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.
- 2004
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Kulturland Brandenburg: Eine Kampagne für regionale Kulturarbeit
Bachmann, G. & Voesgen, H., 2004, Labor Ostdeutschland: kulturelle Praxis im gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Bauer-Volke, K. & Dietzsch, I. (eds.). Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische BildungResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Mediendiskurse und Alltagspraktiken: Konzeptualisierungen eines Zusammenhanges
Thomas, T., 2004, Frauen fördern Hochschulen: Tagungsband der Konferenz zum Fachprogramm Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehreund der Personalentwicklung unter dem Blickwinkel von Gender Mainstreaming vom16./17. September 2004, Bauhaus-UniversitätWeimar. Mai, U. (ed.). Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, p. 36-47 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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"Mensch, burnen musst du!": Castingshows als Werkstatt des neoliberalen Subjekts
Thomas, T., 2004, In: Zeitschrift für politische Psychologie. 12, 1/2, p. 191-208 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Menschliche Cyborgs und reflexive Moderne: Vom Jupiter zum Mars zur Erde – bis ins Innere des Körpers
Spreen, D., 2004, Vernunft – Entwicklung – Leben: Schlüsselbegriffe der Moderne. Festschrift für Wolfgang Eßbach. Bröckling, U., Kaufmann, S. & Paul, A. T. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 317-346 29 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Signal, Material, Sampling: zur ästhetischen Aneignung medientechnischer Übertragung
Großmann, R., 2004, Übertragung - Transfer - Metapher: Kulturtechniken, ihre Visionen und Obsessionen. Sanio , S. & Scheib , C. (eds.). Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, p. 91-110 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Tausch, Technik, Krieg: Zur Diskursanalyse der Medien und des Sozialen
Spreen, D., 2004, Landschaft, Geschlecht, Artefakte: Zur Soziologie naturaler und artifizieller Alteritäten.. Eßbach, W., Kaufmann, S., Verdicchio, D., Lutterer, W., Bellanger, S. & Uerz, G. (eds.). Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, p. 49-59 10 p. (Identitäten und Alteritäten; vol. 15).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Technik – Magie – Medium: Geister, die erscheinen
Kümmel, A. (Editor) & Spreen, D. (Editor), 2004, Berlin: Ästhetik & Kommunikation e.V. 128 p. (Ästhetik & Kommunikation; vol. 35, no. 127)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Zuhause in der Mediengesellschaft: Medien und Kommunikationstechnologien im häuslichen Alltag
Röser, J., 2004, Wissensgesellschaft: neue Medien und ihre Konsequenzen. Kübler, H.-D. & Elling, E. (eds.). Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische BildungResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
- 2003
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Medien und der 11. September: vom "Kulturbruchszenario" in einer Medienkultur
Thomas, T., 01.01.2003, Kulturwissenschaft als Kommunikationswissenschaft: Projekte, Probleme und Perspektiven. Karmasin, M. & Winter, C. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, p. 107-126 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research