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. 2025
  2. For an Automedia Truth Regime

    Galligo, I. (Oral presentation)

    10.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Entrepreneurs of Chaos?

    Galligo, I. (Organiser), Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Wenzel, M. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)

    19.05.202520.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 2024
  5. Workshop: The Black Technical Object

    Hörl, E. (Organiser), Amaro, R. (Speaker) & Mitrokhov, K. (Participant)

    19.11.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  6. The Ambiguity of In/Activity in John Knights “The Right to be Lazy”

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    11.07.202412.07.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Workshop mit David Bates: "Compossible Worlds"

    Bates, D. (Speaker), Hörl, E. (Organiser), Galligo, I. (Participant) & Nemenyi, D. (Participant)

    19.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. Die Landschaft dauert länger als das Individuum

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    17.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Komm Tanzen!

    Gräfe, A. (Moderator)

    14.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  10. Disruption, Technique, World: Thinking the Present with Jean-Luc Nancy

    Hörl, E. (Organiser), Lindberg, S. (Organiser), Stewart, D. (Organiser) & Tatari, M. (Organiser)

    29.02.202401.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. The Creation of the World out of Exhaustion

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    29.02.202401.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. "Langeweile aushalten": Heiner Goebbels und Anne Gräfe im Gespräch

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    30.01.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  13. Donatella di Cesare: Demokratie und Anarchie. An der Quelle ihrer verdrängten Verknüpfung

    di Cesare, D. (Oral presentation) & Hörl, E. (Speaker)

    16.01.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. 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 eventConferencesTransfer

  15. 2023
  16. Ästhetik der Autopoiesis als Sorgender Praxis

    Gräfe, A. (presenter), Mattutat, L. (Speaker) & Böcker, J. (Speaker)

    02.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Reorganisation von Wahrnehmungsweisen

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    01.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Vom Weltgeist zum Weltmarkt zum Weltgericht – Disruptionserfahrungen mit Melanie Gilligan

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    18.08.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Exit from the Valley. ‘Survival of the Richest’

    Hille, L. (Speaker)

    05.08.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023:

    Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)

    25.06.202330.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  21. A philosophical dissolution of history

    Hörl, E. (Organiser)

    21.06.202322.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  22. Radikale Langeweile im Kino

    Gräfe, A. (Speaker)

    16.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  23. 2022
  24. Tagung - Die Lehre in der Kritischen Theorie

    Betzler, L. (Organiser) & Voller, C. (Organiser)

    18.11.202219.11.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. Geschichtstheoretische Konsultationen

    Geulen, C. (Organiser), Schmieder, F. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)

    08.11.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  26. Sound Art Media Material. Pedagogical consequences of the media change for design and instrumental playing

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    16.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Office)

    07.2022 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  28. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022

    Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Pias, C. (Organiser)

    20.06.202224.06.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  29. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Office)

    04.2022 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  30. 2021
  31. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021 - Technologies of Bureaucracy

    Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)

    13.12.202117.12.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  32. The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    06.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. 4. Workshop des Arbeitskreises Digitalisierung und Organisation der Sektion Organisationssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - 2021

    Conrad, L. (Organiser)

    30.09.202101.10.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  34. Moderation: Aesthetic Normativity in Music

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    28.09.202101.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. Sound Studies als erweiterte Musikwissenschaft?

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    28.09.202101.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Jahrestagung der AG Auditive Medienkulturen und Sound Studies in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - SoSS 2021

    Großmann, R. (Organiser) & Pelleter, M. (Organiser)

    08.07.202110.07.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Outlines of the Current Capital-Form

    Hörl, E. (Speaker)

    23.06.202125.06.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  38. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Journal)

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    19.03.2021

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  39. Ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft (Journal)

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    01.03.2021

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  40. Wellengeschehen. Ozeanische Störungspotenziale

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    04.02.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Plastic Oceanography

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker) & Rothöhler, S. (Lecturer)

    28.01.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  42. 2020
  43. Zur Demokratisierung der digitalen Kontrolle: Warum die Politik es allein nicht schaffen wird

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    19.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  44. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Hille, L. (Executive member)

    01.11.202008.11.2022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  45. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Office)

    10.202003.2022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  46. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Office)

    10.2020 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  47. Springer Nature (Publisher)

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    19.08.2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  48. Archäologie des Dispositivs: Zwischen Foucault und Agamben

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker) & Schönher, M. (Lecturer)

    11.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  49. Medien und Nichtwissen. Störungen, Gespenster, Computersimulation

    Vehlken, S. (Oral presentation)

    27.05.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  50. Amsterdam University Press (Publisher)

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    15.02.2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  51. Batterien als Medien

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    06.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. Social Supercomputing und futurischer Druck: Die vergangene Zukunft der FutureICT EU-Flagship Initiative

    Vehlken, S. (Oral presentation)

    29.01.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  53. diffractions and the (un-)making of difference - 2020

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    23.01.202024.01.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  54. Lively Artifacts

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    09.01.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  55. BA-Arbeiten 2020

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantEducation

  56. German Research Foundation (External organisation)

    Stock, R. (Speaker), Müggenburg, J. (Member), Şahinol, M. (Member), Bieling, T. (Member) & Wiechern, A.-L. (Member)

    20202023

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  57. Graduate School (Organisational unit)

    Pias, C. (Member)

    2020 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  58. Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (Organisational unit)

    Pias, C. (Chair)

    2020 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  59. MA-Arbeiten 2020

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantEducation

  60. spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)

    Heinrichs, R. (Editor), Trott, B. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Apprich, C. (Editor) & Hille, L. (Editor)

    2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  61. 2019
  62. Kunst & Vermittlung #16

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)

    05.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsEducation

  63. From Magic to Systemics. Heinz von Foerster and the Reenchantment of Science

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    24.10.201927.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  64. Klang, Raum, Bewegung. Gestaltung interaktiver Klangobjekte und -installationen - 2019

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)

    15.10.201928.01.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsEducation

  65. Modeling the Pacific - 2019

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    10.10.201912.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  66. Curb Cuts and Computer. A Media-Archeological Perspective on Digital lnclusion

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    01.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  67. Die Gespenster der IT-Sicherheit. Zu einigen Problemen des IT-Sicherheits-Diskurses

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    30.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  68. Es gibt keine Hardware - Eine Medienarchäologie der VLSI

    Sander, P. (Speaker)

    28.09.2019

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

  69. Unmerkliche Materie: Multisensorische Simulationen zum Begreifen der Molekülmechanik

    Wiechern, A.-L. (Speaker)

    28.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  70. Sachverständiger Ausschuss Digitale Agenda des Bundestags

    Leistert, O. (Reviewer)

    25.09.2019

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  71. LESUNG MIT ANN COTTEN & PHILIPP SCHÖNTHALER

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    16.09.2019

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

  72. BIONIKLABORE, ROBOTERBIENEN UND CYBORGS

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    15.09.2019

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

  73. Fachgespräch Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis90/Die Grünen zum Thema „Facebooks Libra und andere Kryptowährungen“

    Leistert, O. (Reviewer)

    11.09.2019

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  74. Auto-assistive bodily practices. A history of early haptic technologies and practices

    Wiechern, A.-L. (Speaker)

    05.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Supercomputing und Simulation. Im Grenzbereich einer Philologie des Digitalen

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    28.08.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  76. Summerschool in Ljubljana des Max-Weber Programms - 2019

    Großmann, R. (Speaker) & Pelleter, M. (Speaker)

    20.08.201930.08.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  77. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)

    24.06.201928.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

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

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    13.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  79. Making Sense(s) - 2019

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    12.06.201913.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  80. Plastik und Plastizität. Treibgut, Abfall und die Modellierung von Ozeandynamiken

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    24.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  81. Assistenz und Zugänglichkeit. Computer und ›Behinderung‹ in den frühen 1980er-Jahren

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    23.05.201924.05.2019

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

  82. Between primary and secondary information: Gilbert Simondon and the question of complexity and control

    Leistert, O. (Speaker) & Hörl, E. (Speaker)

    15.05.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  83. Naturalisieren, Ontologisieren, Ökologisieren. Zu Naturvorstellungen in Technik- und Medientheorie.

    Schnödl, G. (Speaker)

    24.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  84. Data & Drama - 2019

    Conrad, L. (Speaker), Heinrichs, R. (Speaker) & Cnossen, B. (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  85. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Office)

    04.201909.2020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  86. Von Mäusen und Anderen. Assistive Medien und die Zugänglichkeit des Computers

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    16.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  87. Zeitdimensionen der Nachhaltigkeit - 2019

    Schrickel, I. (Organiser) & Schmieg, G. (Organiser)

    26.02.201927.02.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  88. Materialexplosion und Avantgardeanspruch

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    23.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  89. On Rhythming

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    19.02.201920.02.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  90. Heinz von Foerster and Early Research in the Field of Pattern Recognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker)

    17.02.201922.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  91. On Borders, Boundaries, Clouds, and Globalization. And on China.

    Warnke, M. (Speaker)

    30.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  92. Sind Computer kulturfähig?

    Warnke, M. (Speaker)

    29.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  93. Was uns bewegt: Künstliche Intelligenz. Manuela Lenzen im Gespräch mit Jan Müggenburg

    Müggenburg, J. (Speaker) & Lenzen, M. (Oral presentation)

    29.01.2019

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

  94. Reichweitenangst. Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters

    Müggenburg, J. (Organiser)

    24.01.201926.01.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  95. B.A.-Arbeiten 2019

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    2019

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantEducation

  96. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)

    Heinrichs, R. (Editor), Loacker, B. (Editor) & Weiskopf, R. (Editor)

    2019 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  97. M.A.-Arbeiten 2019

    Vehlken, S. (Reviewer)

    2019

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantEducation

  98. 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)

    20192020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  99. 2018
  100. Ästhetische Biologie bei Uexküll

    Schnödl, G. (Speaker) & Haas, M. (Speaker)

    18.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  101. Connectivity

    Warnke, M. (Speaker)

    17.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  102. Keeping it cool. Hypothetical Accident Analysis in Fast Breeder R&D Around 1970

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker)

    07.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  103. Switching on the lights inside the black box: How computer simulations observe the unobservable

    Warnke, M. (Speaker) & Borrelli, A. (Speaker)

    28.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  104. KLANGSTÄRKE°18

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    22.11.201824.11.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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