
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
21.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Disneyland in Europa. Umweltkommunikation auf der EXPO 2000
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
15.12.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Doing Social Research with Artists
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
07.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Doing Social Research with Artists (mit Vera Kockot)
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
23.08.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Doing space: Atmospheres of teaching
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
17.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Ende des ästhetischen Wohlfahrtsstaates?
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
31.05.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Eurozentrismus und künstlerische Moderne?
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
29.01.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fiction and Simulation: Theories, Methods, Practices
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
27.04.2015 → 30.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
08.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Games for Change: Spiele zum Thema Rassismus und Heterosexismus
Niklas Schrape (Lecturer)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Gamification
Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)
08.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer