Agenda

Public events and other activities happening at, around, or in collaboration with the CML.

07
Jun
A Useful Archive

On the design of archival interfaces and questions of access and activation of digital collections. With guest Lozana Rossenova.

10–22
Jun / Sep
Energy Giveaway at the Humuspunk Library

Exhibition at Awareness in Art (AIA) gallery Zurich, curated by Regenerative Energy Communities.

12
Jun
Uses and perceptions of spaces on Campus

Guest lecture by Griselda Flesler about the case study of the University of Buenos Aires from a gender and affective perspective.

Past
30
May
Planetary Quilombo: 
Infrastructures of Sociality on an Unstable Earth

A public talk by Martin Savransky.

30
May
On the possibility of planetary intimacy

Special Session of the Planetary Ecologies Discussion Group, with Martin Savransky.

03
May
Deep-Sea Ports and Network Fleets

Data, Water, and Other Imaginaries. With Vanessa Graf and guest Tung-Hui Hu.

26
Apr
From South Africa’s Mines to NASA’s Skylab

On models and concepts of life in extreme environments. With guest Megan Eardley.

26
Apr
SARN General Assembly

CML to host members of the Swiss Artistic Research Network for the annual assembly.

19
Apr
Online info event

Get an overview of the continuing education offers at HGK Basel, like our summer workshops Decolonizing Digital Archives and The Listening Academy Basel.

18
Apr
Rare Earth / Militant Research

Join us for a work in progress presentation by IXDM Researchers in Residence Cassandra Troyan & Fred Carter.

05
Apr
Audio Leakage

With Audio Leakage Community (Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Bojana Knežević, Franziska Windisch, David Helbich, Yati Durant).

05
Apr
Audio Leakage live

Evening of live sound performances of members of the Audio Leakage Community and guests.

08
Mar
Counter Cloud Action Day

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.

08
Mar
Researching in Two Acts

Colloquium session with artist researchers Elly Clarke and Clareese Hill, hosted by Helen V. Pritchard.

14–15
Feb
XR Research Lab #2: Migration
07–08
Feb
XR Research Lab #1: Ecologies
01–05
Feb
transmediale festival Berlin
23–27
Jan
Decolonizing Digital Archives

One-week continuing education workshop on post-digital and decolonizing practices in archival contexts.

20
Jan
Open House

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.

14
Jan
Dividing

Collective work meeting of the Dividing project contributors. Open to interested students and researchers.

2022
14
Dec
IXDM Inaugural Lectures

Join us for a joyous evening with the inaugural lectures of Helen V. Pritchard, Viktor Bedö, and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.

13
Dec
Volumetric Regimes: So-called plants

Book launch with editors Jara Rocha & Femke Snelting and guest Joëlle Bitton.

12–15
Dec
CML Lab Days

Our annual lab meetup with screening & discussion, book launch, lectures, workshops and more.

12
Dec
Screening with Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

The filmmakers will present their films A Demonstration (2020) and Constant (2022). Followed by a discussion the next morning, Tuesday, 13 December.

30
Nov
Online info event

Learn more about our winter workshop Decolonizing Digital Archives and other offers in the continuing education program in art & design of HGK.

16
Nov
Info event for our study programs

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.

06
Nov
Stadt*Natur entdecken

Aesthetic stroll through the neighborhood in conversation with researchers from urban ecology, media art, and open space design of the project Mitwelten.

02
Nov
Energy – Extraction, Exhaustion, Depression

Colloquium session hosted by Anastasia Kubrak & Johannes Bruder, with guest Cara New Daggett.

27
Oct
Networking Video

One-day symposium on local video networks and practices. With lectures, screening and panel discussion.

28
Sep
living in the future of others

Colloquium session, screening and discussion with Solveig Qu Suess, henry bradley and Blanca Pujals.

21
Sep
Info event for our study programs

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.

21
Sep
Online Q&A – MA Experimental Design

The MA Masterstudio Experimental Design cordially invites you to a Q & A about the course. With Susanna Hertrich & Johannes Bruder.

01
Jul
Metabolic Integrity, Metabolic Aesthetics, Metabolic Privilege

The roots, arts, and repercussions of energy and material exchanges, those that allow for the existence of life and nonlife.
With Desiree Förster.

03
Jun
Pluriversality

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.

01
Jun
Instituting Dissent

Anti-racist practices and activism in the academy. Colloquium session hosted by Johannes Bruder, with guest Nelly Y. Pinkrah.

25
May
Making Meaning. Research Through Tool Design

Keynote lecture by Irene Posch. Part of the Teaching Artistic Strategies Symposium.

24
May
ARCHIPEDAGOGY

Un-Islanding Artistic Research and its Education

Keynote lecture by Glenn Loughran. Part of the Teaching Artistic Strategies Symposium.

23
May
Practicing Research as Consciousness Raising

On Disruption, Mending, and Care

Keynote lecture by Elke Krasny. Part of the Teaching Artistic Strategies Symposium.

20
May
The Nature of Spectacle

Making, Marketing, and Managing Nature. With Jim Igoe.

15
May
Apply for the MA Experimental Design

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.

06
May
Intersectional Apocalypse

Climate justice or why the end of the world already happened in many places.

04
May
Megan Kelly

Megan Kelly, PhD student at University of Basel, discusses her research on Incels and other forms of radicalization narratives in online misogynist movements.

22
Apr
Humans, Machines and Labour

An evening with short B/W films and reading of “Calculation and Division of Labour” by Lorraine Daston. Organised by basel.codes.

15
Apr
Environmental Blockchain

Interactions between digital contracts, currencies, hardwares, ecological governance and ecologies.

14
Apr
Carbolytics

A Conversation with Joana Moll and Matthew Fuller. Part of the MAKE/SENSE PhD public program.

01
Apr
Planetary Ecologies 2022

Opening session, introduction and discussion of how we would like to proceed.

31
Mar
Call for the MAKE/SENSE PhD program

We welcome applications from candidates from all art, design and related fields. Apply by March 31. Read more on the MAKE/SENSE website.

2021
23–25
Nov
CML Lab Days

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.

13
Oct
Critical Publishing Lab

Lucie Kolb will introduce and discuss a new initiative at the lab on critical publishing.

29
Sep
Introducing Visualizing the Virus

The team of Visualizing the Virus will introduce the concept and design of the project and discuss possible future directions.

30–01
Aug / Sep
Team Retreat

After months of mostly remote work, we’re starting to re-gather people and energies at our lab space in Basel.

25–26
Jun
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme

Within the project Paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing, in cooperation with the I:IMSK at University Regensburg.

17–18
Jun
Times of Waste – Handling Matter

In collaboration with the cluster Matters of Activity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin.

16
Jun
Helen V. Pritchard

The underground is no longer (or never was) the exclusive realm of technocrats or geophysics experts

04–05
Jun
Theorie und Praxis der Maschinenkünste im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Prozesse – Medien – Kreativität

19
May
Amit S. Rai

Decolonising Attention in Jugaad Logistics

21
Apr
Alexander Campolo

Visualization: Concept and Technique

10
Mar
Huiying Ng

Re-membering agroecological futures in heterogeneous landscapes: assembling scenes