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.

Main research areas

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. 

  1. 2025
  2. For an Automedia Truth Regime

    Galligo, I. (Oral presentation)

    10.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Entrepreneurs of Chaos?

    Galligo, I. (Organiser), Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Wenzel, M. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)

    19.05.202520.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Entrepreneurs of Chaos?

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Galligo, I. (Organiser), Wenzel, M. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)

    19.05.202520.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 2024
  6. Workshop: The Black Technical Object

    Hörl, E. (Organiser), Amaro, R. (Speaker) & Mitrokhov, K. (Participant)

    19.11.2024

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

  7. The Ambiguity of In/Activity in John Knights “The Right to be Lazy”

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    11.07.202412.07.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Workshop mit David Bates: "Compossible Worlds"

    Bates, D. (Speaker), Hörl, E. (Organiser), Galligo, I. (Participant) & Nemenyi, D. (Participant)

    19.06.2024

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

  9. Die Landschaft dauert länger als das Individuum

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    17.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Komm Tanzen!

    Gräfe, A. (Moderator)

    14.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  11. Disruption, Technique, World: Thinking the Present with Jean-Luc Nancy

    Hörl, E. (Organiser), Lindberg, S. (Organiser), Stewart, D. (Organiser) & Tatari, M. (Organiser)

    29.02.202401.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. The Creation of the World out of Exhaustion

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    29.02.202401.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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