Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie
The International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy ( IKKM ) is a research facility at the Bauhaus- University Weimar, founded in 2008 by Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert. The college grew out of the program space for the humanities in the humanities. It is initially for six years (until 2014 ) by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF). Seat is in Weimar, designed by Henry van de Velde Palais Dürckheim.
Research
The International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy ( IKKM ) works using a Fellow principle. With the support of a scientific advisory board renowned scientists from home and abroad are invited for one or two semesters after Weimar to realize their own projects and with each other to discuss common issues of Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy. The first funding phase of the IKKM is divided into six sections build on each other:
- 2008/ 09: hominisation and Humanoidisierung - Formulation of human
- 2009/10: Referenzialisierung and Ontisierung - Formulation of things
- 2010/11: semiosis: Formulation of characters
By means of these annual themes the College explores the relationships between people and things in the tech media culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. With special consideration of contemporary theoretical approaches to actor-network theory (ANT ) and their pioneering work, for example, by Bruno Latour, Michel Callon and John Law, the concern is a more complex understanding and description of options for mixing and networking between people and media equipment to develop which can detect distributed subject and action functions. In addition to specific observation items such as film comprehensively to current media technology equipment as well as the broader cultural, historical and anthropological media relationships are exposed.
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Directors: Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert
Junior Directors: Barbara Wittmann, Volker Pantenburg
Scientific Committee: Jacques Aumont, Raymond Bellour, Hans Belting, Régis Debray, John Durham Peters, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht