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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Pattern Discrimination
Apprich, C., Kyong Chun, W. H., Cramer, F. & Steyerl, H., 2019, Lüneburg: meson press. 124 p. (In Search of Media Book Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Partizipation
Beyes, T., 2010, Lexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst von Com & Com: [anläßlich der Ausstellung "La Réalité Dépasse la Fiction" im CentrePasquArt in Biel /Bienne vom 17. Januar bis 14. März 2010]. Hedinger, J. M. & Gossolt, M. (eds.). Sulgen und Zürich: Niggli Verlag , p. 127-128 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Overhead Projector
Pias, C., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 286-300 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Organizing the entrepreneurial city
Beyes, T., 2012, Handbook on Organisational Entrepreneurship. Hjorth, D. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 320-337 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Organisation der Kraft: Kunst-Arbeit im Zeitalter der Thermodynamik
Schnödl, G., 2013, Repräsentationen von Arbeit: Transdisziplinäre Analysen und künstlerische Produktionen. Brogi, S., Freier, C., Freier-Otten, U. & Hartosch, K. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 101-114 14 p. (Gesellschaft der Unterschiede; vol. 11).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Optical Diagrams as “Paper Tools”: Della Porta’s Analysis of Biconvex Lenses from De refractione to De telescopio
Borrelli, A., 2017, The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535–1615). Borrelli, A., Hon, G. & Zik, Y. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature AG, p. 57-96 40 p. (Archimedes; vol. 44).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Operative communication: project Cybersyn and the intersection of information design, interface design, and interaction design
Vehlken, S., 09.2022, In: AI and Society. 37, 3, p. 1131-1152 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Operational Images: Agent-Based Computer Simulation and the Epistemic Impact of Dynamic Vizualisation
Vehlken, S., 07.2011, Proceedings IACAP 2011: The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures ?. Ess, C. & Hagengruber, R. (eds.). MV Wissenschaft, p. 320-323 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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On the Synthesis of Social Memories
Hui, Y., 11.2016, Memory in Motion : Archives, Technology and the Social. Blom, I., Lundemo, T. & Røssaak, E. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 307-325 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review