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. 2021
  2. Published

    Modeling the Pacific Ocean

    Vehlken, S. (ed.), Vagt, C. (ed.) & Kittler, W. (ed.), 2021, Oakland: University of California Press. (Media and Environment; vol. 3, no. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  3. Published

    New Labor, Old Questions: Practices of Collaboration with Robots

    Kasprowicz, D., 2021, Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies. Schüttelpelz, E., Bergermann, U., Dommann, M., Stolow, J. & Taha, N. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 247-262 16 p.

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

  4. Published

    Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg: Zur Entstehung der Systemtheorie

    Beyes, T. (ed.), Warnke, M. (ed.), Hagen, W. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 2021, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot GmbH. 136 p. (Soziologische Schriften (SOZS); vol. 86)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    The Instrument

    Großmann, R., 2021, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound. Schulze, H. (ed.). 1 ed. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 59-76 18 p. 3

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

  6. Published

    Von Delfinhaut bis Wolfskin: Kleine Epistemologie der Funktionskleidung

    Müggenburg, J., 2021, Hautlichkeit: Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. Schnödl, G. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 37-55 19 p. ( DesignWissen; vol. 3).

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

  7. Published

    From Learning Machines to Learning Humans: How Cybernetic Machine Models Inspired Experimental Pedagogies

    Müggenburg, J. K., 02.01.2021, In: History of Education. 50, 1, p. 112-133 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Human–learning–machines: introduction to a special section on how cybernetics and constructivism inspired new forms of learning

    Hof, B. & Müggenburg, J., 02.01.2021, In: History of Education. 50, 1, p. 89-92 4 p.

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

  9. Published

    Proxies

    Kyong Chun, W. H., Levin, B. & Tollmann, V., 02.02.2021, Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Tylstrup, N. B., Agostinho, D., Ring, A., D'Ignazio, C. & Veel, K. (eds.). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, p. 419-425 7 p.

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

  10. Published

    The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibilities of Life in Capitalist Ruins

    Conrad, L., 04.2021, In: Management Learning. 52, 2, p. 255-259 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  11. Published

    Between symmetry and asymmetry: spontaneous symmetry breaking as narrative knowing

    Borrelli, A., 01.04.2021, In: Synthese. 198, 4, p. 3919-3948 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Dual Reality: ( Un)Observed Magic in the Workplace

    Bialski, P. & Farid, S., 30.04.2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.). Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, p. 326-335 10 p.

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

  13. Published

    Toward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of Anonymity

    Bachmann, G., McHardy, J., Knecht, M. & Zurawski, N., 30.04.2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.). Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, p. 16-34 19 p.

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

  14. Published

    Introduction: Modeling the Pacific Ocean

    Vehlken, S., Vagt, C. & Kittler, W., 20.05.2021, In: Media and Environment. 3, 2, 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearch

  15. Published

    Geschichtsphilosophie nach der Geschichtsphilosophie? Perspektiven der Kulturgeschichte im Ausgang von Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner

    Blänkner, R. (ed.), Schmieder, F. (ed.), Voller, C. (ed.) & Wagner, J. (ed.), 27.07.2021, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 346 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  16. Published

    Constructing strangeness: Exploratory modeling and concept formation

    Borrelli, A., 20.08.2021, In: Perspectives on Science. 29, 4, p. 388-408 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Das Phänomen Trump als Effekt von Microtargeting und Psychometrie

    Leistert, O., 29.09.2021, Data Politics: Zum Umgang mit Daten im digitalen Zeitalter. Bachor, M., Hug, T. & Pallaver, G. (eds.). 1 ed. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, p. 19 - 33 15 p. (Edited Volumes).

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

  18. Published

    Segment Introduction

    Nigro, R. & Hörl, E., 01.10.2021, Taking Sides: Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent. Bippus, E., Ganzert, A. & Otto, I. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, Vol. 28. p. 251-257 7 p. (Culture & theory; vol. 211).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  19. Published

    Assistenz für wen? Autonomes Fahren zwischen Norm und Variabilität

    Stock, R. & Müggenburg, J., 20.10.2021, Autonome Autos: Medien- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Zukunft der Mobilität. Sprenger, F. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 339-358 20 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 32).

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

  20. Published

    Wenn Batterien unter die Haut gehen

    Hille, L., 29.11.2021, Reichweitenangst: Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters. Müggenburg, J. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 63-76 14 p.

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

  21. Published

    Ruins of Excess: Computer Game Images and the Rendering of Technological Obsolescence

    Luersen, E. H. & Fuchs, M., 01.12.2021, In: Games and Culture . 16, 8, p. 1087-1110 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review