Current
CML Lab Week

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.

Critical / tactical / militant / imminent

Monday, 9 December 2024, 18:00–20:00

A conversation and collective gathering that rehearses the idea of critical media & technological practices.

With inputs by Cristina Cochior, Mona Hedayati, Femke Snelting, and Johannes Bruder.

Noun to Verb

Propositions for transformative intersectional publishing

Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dr. Eva Weinmayr, Guest Professor for Critical Access at IXDM.

Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 19:00

It Felt Like We Were Making History: A Focus on Shuruq Harb

Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 10:15–11:45

Screening of films by Shuruq Harb and conversation between the filmmaker and Nadim Choufi.

The Scale of What Reaches Me: A Focus on Monica Basbous

Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 14:00–15:30

Screening of films by Monica Basbous and conversation between the filmmaker and Nadim Choufi.

Diskriminierungs­kritische Redaktionsarbeit

Learn how to organise editorial processes in a way that is critical of discrimination and promotes social justice, in this one-week course in February 2025. Led by guest professor Eva Weinmayr, it offers practice-orientated tools for the inclusive design of communication and publication processes.

The course is held in German. Paid programme.
Find out more and register until 27 January 2025.

Practices of transformative publishing

Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 12:00–13:00

Public talk by Eva Weinmayr at ZHdK, part of the lecture series Recht auf Wir. Wie geht das?.

Technologies of Transmission (Amid the Moving Image)

Thursday, 28 November 2024, 10:00–13:00 at Critical Media Lab.

Quinn Latimer and Mariana Tilly in conversation with Ute Holl and Evelyn Kreutzer.

«Gathering Knowledges» Day

Friday, 29 November, 10:00–17:00 at Critical Media Lab.

With contributions from Bafta Sarbo, Kevin Ochieng Okoth and other guests and reports from workshops with Eric Otieno Sumba, Ozan Güngör, Elvira Soliman and students of the BA Process Design & MA Transversal Design.

Specters of Potential Energy at Beijing Art and Technology Biennale

The 2nd Beijing Art and Technology Biennale – Earthwise includes a collaborative installation, including contributions by Critical Media Lab researchers Johannes Bruder, Solveig Qu Suess, and Tekla Aslanishvili.

From the field, to paper, and back

Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 19:00–20:30

In conversation with Marisol de la Cadena.

Dr Kit Braybrooke appointed as new Professor of Transversal Design

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.

Statement in solidarity

with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence

Statement of Solidarity

On the escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine