Events
Ghost in the Machine.
##Open lecture
08.10.2026, 17:30 – 20:00
Toni-Areal, Kino Toni, Ebene 3
Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich
Who builds AI? Who benefits from it? And who …
KI und Natur: Zwischen Algorithmus und Ökosystem
Aus Kronstorf lernen – wir brauchen eine transparente und klimabewusste Digitalisierung
Islands of Conviviality
DGTL Summer Festival 2026
Beyond Openness (Keynote), Panel: Sustaining Digital Commons (Digital Humanism Conference
https://dighum.wien/programme/#session-sustaining-digital-commons
Friday, June 26, 16:00 –17:30
Sustaining Digital Commons
The future of open …
Analyse und Generierung. Die Wahrheiten der Künstlichen Intelligenz (Keynote)
Book lauch: RE/EMBODIED DATA. AMBUIGUITY OF KNOWING
SAVE THE DATE 16.6.2026, 19:00
book presentation, discussion, performance
DO YOU READ ME ?!
Auguststraße 28
10117 Berlin\
more about the book: …
Subversive Festival, Zagreb
Support of scienceispoetry.net
This is to support the great project: https://scienceispoetry.net
For more context, see: https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/ …
Interview: Kraftwerk vs. Moses Pelham: Was bedeutet das EuGH-Urteil für die digitale Kunst
collapse:data.models.worlds. artists talks & discussion (Athens)
Salvatore Vitale Death by GPS
. Film Still
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artists talks & discussion
With the participation of Latent Community, …
New Site Design
Christoph Büchel, MONTE DI PIETÀ, Fondazione Prada, 2024
New Design
I’ve redesigned my website, using a static site generator, Hugo, with the …
collapse: data.models.worlds (Athens)
Juan Obando, They/Them, 2023. Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.
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Group Exhibition
March 5 – April 2, 2026
Opening: …
Kommunikation ohne Subjekt (Zürich)
From Commons to Platforms and Beyond (Berlin/Istanbul, Online)
The Probable and the Possible (Zurich)
Digital Culture, Generative AI and Art (Shanghai)
Keynote at the 10th Annual Conference on Network Society , Shanghai TANK Art Center .
Panel 4: When the Work is the Prompt
When aesthetic training, …
The Crisis of the Cybernetic Model of Reality (China Academy of Art, Hangzhou)
Talk at the China Academy of Art , Hangzhou.
Title: The Crisis of the Cybernetic Model of Reality
Abstract: Demographic changes, global warming, and …
Digital Culture, Generative AI, and Art (ETH Zurich)
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). …
React & Respond (Zurich)
Undisciplined Intelligence (Vienna) 14/20/28.09.
Technopolitics organisiert eine Reihe von Evenings zu “undisciplined intelligence”, die Emma Dowling und ich moderieren werden. Jeweils …
Renegade Acts against Technocapitalist Authoritarianism (Vienna)
Taking part in the opening event of the 4th edition of the festival “The Future of Demonstrations ,” under the theme “Hothouse …
Fascism, Unreason and the Paradox of Modernity (Vienna)
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. (Salzburg)
Totale Technologie. Künstliche Intelligenz, Social Media und der globale Faschismus.
Mo. 2.6.2025, 18:00–19:30 Uhr
The Collapse of the (Western) Model of Reality (Vienna)
Körperbezogene Daten und planetares Denken (Berlin)
FIXTURES #4 – Cornelia Sollfrank & Felix Stalder im Gespräch mit Kevin Rittberger
Körperbezogene Daten und planetares Denken
28.04.2025 | Einlass: …
Civilization, Technology and Consciousness (Screening, Basel, CH)
Screening: Civilization, Technology and Consciousness
Symbiont Space Riehenstrasse 6 4058 Basel
- April, 6pm Screening: 7:30 Cocktails and exchange …
Workshop on Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons.
Exploratory Online Workshop on Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons. Organized by the Joint Research Center of the European Union. …
Unreal Data, Real Effect. Book Launch (Berlin)
(un)real data - real effects
Book presentation with !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix Stalder
Fr., 31.01.2025, 19:30 @ proqm, Berlin
(un)real data - …
Das Generative der Künstlichen Intelligenz (Paris)
Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe »Les jeudis de l’Institut historique allemand«
12.12. 18:00: Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris
Response to Florian Sprenger Algorithmic Temporalities (Zurich/online)
Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition (Munich)
Entangled Recurrents, Screening and Discussion (Vienna)
Screening @ Angewandte (Vienna)
02 May 2024, 6pm
Multimediaraum (Raum 102), 1st floor
Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, Expositur GCP (=PSK)
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien\ …
In the Clouds? Situating the Digital (Berlin)
Part of the “In the Clouds?” lecture series at the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt University Berlin.
Rather than …
Re/embodied Data. Ambiguities of knowing (Berlin)
Unpredictable Collaborations (Zurich)
Event at Zurich focusing on collaboration practices in contemporary digital culture.
10.05. Screening @AMRO (Linz)
We are very happy to participate in the Arts Meets Radical Openness festival, with a screening of our video essay Entangled Recurrents (2023) …
Like a Ray in Search of its Mirror (Donaufestival, Krems)
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 …
UBU@50: Workshop (Cres, Croatia)
Publishing and Becoming-Public after Social Media (Vienna)
From Facebook’s dubious role in the Trump election and Brexit to the destruction of Twitter, incompatibilities with current EU legislation, the …
Entangled Recurrents (Elevate, Graz)
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 …
Unreal is the new Real (Ljubljana)
As part of Aksioma’s conference “Unreal Data, Real Consequences ”* I’ll give a talk on “Unreal is the New Real” on …
Infrastructure of Migratory Bird (37C3, Hamburg)
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 …
Infrastructure of Becoming. Making Space for Wild Animals (Lausanne)
The lecture has been organized by the Media and Design Laboratory LDM , EPFL
Datafication and Embodiment: An open-ended talk (Aarhus)
A talk and workshop by Felix Stalder and Cornelia Sollfrank organized by the Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions at …
Alles spricht: Tiere, Pflanzen, Maschinen und Menschen (Mühlheim an der Ruhr)
Es freut mich sehr, an der Jahrestagung der Dramaturgischen Gesellschaft einen Eröffnungsimpuls geben zu dürfen.
