Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

Unser Institut untersucht die Wechselbeziehung von Kultur und digitalen Medien. Mit seinen Schwerpunktbereichen folgt es einem historisch-epistemologisch ausgerichteten Programm, das sich durch ein spezielles Interesse an technischen und techno-ästhetischen Zusammenhängen auszeichnet.

Das ICAM geht der Frage nach, wie (digitale) Medientechniken auf Forschungs-, Erkenntnis- und Kulturalisationsprozesse einwirken. Es erforscht zudem den Wandel von Produktions-und Produktstrategien bei der Herstellung elektronischer Kommunikate und die damit einhergehenden neuen Verfahren ästhetischer Gestaltung in Ton und Bild. Das Institut setzt sich die Förderung von Medienkompetenz als eine essentielle Kulturtechnik zum Ziel. Es widmet sich der Forschung und Lehre sowie der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in den Fachgebieten Digitale Medien/Kulturinformatik, Digitale Medien und Auditive Gestaltung, Medientheorie und Medienkultur.

 

Topics

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.

  1. 2019
  2. Published

    Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo: Cash and Dash. How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking. (Rezension)

    Müggenburg, J. K., 07.05.2019, 3 p. H-Soz-Kult.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  3. Published

    Foucault, Winckelmann, die Archäologie und die Epochenstilgeschichte

    Schnödl, G., 27.05.2019, In: Le Foucaldien. 5, 1, p. 1-34 34 p., 3.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Accepted/In press

    Medien-Musikinstrumente

    Hardjowirogo, S-I., 12.2027, Musik und Medien. Großmann, R. & Ungeheuer, E. (eds.). Laaber Verlag, (Kompendien Musik; vol. 15).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  5. Published

    Culture, Technology, and Process in “Media Theories”: Toward a shift in the understanding of media in organizational research

    Hoof, F. & Boell, S. K., 01.09.2019, In: Organization. 26, 5, p. 636-654 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The Practice of Naturalness: A Historical-Philosophical Perspective

    Borrelli, A. & Castellani, E., 01.09.2019, In: Foundations of Physics. 49, 9, p. 860-878 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Kybernetische Maschinen – artifizielles Leben oder lebhafte Artefakte?

    Müggenburg, J. K., 10.2019, Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion: Handbuch zur Geschichte – Kultur – Ethik. Liggieri, K. & Müller, O. (eds.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 122–127 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Die Schulordnung als Klang – und Zeit

    Großmann, R., 25.10.2019, In: Paragrana. 28, 2, p. 61-65 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Zootechnologies. A Media History of Swarm Research

    Vehlken, S. & Pakis, V., 28.10.2019, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 400 p. (Recursions)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Editorial: #5 Spectres of Artificial Intelligence

    spheres Editorial Collective, Apprich, C., Beverungen, A. & Hille, L., 01.11.2019, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 5, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  11. Published

    Computer Simulations Then and Now: an Introduction and Historical Reassessment

    Borrelli, A. & Wellmann, J., 01.12.2019, In: NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine. 27, 4, p. 407-417 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  12. Published

    Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Nature: System and Method in What is Philosophy?

    Schönher, M., 01.12.2019, In: Theory, Culture and Society. 36, 7–8, p. 89–107 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  13. Published
  14. Published

    By Means of Which: Media, Technology, Organisation

    Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 498-514 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  15. Published

    Calendar

    Hoof, F., 12.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 54-67 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization

    Bachmann, G. & Bialski, P., 12.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 116-124 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  17. Published

    Overhead Projector

    Pias, C., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 286-300 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  18. Published

    The Oxford Handbook on Media, Technology and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T. (ed.), Holt, R. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 12.12.2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 560 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  19. Published

    Battery as a mediating technology of organization

    Müggenburg, J. K., 24.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 26–33 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  20. 2020
  21. Published

    Assistenz

    Müggenburg, J. K., 2020, Technikanthropologie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Heßler, M. & Liggieri, K. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 411-415 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  22. Published

    Becoming-Environmental: Toward a Critique of Environmentality as Power-Form, World-Form, and Capital-Form

    Hörl, E., 2020, Hybrid Ecologies. Witzgall, S., Kesting, M., Muhle, M. & Nachtigall, J. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 197-208 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review