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. Published

    Die Problematik Granels

    Hörl, E., 04.2020, Die totale Produktion: Technik, Kapital und die Logik der Unendlichkeit. Hörl, E. (ed.). Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant, p. 7-37 31 p.

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    Die politisch-normativen Strukturen globaler Sicherheit und Probleme der Kommunikation ordnungskonstitutiver militärischer Gewalt

    Spreen, D., 2011, Den Krieg erklären: Sicherheitspolitik als Problem der Kommunikation. Zowislo-Grünewald, N. & Schulz, J. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 17-36 19 p.

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

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    Die papiernen Tafeln des Alan Mathison Turing

    Warnke, M., 2006, Turings Tables. John, F. (ed.). Courtesy Galerie Schüppenhauer Köln, p. 28-36 5 p.

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

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    Die Ökologisierung des Denkens

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 14, 1, p. 33-45 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Die Nihilisierung des Nihilismus - Alfred Seidel (1895-1924)

    Voller, C., 2016, Intellektuelle in Heidelberg 1910 - 1933. Ein Lesebuch. Bitterolf, M., Schöbel, S. & Schlaudt, O. (eds.). Heidelberg: Schöbel , p. 305-321 19 p.

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

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    Die multimediale Herausforderung und die Wissenschaft von der Musik

    Großmann, R., 2005, In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik : das Magazin für neue Töne. 166, 4, p. 22-24 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Die mediale Erfindung der Gesellschaft: Genealogie als soziologische Methode

    Spreen, D., 2004, Die Medien und ihre Technik: Theorien – Modelle – Geschichte. Segeberg, H. (ed.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 43-55 12 p. (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM); vol. 11).

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    Die Materialität des Klangs und die Medienpraxis der Musikkultur: Ein verspäteter Gegenstand der Musikwissenschaft?

    Großmann, R., 2013, Auditive Medienkulturen: Techniken des Hörens und Praktiken der Klanggestaltung. Volmar, A. & Schröter, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 61-78 17 p.

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

  9. Published

    Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur

    Metelmann, J. (Editor) & Beyes, T. (Editor), 2012, Berlin: Berlin University Press. 211 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Die Lesbarkeit der Bewegung

    Pias, C., 2011, Gestalt der Bewegung - Figure of Motion. Zinsmeister, A. (ed.). Jovis Verlag, p. 131-161 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review