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. 

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    Keitai-Kommunikation: mobiler Medienalltag in Japan

    Peil, C., 01.01.2007, MedienAlltag: Domestizierungsprozesse alter und neuer Medien. Röser, J. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 223-235 13 p.

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

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    Kittler

    Hurka, H. M. (Editor) & Spreen, D. (Editor), 2013, 1. ed. Berlin: Ästhetik & Kommunikation e.V. 238 p. (Ästhetik & Kommunikation; vol. 158/159)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Klang - Medium - Material: über den technikkulturellen Wandel des Materials auditiver Gestaltung

    Großmann, R., 2006, Sonambiente Berlin 2006: klang kunst sound art . LaMotte-Haber, H. D., Osterwold, M. & Weckwerth, G. (eds.). Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, p. 310-319 10 p.

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

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    Klang - Medium - Natur: Annäherungen an die Neenkirchener (Klang-)Kunst-Landschaft

    Großmann, R., 2001, Projekt Kunst-Landschaft 1967 - 2000. Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, p. 18-21 4 p.

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

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    Kleine Massenmedien: Zum Verhältnis von produktiver Rezeption und massenkultureller Vergesellschaftung am Beispiel der Perry-Rhodan-Heftserie

    Spreen, D., 2003, Spurensuche im All. Bollhöfener, K., Farin, K. & Spreen, D. (eds.). Berlin: Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag , p. 86-106 21 p. (Perry Rhodan Studies).

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

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    Kollegialität: Eine Ethnographie der Belegschaftskultur im Kaufhaus

    Bachmann, G., 2014, Frankfurt/New York : Campus Verlag. 449 p. (Arbeit und Alltag : Beiträge zur ethnografischen Arbeitskulturenforschung; vol. 3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    Kommunikationsstörungen und Kommunikationschancen: Anmerkungen über Genderforschung in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

    Röser, J., 2002, Kommunikation im Gespräch: Festschrift für Franz R. Stuke zum 60. Geburtstag. Kruck, P., Rothe, C. & Schäfer, G. (eds.). Bochum, Münster: Daedalus Verlag, p. 153-161 9 p.

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

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    Kommunikation verweigert: Schwierige Beziehungen zwischen Blumenberg und Adorno

    Voller, C., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie. 7, 2, p. 381-405 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Konfigurationen des Antifaschismus: Aspekte der Literatur über die Shoah in der DDR

    Rudolph, S., 2011, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 2011, 3, p. 56-59 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch