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

İdil Galip on Ambient Propaganda

Memes, Attention, and the Infrastructure of Influence

Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Sophie Lewis on «Femmephilia: Femininity Against Cisness»

Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 14:00–16:30

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).