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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Between Recognition and Abstraction: Early Vocational Training Films
Hoof, F., 22.03.2018, The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material. Curtis, S., Gunning, T., Gauthier, P. & Yumibe, J. (eds.). Indiana University Press, p. 111-119 9 p. (The Image in Early Cinema).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War
Hoof, F., 09.2018, Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. Wasson, H. & Grieveson, L. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 177-191 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Hypothekentilgung
Wessely, C. & Voller, C., 01.12.2018, In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 41, 4, p. 445-448 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Technikvergessenheit? Ernst Kapps und Georg Simmels nichtinstrumentelle Techniktheorien
Schnödl, G., 2016, In: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie. 3, 1, p. 131-150 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Kritische Übergänge. Relationsmodelle der Kritik um 1900
Schnödl, G., 2017, Julius Meier-Graefe: Grenzgänger der Künste. Becker, I. & Marchal, S. (eds.). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, p. 44-58 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Das Ereignis, „wenn man sich im Bett umdreht“ – Zur Zukunft des Subjekts bei Alain Badiou und Robert Musil
Schnödl, G., 2017, Zurück in die Zukunft: Die Bedeutung von Diskursen über „Zukunft“ in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Freitag, K. & Groß, D. (eds.). Kassel: Kassel university press, p. 75-90 16 p. ( Studien des Aachener Kompetenzzentrums für Wissenschaftsgeschichte; vol. 18).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Zur Einleitung
Voller, C., Schnödl, G. (Contributor) & Wagner, J., 2018, Spenglers Nachleben: Studien zu einer verdeckten Wirkungsgeschichte. Voller, C., Schnödl, G. & Wagner, J. (eds.). Springe: zu Klampen Verlag, p. 7-28 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Wider die Botanik! Biologie und Ästhetik der Zwischenwesen um 1900
Schnödl, G., 01.01.2018, Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology. Kittelmann, J. (ed.). Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Vol. 22. p. 289-304 15 p. (Annals of the history and philosophy of biology; vol. 22).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Quadratur des Bermudadreiecks
Müggenburg, J. K. & Vehlken, S., 12.2018, In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 41, 4, p. 403-408 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Digital Natives - eine Generation des Übergangs: Zur Gestaltungsmacht digitaler Kultur
Großmann, R., 01.08.2018, In: Positionen. 116, p. 4-8 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review