For many of our events, like guest talks and workshops, we list references and further readings. Find these notes in the posts aggregated here.

Library Making as Practice

Wednesday, 5 November 2025
5:00 – 8:00 pm at distro, 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.

Colloquium: Lola Olufemi on Rehearsing

Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 14:00–16:30

Regimes of Representability

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

With Thao Phan, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Qingy Ren, Jisoo Lim and Johannes Bruder

De-hegemonizing Technologies of Capture

Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 13:00–17:00

On the hegemony of “technologies of capture” and subversive artistic and scholarly interventions to de-hegemonize Western-born technologies.

With guests Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Moushumi Bhowmik and Ishita Chakraborty. Hosted by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, joined by Stas Shärifullá.

Working from here

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 18:00 at Critical Media Lab

Join us for a conversation with Karin Harrasser on situating oneself as a researcher (or artist).