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. Guest lectures
  2. Soziologie der ästhetischen Erfahrung

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    03.01.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Statusinkongruenz und kulturelle Distanz. Eine Anwendung der Korrespondenzanalyse

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.10.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Statusinkongruenz und kulturelle Distanz in der Kunstwelt

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Street Art und ARTotale

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    06.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Surveillance Capitalism. Überwachen und unterhalten

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Teilnahme an Experten-Arbeitstreffen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    06.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. The Dealer as a Genius. Creative Industry Approaches to Art History

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    01.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. The Future of Critical Art Institutions. The 'Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    12.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. The ignorant educators: Teaching “Cities and Creativity”

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    08.11.201210.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. The impossible house of art. Aesthetics and politics of organizing urban space

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    18.07.200720.07.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Theorie der Gouvernementalität oder Neo-Gramscianische Hegemonietheorie?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    31.01.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. The Post-Media Condition of Organization

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. The Rise and Fall of 'Measurement'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  15. 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

  16. Towards heterochronies: the messy temporalities of contemporary art

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    09.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    22.05.201424.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Transformationen des Kunstfeldes

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. Transparency and Secrecy

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    26.01.201627.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    22.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Un/Stable Infrastructures

    Sascha Simons (Panel participant)

    08.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Sascha Simons (Panel participant)

    13.11.201414.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    19.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    21.05.200524.05.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. Wiederkehr der Utopie?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    08.01.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  28. Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?

    Martin Warnke (Lecturer)

    16.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  29. Wie Paul Baran einmal wild spekulierte und dabei das Internet erfand

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    02.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. Winding (and not Knowing) the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    12.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  31. Winding the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    04.06.201505.06.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Workshop "Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen einer soziologischen Digitalisierungsforschung" - TU Berlin

    Lisa Conrad (Lecturer)

    18.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  33. Academic councils, panels and committees
  34. Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL) (External organisation)

    Maja-Lee Voigt (Member)

    20232027

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  35. Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)

    Claus Pias (Member)

    20042011

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  36. Academic networks or partnerships
  37. Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)

    Claus Pias (Member)

    01.200512.2013

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  38. Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)

    Claus Pias (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  39. Learned societies and special interest organisations
  40. Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (External organisation)

    Maja-Lee Voigt (Chair), Cesrin Schneider (Chair), Charlotte Niewerth (Chair) & Juliane Bötel (Chair)

    2018 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  41. Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)

    Claus Pias (Member)

    20012006

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  42. european association for the study of science and technology (easst) (External organisation)

    Maja-Lee Voigt (Member)

    20222023

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  43. European Group of Organizational Studies (External organisation)

    Timon Beyes (Member)

    2007 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  44. Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)

    Laura Hille (Member)

    01.01.2019

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  45. International Federation for Information Processing (ifip) (External organisation)

    Martin Warnke (Chair)

    200901.2013

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  46. Visiting an external academic institution
  47. Bauhaus University of Weimar

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    10.200804.2009

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  48. Center for Advanced Internet Studies GmbH

    Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)

    01.03.201915.10.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  49. Freie Universität Berlin

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    10.201604.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  50. Institute for Advanced Study Berlin e.V.

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    20092010

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  51. Princeton University

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  52. Universität Konstanz

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  53. Université Paris-Dauphine

    Timon Beyes (Visiting lecturer)

    2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  54. University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2007

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer