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.
- 2017
Princeton University
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
- 2016
Geschichte-Sein. Zu einer geschichtsphilosophischen Figur in der heroischen Moderne
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
01.12.2016 → 02.12.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fish & Chips. Mediengeschichten der Swarm Intelligence zwischen Ozean und Computer
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
27.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen Nr. 19
Dawid Kasprowicz (Speaker)
21.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Festakt zum 15-jährigen Bestehen von prometheus (Festredner)
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
13.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freie Universität Berlin
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2016 → 04.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
The control of life and everything living. Biohacking as a Technology of Cybernetic Biopolitics
Laura Hille (Speaker)
23.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers - HCC12 2016
Martin Warnke (Organiser)
07.09.2016 → 09.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
13th Sound and Music Computing Conference - SMC 2016
Rolf Großmann (Organiser)
31.08.2016 → 03.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
13th Sound and Music Computing Conference - SMC 2016
Rolf Großmann (Speaker) & Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo (Speaker)
31.08.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Euglena without Qualities – Dissolving Morphologies in Biology and Literature around 1900
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
26.07.2016 → 30.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Mitglied des Review Panel „Mixed Methods’ in the Humanities? – Support for Projects Combining and Synergizing Qualitative-hermeneutical and Digital Approaches“
Martin Warnke (Reviewer)
18.07.2016Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
E-Mail als Zwischenmedium der Alltagskommunikation
Paul Ferdinand Siegert (Lecturer)
15.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gutachter des Antrags auf Fortsetzung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs GRK1769 „Locating Media“ der Universität Siegen
Martin Warnke (Reviewer)
05.07.2016 → 06.07.2016Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
ICAM-Colloquium 2016
Mathias Denecke (Speaker)
01.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Agent Cultures and Zombielands 2016
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
23.06.2016 → 25.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tracing Bergson. Perspectives on Life and the Sciences
Mathias Denecke (Participant)
22.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Environmental processes that are simply beyond our control - Control as Environmental Agency
Oliver Leistert (Speaker)
14.06.2016 → 17.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Aby Warburg 150. Work. Legacy. Promise.
Martin Warnke (Participant)
13.06.2016 → 15.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Radikale Relationen – Hermann Bahrs Kritik der Kritik
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
09.06.2016 → 10.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ton-Räume, Hör-Ordnungen, Klang-Maschinen?: Zur Frage Auditiver Dispositive.
Malte Pelleter (Lecturer)
06.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Charakterschwache Schwärmeralgen. Flexible Formen in Biologie und Literatur um 1900
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
03.06.2016 → 04.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Kunst der Soziologie
Martin Warnke (Moderator)
03.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kritische Morphologie - Zur latenten Geschichte und Aktualität eines Formdenkens
Elena Vogman (Speaker) & Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
03.06.2016 → 04.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
DCRLectures Summer Semester 2016
Mathias Denecke (Opponent) & Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
01.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
Laura Hille (Organiser)
01.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jason W. Moore in Conversation with Erich Hörl
Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
31.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
1. Symposium "Digitalität - Theorien und Praktiken des Digitalen in den Geisteswissenschaften"
Martin Warnke (presenter)
26.05.2016 → 29.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Digitalität und Abstraktion
Oliver Leistert (Speaker)
24.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vom Regieren der Affekte und ihrer medientechnischen Zurichtung
Oliver Leistert (Speaker)
23.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art
Martin Warnke (Chair)
15.05.2016 → 18.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2nd EqUIP Symposium 2016
Martin Warnke (Participant)
05.05.2016 → 07.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag „Visualizing a thousand Years: On Jewish Cemeteries and the dH Situation“
Martin Warnke (Oral presentation)
28.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Anthropocene Campus 2016: The Technosphere Issue
Mathias Denecke (Participant)
14.04.2016 → 22.04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie (Journal)
Martin Warnke (Reviewer)
04.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Mitglied des IFIP-Beirats, Sitzung des IFIP-Beirats
Martin Warnke (Reviewer)
26.02.2016Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Vortrag „Close seeing und Formen der digitalen Annotation“
Martin Warnke (Oral presentation)
26.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Computer Simulation as media of knowledge production in the practice of quantum theory
Martin Warnke (Oral presentation)
03.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
„Was bisher fehlte, war die Distanz vom Objekt.“ Immanenz und Transzendenz in Spenglers Geschichtsmorphologie
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
27.01.2016 → 29.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Resonanzen. Oswald Spengler und die Postmoderne
Erich Hörl (Speaker), Jannis Wagner (Speaker), Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker) & Christian Voller (Speaker)
25.01.2016 → 27.01.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Interferences | Events
Martin Warnke (Organiser)
20.01.2016 → 21.01.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
BA-Arbeiten 2016
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2016 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Deutscher Hochschulverband (External organisation)
Sebastian Vehlken (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
MA-Arbeiten 2016
Sebastian Vehlken (Reviewer)
2016 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
- 2015
Von Blutzellen und Bevölkerungsservos: Warum die Kybernetik nie nichtmodern gewesen ist
Jan Müggenburg (Lecturer)
02.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das frühe Ende der Geschichte. Zum biologistischen Technik- und Zukunftsdeterminismus um 1900
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker)
27.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
11th IMPACT - 2015
Elena Sophie Bösenberg (Participant)
26.11.2015 → 29.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Humboldt University Berlin
Martin Warnke (Visiting researcher)
16.11.2015 → 20.11.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Martin Warnke (Visiting researcher)
11.11.2015 → 12.11.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Vienna
Martin Warnke (Visiting researcher)
13.10.2015 → 15.10.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research