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
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
'Politics' under (de-)construction? – Aushandlungsprozesse 'des Politischen' in mediatisierten Alltagswelten Jugendlicher (Arbeitstitel)
Kruse, M.-M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Meta-Image II: Development of a distributed virtual environment for research and communication for the discourse of images in art history
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Bredekamp, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
transmedial culture - A Practice-Based Research Project of Networking Art and Culture
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Bazzichelli, T. (Project staff)
01.07.12 → 24.03.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
FWF-Projekt (P20421): Regulierungswissen und Möglichkeitssinn 1914-1933
Pias, C. (Partner)
01.06.08 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
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
Klang (ohne) Körper I
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Harenberg, M. (Project manager, academic), Weissberg, D. (Project manager, academic), Köpp, K. (Project manager, academic) & Saxer, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 01.09.13
Project: Research
Timing of Affect
Angerer, M.-L. (Project manager, academic), Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Ott, M. (Project manager, academic) & Trogemann, G. (Partner)
05.07.12 → 01.06.13
Project: Research
MECS: DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Vehlken, S. (Project staff), Schrape, N. (Project staff), Schrickel, I. (Project staff), Stöcklmayr, N. (Project staff), Engemann, C. (Project staff), Winter, F. (Project staff) & Wellmann, J. (Project staff)
01.01.13 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
DCRL: Digital Cultures Research Lab (2013 - 2016)
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Leeker, M. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic), Kaldrack, I. (Project manager, academic), Simons, S. (Project manager, academic), Sprenger, F. (Project manager, academic), Sander, N. (Partner), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Feigelfeld, P. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
21.02.13 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
Der Sound der Leuphana. Campus Compilation
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)
01.10.12 → 01.05.13
Project: Practical Project
Significant: Details Conversations with Women in Science
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Hoppenhaus, K. (Project staff)
01.01.13 → 30.06.13
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Leuphana Soundscape
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)
01.07.13 → 30.06.14
Project: Practical Project
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2013
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
03.10.13 → 03.07.14
Project: Scientific event
Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Anerkennung in der medialen Klimakommunikation aus kosmopolitischer Perspektive
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → …
Project: Research
Epistemic Games. The Construction of the Validity of Computer Simulations through Simulation Games
Schrape, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
Das Unwort erklärt die Untat – Die „Döner-Mordserie“ und der Umgang mit Gewalt an Migrantinnen und Migranten in den Medien
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic) & Thomas, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.13 → 12.02.15
Project: Research
Deutsch-Türkischer Journalistendialog: Die Berichterstattung der Medien über die NSU-Morde vor dem November 2011
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
27.02.14 → 23.10.14
Project: Scientific event
Nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
Design Process. Software, Computation, and Cultural Techniques in Architecture
Stöcklmayr, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.13 → …
Project: Research
Videos für Wikipedia-Artikel
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.05.14 → 31.12.14
Project: Research
Plutonium Worlds. Computer Simulation and Nuclear Energy 1950-1980
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
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
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
Der Körper auf Tauchstation: Zu einer Wissensgeschichte der Immersion
Kasprowicz, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → 01.12.16
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
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
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