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. 2020
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    Heinz von Foerster and Early Research in the Field of Pattern Recognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory

    Müggenburg, J., 15.04.2020, Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2019 - 17th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers: 17th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 17–22, 2019, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. & Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, Vol. 1. p. 116–122 7 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12013 LNCS).

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

  3. Published

    Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting

    Hoof, F., 28.05.2020, New York: Oxford University Press. 392 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    The Late Masterwork of Gilles Deleuze: Linking Style to Method in What Is Philosophy?

    Schönher, M., 01.06.2020, In: Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences. 29, 1, p. 25–63 39 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Giovan Battista Della Porta's construction of pneumatic phenomena and his use of recipes as heuristic tools

    Borrelli, A., 01.08.2020, In: Centaurus. 62, 3, p. 406-424 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Homöostat und Cyborg. Zum Verhältnis von Selbstorganisationsforschung und der frühen Biokybernetik

    Müggenburg, J. K., 17.09.2020, Affizierungs- und Teilhabeprozesse zwischen Organismen und Maschinen. Ochsner, B., Nikolow, S. & Stock, R. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 25-42 18 p. (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society).

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

  9. Published

    The Great Pacific Garbage Catch: Müll als Medium einer ›Plastic Oceanography

    Vehlken, S., 10.2020, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 23, 2, p. 84-98 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Introduction to Thinking the Problematic: Decentring as Method and Ethos

    Leistert, O. & Schrickel, I., 06.10.2020, Thinking the problematic: genealogies and explorations between philosophy and the sciences. Leistert, O. & Schrickel, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 9-34 26 p. (Philosophy).

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

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    Atomic Animals: Tiere als Medien nuklearer Forschung

    Vehlken, S., 26.10.2020, In: Tierstudien. 18, p. 45-56 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Thinking the Problematic: Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences

    Leistert, O. (ed.) & Schrickel, I. (ed.), 26.10.2020, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 197 p. (Philosophy)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Games und Gamification: Kulturhistorische, medienwissenschaftliche, politische und ästhetische Dimensionen

    Fuchs, M., 23.11.2020, Lüneburg. 318 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesPost-doctoral dissertations

  14. 2021
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    Brüchige Hermetik – Zu geschichtstheoretischen Figuren bei Spengler und Kittler

    Schnödl, G., 2021, In: Links Rivista Di Letteratura E Cultura Tedesca. 21, p. 33-42 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Critique and the Digital

    Hörl, E. (ed.), Pinkrah, N. Y. (ed.) & Warnsholdt, C. L. (ed.), 2021, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 296 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

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    Critique of Environmentality: On the World-Wide Axiomatics of Environmentalitarian Time

    Hörl, E., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 109-146 38 p. (Critical Stances).

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

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    Dis/Ability and Digital Cultures. A Media-Archaeological Perspective on Inclusion as a Cipher

    Müggenburg, J., 2021, Inklusion als Chiffre?: Bildungshistorische Analysen und Reflexionen. Vogt, M., Boger, M-A. & Bühler, P. (eds.). Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, p. 93-105 13 p. (Historische Bildungsforschung).

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

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    Environmentalitäre Zeit

    Hörl, E., 2021, Konfigurationen der Zeitlichkeit. Friedrich, A., Gehring, P., Hubig, C., Kaminski, A. & Nordmann, A. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 137 - 162 26 p. (Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie; vol. 7. 2021).

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

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    Introduction

    Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L., 2021, Critique and the Digital . Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7 - 24 18 p. (Critical Stances).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  21. Published

    La pensée du suspens. Mélancolie et politique dans le sans-époque

    Hörl, E., 2021, Amitiés de Bernard Stiegler: Douze Contributions réunis par Jean-Luc Nancy. Nancy, J-L. (ed.). Paris: Galilée Editions, p. 45 - 68 24 p. (La philosophie en effet).

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

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    Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects

    Conrad, L. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.), Beverungen, A. (ed.), Pias, C. (ed.), Denny, S. (ed.) & Steinbrügge, B. (ed.), 2021, Hamburg: Kunstverein in Hamburg. 196 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsTransfer