Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

Unser Institut untersucht die Wechselbeziehung von Kultur und digitalen Medien. Mit seinen Schwerpunktbereichen folgt es einem historisch-epistemologisch ausgerichteten Programm, das sich durch ein spezielles Interesse an technischen und techno-ästhetischen Zusammenhängen auszeichnet.

Das ICAM geht der Frage nach, wie (digitale) Medientechniken auf Forschungs-, Erkenntnis- und Kulturalisationsprozesse einwirken. Es erforscht zudem den Wandel von Produktions-und Produktstrategien bei der Herstellung elektronischer Kommunikate und die damit einhergehenden neuen Verfahren ästhetischer Gestaltung in Ton und Bild. Das Institut setzt sich die Förderung von Medienkompetenz als eine essentielle Kulturtechnik zum Ziel. Es widmet sich der Forschung und Lehre sowie der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in den Fachgebieten Digitale Medien/Kulturinformatik, Digitale Medien und Auditive Gestaltung, Medientheorie und Medienkultur.

 

Topics

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.

  1. Published

    Beweismaterial: Fotografie und ihr Rohstoffverbrauch

    Tollmann, V., 2022, In: Springerin : Hefte für Gegenwartskunst. 28, 3, p. 10-11 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

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    Bewegte Spiele: Zur Verschiebung des Verhältnisses von Spiel und Alltagswelt durch mobile Games

    Schrape, N. & Fuchs, M., 2013, In: Sprache und Literatur. 44, 1, p. 69-83 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War

    Hoof, F., 09.2018, Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. Wasson, H. & Grieveson, L. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 177-191 15 p.

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

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    Between symmetry and asymmetry: spontaneous symmetry breaking as narrative knowing

    Borrelli, A., 01.04.2021, In: Synthese. 198, 4, p. 3919-3948 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009

    Grittmann, E., 03.2014, Image politics of climate change: visualizations, imaginations, documentations. Schneider, B. & Noske, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 127-153 27 p. ( Image; vol. 55).

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

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    Between Recognition and Abstraction: Early Vocational Training Films

    Hoof, F., 22.03.2018, The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material. Curtis, S., Gunning, T., Gauthier, P. & Yumibe, J. (eds.). Indiana University Press, p. 111-119 9 p. (The Image in Early Cinema).

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

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    Between Drudgery and "Promesse du bonheur": Games and Gamification

    Fuchs, M., 10.02.2017, New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming : Multiplayer 2. Kowert, R. & Quandt, T. (eds.). 1 ed. London, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 185-199 15 p. (Routledge advances in game studies).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Betriebssysteme der Wissenschaft

    Warnke, M., 2012, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 7, 2, p. 152-156 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Bernd Schorb/Helga Theunert (Hrsg.):"Ein bisschen wählen dürfen..." Jugend - Politik - Fernsehen. - München, 2000

    Röser, J., 01.12.2002, In: Publizistik. 47, 4, p. 494-495 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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    Berechnetes Kino

    Warnke, M., 2004, Der Zeitpfeil im Digitalen: Synthese, Mimesis, Emergenz. Warnke, M. (ed.). Stuttgart: Stiftungs-Verbundkolleg Informationsgesellschaft, p. 16-26 11 p. (Stiftungsreihe).

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

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    "Being There!": Epistemologische Skizzen zur Smartphone-Fotografie

    Hagen, W., 12.2012, Bildwerte: Visualität in der digitalen Medienkultur. Freyermuth, G. S. & Gotto, L. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 103-135 33 p.

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

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    Becoming-Environmental: Toward a Critique of Environmentality as Power-Form, World-Form, and Capital-Form

    Hörl, E., 2020, Hybrid Ecologies. Witzgall, S., Kesting, M., Muhle, M. & Nachtigall, J. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 197-208 12 p.

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

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    Beating Time: Futuristische Geschichten und vergangene Zukünfte der Drum-Machine

    Pelleter, M., 2017, Good Vibrations: Eine Geschichte der elektronischen Musikinstrumente. Restle, C., Brillmaier, B. & Hardjowirogo, S-I. (eds.). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, p. 41-45 5 p.

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

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    Battery as a mediating technology of organization

    Müggenburg, J. K., 24.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 26–33 8 p.

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

  15. Published

    Bats in the Belfry: On the Relationship of Cybernetics and German Media Theory

    Müggenburg, J. K., 28.07.2017, In: Canadian Journal of Communication. 42, 3, p. 467 – 484 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo: Cash and Dash. How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking. (Rezension)

    Müggenburg, J. K., 07.05.2019, 3 p. H-Soz-Kult.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

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    Banal militarism and the culture of war

    Thomas, T. & Virchow, F., 2005, Bring 'em on: Media and Politics in the Iraq War. Artz, L. & Kamalipour, Y. R. (eds.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p. 23-36 14 p. (COMMUNICATION, MEDIA, AND POLITICS).

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

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    Banal Militarism: zur interdisziplinären Erschliessung eines Forschungsfeldes

    Virchow, F. & Thomas, T., 2006, Banal militarism. Thomas, T. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 25-48 24 p.

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

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    Banal militarism: zur Veralltäglichung des Militärischen im Zivilen

    Thomas, T. (ed.) & Virchow, F. (ed.), 31.12.2006, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 432 p. (Cultural Studies; vol. 13)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  20. Published

    Banaler Militarismus

    Thomas, T. & Virchow, F., 2003, In: Ossietzky. 6, 20, p. 690-691 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch