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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Was waren Medien?
Pias, C. (Editor), 2011, 1. Aufl. ed. Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 128 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Introduction to General Ecology: The Ecologization of Thinking
Hörl, E. H. & Schott, N. F. (Translator), 05.2017, General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. Hörl, E. & Burton, J. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1 – 75 75 p. (Theory).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ethos, Pathos, PowerPoint: zur Epistemologie und (Silicon-Valley-)Rhetorik digitaler Präsentationen
Hagen, W., 11.06.2015, Medienkultur und Bildung: ästhetische Erziehung im Zeitalter digitaler Netzwerke. Hagener, M. & Hediger, V. (eds.). Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, p. 177-200 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Musik und Medium: Kommentar zu: K. Blaukopf (1996), Die Mediamorphose der Musik als globales Phänomen; K. Blaukopf (1996), Mutation durch technische Medien
Großmann, R., 2011, Systematische Musikwissenschaft: Ziele - Methoden - Geschichte. Auhagen, W., Busch, V. & Hemming, J. (eds.). Laaber: Laaber Verlag, p. 131-140 10 p. (Kompendien Musik; vol. 9, no. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City
Bialski, P., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 115-128 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Denk mal! 2016
Pfaller, R., Horn, E., Klein, S., Bernard, A. & Rammler, S., 2015, Frankfurt am Mainz: S. Fischer Verlag. 268 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Transfer
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Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
Bernard, A., 01.01.2014, New York: NYU Press. 309 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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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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Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association: DiGRA
Björk, S. (Editor) & Fuchs, M. (Editor), 01.11.2016, Pittsburgh: ETC Press. 261 p. (ToDiGRA; vol. 2, no. 3)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research