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.
- 2025
For an Automedia Truth Regime
Galligo, I. (Oral presentation)
10.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Entrepreneurs of Chaos?
Galligo, I. (Organiser), Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Wenzel, M. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)
19.05.2025 → 20.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2024
Workshop: The Black Technical Object
Hörl, E. (Organiser), Amaro, R. (Speaker) & Mitrokhov, K. (Participant)
19.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Ambiguity of In/Activity in John Knights “The Right to be Lazy”
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
11.07.2024 → 12.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Workshop mit David Bates: "Compossible Worlds"
Bates, D. (Speaker), Hörl, E. (Organiser), Galligo, I. (Participant) & Nemenyi, D. (Participant)
19.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Die Landschaft dauert länger als das Individuum
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
17.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Komm Tanzen!
Gräfe, A. (Moderator)
14.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Disruption, Technique, World: Thinking the Present with Jean-Luc Nancy
Hörl, E. (Organiser), Lindberg, S. (Organiser), Stewart, D. (Organiser) & Tatari, M. (Organiser)
29.02.2024 → 01.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Creation of the World out of Exhaustion
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
29.02.2024 → 01.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"Langeweile aushalten": Heiner Goebbels und Anne Gräfe im Gespräch
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
30.01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Donatella di Cesare: Demokratie und Anarchie. An der Quelle ihrer verdrängten Verknüpfung
di Cesare, D. (Oral presentation) & Hörl, E. (Speaker)
16.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft, Medizin und Technik - GWMT 2024
Wessely, C. (Organiser) & Müggenburg, J. (Organiser)
2024 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
- 2023
Ästhetik der Autopoiesis als Sorgender Praxis
Gräfe, A. (presenter), Mattutat, L. (Speaker) & Böcker, J. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Reorganisation von Wahrnehmungsweisen
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
01.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vom Weltgeist zum Weltmarkt zum Weltgericht – Disruptionserfahrungen mit Melanie Gilligan
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
18.08.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exit from the Valley. ‘Survival of the Richest’
Hille, L. (Speaker)
05.08.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Jurymitglied für das Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung
Tollmann, V. (Consultant)
08.2023Activity: Consultancy
Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023:
Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)
25.06.2023 → 30.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
A philosophical dissolution of history
Hörl, E. (Organiser)
21.06.2023 → 22.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Radikale Langeweile im Kino
Gräfe, A. (Speaker)
16.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
- 2022
Tagung - Die Lehre in der Kritischen Theorie
Betzler, L. (Organiser) & Voller, C. (Organiser)
18.11.2022 → 19.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Geschichtstheoretische Konsultationen
Geulen, C. (Organiser), Schmieder, F. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)
08.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Sound Art Media Material. Pedagogical consequences of the media change for design and instrumental playing
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
16.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Hörl, E. H. (Office)
07.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022
Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Pias, C. (Organiser)
20.06.2022 → 24.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Hörl, E. H. (Office)
04.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- 2021
Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021 - Technologies of Bureaucracy
Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)
13.12.2021 → 17.12.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
06.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
4. Workshop des Arbeitskreises Digitalisierung und Organisation der Sektion Organisationssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - 2021
Conrad, L. (Organiser)
30.09.2021 → 01.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Moderation: Aesthetic Normativity in Music
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
28.09.2021 → 01.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sound Studies als erweiterte Musikwissenschaft?
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
28.09.2021 → 01.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Mitglied der Jury für den Call Artistic Research, Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Tollmann, V. (Consultant)
08.2021Activity: Consultancy
Jahrestagung der AG Auditive Medienkulturen und Sound Studies in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - SoSS 2021
Großmann, R. (Organiser) & Pelleter, M. (Organiser)
08.07.2021 → 10.07.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Outlines of the Current Capital-Form
Hörl, E. (Speaker)
23.06.2021 → 25.06.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Journal)
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
19.03.2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft (Journal)
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
01.03.2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Wellengeschehen. Ozeanische Störungspotenziale
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
04.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Plastic Oceanography
Vehlken, S. (Speaker) & Rothöhler, S. (Lecturer)
28.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 2020
Zur Demokratisierung der digitalen Kontrolle: Warum die Politik es allein nicht schaffen wird
Leistert, O. (Speaker)
19.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Hille, L. (Executive member)
01.11.2020 → 08.11.2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Hörl, E. H. (Office)
10.2020 → 03.2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Hörl, E. H. (Office)
10.2020 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Springer Nature (Publisher)
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
19.08.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Archäologie des Dispositivs: Zwischen Foucault und Agamben
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker) & Schönher, M. (Lecturer)
11.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Medien und Nichtwissen. Störungen, Gespenster, Computersimulation
Vehlken, S. (Oral presentation)
27.05.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Amsterdam University Press (Publisher)
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
15.02.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Batterien als Medien
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
06.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Social Supercomputing und futurischer Druck: Die vergangene Zukunft der FutureICT EU-Flagship Initiative
Vehlken, S. (Oral presentation)
29.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
diffractions and the (un-)making of difference - 2020
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
23.01.2020 → 24.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Lively Artifacts
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
