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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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 contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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The Depths of Illusion: Knowing Reality Through Computer Simulation
Dippel, A. & Warnke, M., 16.12.2024, 1 ed. Berlin: transcript Verlag. 138 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-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 contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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 anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-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. 3Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review