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.
- 2025
- Published
“The spaces of sight and sound”–Containment, feedback, and contingency in R. Murray Schafer´s acoustic ecology
Haffke, M., 10.2025, In: Sound Studies. 11, 2, p. 210-233 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Between world models and model worlds: on generality, agency, and worlding in machine learning
Mitrokhov, K., 08.2025, In: AI and Society. 40, 6, p. 5087-5099 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Critical Zones and Thought Exhibitions
Irrgang, D., 19.07.2025, In: Spool. 12, 2, p. 7-18 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
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
- Published
Das Schützen mit und das Schützen vor dem Digitalen: Erfahrungen mit Bewahrungsstrategien in digitalen Kulturen.
Warnke, M., 28.02.2025, Paradoxien des Schützens: Schutzkonzepte und ihre Widersprüche. Crasemann, L., Lutz, S. & Müller, T. (eds.). Berlin: Reimer Verlag, p. 113-125 13 p. (Schriftenreihe der Isa Lohmann-Siems Stiftung; vol. 18).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
Resisting foundations: Politics between determinate negation and the ultimate double bind
Schneider, N., 18.02.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophy and Social Criticism. 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Der philosophische Knotenpunkt der ästhetischen Langeweile
Gräfe, A., 11.02.2025, In: Zeitschrift Kunst Medien Bildung. 2025, p. 46-54 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- In preparation
Medienwissenschaft und ‚Behinderung‘. Zu Ursprüngen und Bewusstwerdung eines epistemologischen Hindernisses
Wiechern, A.-L., 2025, (In preparation) Dis/Ability und digitale Medien: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Technologien, Praktiken und Zugänglichkeiten. Stock, R., Meier zu Verl, C., Şahinol, M., Spöhrer, M., Wagenknecht, A. & Wiechern, A.-L. (eds.). Springer Nature, (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
- Accepted/In press
Not in the world: philosophy, anarchism and real alterity
Schneider, N., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Distinktion.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2024
- Published
The Depths of Illusion: Knowing Reality Through Computer Simulation
Dippel, A. & Warnke, M., 16.12.2024, 1 ed. Berlin: transcript Verlag. 138 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book