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

    Hermann Bahr: Inventur

    Schnödl, G. (Editor), 2011, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar. 148 p. (Hermann Bahr – Kritische Schriften in Einzelausgaben (2004-2012))

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Hermann Bahr. Dalmatinische Reise

    Schnödl, G. (Editor), 2012, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar. 132 p. (Hermann Bahr – Kritische Schriften in Einzelausgaben (2004-2012))

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Hermann Bahr: Russische Reise

    Schnödl, G. (Editor), 2012, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar. 132 p. (Hermann Bahr – Kritische Schriften in Einzelausgaben)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Hermann Bahr: Selbstbildnis

    Schnödl, G. (Editor), 2011, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar. 281 p. (Hermann Bahr – Kritische Schriften in Einzelausgaben (2004-2012))

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Hermann Bahr: Wien

    Schnödl, G. (Editor), 2012, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar. 92 p. (Hermann Bahr – Kritische Schriften in Einzelausgaben (2004-2012))

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Hermann Bahr. Burgtheater/ Schauspielkunst/ Notizen zur neueren spanischen Literatur.

    Schnödl, G. (Editor), 2012, Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar. 191 p. (Hermann Bahr – Kritische Schriften in Einzelausgaben (2004-2012))

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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    Sensory Engineering: Affects and the Mechanics of Musical Time

    Großmann, R., 2014, Timing of Affect: Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics. Angerer, M.-L., Bösel, B. & Ott, M. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 191-205 15 p.

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

  9. Published

    Computational Swarming: A Cultural Technique for Generative Architecture

    Vehlken, S., 20.11.2014, In: Footprint. 15, p. 9-24 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Von Schmetterlingen und Atomreaktoren: Medien und Politiken der Resilienz am IIASA

    Schrickel, I., 2014, In: Behemoth : a Journal on Civilization. 7 , 2, p. 5-25 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review