Posts featuring publications created within CML research, projects and teaching, and other publishing endeavours by CML contributors.

Curating Superintelligences: A Reader on AI and Future Curating

Winnie Soon and CML’s Helen V. Pritchard contri­buted the piece Queer Motto API Manual: To Know Exactly How Many Times to Cry to the reader “Curating Superintelligences”, the latest in the “DATA browser” book series.

Edited by Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, the volume examines how computational tech­nolo­gies, rapid developments in AI, and the reassertion of subaltern knowledges are reshaping the contemporary curatorial field. It poses questions about the implications of these “super-intelligences” for contemporary art and culture, and the new possibilities for curatorial practice and its future forms.

Announcement on e-flux
Buy or download the book here

Screen Cultures 1970–1990 in Basel and Beyond

Book launch at point de vue in Basel
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 5 pm

A stool and a chair, with colourful cushions attached to them, next to a table on a brick floor. Each cushion is screen-printed with text fragments.
Launch of «Ecologies of Dissemination» – PARSE Journal Issue #21

Too shy to reuse a work – worried it’s cultural appropriation? The latest issue of PARSE Journal, edited by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr, dives into the messy, powerful terrain of collective artistic practice.

Transversal Design Zine

The MA Transversal Design launched a new online zine that will continue to evolve into a living web journal to document and reflect on the activities and practices of the study programme.

https://transversaldesign.ch

IXDM.distro at I Never Read

18–21 June 2025, Kaserne Basel

IXDM.distro explores more-than-human publics with two book launches and a selection of publications at this year’s edition of I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel.

The Mountain Speaks to the Sea

Friday, 20 June 2025, 4–6 PM

Join curator Silvia Franceschini in conversation with artist and filmmaker Tekla Aslanishvili about her latest cinematic project, The Mountain Speaks to the Sea (2024), and the accompanying publication released alongside her solo exhibition at Onomatopee.

SMUC website updated

Scaling Material Urban Commons (2021–2024) was a critical making project hosted at CML that explored pathways towards just algorithmic governance of urban resources in a time of extractivist and biased algorithms. It rehearsed collective machine teaching and community-based data practices to distribute rescued food.

With the end of the project, the research team just released an online documentation of their field test, exhibition, symposium and other outputs of the project.

https://smuc.kitchen

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.

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.