09.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
BA-Arbeiten 2020
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
German Research Foundation (External organisation)
Stock, R. (Speaker), Müggenburg, J. (Member), Şahinol, M. (Member), Bieling, T. (Member) & Wiechern, A.-L. (Member)
2020 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Pias, C. (Member)
2020 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (Organisational unit)
Pias, C. (Chair)
2020 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
MA-Arbeiten 2020
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Heinrichs, R. (Editor), Trott, B. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Apprich, C. (Editor) & Hille, L. (Editor)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2019
Kunst & Vermittlung #16
Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)
05.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Education
From Magic to Systemics. Heinz von Foerster and the Reenchantment of Science
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
24.10.2019 → 27.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Klang, Raum, Bewegung. Gestaltung interaktiver Klangobjekte und -installationen - 2019
Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)
15.10.2019 → 28.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Education
Modeling the Pacific - 2019
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
10.10.2019 → 12.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Curb Cuts and Computer. A Media-Archeological Perspective on Digital lnclusion
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
01.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Gespenster der IT-Sicherheit. Zu einigen Problemen des IT-Sicherheits-Diskurses
Leistert, O. (Speaker)
30.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Es gibt keine Hardware - Eine Medienarchäologie der VLSI
Sander, P. (Speaker)
28.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Unmerkliche Materie: Multisensorische Simulationen zum Begreifen der Molekülmechanik
Wiechern, A.-L. (Speaker)
28.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sachverständiger Ausschuss Digitale Agenda des Bundestags
Leistert, O. (Reviewer)
25.09.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
LESUNG MIT ANN COTTEN & PHILIPP SCHÖNTHALER
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
16.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
BIONIKLABORE, ROBOTERBIENEN UND CYBORGS
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
15.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Fachgespräch Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis90/Die Grünen zum Thema „Facebooks Libra und andere Kryptowährungen“
Leistert, O. (Reviewer)
11.09.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Auto-assistive bodily practices. A history of early haptic technologies and practices
Wiechern, A.-L. (Speaker)
05.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Supercomputing und Simulation. Im Grenzbereich einer Philologie des Digitalen
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
28.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Summerschool in Ljubljana des Max-Weber Programms - 2019
Großmann, R. (Speaker) & Pelleter, M. (Speaker)
20.08.2019 → 30.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019
Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)
24.06.2019 → 28.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Food for Thought. Die Physikalisierung des Essens und das Wissen der Küche
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
13.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Making Sense(s) - 2019
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
12.06.2019 → 13.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Mitglied der Jury für die Vergabe des Recherchestipendiums Bildende Kunst, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Berlin
Tollmann, V. (Consultant)
06.2019Activity: Consultancy
Plastik und Plastizität. Treibgut, Abfall und die Modellierung von Ozeandynamiken
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
24.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Assistenz und Zugänglichkeit. Computer und ›Behinderung‹ in den frühen 1980er-Jahren
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
23.05.2019 → 24.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Between primary and secondary information: Gilbert Simondon and the question of complexity and control
Leistert, O. (Speaker) & Hörl, E. (Speaker)
15.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Naturalisieren, Ontologisieren, Ökologisieren. Zu Naturvorstellungen in Technik- und Medientheorie.
Schnödl, G. (Speaker)
24.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Data & Drama - 2019
Conrad, L. (Speaker), Heinrichs, R. (Speaker) & Cnossen, B. (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Hörl, E. H. (Office)
04.2019 → 09.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Von Mäusen und Anderen. Assistive Medien und die Zugänglichkeit des Computers
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
16.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zeitdimensionen der Nachhaltigkeit - 2019
Schrickel, I. (Organiser) & Schmieg, G. (Organiser)
26.02.2019 → 27.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Materialexplosion und Avantgardeanspruch
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
23.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
On Rhythming
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
19.02.2019 → 20.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Heinz von Foerster and Early Research in the Field of Pattern Recognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)
17.02.2019 → 22.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On Borders, Boundaries, Clouds, and Globalization. And on China.
Warnke, M. (Speaker)
30.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sind Computer kulturfähig?
Warnke, M. (Speaker)
29.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Was uns bewegt: Künstliche Intelligenz. Manuela Lenzen im Gespräch mit Jan Müggenburg
Müggenburg, J. (Speaker) & Lenzen, M. (Oral presentation)
29.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Reichweitenangst. Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters
Müggenburg, J. (Organiser)
24.01.2019 → 26.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
B.A.-Arbeiten 2019
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)
Heinrichs, R. (Editor), Loacker, B. (Editor) & Weiskopf, R. (Editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
M.A.-Arbeiten 2019
Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)
2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Mitglied des Advisory Boards des Institute for Advanced Study (KWI)
Pias, C. (Consultant)
2019Activity: Consultancy
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Heinrichs, R. (Editor), Ganesh, M. I. (Editor), Lohmüller, S. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Apprich, C. (Editor), Hille, L. (Editor) & Trott, B. (Editor)
2019 → 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2018
Ästhetische Biologie bei Uexküll
Schnödl, G. (Speaker) & Haas, M. (Speaker)
18.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Connectivity
Warnke, M. (Speaker)
17.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Keeping it cool. Hypothetical Accident Analysis in Fast Breeder R&D Around 1970
Vehlken, S. (Speaker)
07.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Switching on the lights inside the black box: How computer simulations observe the unobservable
Warnke, M. (Speaker) & Borrelli, A. (Speaker)
28.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
KLANGSTÄRKE°18
Großmann, R. (Speaker)
22.11.2018 → 24.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research