Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
Unser Institut untersucht die Wechselbeziehung von Kultur und digitalen Medien. Mit seinen Schwerpunktbereichen folgt es einem historisch-epistemologisch ausgerichteten Programm, das sich durch ein spezielles Interesse an technischen und techno-ästhetischen Zusammenhängen auszeichnet.
Das ICAM geht der Frage nach, wie (digitale) Medientechniken auf Forschungs-, Erkenntnis- und Kulturalisationsprozesse einwirken. Es erforscht zudem den Wandel von Produktions-und Produktstrategien bei der Herstellung elektronischer Kommunikate und die damit einhergehenden neuen Verfahren ästhetischer Gestaltung in Ton und Bild. Das Institut setzt sich die Förderung von Medienkompetenz als eine essentielle Kulturtechnik zum Ziel. Es widmet sich der Forschung und Lehre sowie der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in den Fachgebieten Digitale Medien/Kulturinformatik, Digitale Medien und Auditive Gestaltung, Medientheorie und Medienkultur.
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.
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.
- 2016
Fish & Chips. Mediengeschichten der Swarm Intelligence zwischen Ozean und Computer
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
27.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Geschichte-Sein. Zu einer geschichtsphilosophischen Figur in der heroischen Moderne
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
01.12.2016 → 02.12.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2017
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
MA-Arbeit 2017
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2017 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Princeton University
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Mathias Denecke (Member)
01.2017 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gamification
Mathias Fuchs (Speaker)
12.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Perspective Rules! 2017
Mathias Fuchs (Speaker)
17.01.2017 → 18.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Lemistik
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
18.01.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘
Jeremias Herberg (presenter), Oliver Leistert (Coauthor), Esther Maria Meyer (Coauthor), Gregor Schmieg (Coauthor), Isabell Schrickel (Coauthor), Guido Caniglia (Coauthor), Manfred Laubichler (Coauthor), Erich Hörl (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Ulrike Vilsmaier (Coauthor)
23.01.2017 → 24.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Figurations of the audience between flow and stream
Mathias Denecke (Speaker)
08.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
„Zwischenwesen“ und „Ichschwäche“ – Bedeutung und Milieu des Konturlosen in Biologie und Literatur um 1900
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
14.03.2017 → 16.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Harvard University
Isabell Schrickel (Visiting researcher)
04.2017 → 10.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
The hands that steer us: Notes from an ethnography of software developers
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
02.04.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
On the sovereignty over one’s personal data
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Flows of Relation: A Critique of Media Ecologies
Mathias Denecke (Speaker)
18.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
REST in Peace. Floating Tanks zwischen Bewusstseinserweiterung und Wellness-Technologie
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
22.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Thinking the Problematic‘
Oliver Leistert (Speaker) & Erich Hörl (Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 23.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Computersimulation als Medium der Wissensproduktion in den Naturwissenschaften
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
02.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Frontier Zones International Summer School 2017
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
10.07.2017 → 23.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Urban Sound Research
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
11.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Wider die Botanik. Neue Biologie und neue Ästhetik um 1900
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
14.09.2017 → 16.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung 2017
Mathias Fuchs (Speaker)
20.09.2017 → 23.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
»Medialität <-> Historizität. Zur Rolle von Mediengeschichtsforschung in der Medienwissenschaft«, WISSENSCHAFTS-, MEDIZIN- UND TECHNIKREFLEXION AUF DEM PRÜFSTAND (1. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik)
Jan Klaus Müggenburg (Speaker)
22.09.2017 → 24.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Curbcuts und Computer ("Zugänge", Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2017)
Jan Klaus Müggenburg (Speaker)
04.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"Der kritische Zugang?" (Workshop)
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker), Christian Voller (Speaker), Christine Blättler (Speaker), Jens Schröter (Speaker) & Laura Hille (Speaker)
05.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das subversive Bild: Intellektuelle und algorithmische Bildordnungen
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
09.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Computer Simulations in Design. How Social Media meet Computational Methods in Design Processes
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
16.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Computer Simulations in Design. How Social Media meet Computational Methods in Design Processes
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
19.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Computer Simulations in Design. How Social Media meet Computational Methods in Design Processes
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
23.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg.
Martin Warnke (Organiser)
05.12.2017 → 06.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Towards a Techno-Ecology of Participation - 2017
Erich Hörl (Speaker) & Yuk Hui (Speaker)
06.12.2017 → 08.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Digitale Quellen: Praktiken, Geschichten, Epistemologien
Jan Müggenburg (Organiser), Koch Matthias (Organiser), Monique Miggelbrink (Organiser) & Christian Köhler (Organiser)
13.12.2017 → 14.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2018
BA-Arbeiten 2018
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
MA-Arbeiten 2018
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Götz Bachmann (Editor), Wendy Chun (Editor) & Mercedes-Sabine Bunz (Editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Timon Beyes (Editorial Board), Wendy Chun (Editorial Board), Götz Bachmann (Editorial Board) & Mercedes-Sabine Bunz (Editorial Board)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Vom Werk zur Dienstleistung?: Autonomes Kunstwerk, gesellschaftliche Wahrheit und populäre Musik
Rolf Großmann (Lecturer)
12.01.2018 → 14.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Kontur des Lebendigen. Karl Blossfeldt und „der Monismus der allmählichen Uebergänge
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
31.01.2018 → 01.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibility, A right to remain Unknown
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
02.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
"Medien der Bionik und die Verlebendigung von Technik"
Jan Klaus Müggenburg (Speaker)
07.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Insights from digital cultural studies: Lightning talks II – Ideas for reform
Rolf Großmann (Oral presentation)
28.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Chair)
04.2018 → 10.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
"Delfine daten", Das verdatete Tier. Zum Animal Turn in der Kultur- und Medienwissenschaft.
Jan Klaus Müggenburg (Speaker)
26.04.2018 → 28.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Auf verlorenem Posten. Oswald Spenglers Forderung zum Ausharren im Negativen.
Timo Schröder (Speaker) & Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
11.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das Ohr aus Illinois. Kybernetische Maschinen als lebhafte Artefakte
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
22.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities
Lisa Conrad (Organiser), Timon Beyes (Organiser) & Clemens Apprich (Organiser)
07.06.2018 → 08.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
China’s Media Epoch 5.0
Martin Warnke (Panel participant)
21.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Komponieren analog oder digital? Podiumsdiskussion
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
24.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Humans to model Learning-Machines? Yes indeed!
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
29.08.2018 → 01.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research