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.
The Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry - QI 2009
Tanja Thomas (Speaker)
05.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
The Mediation of Business - 2013
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
23.05.2013 → 24.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Motif's Address. Or: Writing Resemblance - 2011
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
15.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Process of Content: on a temporality in contemporary art
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
29.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Process of Dividuation and the Nebula of Anonymity
Oliver Leistert (Speaker)
12.07.2015 → 16.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The professional identity of gameworkers revisited: A qualitative inquiry on the case study of German professionals
Jeffrey Wimmer (Speaker) & Tatiana Sitnikova (Speaker)
14.09.2011 → 17.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The revolution will not be liked. On the systemic limits of protests and political campaigns on commercial social media platforms
Oliver Leistert (Speaker)
12.11.2014 → 15.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Rhetoric of Mimicry and Agon in Computer Games
Niklas Schrape (Speaker)
06.04.2011 → 09.04.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research