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. 

  1. Published

    The Oxford Handbook on Media, Technology and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T. (Editor), Holt, R. (Editor) & Pias, C. (Editor), 12.12.2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 560 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  2. Published

    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.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    On the Difficulty of Forgetting: Recollections of the Basel Symposium on Chantal Akerman

    Kuhn, E. & Holl, U., 01.05.2019, In: Camera Obscura. 34, 1, p. 163-183 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Pattern Discrimination

    Apprich, C., Kyong Chun, W. H., Cramer, F. & Steyerl, H., 2019, Lüneburg: meson press. 124 p. (In Search of Media Book Series)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    The Case of Willetta Huggins

    Wiechern, A.-L., 2020, Stimmen Hören. Klaut, M., Schnödl, G. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: ciconia ciconia Verlag, p. 277-284 8 p. (Ciconia ciconia; vol. 34).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Introduction: Modeling the Pacific Ocean

    Vehlken, S., Vagt, C. & Kittler, W., 20.05.2021, In: Media and Environment. 3, 2, 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearch

  7. Published
  8. Published

    Politics of Reproduction

    spheres Editorial Collective, Trott, B. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Apprich, C. (Editor), Luchs, I. (Editor), Hille, L. (Editor) & Heinrichs, R. (Editor), 03.2020, Lüneburg: Cent­re for Di­gi­tal Cul­tu­res Lüneburg. (spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures; vol. 2000, no. 6)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  9. Published

    Giovan Battista Della Porta's construction of pneumatic phenomena and his use of recipes as heuristic tools

    Borrelli, A., 01.08.2020, In: Centaurus. 62, 3, p. 406-424 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Media of Trust: Visualizing the Pandemic

    Hoof, F., 2020, Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory . Melamed, L., Keidl, P. D., Hediger, V. & Somaini, A. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 231-240 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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  2. Nach der Pandemie ist vor der Krise. Zur Förderung von Unsicherheitskompetenz mittels bedürfnisorientierter transformativer Ansätze in der BNE
  3. Lively Artifacts. BCL-Engineers and their Self-Organizing Machines (The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts [SLSA])
  4. Raumvorstellung(en) in schriftlichen und realraumbasierten Settings - Ergebnisse einer quantitativen Studie mit Grundschulkindern der vierten Klasse
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  6. Contrasting pragmatic choices in responding to thanks in Ireland, England and Canada (New Apporaches to Irish English (Corpus) Pragmatics - 2019, Dortmund)
  7. Pädagogische Erwerbsarbeit im System des lebenslangen Lernens: Berufliche Selbstbeschreibungen und wechselseitige Funktions- und Aufgabenzuschreibungen
  8. A radical reassessment of the stratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental processes and dating of the Middle Pleistocene deposits at Schöningen, northern Germany
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Publications

  1. Does reference to COVID-19 improve climate change communication? Investigating the influence of emotions and uncertainty in persuasion messages
  2. Effect of cascading of higher-lying states on a delayed 1 s-2 p transition after beam-foil excitation of 56 MeV hydrogen-like oxygen and fluorine
  3. Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents
  4. Correction: Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research(PLoS ONE (2019) 14:10(e0223675) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223675)
  5. Proceedings of the posters and demo track of the 15th international conference on semantic systems. 9th - 12th of September 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany
  6. Model Predictive Control for Energy Optimization in Generators/Motors as Well as Converters and Inverters for Futuristic Integrated Power Networks
  7. ‘I Want to Persuade You!’–Investigating the effectiveness of explicit persuasion concerning attributes of the communicator and the marketing campaign
  8. Initiation of swarming behavior and synchronization of mating flights in the leaf-cutting ant Atta vollenweideri FOREL, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
  9. Katharina Schmidt-Brücken, Hirnzirkel. Kreisende Prozesse in Computer und Gehirn: Zur neurokybernetischen Vorgeschichte der Informatik, (Science Studies).
  10. Temperature and palaeolake evolution during a Middle Pleistocene interglacial–glacial transition at the Palaeolithic locality of Schöningen, Germany
  11. DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATIVE LOGISTICS MODEL FOR LINKING PLANNING AND CONTROL TASKS WITH LOGISTICAL VARIABLES ALONG THE COMPANY'S INTERNAL SUPPLY CHAIN.
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  15. Rezension zu: Markus Büring (2010): Lernumgebungen im Musikunterricht. Eine empirische Studie zur Wirksamkeit problemorientierter Aufgabensets.(ISBN 978-3-931852-46-7)
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  19. Effects of Soil Properties, Temperature and Disturbance on Diversity and Functional Composition of Plant Communities Along a Steep Elevational Gradient on Tenerife
  20. Phylogenetic analysis of cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) reveals a partially artificial classification at the genus level and a species-rich clade of bee parasitoids