Critical Media Lab

Find and follow some of our CML researchers: @jamieallen • @jammersplit • @jazoza • @ksobecka • @luciekolb • @ltd_dead • @merleibach • @solveigsuess • @suza_phone • @ViktorBedo •••

New Silk Roads returns with a new edition, "Ghost Planning and Infrastructural Incantation, in collaboration with the @cmlbasel and @NoemaMag. e-flux.com/architecture/n…

Another recording from the Sonic Acts symposium is out this week! Watch or listen back to filmmaker & researcher Solveig Qu Suess's lecture ‘Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains’ on the #Mekong river and its many transformations: youtu.be/BnvhvsvYTnY 💧

~ A big wave from #EASST2024 in Amsterdam this week 🪱 & You're invited: Join us in planting the more-than-human seeds (literally + figuratively!) on Wed morning at 10:30🌱 🌱🌱nomadit.co.uk/conference/eas… Looking forward to seeing many favourite kindreds across all our worlds ~~ 🐝

The next session of our "Digital Materialities" seminar (5/24, 4-6pm CET): a talk by Vanessa Graf (@cmlbasel, @FHNW) on the sociotechnical imaginaries behind Cloud infrastructures ☁️ located in the Swiss and Austrian Alps🏔️ ! More info ⤵️

Recommended! S+T+ARTS4WATERII residency programme, with a focus on water sustainability and the environmental challenges of ports, port cities, coastal areas, and waterways. starts.eu/starts4waterii…

Scholar–curator Bryan Norton @br_norton discusses new forms of planetary-scale image-making with artist–researcher Asia Bazdyrieva @meduzalove (Geocinema) and media theorist Jussi Parikka. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Open Call: HUB #3: Metabolic Media Call for contributions to the special issue of HUB Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, guest edited by @jamieallen and @louemilycarver. Submission deadline is April 30, 2024. i2ads.up.pt/hub/calls.html

On March 13th, 10 am, @cmlbasel will host a SSM bonfire/ conversation that aims to scrutinize the Global North—Global South binary and collectively elaborate on discursive distortions, limitations of political imagination and fatigue that such reductionist binaries reproduce.

Tune in (virtually- via our website) or in person. southsouthmovement.org/events/all-tha…

Next week at @cmlbasel

I will be in Amsterdam for this years's Sonic Acts Festival, sharing thoughts on water, documentary and energy infrastructure through my ongoing filmic work along the Mekong River. Hope to see you there!

Last call to join @meduzalove and me in Amsterdam in July this year, to discuss how infrastructures destined to transform continue to fail us. But we also want talk about solidarities that develop through and with infrastructures, and infrastructures that are life-affirming!

Open call for scholars and practice based researchers! Join us at the upcoming 4S conference in Amsterdam with @cmlbasel and @ltd_dead Submit your proposals by February 12th! @STSeasst

Amazing event today; thank you for the insightful questions and reflections in this colloquium which explored past and current intersections between design and resilience(s). Thank you also to Prof Yoko Akama for the precious exchange @cmlbasel @FHNW criticalmedialab.ch/expanding-hist…

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Aksioma & @transmediale are happy to present you a new book on the subject of #scale: 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲. Preorder at aksioma.org/scale-book #aksioma #transmediale

"Micro, Meso, Macro" by #AsiaBazdyrieva now in printed version too! The essay illustrates the problematic narratives surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Available in our shop: aksioma.org/micro-meso-mac… #aksioma #PostScriptUM #transmediale @transmediale @meduzalove

The call is also out in English now: apply.refline.ch/655298/3744/pu… The deadline is extended to November 30.

We're excited to share an open position for a new professorship. Join us as the head of the new MA programme Transversal Design. Find the full call here: apply.refline.ch/655298/3701/pu… The call is in German for now, but applications in English are welcome as well. Apply by October 13.

The call for the ~Professorship Transversal Design~ is now also out in English. The deadline for applications is November 30th. apply.refline.ch/655298/3744/pu…