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.
Metaphorology of Flows and Streams
Denecke, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 06.04.19
Project: Dissertation project
CCP: Complexity or control? Paradigms for sustainable development
Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Laubichler, M. (Project manager, academic), Herberg, J. (Coordination), Caniglia, G. (Project staff), Leistert, O. (Project staff), Schrickel, I. (Project staff), Meyer, E. (Project staff) & Schmieg, G. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.15 → 31.03.20
Project: Research
Treueschwur und Realitätsverlust. Phasen und Dispositive auditiver Medienkultur
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project manager, academic)
19.02.15 → 20.02.15
Project: Scientific event
Online Anonymity and Sociality - Teilprojekt im Verbundvorhaben "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
RCA-SP5: Performing Anonymity - Sub-Project of "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Broeckmann, A. (Coordination), Knecht, M. (Project manager, academic), Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Bialski, P. (Project staff), Koch, G. (Project manager, academic) & Zurawski, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Technoecologies of Participation: New Perspectives from Media Philosophy and Anthropology
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.15 → 31.08.18
Project: Research
Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement, TP 5: Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Bippus, E. (Partner), Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Nigro, R. (Partner), Ochsner, B. (Project manager, academic) & Hörl, E. (Partner)
01.10.15 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Affect- and Psychotechnolog Studies. Emergent Technologies of Affective and Emotional (Self-)Control
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schrape, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.15 → 30.03.17
Project: Research
33 1/3 Revolutions
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic)
16.05.16 → 29.05.16
Project: Non-academic projects
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Gamification. Shifting Boundaries between the Ludic and the Non-Ludic
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Raessens, J. (Partner) & Bogost, I. (Partner)
01.04.18 → 30.06.21
Project: Research
Sonic-Pi-Workshop: "Live-Coding" mit SP-Entwickler Sam Aaron
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Aaron, S. (Partner, non-academic)
22.05.18 → 22.05.18
Project: Scientific event
Assistive Media
Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic), Hagen, W. (Project manager, academic), Macele, P. (Project staff), Harasser, K. (Partner) & Mills, M. (Partner)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Assistive Media - Subproject 2
Hagen, W. (Project manager, academic), Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic), Harasser, K. (Partner), Mills, M. (Partner) & Macele, P. (Project staff)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.10.22
Project: Research
Medien der Assistenz/ Assistive Media
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic) & Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Making Sense(s). Die Medialität der Nahsinne
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic), Bernard, A. (Project manager, academic) & Wentz, D. (Project manager, academic)
12.06.19 → …
Project: Research
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
24.06.19 → …
Project: Research
Instrumentality meets Materiality
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Wolf, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.19 → 31.10.19
Project: Scientific event
Zukunftslabor Gesellschaft und Arbeit
Bernard, A. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.19 → 31.03.25
Project: Research
Zukunft machen. Vergangene und gegenwärtige Zukünfte des Silicon Valleys
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.19 → 30.11.23
Project: Research
Schottland-Inititave des MWK
Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
22.11.19 → 31.12.19
Project: Other
Back to the Future. Öffnungen der Zukunft nach der ›Breiten Gegenwart‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.20 → …
Project: Research
BMoS: Blockchains. Media of Sovereignty
Leistert, O. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.20 → 31.05.23
Project: Research
TSoSS: The Sound of Sound Studies. Was bewegt Klangforschung und Soundkultur?
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project staff)
04.03.21 → 06.03.21
Project: Scientific event
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Scoring - Analysis of the Social Credit System in the PRC and Scoring in the West, Subproject: Data Infrastructure in East and West
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Woesler, M. (Project manager, academic), Martin, D. (Project manager, academic), Nax, C. (Project staff) & Song, Y. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.21 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
DigiTaL - Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
Souver@nes digitales Lehren und Lernen
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
DigiTaL: Teilprojekt „Skills for a Digital Future“ im Projekt "Leuphana: Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning" (DigiTaL)
Köllner, G. (Project staff), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.21 → 31.07.24
Project: Teaching
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022-2024 (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.22 → 21.06.24
Project: Scientific event
InnoPlus: Digitale Barrierefreiheit im BA Digital Media
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Practical Project
Gaults Teletactor. Archäologie eines kontroversen Experiments
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project