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.
- 2016
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Collectives, Connectives, and the ‘Nonsense1 of Participation
Pias, C., 02.2016, ReClaiming participation: technology - mediation - collectivity . Denecke, M., Ganzert, A., Stock, R. & Otto, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 23-38 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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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ReClaiming Participation: Technology - Mediation - Collectivity
Denecke, M. (Editor), Ganzert, A. (Editor), Otto, I. (Editor) & Stock, R. (Editor), 02.2016, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 296 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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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Zur Aktualität der Rhythmusbewegung im 21. Jahrhundert: Eine Respondenz
Großmann, R., 02.2016, In: Die Musikforschung. 69, 2, p. 157-160 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Queer mobiles and mobile queers: Intersections, vectors, and movements in India
Shah, N., 01.01.2016, Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia. Hjorth, L. & Khoo, O. (eds.). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, p. 275-284 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The messenger as a model in Media Theory. Reflections on the philosophical di-mensions of theorizing Media
Krämer, S., 01.01.2016, Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies Between North American and German-Speaking Europe. N. F. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 197-213 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Weltentzug und Weltzerfall (world-withdrawal and world-decay): Heidegger’s notions of withdrawal from the world and the decays of worlds in the times of computer games
Fuchs, M., 01.01.2016, Philosophical Perspectives on Play. Maclean, M., Russell, W. & Ryall, E. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 152-165 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Lebenstreue Medien: Von immersierten Körpern zu digitalen Menschmodellen
Kasprowicz, D., 01.2016, Die mediatisierte Gesellschaft: Leben und arbeiten mit immersiven Medien. Hochscherf, T. (ed.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 27-39 13 p. (Jahrbuch für immersive Medien; vol. 2015).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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A Single Swing of the Shovel: Former West Proxies
Levin, B. & Tollmann, V., 2016, Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989. Hlavajova, M. & Sheikh, S. (eds.). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, p. 519-534 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review