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.
- 2021
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Critique of Environmentality: On the World-Wide Axiomatics of Environmentalitarian Time
Hörl, E., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 109-146 38 p. (Critical Stances).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Cultural Politics of Games
Fuchs, M., 2021, Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art. Grau, O. & Hinterwaldner, I. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, p. 78-86 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Dis/Ability and Digital Cultures. A Media-Archaeological Perspective on Inclusion as a Cipher
Müggenburg, J., 2021, Inklusion als Chiffre?: Bildungshistorische Analysen und Reflexionen. Vogt, M., Boger, M.-A. & Bühler, P. (eds.). Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, p. 93-105 13 p. (Historische Bildungsforschung).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Environmentalitäre Zeit
Hörl, E., 2021, Konfigurationen der Zeitlichkeit. Friedrich, A., Gehring, P., Hubig, C., Kaminski, A. & Nordmann, A. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 137 - 162 26 p. (Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie; vol. 7. 2021).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Introduction
Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L., 2021, Critique and the Digital . Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7 - 24 18 p. (Critical Stances).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research
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La pensée du suspens. Mélancolie et politique dans le sans-époque
Hörl, E., 2021, Amitiés de Bernard Stiegler: Douze Contributions réunis par Jean-Luc Nancy. Nancy, J.-L. (ed.). Paris: Galilée Editions, p. 45 - 68 24 p. (La philosophie en effet).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects
Conrad, L. (Editor), Beyes, T. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Pias, C. (Editor), Denny, S. (Editor) & Steinbrügge, B. (Editor), 2021, Hamburg: Kunstverein in Hamburg. 196 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Transfer
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Modeling the Pacific Ocean
Vehlken, S. (Editor), Vagt, C. (Editor) & Kittler, W. (Editor), 2021, Oakland: University of California Press. (Media and Environment; vol. 3, no. 2)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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New Labor, Old Questions: Practices of Collaboration with Robots
Kasprowicz, D., 2021, Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies. Schüttelpelz, E., Bergermann, U., Dommann, M., Stolow, J. & Taha, N. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 247-262 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg: Zur Entstehung der Systemtheorie
Beyes, T. (Editor), Warnke, M. (Editor), Hagen, W. (Editor) & Pias, C. (Editor), 2021, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot GmbH. 136 p. (Soziologische Schriften (SOZS); vol. 86)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research