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

    Sprechen, Schreiben, Programmieren. Digitalisierung alter Kulturtechniken oder digitale Kultur?

    Krämer, S., 2017, In: Der Blaue Reiter - Journal für Philosophie. 41, p. 16-20 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Die Rettung des Ontologischen durch das Ontische? Ein Kommentar zu 'operativen Ontologien'

    Krämer, S., 2017, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 8, 2, p. 125-142 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Why Notational Iconicity is a Form of Operational Iconicity

    Krämer, S., 2017, Dimensions of Iconicity. Zirker, A., Bauer, M., Fischer, O. & Ljungberg, C. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 303-320 18 p. (Iconicity in language and literature; vol. 15).

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

  4. Published

    Epistemic Dependence and Trust: On witnessing in the first, second and third-person perspectives

    Krämer, S., 08.2017, Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture. Krämer, S. & Weigel, S. (eds.). London: Rowman & Littlefield International, p. 247-259 13 p.

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

  5. Published

    Introduction: Converging the Yet-Separate Theoretical Discourses of Testimony Studies

    Krämer, S. & Weigel, S., 2017, Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History, and Culture. Krämer, S. & Weigel, S. (eds.). London: Rowman & Littlefield International, p. IX-XII 4 p.

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

  6. Published

    “Es ist die Medientheorie avant la lettre, die sich in der Legende vom sterbenden Boten verbirgt"

    Krämer, S., 07.2017, Zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens. Irrgang, D. & Hadler, F. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 255-278 24 p.

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

  7. Published

    Zeugenschaft als philosophisches Problem - Zur Einleitung in diesen Band

    Krämer, S., Schmidt, S. & Schülein, J.-G., 2017, Philosophie der Zeugenschaft: Eine Anthologie. Krämer, S., Schmidt, S. & Schülein, J.-G. (eds.). Münster: mentis Verlag, p. 7-24 18 p.

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

  8. Published

    Spur, Zeuge, Wahrheit. Zeugenschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen diskursiver und existenzialer Wahrheit?

    Krämer, S., 2017, Über Zeugen: Szenarien von Zeugenschaft und ihre Akteure. Däumer, M., Kalisky, A. & Schlie, H. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 147-166 20 p. (Trajekte).

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

  9. Published

    Medialität, Performativität und Sprachförmigkeit des Geldes. Drei Dimensionen über das Geld als Denkform zu reflektieren

    Krämer, S., 11.2016, Geld! Welches Geld?: Geld als Denkform. Brodbeck, K.-H. & Graupe, S. (eds.). Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, p. 153-172 20 p.

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

  10. Published

    Truth in testimony: Or can a documentary film ‘bear witness’? Some reflections on the difference between discursive and existential truth

    Krämer, S., 07.12.2016, In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures: Time, Truth, Tradition. Benedek, A. & Veszelszki, Á. (eds.). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 29-39 11 p. (Visual learning; vol. 6).

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

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