A new web journal by the Transversal Design MA programme.
29/06/2025
Current
Winnie Soon and CML’s Helen V. Pritchard contributed the piece Queer Motto API Manual: To Know Exactly How Many Times to Cry to the reader “Curating Superintelligences”, the latest in the “DATA browser” book series.
Edited by Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, the volume examines how computational technologies, rapid developments in AI, and the reassertion of subaltern knowledges are reshaping the contemporary curatorial field. It poses questions about the implications of these “super-intelligences” for contemporary art and culture, and the new possibilities for curatorial practice and its future forms.
Invited by the Make/Sense PhD programme at CML, researcher and publisher Sezgin Boynik will be a guest in the Atelier Mondial residency program in January.
The MA Transversal Design launched a new online zine that will continue to evolve into a living web journal to document and reflect on the activities and practices of the study programme.
On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence
At the invitation of the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at HGK Basel, Romi Ron Morrison from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a guest in the residency programme HGK Basel @ Atelier Mondial in December 2025.
3–5 December 2025
How can we build liveable futures through the mundane labor of infrastructural resistance? What does it mean to go back, each day, and perform resistant handicraft?
Critical Media Lab & HyperWerk invite to a three-day public programme on how we can take action together in the face of social, political and ecological crises.
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
15:00–17:00
With Elias & Yousef Anastas, co-founders of Wonder Cabinet, Radio alHara & Local Industries.
Thursday, 4 December 2025
10:00–17:00
At the one-day symposium, HyperWerk invites activist designers to engage in a dialogue about resistant praxis and strategy. In diverse practices of caring, diligent work, we seek solidarity-based, life-affirming responses to the political and ecological threats of our time.
The contributions by Carmin Karasic, Tobéchukwu Onwukeme, Border Forensics with Elio Panese and Stanislas Michel, Timon Nils Essoungou Bony Malong, Yamina Sam, and Cherry-Ann Morgan hack authoritarian institutions, document police violence, make soil-related practices audible, conduct research with local communities against ecocide, and embody ancestral knowledge in handicrafts.