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.
- 2020
- 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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Attuning to What? The Uncanny Revival of the Aestheticization of Politics
Fuchs, M., 2020, Affective Transformations: Politics-Algorithms-Media. Bösel, B. & Wiemer, S. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 201-210 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Der Quantencomputer - ein zukünftiger Gegenstand der Medienwissenschaft?
Ernst, C., Schröter, J. & Warnke, M., 2020, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 38, 2-3, p. 130-150 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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From Social Data to Body Data to Psy Data: Tap, Tap, Tap
Leistert, O., 2020, Affective Transformations : Politics-Algorithms-Media. Bösel, B. & Wiemer, S. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 73-85 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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›Futurhythmaschinen‹: Drum-Machines und die Zukünfte auditiver Kulturen
Pelleter, M., 2020, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG. 623 p. (MusikmachDinge. ((audio)) Ästhetische Strategien und Sound-Kulturen; vol. 3)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
- E-pub ahead of print
Governing Objects from a Distance: Blockchains as Organizers of Environmentality
Leistert, O., 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) Explorations in Digital Cultures. Burkhardt, M., Shnayien, M. & Grashöfer, K. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 5-20 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Liveness Formats: A Historical Perspective on Live Sports Broadcasting
Hoof, F., 2020, Format Matters: Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Culture. Jankovic, M., Volmer, A. & Schneider, A. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 81-103 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Media of Trust: Visualizing the Pandemic
Hoof, F., 2020, Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory . Melamed, L., Keidl, P. D., Hediger, V. & Somaini, A. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 231-240 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Case of Willetta Huggins
Wiechern, A.-L., 2020, Stimmen Hören. Klaut, M., Schnödl, G. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: ciconia ciconia Verlag, p. 277-284 8 p. (Ciconia ciconia; vol. 34).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research