Agenda
Public events and other activities happening at, around, or in collaboration with the CML.
Public inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb.
Transversal Design is a research-oriented, transdisciplinary master’s programme which explores social, ecological, political, and creative processes in their complex interdependencies.
Eva Weinmayr with guest Andrea Francke to discuss Critical Access.
Learn more about our study programmes and sign-up for info slots. Join us on campus and get insights into current projects by students of the BA Process Design at HyperWerk and the MA Transversal Design.
At the one-day symposium, HyperWerk invites activist designers to engage in a dialogue about resistant praxis and strategy.
Critical Media Lab & HyperWerk invite to a three-day public programme on the mundane work of resistant practices. How can we take action together in the face of social, political and ecological crises?
Sign up to join an info slot on site or online to get to know more about the MA Transversal Design or other degree programmes at HGK Basel.
In times of algorithmic extraction and cultural amnesia, the library becomes a site of resistance — a space for making publics, sharing survival tools, and reimagining what it means to read, to care, and to know together.
Mining and Resistance in Espinar. Screening and conversation with filmmaker Vidal Merma.
Hacking Systems, Hacking Futures — Basel’s festival for digital culture, art and society.
What is seen, known, remembered in the age of bots & algorithms? How, what, and who does AI represent, and for whom?
A Spectrum of Research Practices in Transversal Design
Opening on Thursday, 11 September, 18:00.
Book launch celebrations with apéro on Thursday, 19 June, 5–7 pm.
Situated, embodied and embedded writing & reading practices in the context of practice-based research.
What infrastructures shape artistic research—and how can we reshape them in return? Part of the Publishing module in the MA Transversal Design.
Cozy conversation with British artist Jane Prophet to discusses her work-in-progress installation “WILD Flowers”.
On the hegemony of “technologies of capture” and subversive artistic and scholarly ways to intervene.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay & Stas Shärifullá in conversation on occasion of the conclusion of the project Critical Listening to the Global South.
Join us for a conversation with Karin Harrasser on situating oneself as a researcher (or artist).
Algosomatic Session: how to act on a distance, to race conditions, to sleep with algorithms?
Exhibitions of current projects from all degree programmes of HGK Basel plus info events for prospective students.
Propositions for transformative intersectional publishing.
Inaugural lecture by IXDM guest professor Eva Weinmayr.
Rewriting as a method and collectively rehearsing ways to visualize rewriting processes.
A conversation and collective gathering that rehearses the idea of critical media & technological practices.
Three days of gatherings and exchanges along three main threads of thinking and practice at Critical Media Lab.
Quinn Latimer and Mariana Tilly in conversation with Ute Holl and Evelyn Kreutzer.
Get to know the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and our study programmes BA Process Design at HyperWerk and MA Transversal Design.
Colloquium session on Electromagnetism, Radiophony and Listening to the Unheard with the Sonic Amateurs Club, featuring guests Valentina Vuksic and Evgeny Bylina.
A gathering open to artists, academics, and activists for rethinking design’s role in producing our present and for developing alternative planetary futures. Culmination of the Governing Through Design research project.
Mesh is a new festival for digital art and technology. The first edition will take place from 16–20 October 2024 around the Freilager-Platz in Basel and Münchenstein.
Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström on Reimagining Design Histories and Futures. Hosted by Lilo Viehweg.
The media installation presents animated image series that were recorded with wild-life cameras in and around Basel between 2020-2023. Developed as part of the interdisciplinary design research project MITWELTEN.
Get to know HGK Basel and take a look around the studios, talk to lecturers and students, and ask your questions about our degree programmes. Register for info slots here.
Visit the annual graduation show of HGK Basel on campus or online via nextgeneration.hgk.fhnw.ch. Gain insights into projects from the BA Process Design at HyperWerk and the MA Experimental Design.
Public event and testing ground for speculative models, practices of care and tools for solidarity. Varied program unfolding between 3–6 July.
Launch of the latest publications of IXDM at “I Never Read” art book fair Basel.
Lecture, discussion and workshop with Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran & Laura Gardner.
Feminist Care Ethics for a digital archiving practice. With Michelle Caswell.
The new series OPEN LABS presents the central labs across HGK Basel. The Critical Media Lab will kick things off and share insights into the directions and possibilities at the lab. All students and staff welcome!
An online symposium dedicated to exploring the intersection of practice-based art research and open research data (ORD).
