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. From Pity to Control: Regulated Humanitarianism in News Coverage on Refugees and Asylum

    Grittmann, E. (Lecturer)

    15.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Frontier Zones International Summer School 2017

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    10.07.201723.07.2017

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

  3. Für eine Philologie der Bilder, oder: HyperImage, ein Zettelkasten für Bilder, antwortet

    Warnke, M. (Speaker)

    06.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. GAIAs Medien

    Berz, P. (Speaker)

    19.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Gamification

    Fuchs, M. (Lecturer)

    08.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. Gamification

    Fuchs, M. (Speaker)

    12.01.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Gären Atmen Lichten: Drei Wesen des Seins

    Berz, P. (Lecturer)

    12.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Gender Analysis of Mediated Politics in Germany

    Röser, J. (Speaker)

    27.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. General Online Research Conference 2008

    Peil, C. (presenter)

    11.03.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Generation Facebook

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    23.11.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch