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. 2016
  2. Published

    Je možná metafyzika mediality?

    Krämer, S., 2016, Medienwissenschaft: východiska a aktuální pozice německé filozofie a teorie médií. Krtilová, K. & Svatoňová, K. (eds.). Prag: Academia Verlag, p. 69-88 20 p. (Vizuální studia; vol. 5).

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

  3. Published

    Kultura, technika, kulturni technika: Proti diskursivizaci kultury

    Krämer, S. & Bredekamp, H., 2016, Medienwissenschaft : východiska a aktuální pozice německé filozofie a teorie médií. Krtilová, K. & Svatoňová, K. (eds.). Prag: Academia Verlag, p. 173-184 12 p. (Vizuální studia; vol. 5).

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

  4. Published

    Leibniz ein Vordenker der Idee des Netzes und des Netzwerkes?

    Krämer, S., 2016, Vision als Aufgabe: Das Leibniz-Universum im 21. Jahrhundert. Grötschel, M., Knobloch, E., Schiffers, J., Woisnitza, M. & Ziegler, G. M. (eds.). Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, p. 47-59 13 p.

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

  5. Published

    Leibniz on symbolism as a cognitive instrument

    Krämer, S., 2016, The Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation and Application. Floyd, J. & Katz, J. E. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 307-318 12 p.

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

  6. Published

    Multimodal Crowd Sensing

    Vehlken, S., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: Technology - Mediation - Collectivity. Denecke, M., Ganzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 51–66 16 p. (Edition Medienwissenschaft; vol. 15).

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

  7. Published

    Ökologien des Machens: Zur allgemein-ökologischen Kritik der Welterzeugung bei Tim Ingold

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). 1 ed. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 49-58 10 p.

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

  8. Published

    Other Beginnings of Participative Sense Culture: Wild Media, Speculative Ecologies, Transgressions of the Cybernetic Hypothesis

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: technology - mediation - collectivity. Denecke, M., Gatzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 93-122 28 p. (Media studies).

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

  9. Published

    Poetik der Assimilation: Hermann Bahrs Wandelbarkeit und das Wissen der Angleichung um 1900

    Schnödl, G., 2016, Traditionsbrüche: Neue Forschungsansätze zu Hermann Bahr. Bachleitner, N., Kriegleder, W. & Simonek, S. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 49-62 14 p. (Wechselwirkungen; no. 19).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Prometheus meets Meta-Image: Implementations of Aby Warburg's methodical approach in the digital era

    Warnke, M. & Dieckmann, L., 2016, In: Visual Studies. 31, 2, p. 109-120 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Script and sound: reflections on the creative function of visualization and spatiali-zation for time-bounded processes like speech and music.

    Krämer, S., 2016, Danish Musicology Online Special Edition, 2016: Word and Music Studies – New paths, new methods. Wierod, L., KKjær Lønneker, A. M., Borcak, F. & Larsen, C. V. (eds.). Dansk Musikforskning Online, p. 14-24 11 p. (Danish Musicology Online ; vol. Special Edition 2016).

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

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