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. For an Automedia Truth Regime

    Galligo, I. (Oral presentation)

    10.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Food for Thought. Die Physikalisierung des Essens und das Wissen der Küche

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    13.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Fluid Sacks - or the Kinematic of Weightlessness and the Aisthesis of Space-Bodies

    Kasprowicz, D. (Speaker)

    09.10.201412.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Flows of Relation: A Critique of Media Ecologies

    Denecke, M. (Speaker)

    18.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Fish & Chips. Mediengeschichten der Swarm Intelligence zwischen Ozean und Computer

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    27.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Fish & Chips. Mediale Durchmusterung von Schwärmen 2008 

    Vehlken, S. (presenter)

    05.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. First Contact. Biologie und Kybernetik am synaptischen Spalt

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    27.11.200928.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Figurations of the audience between flow and stream

    Denecke, M. (Speaker)

    08.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Festsymposium zum 90. Geburtstag von Heinz Zemanek

    Pias, C. (Speaker)

    22.02.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Festakt zum 15-jährigen Bestehen von prometheus (Festredner)

    Warnke, M. (Lecturer)

    13.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch