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Co-listening: A closing conversation

Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 18:30

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Stas Shärifullá in conversation on occasion of the conclusion of the project Critical Listening to the Global South: Towards a Decolonization of Sound Media.

De-hegemonizing Technologies of Capture

Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 13:00–17:00

On the hegemony of “technologies of capture” and subversive artistic and scholarly interventions to de-hegemonize Western-born technologies.

With guests Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Moushumi Bhowmik and Ishita Chakraborty. Hosted by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, joined by Stas Shärifullá.

Reuse as a critical, political practice

Thursday, 10 April 2025, ZHdK Zurich

Talk by Claudia Hummel and Eva Weinmayr on pirated publications, part of the seminar Publishing and Sharing by Eva Weinmayr at ZHdK Zurich.

Working from here

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 18:00 at Critical Media Lab

Join us for a conversation with Karin Harrasser on situating oneself as a researcher (or artist).

Colloquium with eeefff

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 13:00–17:00

Algosomatic Session: how to act on a distance, to race conditions, to sleep with algorithms?

Collective workshop with eeefff.

Statement of Solidarity

On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region

Statement in solidarity

with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence

SMUC website updated

Scaling Material Urban Commons (2021–2024) was a critical making project hosted at CML that explored pathways towards just algorithmic governance of urban resources in a time of extractivist and biased algorithms. It rehearsed collective machine teaching and community-based data practices to distribute rescued food.

With the end of the project, the research team just released an online documentation of their field test, exhibition, symposium and other outputs of the project.

https://smuc.kitchen

Imagination as a Site of Struggle

Special issue of Brand-New-Life magazine in collaboration with the Make/Sense PhD program on academic writing as a site of struggle against attempts at formalizing imagination.