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. 

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    Remix

    Großmann, R., 2002, Metzler Lexikon Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft: Ansätze – Personen – Grundbegriffe. Schanze, H. (ed.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, p. 311-312 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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    Remastering

    Großmann, R., 2002, Metzler Lexikon Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft: Ansätze – Personen – Grundbegriffe. Schanze, H. (ed.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: J.B. Metzler, p. 311 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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    Relationen im Raum: Visualisierung topographischer Klein(st)strukturen

    Hüttenmeister, N., Kollatz, T., Rütenik, T., Warnke, M., Wedemeyer, C. & Ziai, T., 2013, In: Kalonymos. 16, 4, p. 4-6 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Relationen der Auflösung sind Relationen der Konstituierung – zur Individuation und zum Verhältnis von Transindividuellem und Interindividuellem nach Gilbert Simondon

    Leistert, O., 2019, Zersetzung: Automatismen und Strukturauflösung. Eke, N. O. & Hohlweck, P. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 155-169 15 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").

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

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    Reichweitenangst: Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters

    Müggenburg, J. (Editor), 2022, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 295 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 28)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

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    Reichweitenangst: Zur Einleitung

    Müggenburg, J., 2022, Reichweitenangst: Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters. Müggenburg, J. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 7-23 17 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 28).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

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    Reichsflugscheiben und Wehrmachtsmythen: "Stahlfront" – rechtsextreme Unterhaltung als Science Fiction?

    Spreen, D., 2009, Das Science Fiction Jahr 2009. Mamczak, S. & Jeschke, W. (eds.). München: Heyne, p. 425-468 48 p. (Das Science Fiction Jahr).

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

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    Reframing the technosphere: Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler's anthropotechnological diagnoses of the anthropocene

    Lemmens, P. & Hui, Y., 2017, In: Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 2, p. 26-41 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

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    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

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    Reflexitvität und System. Die Debatte über Ordnung und Selbstorganisation in den 1970er Jahren“

    Esposito, E. & Hörl, E., 16.06.2015, In: Trivium. 20, p. 2-7 6 p., 1.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review