Alles spricht
Alles spricht: Tiere, …
Infrastruktur eines Zugvogels (Klagenfurt)
(https://www.oegekw.at/aktuelles/newsdetail?news_id=1677870302372
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Der Schweizer Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlers Felix Stalder (Zürich/Wien) hält …
The Digital Green Society (Belgrade)
This will be a first for me. I’m giving an artist’s talk! About our “Infrastructure of a Migratory Bird” which will be …
Unreal Data. Public Conversation (Rijeka)"
Civilization, Technology and Consciousness" (Bitwäscherei, Zürich)
Bitwäscherei Zürich, 13.03. 20:00
“Civilization, Technology and Consciousness”
Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey
Film presentation and discussion with …
Civilization, Technology and Consciousness (Athens)
Civilization, Technology and Consciousness (Screening, Vienna)
28.02. Research Day (Zurich)
Research Day presentation at Zurich University of the Arts exploring digital culture and research practices.
31.01. Winterschool Coded Environments (Lausanne, CH)
Winterschool on coded environments, exploring how digital technologies shape and structure our environments.
03.02. Structures of Belonging (Post-script to Commons to NFTs) /rosa (Berlin)
/rosa
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 35, 10178 Berlin
➠ Friday, 3 February 2023 at 17:00
➠ Presentation of the new issue of PostScriptUM: Structures of …
12.11. From Commons to NFT, Conference and Book Launch (Ljubljana)
This conference brings together artists, hackers and researchers to critically examine the shift in digital culture from open sharing to crypto-based …
25.10. Conversation about NFTs after the hype (Twitterspace)
Conversation about NFTs after the hype in a Twitter Space, exploring what remains of the NFT phenomenon beyond speculative enthusiasm.
12.10. Künste ausser Raum und Zeit? (Leipzig)
Talk exploring how digital technologies transform our understanding of art, space, and time in contemporary culture.
07.10. Can You See me Now (Zurich)
Event at Zurich exploring themes of visibility, surveillance, and recognition in contemporary digital culture.
30.09. Das Digitale als Raum, Kultur als Konvivialität (Keynote)
Keynote exploring the digital as space and culture as conviviality - examining how digital technologies create new forms of spatial experience and …
08.09. scobel - Kulturtechniken im Umbruch
Appearance on the scobel TV program discussing cultural techniques in transition and transformation in the digital age.
01.07. Immersion as escape, control or co-existence (keynote), Lodz
Keynote exploring immersion in the arts and digital culture, examining whether immersive experiences function as escape, mechanisms of control, or …
25 Years "Network Society", Barcelona (online)
Das Problem der "Privatsphäre". Rede beim Jubiläum 25. Jahre Datenschutzgesetz im Kantons Zürich
Vortrag von Felix Stalder
Jubiläum, 25 Jahre Datenschutzgesetz,
ZH, 28.01.2020
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Mich begleitet das Problem der …
Creating Commons @ TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019
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 …
Knowledge, Confusion, and Manipulation (Talk, HKW, Berlin)
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 …
Datensouveränität - jenseits des Datenschutzes
Technopolitics: New Paradigms. Transmediale Panel (3.02.2017)
With its Timeline project, premiered in Berlin as part of transmediale festival, the Vienna based Technopolitics Working Group set forth the task …
Algorithms we want
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 …
Monkeys, Profiles and Collectivities of Difference
This is a bit of an experimental format. The audio of the talk delivered last October is …
Lecture: Knowledge for all: from public to free
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 …
Freiheit als Illusion? Unser Leben im Netz. 31. Herrenhäuser Gespräch
31. Herrenhäuser Gespräch von der VolkswagenStiftung und NDR Kultur am 6. März 2015
“Freiheit als Illusion? Unser Leben im Netz” mit …
All Watched Over by Algorithms
Solidarity In The Euro-Crisis (Slow Politics Conference, Berlin 11.2014)
SLOW POLITICS investigated perspectives for a precarious generation that is deeply concerned about its rights, liberties and privileges: How can a …
Technopolitics Salon „Die post-anthropologische Kondition?“
“Nicht der Algorithmus ist pervers, sondern die Situation in der er lebt.”
Die Technowissenschaften haben ein Niveau erreicht, das es …
Transparency & Power
My talk at the “Eindruck der Dunkelheit ” conference in Berlin, Jan …
The War of Data against Communication
Talk at the Embros Theater , Athens, 30.09.2013
Spooky light and noisy sound, which fits …
Who is afraid of the remix? Art practice after copyright (lecture)
Lecture (86 min, including discussion) @ hexagram , concordia university , montreal, …
Talk in Athens, 30.09. 20:30 @ EMBROS
Autorschaft ohne Urheberschaft
Meine Präsentation an der Tagung “Kultur als Software” (10/11.05.) zu Dirk …
Ein Anderes oder keines: Urheberrecht am Wendepunkt
Präsentation vor ParlamentarierInnen in Bern, organisiert durch die parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit.
Update: Hier noch der Bericht …
The Author at the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy
I just finished my talk at Former West , a contemporary art research, education, publishing, and exhibition project (2008–2014). Below are my …