Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The ICAM researches the conditions, effects and aesthetics of digital media in connection with processes of culturalization, the technologization of social and economic relations, and the generation and archiving of knowledge. Our studies reflect on how (digital) media always also contribute to shaping the signs and objects they store, transmit or process in a specific way. At the same time, we are interested in how certain cultural techniques contribute to shaping the usage and areas of application of digital media.
Researchers at the ICAM explore the cultural and technological history of digital media—from cybernetics and the beginnings of the computer all the way to present-day network technologies, from textual and acoustic to visual forms of media representation, and from the classics to current concepts of media theory formation.
Topics
The ICAM researches the conditions, effects and aesthetics of digital media in connection with processes of culturalization, the technologization of social and economic relations, and the generation and archiving of knowledge. Our studies reflect on how (digital) media always also contribute to shaping the signs and objects they store, transmit or process in a specific way. At the same time, we are interested in how certain cultural techniques contribute to shaping the usage and areas of application of digital media.
In the different core areas researchers at the ICAM explore the cultural and technological history of digital media—from cybernetics and the beginnings of the computer all the way to present-day network technologies, from textual and acoustic to visual forms of media representation, and from the classics to current concepts of media theory formation.
The ICAM maintains close institutional contact and cooperates with the Leuphana, e.g., the Moving Image Lab of the Innovation Incubator, the Leuphana College, the Leuphana Arts Program and the Leuphana Graduate School. Furthermore, the ICAM is responsible for the Audio and Video Labs of the Computer and Media Center of Leuphana.
Most downloaded publications
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Rethinking Gamification
Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Clean by Nature. Lively Surfaces and the Holistic-Systemic Heritage of Contemporary Bionik.
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Logic as a Medium
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Der Zeitpfeil im Digitalen: Synthese, Mimesis, Emergenz
Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Reframing the technosphere: Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler's anthropotechnological diagnoses of the anthropocene
Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research