Juan Obando, They/Them, 2023. Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

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Group Exhibition

March 5 – April 2, 2026
Opening: …

Digitalität und Komplexität — Keynote: Felix Stalder

Wenn wir mit einer «Generativen Künstlichen Intelligenz», etwa einem Chatbot, interagieren, …

Online talk as part of an event connecting Berlin and Istanbul, exploring the trajectory from commons-based digital culture to platform capitalism …

Master’s Symposium 2025
Master Fine Arts / Department Fine Arts ZHdK
October 22–23, room 5.K11

Wednesday, October 22
9:15 Welcome & …

Keynote at the 10th Annual Conference on Network Society , Shanghai TANK Art Center .

Panel 4: When the Work is the Prompt

When aesthetic training, …

Talk at the China Academy of Art , Hangzhou.

Title: The Crisis of the Cybernetic Model of Reality

Abstract: Demographic changes, global warming, and …

Talk at ETH Zurich lecture series “Pandora’s Box: Large Language Models and their Impact on Society ” (10:15–12:00, Room RZ F 21). …

Internationale Konferenz: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»

2–4 October 2025

Contemporary networked image cultures …

Technopolitics organisiert eine Reihe von Evenings zu “undisciplined intelligence”, die Emma Dowling und ich moderieren werden. Jeweils …

Taking part in the opening event of the 4th edition of the festival “The Future of Demonstrations ,” under the theme “Hothouse …

Book Presentation & Conversation
with Ana Teixeira Pinto and Felix Stalder

June 11, 6 pm
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße …

Totale Technologie. Künstliche Intelligenz, Social Media und der globale Faschismus.

Mo. 2.6.2025, 18:00–19:30 Uhr

Museum der Moderne Salzburg …

As part of the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival (05–18.05) I will give a talk on “The Collapse of the (Western) Model of Reality”. I …

FIXTURES #4 – Cornelia Sollfrank & Felix Stalder im Gespräch mit Kevin Rittberger

Körperbezogene Daten und planetares Denken

28.04.2025 | Einlass: …

Screening: Civilization, Technology and Consciousness

Symbiont Space Riehenstrasse 6 4058 Basel

11. April, 6pm Screening: 7:30 Cocktails and exchange …

Exploratory Online Workshop on Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons. Organized by the Joint Research Center of the European Union. …

(un)real data - real effects

Book presentation with !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix Stalder

Fr., 31.01.2025, 19:30 @ proqm, Berlin

(un)real data - …

Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe »Les jeudis de l’Institut historique allemand«

12.12. 18:00: Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris

Felix Stalder …

In Time? Encounters in temporality

Symposium, Zurich/Hong Kong 29–30 November 2024, live and remote

To be in time – for meetings, events, or …

“If AI was the answer what was the question, again?”

Conference on Tue, Nov 5, 09–18

AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Main Building, …

Screening “Entangled Recurrents” with Q&A Felix Stalder

Public Event: Screening of Entangled Recurrents (52′) 2023 by Konrad …

02 May 2024, 6pm
Multimediaraum (Raum 102), 1st floor
Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, Expositur GCP (=PSK)
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien\ …

Part of the “In the Clouds?” lecture series at the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt University Berlin.

Rather than …

I’m very happy to be part of the organizing committee of this conference, a collaboration between the Latent Spaces Research project and the …

Event at Zurich focusing on collaboration practices in contemporary digital culture.

We are very happy to participate in the Arts Meets Radical Openness festival, with a screening of our video essay Entangled Recurrents (2023) …

I am participating, together with Gordan Savicic, in a mixed reality project by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler, performance on April 18. 19:00 at …

Felix Stalder, Sanja Bojanić, Srećko Horvat, Aleksndra Savanović, Nick Thurston, Alessandro Ludovico, Dušan Barok, Olga Goriunova, Cristóbal …

From Facebook’s dubious role in the Trump election and Brexit to the destruction of Twitter, incompatibilities with current EU legislation, the …

I’m very happy that the new video documentation that Konrad Becker and I have put together, is being shown at the Elevate festival in Graz.

A …

As part of Aksioma’s conference “Unreal Data, Real Consequences ”* I’ll give a talk on “Unreal is the New Real” on …

Very happy to present, together with Gordan Savicic, at the 37 Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg.

