New online collection of interviews on Basel-based net initiatives in the 1990s.

2nd / 9th / 16th September 2026
Join the Digital Fortresses webinar series this September to learn from and with researchers and activists working on understanding and exposing digital infrastructures that underpin and uphold imperialist/capitalist systems across different sectors and geographies, and how we can collectively resist them!
The Digital Fortresses project is hosted by The Transnational Institute (TNI), and The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI).

We invite applications to our three-year practice-based PhD programme for artists, designers, researchers, curators, and cultural organisers engaged in critical, experimental, and transdisciplinary research.
Pre-proposal deadline:
27 September 2026

9–13 September 2026
Works by members of Make/Sense PhD and MA Transversal Design at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.

An online collection of video interviews centered around Basel-based net initiatives in the 1990s that spawned the local net art and activism scene.
Part of the SNSF-funded research project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts.

Two artist-researchers from CML will visit Brazil to connect with local artists, researchers, and institutions for transdisciplinary exchanges around the energy transition, digital infrastructures, and climate imaginaries.

Thursday, 13 August 2026
Critical Media Lab / Atelier Mondial kitchen
Guillemette Legrand co-hosts a series of workshops on rethinking climate imaginaries and computational modelling practices.
A short essay on the making and unmaking of knowledge in the context of war and occupation.

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

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.
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence


