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. Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Peer-reviewed
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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.

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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

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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).

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    The Power of Information: A Journey Back in Time to the Faultlines of Globalization, Art, and Media in the Early 1990s

    Bunz, M., 2013, The whole earth: California and the disappearance of the outside. Diederichsen, D. & Franke, A. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 172-176 5 p.

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    The Sharing Turn: Why We are Generally Nice and Have a Good Chance to Cooperate our Way Out of the Mess We Have Gotten Ourselves Into

    Graßmuck, V., 2012, Media, Knowledge and Education: Cultures and Ethics of Sharing: Medien - Wissen - Bildung: Kulturen und Ethiken des Teilens. Sützl, W., Stalder, F., Maier, R. & Hug, T. (eds.). Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, p. 17-34 18 p.

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    The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality

    Shah, N., 01.01.2017, The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. Goggin, G. & McLelland, M. (eds.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 49-60 12 p.

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    Thinking and Diagrams - An Introduction

    Krämer, S. & Ljungberg, C., 11.07.2016, Thinking with Diagrams : The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition. Krämer, S. & Ljungberg, C. (eds.). Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 1-19 19 p. (Semiotics, communication and cognition; vol. 17).

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    Total Gamification: Introduction

    Fuchs, M., 01.06.2015, Diversity of Play. Fuchs, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-19 13 p.

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    Trickkisten: Heinz von Foerster und der Zauber der Kybernetik

    Müggenburg, J. K., 2016, Trick 17 : Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft. Vehlken, S., Müller-Helle, K., Müggenburg, J. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Norderstedt: meson press, p. 59-84 26 p.

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    Truth in testimony: Or can a documentary film ‘bear witness’? Some reflections on the difference between discursive and existential truth

    Krämer, S., 07.12.2016, In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures: Time, Truth, Tradition. Benedek, A. & Veszelszki, Á. (eds.). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 29-39 11 p. (Visual learning; vol. 6).

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    Über Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von Gehörlosigkeit bei Kindern

    Bosteels, S., Blume, S. & Bösenberg, E. S. (Translator), 2012, Verbesserte Körper - gutes Leben?: Bioethik, Enhancement und die Disability Studies. Eilers, M., Grüber, K. & Rehmann-Sutter, C. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 123-144 22 p. 6. ( Praktische Philosophie Kontrovers / Practical Philosophy controversial / Philosophie pratique en controverse; vol. 5).

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    Übung im Denken: Der Moment des »Dazwischen« in Manon de Boers An Experiment in Leisure

    Gräfe, A., 05.2024, Denken des Medialen: Zur Bedeutung des »Dazwischen«. Schürmann, E. & Sternagel, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 137-152 16 p.

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    (Un-)Möglichkeiten kritischer Geschlechtertheorie und -politik: Öffentliche Kontroversen

    Thomas, T., 2012, Medien, Öffentlichkeit und Geschlecht in Bewegung: Forschungsperspektiven der kommunikations- und medienwissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung. Maier, T., Thiele, M. & Linke, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 27-49 22 p. (Critical media studies; no. 8).

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    Unterwachen und Schlafen: Einleitung

    Andreas, M., Kasprowicz, D. & Rieger, S., 2018, Unterwachen und Schlafen: Anthropophile Medien nach dem Interface. Andreas, M., Kasprowicz, D. & Rieger, S. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-31 25 p.

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    Using the Domestication Approach for the Analysis of Diffusion and Participation Processes of New Media

    Peil, C. & Röser, J., 09.2012, The Social Use of Media: Cultural and Social Scientific Perspectives on Audience Research. Bilandzic, H., Patriarche, G. & Traudt, P. (eds.). Bristol: Intellect, p. 221-240 20 p. 12. (European Communication Research and Education Association).

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    Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method

    Hörl, E., 2014, Grain, Vapor, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene. Klingan, K., Sepahvand, A., Rosol, C. & Scherer, B. M. (eds.). London: The MIT Press, Vol. Ray: Vol. III. p. 180-192 13 p.

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    Végétal Cristalline

    Bösenberg, E. S., 10.07.2017, (Mit) Pflanzen kartographieren. Loreck, H., A. K. & Lindeborg, S. (eds.). Hamburg: Materialverlag-HFBK Hamburg, p. 148-151 4 p.

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    Verhüllt – unverhüllt: Bild und Verschleierung in der Afghanistanberichterstattung

    Grittmann, E., 2003, Bilder des Terrors - Terror der Bilder? : Krisenberichterstattung am und nach dem 11. September. Beuthner, M., Buttler, J., Fröhlich, S., Neverla, I. & Weichert, S. A. (eds.). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, p. 268-284 17 p.

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    Visibility, Voice and Encounter in Cosmopolitan Online Communication. Rethinking Cultural Citizenship in Post-Migrant Societies

    Grittmann, E. & Thomas, T., 2018, (Mis)Understanding Political Participation: Digital Practices, New Forms of Participation and the Renewal of Democracy. Wimmer, J., Wallner, C., Winter, R. & Oelsner, K. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 213-228 16 p. (Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Serie).

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    Visions of Process—Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics in Architectural Design and Construction

    Vehlken, S., 30.08.2018, Robotic Building. Bier, H. (ed.). Springer, p. 1-23 24 p. (Adaptive Environments; vol. 1, no. 1).

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