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. 2016
  2. Published

    A Single Swing of the Shovel: Former West Proxies

    Levin, B. & Tollmann, V., 2016, Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989. Hlavajova, M. & Sheikh, S. (eds.). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, p. 519-534 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  3. Published

    Computerscreen und Tafelbild

    Warnke, M., 2016, Let's mix (all media) together & Hans Dieter Huber . Paflik-Huber, H. (ed.). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 293-298 6 p.

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

  4. Published

    Das totale Archiv: Zur Funktion des Nicht-Wissens in der digitalen Kultur

    Bernard, A., 2016, In: Merkur. 801, 70, p. 5-17 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  5. Published

    Der Delfin als Medium. Formation und Imagination in John C Lillys Kommunikationsexperimenten

    Müggenburg, J. K., 2016, Designing Thinking: Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960. Mareis, C. (ed.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 185–212 28 p. (Eikones).

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

  6. Published

    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

  7. Published

    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

  8. Published

    Einleitung

    Krämer, S. & Schmidt, S., 2016, Zeugen in der Kunst. Krämer, S. & Schmidt, S. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 7-17 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  9. Published

    Fotojournalismus in der Weimarer Republik: Ein theoretisch-empirisches Konzept zur Erforschung von Berufsfeld und Selbstverständnis

    Grittmann, E. & Birkner, T., 2016, Deutsche illustrierte Presse: Journalismus und visuelle Kultur in der Weimarer Republik. Leiskau, K., Rösler, P. & Trabert, S. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 71-92 22 p. (Mediengeschichte; vol. 1).

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

  10. Published

    Friedrich Kittler und der „Mißbrauch von Heeresgerät“: Zur Situation eines Denkbilds 1964 / 1984 / 2014

    Pias, C., 2016, Zweckentfremdung: 'Unsachgemäßer' Gebrauch als kulturelle Praxis. Keller, D. & Dillschnitter, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Parderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 63-80 18 p.

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

  11. Published

    Gerechtigkeit und Anerkennung durch Bilder: Eine ethische Perspektive auf visuelle Kommunikation in den Medien

    Grittmann, E. & Maier, T., 2016, Verantwortung – Gerechtigkeit – Öffentlichkeit: normative Perspektiven auf Kommunikation. Werner, P., Pleil, T., Rinsdorf, L. & Altmeppen, K.-D. (eds.). Konstanz/München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, p. 171-184 14 p. (Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft; vol. 43).

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

  12. Published

    Gespielte Medien und die Anfänge 'phonographischer Arbeit'

    Großmann, R., 2016, Spiel (mit) der Maschine: Musikalische Medienpraxis in der Frühzeit von Phonographie, Selbstspielklavier, Film und Radio. Saxer, M. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 381-398 18 p.

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

  13. Published

    Je možná metafyzika mediality?

    Krämer, S., 2016, Medienwissenschaft: východiska a aktuální pozice německé filozofie a teorie médií. Krtilová, K. & Svatoňová, K. (eds.). Prag: Academia Verlag, p. 69-88 20 p. (Vizuální studia; vol. 5).

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

  14. Published

    Kultura, technika, kulturni technika: Proti diskursivizaci kultury

    Krämer, S. & Bredekamp, H., 2016, Medienwissenschaft : východiska a aktuální pozice německé filozofie a teorie médií. Krtilová, K. & Svatoňová, K. (eds.). Prag: Academia Verlag, p. 173-184 12 p. (Vizuální studia; vol. 5).

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

  15. Published

    Leibniz ein Vordenker der Idee des Netzes und des Netzwerkes?

    Krämer, S., 2016, Vision als Aufgabe: Das Leibniz-Universum im 21. Jahrhundert. Grötschel, M., Knobloch, E., Schiffers, J., Woisnitza, M. & Ziegler, G. M. (eds.). Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, p. 47-59 13 p.

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

  16. Published

    Leibniz on symbolism as a cognitive instrument

    Krämer, S., 2016, The Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation and Application. Floyd, J. & Katz, J. E. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 307-318 12 p.

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

  17. Published

    Multimodal Crowd Sensing

    Vehlken, S., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: Technology - Mediation - Collectivity. Denecke, M., Ganzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 51–66 16 p. (Edition Medienwissenschaft; vol. 15).

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

  18. Published

    Ökologien des Machens: Zur allgemein-ökologischen Kritik der Welterzeugung bei Tim Ingold

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). 1 ed. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 49-58 10 p.

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

  19. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Poetik der Assimilation: Hermann Bahrs Wandelbarkeit und das Wissen der Angleichung um 1900

    Schnödl, G., 2016, Traditionsbrüche: Neue Forschungsansätze zu Hermann Bahr. Bachleitner, N., Kriegleder, W. & Simonek, S. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 49-62 14 p. (Wechselwirkungen; no. 19).

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

  21. Published

    Prometheus meets Meta-Image: Implementations of Aby Warburg's methodical approach in the digital era

    Warnke, M. & Dieckmann, L., 2016, In: Visual Studies. 31, 2, p. 109-120 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Script and sound: reflections on the creative function of visualization and spatiali-zation for time-bounded processes like speech and music.

    Krämer, S., 2016, Danish Musicology Online Special Edition, 2016: Word and Music Studies – New paths, new methods. Wierod, L., KKjær Lønneker, A. M., Borcak, F. & Larsen, C. V. (eds.). Dansk Musikforskning Online, p. 14-24 11 p. (Danish Musicology Online ; vol. Special Edition 2016).

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

  23. Published

    Social Media - New Masses

    Baxmann, I. (Editor), Beyes, T. (Editor) & Pias, C. (Editor), 2016, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 348 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  24. Published

    Spaces with a temper: On atmospheres of teaching

    Michels, C. & Beyes, T., 2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Parker, M. (eds.). London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 312-329 18 p.

