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. 2015
  2. Published

    Im Mittelpunkt steht Ada. Zur Einleitung in diesen Band

    Krämer, S., 2015, Ada Lovelace.: Die Pionierin der Computertechnik und ihre Nachfolgerinnen. Krämer, S. (ed.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 7-16 10 p.

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

  3. Published

    Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt

    Engemann, C. (Editor) & Sprenger, F. (Editor), 2015, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 400 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Körper

    Thomas, T. & Maier, T., 2015, Handbuch Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse. Hepp, A., Krotz, F., Lingenberg, S. & Wimmer, J. (eds.). 3 ed. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 285-295 11 p. (Medien - Kultur - Kommunikation).

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

  5. Published

    La vie, la nature, la technique

    Hörl, E. H. & Gorz, A., 2015, Le fil rouge de l’écologie: Entretiens inédites en francais, édition établie et présentée par Willy Gianinazzi. Gorz, A. (ed.). Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, p. 19-81 53 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  6. Published

    Les Adieux

    Hörl, E. H. (Contributor), 2015, Le fil rouge de l’écologie: Entretiens inédites en francais, édition établie et présentée par Willy Gianinazzi. Gorz, A. (ed.). Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, p. 103-106 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  7. Published

    Musikalische Wiederholung und Wiederaneignung: Collagen, Loops und Samples

    Großmann, R., 2015, Musik im Spektrum technologischer Entwicklungen und Neuer Medien: Festschrift für Bernd Enders. Bense et al., A. (ed.). Osnabrück: EPOS-Verlag, p. 207-218 11 p. (Medienästhetik der Musik; vol. 15).

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

  8. Published

    Pete Rock: For Pete's Sake

    Pelleter, M., 2015, In: JUICE. 138, Juli/August 2015, p. 64-70 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  9. Published

    Portal als Experimentalsystem

    Schrape, N., 2015, »The cake is a lie.«: Polyperspektivische Betrachtungen des Computerspiels am Beispiel von »Portal«. Neitzel, B., Nohr, R. & Hensel, T. (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 157-177 21 p. (Medien'welten; vol. 26).

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

  10. Published

    Réfléxivité et Système. Le débat sur l'ordre et L'auto-organisation dans les années 1970

    Hörl, E. H. (Editor) & Esposito, E. (Editor), 2015, Paris: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. (Trivium - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften; vol. 20/2015)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  11. Published

    Simondon et la question de l'information

    Hui, Y., 2015, ARTS, ESTHÉTIQUE, VIE CULTURELLE PHILOSOPHIE EUROPE. Barthelemy, J.-H. (ed.). 6 ed. Paris: L'Harmattan, p. 29-47 17 p. (Cahiers Simondon; no. 6).

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