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.

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    "Technisches Leben": Simondons Denken des Lebendigen und die allgemeine Ökologie

    Hörl, E. H., 08.2017, Black Box Leben. Muhle, M. & Voss, C. (eds.). Berlin: August Verlag, p. 239-266 27 p. (Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie; vol. 28).

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

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    Technologien als Diskurse: Konstruktionen von Wissen, Medien und Körpern

    Lösch, A. (ed.), Schrage, D. (ed.), Spreen, D. (ed.) & Stauff, M. (ed.), 2001, Heidelberg: Synchron. 256 p. (Diskursivitäten; vol. 5)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Television memories and cultures of viewing: Domestizierungsprozesse in Großbritannien 1950 - 1965

    O'Sullivan, T. & Peil, C. (Translator), 2007, MedienAlltag: Domestizierungsprozesse alter und neuer Medien. Röser, J. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 71-88 18 p.

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

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    Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture

    Krämer, S. (ed.) & Weigel, S. (ed.), 08.2017, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. 294 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Text und Technik

    Warnke, M., 2000, Deutschunterricht zwischen Kompetenzerwerb und Persönlichkeitsbildung: Germanistentag des Fachverbandes Deutsch im Deutschen Germanistenverband e.V. in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Lüneburg. Witte, H., Garbe, C., Holle, K., Stückrath, J. & Willenberg, H. (eds.). Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 160-178 19 p.

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

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    T. Haigh (Hrsg.): Exploring the Early Digital

    Müggenburg, J. K., 20.03.2020, 3 p. Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

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    The Actions that Make a Musical Instrument: Exploring Club-DJing as an Instrumental Practice

    Förstel, A., Hardjowirogo, S-I. & Egermann, H., 2015, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research: 16 – 19 June, 2015; Plymouth, UK. Kronland-Marinet, R., Aramaki, M., Ystad, S. & Eaton, J. (eds.). Plymouth: The Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics, p. 762–769 8 p. (Publications of the LMA).

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

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    The Anthropocenic Illusion: Sustainability an the Fascination of Control.

    Hörl, E., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Wuggenig, U., Behnke, C., Knoll, V. & Kastelan, C. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 352-368 17 p.

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

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    The Break In and With History: Nancy‘s Thinking of History in the Light of the Disruptive Condition

    Hörl, E., 06.2023, Thinking With – Jean-Luc Nancy. Lindberg, S., Magun, A. & Tatari, M. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 185-200 16 p.

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

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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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    The Corrupt State of Artificial Intelligence: Clemens Apprich on Machine Learning and Bias

    Apprich, C., 03.2018, In: Texte zur Kunst. 109, p. 136-141 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

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    The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital

    Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    The eyes of the olms

    Berz, P., 2009, In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 31, 2, p. 215-238 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830

    Wellmann, J., 03.2017, New York: Zone Books. 423 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    The Game Player's Duty: The User as the Gestalt of Ports

    Pias, C., 2011, Media Archaeology: approaches, applications, and implications. Huhtamo, E. & Parikka, J. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 164-183 20 p.

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

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    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

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    The Hidden Space of Production: Virtuality in Henri Bergson and Gilbert Simondon

    Kasprowicz, D., 2017, You were not expected to do this : On the Dynamics of Production: Distraction/Interference - Resistence/Accident. Blanga-Gubbay, D. & Ruchaud, E. (eds.). 1 ed. Düsseldorf University Press, p. 111-126 16 p. (materialisierungen; vol. 5).

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

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    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

  19. Published

    The Instrument as Medium: Phonographic Work

    Großmann, R., 2020, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. Krogh Groth, S. & Schulze, H. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 436-445 10 p. 23. (Bloomsbury handbooks).

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

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    The iPhone’s Failure—Protests and Resistances

    Leistert, O., 2012, Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media. Snickars, P. & Vonderau, P. (eds.). USA/ Vereinigten Staaten: Columbia University Press, p. 238-248 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter