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. 

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  1. 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

    01.07.2131.05.25

    Project: Research

  2. Schwärme. Medienkulturen der Intransparenz

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0530.11.10

    Project: Dissertation project

  3. URL: Research Lab

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1210.06.15

    Project: Research

  4. RIR: Relationen im Raum, Teilprojekt Informatische Aufarbeitung

    Brocke, M. (Coordination), Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Kollatz, T. (Partner) & Arnold, I. (Partner)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    12.07.1230.07.15

    Project: Research

  5. Plutonium Worlds. Computer Simulation and Nuclear Energy 1950-1980

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.13 → …

    Project: Research

  6. 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)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.07.1531.12.18

    Project: Research

  7. Nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen

    Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.04.1430.04.17

    Project: Research

  8. New technologies, new sound practices

    Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Hanacek, M. (Partner)

    01.10.1131.05.12

    Project: Scientific event

  9. Nachbarschafts-Technologien. Mathematik und Medien dynamischer Netzwerke

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Harks, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1204.02.13

    Project: Scientific event

  10. TM 1.1 KT 02 - Moving Image: Moving Image Lab: Development and examination of moving image formats

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Riedel, M. (Project staff), Gupta, S. (Project staff) & Hagen, F. (Project staff)

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    19.08.0931.03.16

    Project: Research

  11. Metaphorology of Flows and Streams

    Denecke, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1406.04.19

    Project: Dissertation project

  12. Meta-Image – a collaborative environment for the image discourse

    Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Schirmbacher, P. (Partner), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Kliemann, A. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.10.0913.10.15

    Project: Research

  13. Medien des Meeres

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.19 → …

    Project: Research

  14. Medien der Assistenz/ Assistive Media

    Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic) & Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1831.12.21

    Project: Research

  15. 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)

    01.10.1531.07.22

    Project: Research