Current
Imagination as a Site of Struggle

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.

Panel Reimagining Archives: Visual Feminist Episte­molo­gies in Digital Access

Reimagine archives through feminist lenses at the 4S 2025 Seattle Conference: This panel delves into how digital visual tools challenge biases, amplify marginalized histories, and transform archives into dynamic sites of equity and resistance. Submit by 31 January 2025.

Dr. Lucie Kolb appointed as new Professor of Critical Publishing at IXDM

Dr. Lucie Kolb is appointed Professor of Critical Publishing at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at the HGK Basel from 1 January 2025, where she will be active in research and teaching and co-head the PhD programme Make/Sense.

Tracing Toxicity

Following routes and temporalities of a collection vintage car’s contaminants by artistic research practices.

Non-linear essay by Flavia Caviezel in online journal Troubles dans les collections/Troubles in the collections.

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

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.

Rehearsing Future Worlds: Abolition Science Fiction for Collective Research Methods

Monday, 9 December 2024, 15:00–17:00

With Helen V. Pritchard, Cristina Cochior, Cassandra Troyan and Femke Snelting.