Screening of Scenes of Extraction and director Sanaz Sohrabi in conversation with artist Nadim Choufi.
Join the MAKE/SENSE PhD program for a discussion on Gender Stereotypes and Inclusivity in Artificial Intelligence.
Join us for a conversation on concepts of space, land use, materiality, and culture that often inscribe and reiterate colonial techniques through the extractivist infrastructures that they mobilize.
On Exhibitions as Inventions and Interventions. With guest Michael Guggenheim.
A two-day workshop critically exploring and re-imagining a particular document in research processes – the data management plan.
Patrizia Munforte will give a talk on “Critical FAIRness”: Open Science in Practice-Based Research in Art and Design. Free to join online.
Heavy Processing Methods for Trans- Feminist and Queer Research. With T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault.
We are continuing to partner with transmediale festival Berlin for the 2024 edition. Find members of IXDM throughout the programme and many of us around the festival.
Special info events for prospective students during the annual Open House of HGK Basel.
Screening of A State in a State & director Tekla Aslanishvili in conversation with Evelina Gambino.
Our seasonal meetup for extensive exchanges among researchers, students and guests. Join us for our Colloquium on Wednesday and the screening series “The Fire and The Song” on Thursday.
Talk and screening with Isadora Neves Marques, hosted by the MAKE/SENSE PhD programme.
Public launch of two open access books, Plants by Numbers and Technologies of Care.
Keynote lecture by Nishat Awan, Professor of Architecture & Visual Culture at UCL Urban Laboratory, discussing the transversal writing practices of Topological Atlas.
Annual Research Day at HGK Basel, themed around writing practices in design & artistic research. A day of provocative joyful workshops, talks, performances, book launches, tender reading & exchange. Open to all.
One-day symposium on ways of living on and with the Earth, organised by IXDM HyperWerk.
Screening of Scenes of Extraction, with director Sanaz Sohrabi.
Screening of A Darkness Shimmering in the Light & director Liu Yujia in conversation with Mia Yu.
Info day for prospective students. Get to know our degree programmes BA Process Design and MA Transversal Design.
Special session of Planetary Ecologies, a hybrid discussion group on planetary networks, critical environmentalisms, and intersectional metabolics.
A 3-day workshop with Sonandes platform from Bolivia on art-based research practices in neo-extractivism, sacredness and deep listening.
Colloquium session on a critical approach to listening and the use of sonic practices as a tool for nurturing political imagination, featuring guests Bint Mbareh and Tatiana Heuman.
A conversation around sites of environmental and social ‘offshore-ness’, the governance of shorelines and theories of ‘turbidity’. With guests Harun Morrison and Therese Keogh.
Two day worksession to collectively research energy crafting for a regenerative present.
Talk and discussion with Kabelo Malatsie, director of Kunsthalle Bern.
Get to know our BA & MA study programmes. Info event for prospective students during the NEXT GENERATION 2023 diploma exhibition at HGK Basel.
Panel on speculative infrastructures for care- and commoning-based urban futures at HackThePromise Festival Basel.
Exhibition of experimental XR works at Medrar Cairo by participants of the Extended Ecologies Production Lab.
Continuing education programme on listening as a creative and critical practice.
Continuing education programme on post-digital and decolonizing practices in archival contexts.
Femke Snelting and Peter Westenberg join CML for a speculative research residency on geothermal-energy.
CML invited artist Eva Weinmayr as Artist in Residence.
Guest lecture by Griselda Flesler about the case study of the University of Buenos Aires from a gender and affective perspective.
Public talk and discussion with Zeenath Hasan from TheDirt and Regenerative Energy Communities.
Exhibition at Awareness in Art (AIA) gallery Zurich, curated by Regenerative Energy Communities.
On the design of archival interfaces and questions of access and activation of digital collections. With guest Lozana Rossenova.
Special Session of the Planetary Ecologies Discussion Group, with Martin Savransky.
A public talk by Martin Savransky.
Data, Water, and Other Imaginaries. With Vanessa Graf and guest Tung-Hui Hu.
CML to host members of the Swiss Artistic Research Network for the annual assembly.
On models and concepts of life in extreme environments. With guest Megan Eardley.
Get an overview of the continuing education offers at HGK Basel, like our summer workshops Decolonizing Digital Archives and The Listening Academy Basel.
Join us for a work in progress presentation by IXDM Researchers in Residence Cassandra Troyan & Fred Carter.
