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. 

  1. 2011
  2. Published

    Was waren Medien?

    Pias, C. (Editor), 2011, 1. Aufl. ed. Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 128 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    What´s in a net? or: The end of the average

    Warnke, M., 2011, In: Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal. 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Wider die Kriegsvergessenheit in der Sozialwissenschaft

    Spreen, D., 2011, In: Ästhetik & Kommunikation. 42, 152-153, p. 33-40 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  5. Published

    Work = work ≠ work: In defence of play

    Krempl, S.-T. & Beyes, T., 2011, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 11, 4, p. 466-481 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Errechnet, gesteuert, vernetzt: Musik am computer

    Warnke, M., 01.2011, In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik : das Magazin für neue Töne. 172, 1, p. 34-39 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  7. Published

    The ontological politics of artistic interventions: Implications for performing action research

    Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 03.2011, In: Action Research. 9, 1, p. 100-115 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Gender-Rituale in der Mobilkommunikation von Jugendlichen

    Peil, C., 04.2011, Medien - Rituale - Jugend: Perspektiven auf Medienkommunikation im Alltag junger Menschen. Grimm, P. & Zöllner, O. (eds.). Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 59-79 21 p. (Medienethik; no. 9).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  9. Published

    Versuch über die Wölbung

    Berz, P., 11.05.2011, In: wespennest. zeitschrift für brauchbare texte und bilder. 43, 160, p. 73-79 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Mobilkommunikation in Japan: Zur kulturellen Infrastruktur der Handy-Aneignung

    Peil, C., 07.2011, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 390 p. (Cultural Studies; no. 38)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  11. Published

    Operational Images: Agent-Based Computer Simulation and the Epistemic Impact of Dynamic Vizualisation

    Vehlken, S., 07.2011, Proceedings IACAP 2011: The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures ?. Ess, C. & Hagengruber, R. (eds.). MV Wissenschaft, p. 320-323 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksPublished abstract in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review