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.
The Domestication of the Internet. Reconstruction of Domestic Appropriation Processes of a New Medium (1997-2007)
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic) & Peil, C. (Project staff)
01.03.08 → 30.04.11
Project: Research
Spitzenfrauen im Fokus der Medien - die mediale Repräsentation von weiblichen und männlichen Führungskräften in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Teilprojekt 2: Rezeption, quantitative Textanalyse, Bildanalyse
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic), Müller, K. (Project staff), Lünenborg, M. (Project manager, academic), Maier, T. (Project staff) & Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.08 → 17.03.11
Project: Research
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
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
HyperImage - Bildorientierte e-Science Netzwerke
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Schirmbacher, P. (Project manager, academic), Wedemeyer, C. (Project staff), Terstegge, C. (Project staff), Kuper, H.-G. (Project manager, academic) & Loebel, J.-M. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.06.06 → 31.05.09
Project: Research
TM 1.1 KT 09 - Segmented Media: Art and Civic Media - Neue Medienformate für die gesellschaftlichen Bedürfnisse von morgen
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.01.12 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
IP TM 1.1 KT 11: Internes Projektbudget KT 11 - Hybrid Publishing
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.12 → 31.03.16
Project: Other
Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 11: Hybrid Publishing
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bunz, M. (Project manager, academic), Heise, C. (Project staff), Kuper, H.-G. (Project staff), Loebel, J.-M. (Project staff), Worthington, S. (Project staff), Hall, G. (Partner), Levin, T. (Partner), Lovink, G. (Partner), Shah, N. N. (Project staff), Amorosa, J. (Project staff), Burkhardt, M. (Project staff), Dieter, M. (Project staff), Gollner, U. (Project staff), Hui, Y. (Project staff), Kirchner, A. (Project staff), Kral, C. (Project staff), Le, M. (Project staff) & Peters, H. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.12 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 12: Grundversorgung 2.0 - Internet-TV für die neue Mediengeneration
Graßmuck, V. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
19.08.09 → 31.01.16
Project: Research
The Mediatized Home: Changes of Domestic Communication Cultures
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic) & Peil, C. (Project staff)
01.11.10 → 28.09.12
Project: Research
Schwärme. Medienkulturen der Intransparenz
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.05 → 30.11.10
Project: Dissertation project
Hermann Bahr: Ein österreichischer Kritiker der europäischen Avantgarden
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.11 → 05.02.14
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
Globally traded Television Formats and their reception - A study on the appropriation of the Top Model-format in different cultural contexts
Stehling, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.09 → 30.09.18
Project: Dissertation project
Symposion: Soziale Medien - Neue Massen?
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.11 → 03.02.15
Project: Scientific event
Supercomputing. Medienkulturen zwischen Parallelität und Scalability
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Engemann, C. (Project manager, academic)
27.07.11 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
DFG-Network: Sound in Media Culture. Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound
Großmann, R. (Partner) & Hanacek, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.10 → 01.03.13
Project: Research
New technologies, new sound practices
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Hanacek, M. (Partner)
01.10.11 → 31.05.12
Project: Scientific event
((audio)) Ästhetische Strategien
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Pelleter, M. (Project staff) & Otto, A. (Partner)
01.10.97 → …
Project: Research
Informationsorientierte Kommunikationsmodi im Internet.
Hölig, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.07 → …
Project: Dissertation project