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

  25. Published

    'Svjedok – Der Zeuge' (2012) oder: Kann ein Film ein Zeugnis sein?

    Krämer, S., 2016, Zeugen in der Kunst. Krämer, S. & Schmidt, S. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 141-162 12 p.

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

  26. Published

    Technikvergessenheit? Ernst Kapps und Georg Simmels nichtinstrumentelle Techniktheorien

    Schnödl, G., 2016, In: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie. 3, 1, p. 131-150 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics

    Hui, Y., 2016, Falmouth: Urbanomic. 346 p. (Mono)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  28. Published

    Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft

    Vehlken, S. (Editor), Müller-Helle, K. (Editor), Müggenburg, J. K. (Editor) & Sprenger, F. (Editor), 2016, Norderstedt: meson press. 118 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  29. Published

    Trick 17 zur Einführung

    Vehlken, S., Müggenburg, J. K., Sprenger, F. & Müller-Helle, K., 2016, Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft. Vehlken, S., Müller-Helle, K., Müggenburg, J. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-14 8 p.

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

  30. Published

    Trickkisten: Heinz von Foerster und der Zauber der Kybernetik

    Müggenburg, J. K., 2016, Trick 17 : Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft. Vehlken, S., Müller-Helle, K., Müggenburg, J. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Norderstedt: meson press, p. 59-84 26 p.

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

  31. Published

    Von der Herrschaft der Technik zum Parlament der Dinge: Ein Deutungsversuch

    Voller, C. & Schnödl, G., 2016, In: Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie. 2, 1, p. 159-182 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Warum für Kant die mathematische Gewissheit nicht auf dem Schlussfolgern be-ruht. Über die Rolle von Anschauung, Räumlichkeit, Körperlichkeit und Deixis in Kants Erkenntnistheorie

    Krämer, S., 2016, Ungründe : Potenziale prekärer Fundierung. Rautzenberg, M. & Schiffers, J. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 201-218 18 p.

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

  33. Published

    Zeugen in der Kunst

    Krämer, S. (Editor) & Schmidt, S. (Editor), 2016, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 246 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  34. 2015
  35. Published

    Die Zeit die aus der Kälte kam

    Pias, C., 05.12.2015, Exploring Cybernetics : Kybernetik im interdisziplinären Diskurs. Jeschke, S., Schmitt, R. & Dröge, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 227-236 10 p.

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

  36. Published

    Szintetikus történelem

    Pias, C., 16.11.2015, In: Tiszataj. 4, p. 83-92 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Algorithmic Catastrophe - the Revenge of Contingency

    Hui, Y., 11.2015, In: Parrhesia : a Journal of Critical Philosophy. 23, p. 122-143 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Modulation After Control

    Hui, Y., 11.2015, In: New Formations. 84-85, p. 74-91 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    On the Spot: The Double Immersion of Virtual Reality

    Warnke, M., 30.10.2015, Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media. Liptay, F. (ed.). Leiden: Rodopi, p. 204 - 213 10 p. ( Studies in Intermediality; vol. 9).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  40. Published

    Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship

    Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Reflexitvität und System. Die Debatte über Ordnung und Selbstorganisation in den 1970er Jahren“

    Esposito, E. & Hörl, E., 16.06.2015, In: Trivium. 20, p. 2-7 6 p., 1.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Ethos, Pathos, PowerPoint: zur Epistemologie und (Silicon-Valley-)Rhetorik digitaler Präsentationen

    Hagen, W., 11.06.2015, Medienkultur und Bildung: ästhetische Erziehung im Zeitalter digitaler Netzwerke. Hagener, M. & Hediger, V. (eds.). Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, p. 177-200 24 p.

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

  43. Published

    Niels Werber, Ameisengesellschaften. Eine Faszinationsgeschichte, Frankfurt a.M.: Main: S.. Fischer 2013

    Vehlken, S., 02.06.2015, In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 38, 2, p. 196-197 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  44. Published

    Diversity of Play

    Fuchs, M. (Editor), 01.06.2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 111 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  45. Published

    Total Gamification: Introduction

    Fuchs, M., 01.06.2015, Diversity of Play. Fuchs, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-19 13 p.

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

  46. Published

    When Machines Speak to Each Other: Unpacking the “Social” in “Social Media”

    Shah, N., 29.04.2015, In: Social Media and Society. 1, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    The selfie and the slut bodies, technology and public shame

    Shah, N., 25.04.2015, In: Economic and Political Weekly. 50, 17, p. 86-93 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  48. Published

    Ghetto Blasts: Media Histories of Neighborhood Technologies between Segregation, Cooperation, and Craziness

    Vehlken, S., 15.04.2015, Neighborhood Technologies : Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks. Harks, T. & Vehlken, S. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 37-66 29 p.

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

  49. Published

    Neighborhood Technologies: Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

    Vehlken, S. (Editor) & Harks, T. (Editor), 15.04.2015, Zürich/ Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 240 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  50. Published

    Neighborhood Techologies: An Introduction

    Vehlken, S. & Harks, T., 15.04.2015, Neighborhood Technologies: Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks. Vehlken, S. & Harks, T. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 9-16 8 p.

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

  51. Published

    Sluts 'r' us: Intersections of gender, protocol and agency in the digital age

    Shah, N., 06.04.2015, In: First Monday. 20, 4, 5463.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  52. Published

    Friedrich Kittler und der »Mißbrauch von Heeresgerät«: Zur Situation eines Denkbildes 1964 – 1984 – 2014

    Pias, C., 04.2015, In: Merkur. 69, 791, p. 31-34 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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