Evening of live sound performances of members of the Audio Leakage Community and guests.
With Audio Leakage Community (Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Bojana Knežević, Franziska Windisch, David Helbich, Yati Durant).
Colloquium session with artist researchers Elly Clarke and Clareese Hill, hosted by Helen V. Pritchard.
Join the International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike. On this day, we will try to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for The Big Tech Cloud. List of activities and local actions.
One-week continuing education workshop on post-digital and decolonizing practices in archival contexts.
Visit us on campus or online during the HGK Open House and register for the info slots to learn more about our BA and MA study programs.
Join us for a joyous evening with the inaugural lectures of Helen V. Pritchard, Viktor Bedö, and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
Book launch with editors Jara Rocha & Femke Snelting and guest Joëlle Bitton.
The filmmakers will present their films A Demonstration (2020) and Constant (2022). Followed by a discussion the next morning, Tuesday, 13 December.
Our annual lab meetup with screening & discussion, book launch, lectures, workshops and more.
Learn more about our winter workshop Decolonizing Digital Archives and other offers in the continuing education program in art & design of HGK.
Register for one of the info sessions about the BA Process Design at HyperWerk or the MA Experimental Design. On-site in Basel or online.
Aesthetic stroll through the neighborhood in conversation with researchers from urban ecology, media art, and open space design of the project Mitwelten.
Colloquium session hosted by Anastasia Kubrak & Johannes Bruder, with guest Cara New Daggett.
One-day symposium on local video networks and practices. With lectures, screening and panel discussion.
Colloquium session, screening and discussion with Solveig Qu Suess, henry bradley and Blanca Pujals.
The MA Masterstudio Experimental Design cordially invites you to a Q & A about the course. With Susanna Hertrich & Johannes Bruder.
During the diploma exhibition NEXT GENERATION 2022, prospective students can find out more about our MA Experimental Design or the BA Process Design at HyperWerk.
The roots, arts, and repercussions of energy and material exchanges, those that allow for the existence of life and nonlife.
With Desiree Förster.
Many worlds radically coexisting within a decolonization of ecologies: thinking and feeling at a planetary scale through indigenous wisdom and Southern Hemisphere futurisms.
With Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
Anti-racist practices and activism in the academy. Colloquium session hosted by Johannes Bruder, with guest Nelly Y. Pinkrah.
Keynote lecture by Irene Posch. Part of the Teaching Artistic Strategies Symposium.
Un-Islanding Artistic Research and its Education
Keynote lecture by Glenn Loughran. Part of the Teaching Artistic Strategies Symposium.
On Disruption, Mending, and Care
Keynote lecture by Elke Krasny. Part of the Teaching Artistic Strategies Symposium.
Making, Marketing, and Managing Nature. With Jim Igoe.
Come study with us and apply for the new MA program starting this fall semester in collaboration with HyperWerk. Apply until May 15. Read more about the program.
Climate justice or why the end of the world already happened in many places.
Megan Kelly, PhD student at University of Basel, discusses her research on Incels and other forms of radicalization narratives in online misogynist movements.
An evening with short B/W films and reading of “Calculation and Division of Labour” by Lorraine Daston. Organised by basel.codes.
Interactions between digital contracts, currencies, hardwares, ecological governance and ecologies.
A Conversation with Joana Moll and Matthew Fuller. Part of the MAKE/SENSE PhD public program.
Opening session, introduction and discussion of how we would like to proceed.
We welcome applications from candidates from all art, design and related fields. Apply by March 31. Read more on the MAKE/SENSE website.
Our annual days of focussed exchanges at the Lab. With topical sessions among the CML team and collective sessions with our colleagues and students from HyperWerk.
Lucie Kolb will introduce and discuss a new initiative at the lab on critical publishing.
The team of Visualizing the Virus will introduce the concept and design of the project and discuss possible future directions.
After months of mostly remote work, we’re starting to re-gather people and energies at our lab space in Basel.
Within the project Paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing, in cooperation with the I:IMSK at University Regensburg.
In collaboration with the cluster Matters of Activity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin.
The underground is no longer (or never was) the exclusive realm of technocrats or geophysics experts
Prozesse – Medien – Kreativität
Decolonising Attention in Jugaad Logistics
Visualization: Concept and Technique
Re-membering agroecological futures in heterogeneous landscapes: assembling scenes