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. 

  1. 2008
  2. Swarming. Science Fact and Science Fiction of Collective Intelligence

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    30.10.200802.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Swarming. Science Fact and Science Fiction of Distributed Intelligence

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    30.10.200802.11.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Tagung "Perspektiven kritischer Medien- und Kommunikationstheorien" - 2008

    Thomas, T. (Speaker)

    30.10.200801.11.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Shift-Festival

    Warnke, M. (Speaker)

    25.10.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  6. Der Raum des Cyberspace - 2008

    Warnke, M. (Participant)

    22.10.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. God is in the details. The filing box answers

    Warnke, M. (Speaker)

    18.10.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Feder, Nadel, Maus. Medienwissenschaftliche Aspekte einer qualitativen Musikforschung 2008

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    02.10.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Tagung „Das erste Opfer des Krieges ist die … Emanzipation. Zum Zusammenhang von Krieg, Medien und Geschlecht“ - 2008

    Thomas, T. (Speaker)

    02.10.200803.10.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 50th Annual Meeting of SHOT

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    10.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Bauhaus University of Weimar

    Pias, C. (Visiting researcher)

    10.200804.2009

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer