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.
- Conferences
Visuelle Stereotypen - 2007
Grittmann, E. (Moderator)
11.10.2007 → 12.10.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vom kleinen 'n' und großen 'E' zum großen 'N' und kleinen 'e'. Die Neuen Medien und die Produktion elektronischer Musik 1994
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vom Nutzen enger Kanäle – Diskursverknappung als Methode - 2011
Warnke, M. (Speaker)
04.12.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Von der Partitur zum Plug-In. Werkzeuge und Ästhetik musikalischer Gestaltung
Großmann, R. (Participant)
17.05.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Von Tieren, Pflanzen und Pilzen. Konsequenzen des offenen bzw. geschlossenen Wachstums 2011
Berz, P. (Speaker)
09.09.2011 → 11.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag an der Hochschule der Künste Bern - 2009
Pias, C. (Speaker)
23.11.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
WCM Workshop ›Think Tanks - Was wissen Berater?‹
Vehlken, S. (Organiser)
27.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Weissenhof Symposium - 2010
Pias, C. (Speaker)
07.12.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Welchen Sinn machen Medien? - 2009
Pias, C. (Moderator)
01.10.2009 → 03.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wie denken Think Tanks? - 2009
Pias, C. (Speaker)
11.11.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research