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.
- 2018
Alexa, schreib mir ein Lied! Wie verändert die Digitalisierung unsere Kultur?
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
01.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:"SUBJECTIVITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE"
Mathias Fuchs (Speaker)
07.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Crumpled Times. Temporal and Epistemological Depths of Agent-Based Traffic Simulations
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
13.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Der verteilte Blick
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
13.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transdisziplinäre Popmusikforschung
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
15.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Ein berühmter Lüneburger Nikolaus: Niklas Luhmann
Martin Warnke (Oral presentation)
17.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Alternative Mouse – Alternative User? Towards a History of Assistive Media
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Internationa Conference Digital Cultures
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Alternative Facts‹. Facticity and Factuality in Digital Media
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
10.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Der Dunkle Transhumanismus
Laura Hille (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Lively Artifacts. Heinz von Foerster and the Machines of His Biological Computer Laboratory
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
01.11.2018 → 04.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Material(ität) und Klang(lichkeit) – Auf der Suche nach einer Neubestimmung musikästhetischer Grundbegriffe
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
09.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wunschkonzert. Die Explosion ästhetischen Materials im 20. Jahrhundert
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
09.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
KLANGSTÄRKE°18
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
22.11.2018 → 24.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Switching on the lights inside the black box: How computer simulations observe the unobservable
Martin Warnke (Speaker) & Arianna Borrelli (Speaker)
28.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Keeping it cool. Hypothetical Accident Analysis in Fast Breeder R&D Around 1970
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
07.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Connectivity
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
17.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Ästhetische Biologie bei Uexküll
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker) & Maximilian Haas (Speaker)
18.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2019
B.A.-Arbeiten 2019
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2019 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
M.A.-Arbeiten 2019
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2019 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Mitglied des Advisory Boards des Institute for Advanced Study (KWI)
Claus Pias (Consultant)
2019 → …Activity: Consultancy
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Randi Heinrichs (Editor), Maya Indira Ganesh (Editor), Stina Lohmüller (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor), Clemens Apprich (Editor), Laura Hille (Editor) & Ben Trott (Editor)
2019 → 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Reichweitenangst. Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters
Jan Müggenburg (Organiser)
24.01.2019 → 26.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sind Computer kulturfähig?
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
29.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Was uns bewegt: Künstliche Intelligenz. Manuela Lenzen im Gespräch mit Jan Müggenburg
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker) & Manuela Lenzen (Oral presentation)
29.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
On Borders, Boundaries, Clouds, and Globalization. And on China.
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
30.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Heinz von Foerster and Early Research in the Field of Pattern Recognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
17.02.2019 → 22.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On Rhythming
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
19.02.2019 → 20.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Materialexplosion und Avantgardeanspruch
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
23.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zeitdimensionen der Nachhaltigkeit - 2019
Isabell Schrickel (Organiser) & Gregor Schmieg (Organiser)
26.02.2019 → 27.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Von Mäusen und Anderen. Assistive Medien und die Zugänglichkeit des Computers
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
16.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Office)
04.2019 → 09.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Data & Drama - 2019
Lisa Conrad (Speaker), Randi Heinrichs (Speaker) & Boukje Cnossen (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Naturalisieren, Ontologisieren, Ökologisieren. Zu Naturvorstellungen in Technik- und Medientheorie.
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Between primary and secondary information: Gilbert Simondon and the question of complexity and control
Oliver Leistert (Speaker) & Erich Hörl (Speaker)
15.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Assistenz und Zugänglichkeit. Computer und ›Behinderung‹ in den frühen 1980er-Jahren
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
23.05.2019 → 24.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Plastik und Plastizität. Treibgut, Abfall und die Modellierung von Ozeandynamiken
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
24.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Mitglied der Jury für die Vergabe des Recherchestipendiums Bildende Kunst, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin
Vera Tollmann (Consultant)
06.2019Activity: Consultancy
Making Sense(s) - 2019
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
12.06.2019 → 13.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Food for Thought. Die Physikalisierung des Essens und das Wissen der Küche
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
13.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser), Claus Pias (Organiser) & Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
24.06.2019 → 28.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Summerschool in Ljubljana des Max-Weber Programms - 2019
Rolf Großmann (Speaker) & Malte Pelleter (Speaker)
20.08.2019 → 30.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Supercomputing und Simulation. Im Grenzbereich einer Philologie des Digitalen
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
28.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fachgespräch Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis90/Die Grünen zum Thema „Facebooks Libra und andere Kryptowährungen“
Oliver Leistert (Reviewer)
11.09.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
BIONIKLABORE, ROBOTERBIENEN UND CYBORGS
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
15.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
LESUNG MIT ANN COTTEN & PHILIPP SCHÖNTHALER
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
16.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Sachverständiger Ausschuss Digitale Agenda des Bundestags
Oliver Leistert (Reviewer)
25.09.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Es gibt keine Hardware - Eine Medienarchäologie der VLSI
Philipp Sander (Speaker)
28.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Gespenster der IT-Sicherheit. Zu einigen Problemen des IT-Sicherheits-Diskurses
Oliver Leistert (Speaker)
30.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Curb Cuts and Computer. A Media-Archeological Perspective on Digital lnclusion
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
01.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research