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.
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
Schwärme. Medienkulturen der Intransparenz
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.05 → 30.11.10
Project: Dissertation project
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
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
12.07.12 → 30.07.15
Project: Research
FWF-Projekt (P20421): Regulierungswissen und Möglichkeitssinn 1914-1933
Pias, C. (Partner)
01.06.08 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
'Politics' under (de-)construction? – Aushandlungsprozesse 'des Politischen' in mediatisierten Alltagswelten Jugendlicher (Arbeitstitel)
Kruse, M.-M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Plutonium Worlds. Computer Simulation and Nuclear Energy 1950-1980
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
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
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
Nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
New technologies, new sound practices
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Hanacek, M. (Partner)
01.10.11 → 31.05.12
Project: Scientific event
Nachbarschafts-Technologien. Mathematik und Medien dynamischer Netzwerke
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Harks, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 04.02.13
Project: Scientific event
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
19.08.09 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
Mobile Medienkultur in Japan. Entwurf eines kulturorientierten Kontextualisierungskonzepts der Mobilkommunikation
Peil, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.05 → 12.07.10
Project: Dissertation project
Metaphorology of Flows and Streams
Denecke, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 06.04.19
Project: Dissertation project
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)
01.10.09 → 13.10.15
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
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