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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Faksimile: "Mit eben so viel Kunst als Wahrheit": Johann Moritz David Herolds Bildungsgeschichte der Wirbellosen
Wellmann, J., 2013, Morphologien. Bruhn, M. & Scholtz, G. (eds.). Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 9.2. p. 61-66 5 p. (Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik; vol. 9, no. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer › peer-review
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Finding the Boomers: Der Anti-U-Boot-Krieg und die Operationalisierung der Ozeane im Kalten Krieg
Vehlken, S., 2018, Medien – Krieg – Raum. Nowak, L. (ed.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 357-376 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Multimodal Crowd Sensing
Vehlken, S., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: Technology - Mediation - Collectivity. Denecke, M., Ganzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 51–66 16 p. (Edition Medienwissenschaft; vol. 15).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie: Technik und Technikdiskurse
Voller, C. (Editor), 04.2016, Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 241 p. (Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie; vol. 3, no. 1)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Von der Herrschaft der Technik zum Parlament der Dinge: Ein Deutungsversuch
Voller, C. & Schnödl, G., 2016, In: Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie. 2, 1, p. 159-182 25 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Mediengenealogie: Zurück in die Gegenwart digitaler Kulturen
Apprich, C. & Bachmann, G., 2017, Digitalisierung: Theorien und Konzepte für die empirische Kulturforschung. Koch, G. (ed.). Konstanz, München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, p. 405-426 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung
Pias, C. & Rieger, S., 02.2016, Vollstes Verständnis: Utopien der Kommunikation. Pias, C. & Rieger, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin / Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-13 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Vollstes Verständnis: Utopien der Kommunikation
Pias, C. (Editor) & Rieger, S. (Editor), 02.2016, 1 ed. Berlin / Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 208 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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„Das scheint mir das Widersprüchliche in der Kybernetik zu sein: Im gleichen Atemzug mit einer De-Anthropologisierung wird ein neuer Humanismus gefeiert.“
Pias, C., 10.07.2017, Eine Genealogie des MedienDenkens: Siegfried Zielinski im Gespräch mit: Hans Belting, Knut Ebeling, Thomas Elsaesser, Wolfgang Ernst, VALIE EXPORT, Boris Groys, Sybille Krämer, Geert Lovink, Joachim Paech, Claus Pias, Hans Ulrich Reck, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Nils Röller, Otto Rössler, Florian Rötzer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Henning Schmidgen, Peter Weibel und Hartmut Winkler.. Hadler, F. & Irrgang, D. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 491-520 30 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Szintetikus történelem
Pias, C., 16.11.2015, In: Tiszataj. 4, p. 83-92 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review