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.
- 2010
Germanistik heute 2010
Schnödl, G. (Speaker)
15.10.2010 → 16.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Massenkultur und Gewalt: Die Bedeutung der Publikumsrolle im Kontext marktförmig organisierter Unterhaltung für die Konstitution moderner Zivilgesellschaften
Spreen, D. (Oral presentation)
15.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
It's how, not what we use that matters - Communications Modes in the Internet
Hölig, S. (Speaker)
14.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Doing and Undoing Gender in Domestic Internet Use. How Everyday Live Levels and Reproduces Gender Inequalities Regarding Media Use in the Home
Peil, C. (Speaker)
13.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Networked Humanities Conference - 2010
Warnke, M. (Speaker)
13.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Mobile Media Practice and Social Movements in Pakistan and Seoul
Leistert, O. (Speaker)
12.10.2010 → 15.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Political Leadership and Gender Hierarchy in News Photography. The Iconography of Male and Female Political Leaders in German Newspapers and Magazines
Grittmann, E. (Speaker)
12.10.2010 → 15.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“You wanna be on top?” – (Critical) Findings of a Transcultural Television Analysis of America's Next Top Model and Germany's next Topmodel
Stehling, M. (Speaker)
12.10.2010 → 15.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
3rd European Communication Preconference - 2010
Stehling, M. (Speaker)
10.10.2010 → 11.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Exhibition on Membranes, Surfaces, Boundaries - 2010
Pias, C. (Opponent)
07.10.2010 → 09.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research