The exhibition collapse: data.models.worlds. addresses the intensifying state of crisis shaping the contemporary world, examining the role of technology within it. Happy to have Infrastructure of a Migratory Bird included.

Keynote beim Kongress der Analytikerinnen und Analytikern aus Zürich, Berlin, Wien und Paris. Volkshaus Zürich.

Online talk connecting Berlin and Istanbul, exploring the trajectory from commons-based models to platform capitalism and what lies beyond.

Master’s Symposium at ZHdK on critical artistic engagements with AI, featuring Hito Steyerl, Sadie Plant, Cemile Sahin and others. October 22–23, Zurich.

Keynote at the 10th Annual Conference on Network Society at TANK Art Center Shanghai, on how generative AI transforms digital culture from signification to action.

Talk at the China Academy of Art exploring how demographic change, global warming, and the energy transition undermine the cybernetic model of reality, and how art can offer alternatives.

Talk at ETH Zurich’s lecture series ‘Pandora’s Box: Large Language Models and their Impact on Society’, on generative AI as a cultural engine rather than a camera.

International conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich. Felix Stalder on panel ‘Patterns of Automation’ with Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal and Tiziana Terranova.

Reihe von Abendveranstaltungen zu ‘undisciplined intelligence’, moderiert von Emma Dowling und Felix Stalder, im Rahmen von Future of Demonstrations / Hothouse, Atelier Augarten Wien.

Opening event of the 4th edition of The Future of Demonstrations festival (Hothouse), with Marit Seyer, Marek Tuszynski, John Palmesino and Felix Stalder. Atelier Augarten, Vienna.

We use an interdisciplinary perspective, combining visual arts, media studies, and geography, to make visible how the notion of environments folds into the concept of infrastructure through their analogous functions as dynamic, relational spaces that contain and are contained by. Critical mapping provided an important tool to bring together the complexity that is normally separated into the concepts of infrastructure and environment. Published in Geohumanities.

Donnerstag, 1. August 2075 wird ein heisser, trockener Tag in Wien. Nach einer weiteren Tropennacht, in der die Temperatur nicht unter 24 Grad fällt, steigt sie am Tag auf noch erträgliche 32 Grad an. Mit Regen ist nicht ernsthaft zu rechnen, … Ein Text zur Arbeit Post Tomorrow Land‘s Morning Post von Michael Aschauer.

Immersion in the arts is often associated with complex, cutting-edge technology. However, this technology-focused view limits our understanding of immersion. Immersion should be seen as the normal state of perception, while non-immersion is a historically and culturally specific mode created by old media. in: Widok. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture. #38

A critical analysis of generative AI, examining both the character of generated content and the political economy emerging from this commercial field. Written for carrier-bag.net.

Gene­rierte Bilder sind keine Reprä­sen­ta­tion einer externen Welt, sondern Varia­tionen von Mustern in Daten, zusam­men­ge­fügt zu etwas, das es so vorher noch nicht gab. Damit ist ihr Gehalt nicht analytisch-empirisch (wahr/falsch), sondern ästhetisch-normativ zu bestimmen. Wir müssen uns fragen, ob wir sie, und wie Welt die sie als möglich erklären, gut oder schlecht finden.

Beitrag zu diesem Sammelband Theorien Des Digitalen Kapitalismus, herausgeben von Sebastian Sevignani, Simon Schaupp, und Tanja Carstensen. Suhrkamp.

Review of Justin Joque’s Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism, for Computational Culture.

El crecimiento de las principales plataformas de medios sociales ha sido tan rápido que resulta difícil imaginar nuestra vida cotidiana sin ellas. Sin embargo, Facebook, con 2.900 millones de usuaries,

This is a revised version of my presentation at the New Alphabet School#3 Coding  at Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi on January 16, 2020. Originally published at the New Aphabet’s website .

This image was shared by Marc Zuckerberg. It shows him walking to the stage to talk about VR at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (21.02.2016)

I want to start with a qualification and a question. What follows is informed by my own provincial European, even Western-European experience. Of course, the social and cultural consequences of global IT are highly differentiated across geographic areas, and within them along economic, gender and racial dimensions. However, there are fundamental technological dynamics that are shared across these differences, not least because technology itself, machinery and industry, is highly globalized. More importantly, it might be precisely the experience of being provincial in a new geography and topology of power that could open-up new alliances.

This is an unoffical translation of " Die Sozialen Medien am Kipppunkt " (Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2022) The growth of the major social media platforms has been so rapid