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.
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
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
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
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
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
Futurhythmaschinen. Drum-Machines und die klanglichen Zukünfte auditiver Kultur im 20. Jahrhundert
Pelleter, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.12 → 30.11.18
Project: Dissertation project
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
Gaults Teletactor. Archäologie eines kontroversen Experiments
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
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 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Gründungsmitglied des Initiativkollegs Sinne – Technik – Inszenierung. Medien und Wahrnehmung an der Universität Wien
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.07 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
Gründungsmitglied des Initiativkollegs The Sciences in Historical Context an der Universität Wien
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.07 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
Grundversorgung 2.0 (Basic Provision 2.0)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.12 → 30.06.15
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
Hermann Bahr: Ein österreichischer Kritiker der europäischen Avantgarden
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.11 → 05.02.14
Project: Research
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
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
Hypothetizität. Kernkraft, Computersimulation und das ›German Manhattan Project‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 20.08.20
Project: Research
Informationsorientierte Kommunikationsmodi im Internet.
Hölig, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.07 → …
Project: Dissertation project
InnoPlus: Digitale Barrierefreiheit im BA Digital Media
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Practical Project