25/11/2024
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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.
Reimagine archives through feminist lenses at the 4S 2025 Seattle Conference: This panel delves into how digital visual tools challenge biases, amplify marginalized histories, and transform archives into dynamic sites of equity and resistance. Submit by 31 January 2025.
Dr. Lucie Kolb is appointed Professor of Critical Publishing at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at the HGK Basel from 1 January 2025, where she will be active in research and teaching and co-head the PhD programme Make/Sense.
Dr Kit Braybrooke will be Professor and Head of the new MA programme Transversal Design at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) of the HGK Basel starting 1 August 2024.
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence
On the escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine
Following routes and temporalities of a collection vintage car’s contaminants by artistic research practices.
Non-linear essay by Flavia Caviezel in online journal Troubles dans les collections/Troubles in the collections.
9–11 December 2024
Three days of gatherings and exchanges along three main threads of thinking and practice at Critical Media Lab.
With two workshops, a public conversation on critical media & technological practices, the inaugural lecture of IXDM guest professor Eva Weinmayr, and a screening programme of films by Shuruq Harb and Monica Basbous, curated by Nadim Choufi.