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.
- Academic networks or partnerships
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Pias, C. (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (External organisation)
Pias, C. (Member)
2001 → 2007Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Initiativkolleg "Sinne – Technik – Inszenierung" (External organisation)
Pias, C. (Member)
10.2007 → 09.2010Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Association for Media and Communication Research (External organisation)
Thomas, T. (Member)
2006 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
University of Vienna (External organisation)
Pias, C. (Member)
10.2006 → 09.2009Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- Bodies of public institutions
Kunstverein Springhornhof in Neuenkirchen (External organisation)
Warnke, M. (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Thomas, T. (Member)
2004Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Vehlken, S. (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Vehlken, S. (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Pias, C. (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer