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.
- 2017
The hands that steer us: Notes from an ethnography of software developers
Bialski, P. (Speaker)
02.04.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Harvard University
Schrickel, I. (Visiting researcher)
04.2017 → 10.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
„Zwischenwesen“ und „Ichschwäche“ – Bedeutung und Milieu des Konturlosen in Biologie und Literatur um 1900
Schnödl, G. (Speaker)
14.03.2017 → 16.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Figurations of the audience between flow and stream
Denecke, M. (Speaker)
08.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘
Herberg, J. (presenter), Leistert, O. (Coauthor), Meyer, E. M. (Coauthor), Schmieg, G. (Coauthor), Schrickel, I. (Coauthor), Caniglia, G. (Coauthor), Laubichler, M. (Coauthor), Hörl, E. (Coauthor), Lang, D. J. (Coauthor) & Vilsmaier, U. (Coauthor)
23.01.2017 → 24.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Perspective Rules! 2017
Fuchs, M. (Speaker)
17.01.2017 → 18.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Gamification
Fuchs, M. (Speaker)
12.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Denecke, M. (Member)
01.2017 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Vehlken, S. (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research