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
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  1. External workshops, courses, seminars
  2. Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities

    Lisa Conrad (Organiser), Timon Beyes (Organiser) & Clemens Apprich (Organiser)

    07.06.201808.06.2018

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

  3. Guest lectures
  4. Affordances of the Aesthetic

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    25.06.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. After Globalization

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    15.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Alan Sekula - Cultural Capital, Human Capital

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    13.01.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Algerien und das revolutionäre Subjekt. Pierre Bourdieu und Frantz Fanon

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    14.07.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. An aesthetics of displacement. On Thomas Pynchon’s symptomatology of enterprise

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    05.07.200707.07.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Arbeit, Managementphilosophie, Kunst

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    16.01.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    12.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  11. Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development. A Triangle to be Articulated (mit Beatrice von Bismarck)

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    20.01.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Art market research. Some non-obvious results

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    25.11.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. Aufstieg und Niedergang der öffentlichen Sphäre. Die Theorie von Jürgen Habermas und ihre Kritik

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für angehende Kunstkritiker/innen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    28.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. BBC Fusion Summit: Playful interfaces for playful human beings: the future of game interfaces

    Paolo Ruffino (Lecturer)

    28.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Bourdieus Fotografie zu den Ökonomien des Elends

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    22.06.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. City of enterprise, city as prey? On urban entrepreneurial spaces

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.06.200408.06.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Lecturer)

    15.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  20. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    30.01.201431.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  21. Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    10.11.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    14.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  24. Cybernetics, Management, Organization: The case of St.Gallen

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    16.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. Das Feld der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kunst: Strukturwandel und Reproduktion

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    28.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  26. Das Konzept der ästhetischen Erfahrung als soziale und politische Falle

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.04.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. Das Kunstfeld. Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  28. Den Tod des Autors begraben

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    27.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  29. Der Bologna-Prozess aus der Perspektive der Cultural Theory

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    03.02.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. Der Dunkle Transhumanismus

    Laura Hille (Speaker)

    25.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  31. Die Internet-Theoretikerin Dr. Mercedes Bunz "Im Gespräch"

    Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)

    07.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  32. Die Kulturwissenschaften im Bildungssystem der Zukunft

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    19.06.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  33. Die Kulturwissenschaften im Bildungssystem der Zukunft

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    05.07.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  34. Die Kunst auf dem Weg in die blaue Ökonomie

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    15.06.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  35. Die Kunst, der Markt und die Idee des kollektiven Intellektuellen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    02.09.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  36. Die Kunst in der Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit und die ‚Krise der Kunstkritik’

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    24.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  37. Die Symbolgrafik als dritter Weg

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    13.11.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  38. Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    25.08.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  39. Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    25.08.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  40. Die Übersetzung von Bildern. Pierre Bourdieu als Beispiel

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    30.01.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  41. Disneyland in Europa. Umweltkommunikation auf der EXPO 2000

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    15.12.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  42. Doing Social Research with Artists

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  43. Doing Social Research with Artists (mit Vera Kockot)

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    23.08.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  44. Doing space: Atmospheres of teaching

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    17.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  45. Ende des ästhetischen Wohlfahrtsstaates?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    31.05.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  46. Eurozentrismus und künstlerische Moderne?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    29.01.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  47. Fiction and Simulation: Theories, Methods, Practices

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.04.201530.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    08.03.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  49. Games for Change: Spiele zum Thema Rassismus und Heterosexismus

    Niklas Schrape (Lecturer)

    16.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  50. Gamification

    Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)

    08.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer