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.
Methode Textanalyse
Röser, J. (Speaker)
11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
MIDI-Geschichte(n)
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
04.07.2013 → 06.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Mit (dem) Strom schwimmen. Eine Mediengeschichte der Schwarmforschung zwischen Biologie und Computersimulation
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
27.07.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Mitglied der Jury für den Call Artistic Research, Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Tollmann, V. (Consultant)
08.2021Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied der Jury für die Vergabe des Recherchestipendiums Bildende Kunst, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin
Tollmann, V. (Consultant)
06.2019Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied des Advisory Boards des Institute for Advanced Study (KWI)
Pias, C. (Consultant)
2019 → …Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied des Advisory Boards des Kepler Salons in Linz
Pias, C. (Consultant)
2009 → …Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied des IFIP-Beirats, Sitzung des IFIP-Beirats
Warnke, M. (Reviewer)
26.02.2016Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied des Review Panel „Mixed Methods’ in the Humanities? – Support for Projects Combining and Synergizing Qualitative-hermeneutical and Digital Approaches“
Warnke, M. (Reviewer)
18.07.2016Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
„Mitten im normierten Leben“ - Lifestyle Television aus geschlechtertheoretischer Perspektive
Thomas, T. (Speaker)
01.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education