Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
Unser Institut untersucht die Wechselbeziehung von Kultur und digitalen Medien. Mit seinen Schwerpunktbereichen folgt es einem historisch-epistemologisch ausgerichteten Programm, das sich durch ein spezielles Interesse an technischen und techno-ästhetischen Zusammenhängen auszeichnet.
Das ICAM geht der Frage nach, wie (digitale) Medientechniken auf Forschungs-, Erkenntnis- und Kulturalisationsprozesse einwirken. Es erforscht zudem den Wandel von Produktions-und Produktstrategien bei der Herstellung elektronischer Kommunikate und die damit einhergehenden neuen Verfahren ästhetischer Gestaltung in Ton und Bild. Das Institut setzt sich die Förderung von Medienkompetenz als eine essentielle Kulturtechnik zum Ziel. Es widmet sich der Forschung und Lehre sowie der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in den Fachgebieten Digitale Medien/Kulturinformatik, Digitale Medien und Auditive Gestaltung, Medientheorie und Medienkultur.
Topics
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.
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Tanja Thomas (Chair)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Office)
04.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Office)
10.2020 → 03.2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Laura Hille (Executive member)
01.11.2020 → 08.11.2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Tanja Thomas (Deputy member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Tanja Thomas (Chair)
07.2011 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Office)
10.2020 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Office)
04.2019 → 09.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2008 → 2010Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2004 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Fachbereich Informatik und Gesellschaft (IUG) der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) (External organisation)
Rolf Großmann (Member)
1991 → 2001Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Fachbereich Informatik und Gesellschaft (IUG) der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
1991 → 2004Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Fachbereich Informatik und Gesellschaft (IUG) der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
1997 → 2001Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Fachbereich Informatik und Gesellschaft (IUG) der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Chair)
2001 → 2008Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
1985 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Rolf Großmann (Member)
2000 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Mathias Denecke (Member)
01.2017 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Federation for Information Processing (ifip) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
2004 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Federation for Information Processing (ifip) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Chair)
2009 → 01.2013Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Bodies of public institutions
Kunstverein Springhornhof in Neuenkirchen (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
- Academic networks or partnerships
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2011 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2011 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
2003 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
01.2005 → 12.2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler (External organisation)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2005 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2004 → 2010Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2005 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
DK Program "The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts" (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
10.2006 → 09.2009Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
European Communication Research and Education Association (External organisation)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
European Cooperation in Science and Technology Association (External organisation)
Sascha Hölig (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
German Research Foundation (External organisation)
Robert Stock (Speaker), Jan Müggenburg (Member), Melike Şahinol (Member), Tom Bieling (Member) & Anna-Lena Wiechern (Member)
2020 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2007Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Initiativkolleg "Sinne – Technik – Inszenierung" (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
10.2007 → 09.2010Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Association for Media and Communication Research (External organisation)
Tanja Thomas (Member)
2006 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
epOs-Verlag Osnabrück (External organisation)
Rolf Großmann (Member)
2001 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Consultancy
Jurymitglied für das Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung
Vera Tollmann (Consultant)
08.2023Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied der Jury für den Call Artistic Research, Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Vera Tollmann (Consultant)
08.2021Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied der Jury für die Vergabe des Recherchestipendiums Bildende Kunst, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin
Vera Tollmann (Consultant)
06.2019Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied des Advisory Boards des Institute for Advanced Study (KWI)
Claus Pias (Consultant)
2019 → …Activity: Consultancy
Mitglied des Advisory Boards des Kepler Salons in Linz
Claus Pias (Consultant)
2009 → …Activity: Consultancy