Special issue of Brand-New-Life magazine in collaboration with the Make/Sense PhD program.

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.

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.
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.

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).

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.
On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence

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.

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.