The talk will be held on on the 28.12. at 11:00 …

The lecture has been organized by the Media and Design Laboratory LDM , EPFL

A talk and workshop by Felix Stalder and Cornelia Sollfrank organized by the Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions at …

Es freut mich sehr, an der Jahrestagung der Dramaturgischen Gesellschaft einen Eröffnungsimpuls geben zu dürfen.

Alles spricht

Alles spricht: Tiere, …

(https://www.oegekw.at/aktuelles/newsdetail?news_id=1677870302372 )

Der Schweizer Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlers Felix Stalder (Zürich/Wien) hält …

This will be a first for me. I’m giving an artist’s talk! About our “Infrastructure of a Migratory Bird” which will be …

Data is captured, recorded, analysed, displayed and presented as reality. Reality thus becomes increasingly shaped by abstraction based on …

Bitwäscherei Zürich, 13.03. 20:00
“Civilization, Technology and Consciousness”
Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey

Film presentation and discussion with …

Athens: Embros Theater, March 4

“Civilization, Technology and Consciousness” Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey

A video by World-Information.Net, …

Donnerstag 2.03.2023, 19:00 Uhr @ Secession Wien

Wien Premiere und Gespräch mit den Autoren

Video von World-Information.Net, Konrad Becker/Felix …

Research Day presentation at Zurich University of the Arts exploring digital culture and research practices.

Winterschool on coded environments, exploring how digital technologies shape and structure our environments.

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Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 35, 10178 Berlin
➠ Friday, 3 February 2023 at 17:00

➠ Presentation of the new issue of PostScriptUM: Structures of …

This conference brings together artists, hackers and researchers to critically examine the shift in digital culture from open sharing to crypto-based …

Conversation about NFTs after the hype in a Twitter Space, exploring what remains of the NFT phenomenon beyond speculative enthusiasm.

Talk exploring how digital technologies transform our understanding of art, space, and time in contemporary culture.

Event at Zurich exploring themes of visibility, surveillance, and recognition in contemporary digital culture.

Keynote exploring the digital as space and culture as conviviality - examining how digital technologies create new forms of spatial experience and …

Appearance on the scobel TV program discussing cultural techniques in transition and transformation in the digital age.

Keynote exploring immersion in the arts and digital culture, examining whether immersive experiences function as escape, mechanisms of control, or …

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2021 will mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Manuel Castells’ Trilogy. It is time to revisit the trilogy …

Vortrag von Felix Stalder

Jubiläum, 25 Jahre Datenschutzgesetz,

ZH, 28.01.2020

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Mich begleitet das Problem der …

This is an edited version of a presentation given at the “TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019 ” (29 May – 2 June 2019) as part of a …

In this talk, I try to make sense of our current techno-cultural moment in which reality is disappearing and reappearing in confusing ways. I point …

Radio Organge: Sendung vom 29.10.2018:

Katja Mayer und Felix Stalder auf der PrivacyWeek #3

Datensouveränität wird oftmals mit Datenschutz …

With its Timeline project, premiered in Berlin as part of transmediale festival, the Vienna based Technopolitics Working Group set forth the task …

This is my talk at the Unboxing: Algorithms, Data and Democracy . It starts in German but the talk itself is in Englisch.

If you prefer to read, here …

This is a bit of an experimental format. The audio of the talk delivered last October is …

This lecture is from October 2014, held at the Public Library Conference in Stuttgart. But it has only recently been put online, together with all …

SLOW POLITICS investigated perspectives for a precarious generation that is deeply concerned about its rights, liberties and privileges: How can a …

“Nicht der Algorithmus ist pervers, sondern die Situation in der er lebt.”

Die Technowissenschaften haben ein Niveau erreicht, das es …

My talk at the “Eindruck der Dunkelheit ” conference in Berlin, Jan …

Talk at the Embros Theater , Athens, 30.09.2013

Spooky light and noisy sound, which fits …

Lecture (86 min, including discussion) @ hexagram , concordia university , montreal, …

Lectures and Performance / Oμιλίες και Performance
(In english)
Δευτέρα, 30 Σεπτεμβρίου, 8:30 μ.μ.
@ Free Self-managed Theater EMBROS/ Ελεύθερο …

Meine Präsentation an der Tagung “Kultur als Software” (10/11.05.) zu Dirk …

Präsentation vor ParlamentarierInnen in Bern, organisiert durch die parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit.

Update: Hier noch der Bericht …

I just finished my talk at Former West , a contemporary art research, education, publishing, and exhibition project (2008–2014). Below are my …