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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»HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SAMPLES«: Beat-Bildung, Zeit-Maschinen und Phonographizität zweiter Ordnung
Pelleter, M., 11.10.2022, HipHop im 21. Jahrhundert: Medialität, Tradierung, Gesellschaftskritik und Bildungsaspekte einer (Jugend-)Kultur. Wilke, T. & Rappe, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, p. 331-346 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Introduction: On the use of place
Schneider, N. & Palmusaari, J., 31.10.2024, Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought: Critique, Politics, Philosophy. Palmusaari, J. & Schneider, N. (eds.). 1. ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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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/works › Chapter
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Zur Spaltung des Verstandes: Das Prinzip der Anarchie und die Kritik epochaler Ökonomien
Schneider, N., 31.01.2024, Reiner Schürmann, Diskordanz der Zeiten. Schneider, N. (ed.). 1. ed. Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 195-206 12 p. (TransPositionen).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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A Single Swing of the Shovel: Former West Proxies
Levin, B. & Tollmann, V., 2016, Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989. Hlavajova, M. & Sheikh, S. (eds.). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, p. 519-534 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Assistierte Kommunikation aus medienarchäologischer und biographischer Perspektive
Müggenburg, J. & Wagenknecht, A., 24.04.2025, Dis/Ability und digitale Medien: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Technologien, Praktiken und Zugänglichkeiten. Stock, R., Meier zu Verl, C., Şahinol, M., Spöhrer, M., Volmar, A., Wagenknecht, A. & Wiechern, A.-L. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 95-119 25 p. (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Between Drudgery and "Promesse du bonheur": Games and Gamification
Fuchs, M., 10.02.2017, New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming : Multiplayer 2. Kowert, R. & Quandt, T. (eds.). 1 ed. London, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 185-199 15 p. (Routledge advances in game studies).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Cultural Politics of Games
Fuchs, M., 2021, Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art. Grau, O. & Hinterwaldner, I. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, p. 78-86 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Home for Hire: How the sharing economy commoditises our private sphere
Bialski, P., 01.01.2017, Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Ince, A. & Hall, S. M. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 83-95 13 p. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Hören, was die Maschine hört
Großmann, R., 2022, Acoustic Intelligence: Hören und Gehorchen. Schürmer, A., Haberer, M. & Brautscheck, T. (eds.). Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, p. 83-94 12 p. (acoustic studies düsseldorf; vol. 5).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review