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.
- 2025
Critique and Materialistic Aesthetics in Politics and the Arts – On the Concept of Aesthetic Experience
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
27.06.2025 → 28.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
For an Automedia Truth Regime
Galligo, I. (Oral presentation)
10.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop: Places Of Idleness and Inactivity
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
03.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Der Chock-Moment des Erwachens in der autopoietischen Erfahrung der Disruption
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
28.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Entrepreneurs of Chaos?
Galligo, I. (Organiser), Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Wenzel, M. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)
19.05.2025 → 20.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
New York University
Gräfe, A. (Visiting researcher)
02.2025 → 05.2025Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- 2024
Workshop: The Black Technical Object
Hörl, E. (Organiser), Amaro, R. (Speaker) & Mitrokhov, K. (Participant)
19.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Ambiguity of In/Activity in John Knights “The Right to be Lazy”
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
11.07.2024 → 12.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Workshop mit David Bates: "Compossible Worlds"
Bates, D. (Speaker), Hörl, E. (Organiser), Galligo, I. (Participant) & Nemenyi, D. (Participant)
19.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Die Landschaft dauert länger als das Individuum
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
17.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research