Current Activities

Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy 2022: “Scale”

Elizabeth Petrick: “The Annotated Patent History Digital Archive”

Alison Powell: “Undoing Optimization: The Smart City and Afterwards”

Emily West: "Buy Now. How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly."

Wendy Chun: “Racialized Technologies: Anti-Asian Hate and Sentiment Analysis”

Alessandro Delfanti: “The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon”

MECS Abschlusstagung “Selbstverständlichkeiten der Simulation” – ABGESAGT

Film-Event at Scala: “Masking Threshold”

Lecture “Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn”

Book Discussion “Neither Vertical nor Horizontal”

Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn

Conference “Unrelating: Infrastructures, Imaginaries and Politics of Disconnection”

Book Lauch “Discrimination Data”

Lecture “Disability, Embodiment, and Online Socialization: Computerized Conferencing Technology in the 1970s”

Colloquium “In Search of Media”

CDC Forum via Zoom “In Convenience”

Workshop “Daten sind das neue Öl? – Über systematische Zusammenhänge zwischen digitalem Zeitalter und Petromodern”

CDC Forum via Zoom “Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media”

Proof of Stake – Technological Claims. Group exhibition in Kunstverein in Hamburg

Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media, Conference (Keynote: Mara Mills), Wolfgang Hagen, Jan Müggenburg, Philipp Sander, Anna-Lena Wiechern

Algorithmic Ethnography with Angèle Christin, Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad, Randi Heinrichs

Zukunft machen. Vergangene und gegenwärtige Zukünfte des Silicon Valleys, Colloquium

Automation and the Future of Work in the Pandemic Economy, Lecture, Aaron Benanav

Book of Anonymity, Book Launch, Anon Collective

Your Computer is on Fire, Book Launch, Mar Hicks, Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Kavita Philip, In cooperation with SFB Media of Cooperation, Siegen

NEUDASEIN. Essays zur sozialen Epistemologie der Smartphone-Fotografie, Lecture and Book Launch, Wolfgang Hagen

Undoing Networks, Panel Discussion and Book Launch, Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst, Lea Zierott

Keynote: Critical Media Access Studies: Examining the Benefits and Limits of Accessibility in Mediated Spaces

Workshop: Augmentative Communication and Computer Access – Historical Approaches

Diskussionsforum: „Universität und Assistenz. Assistive Medien in Lehre und Forschung“

Call for Contributions: Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures

CDC-Forum: Data Demands: On New Storytelling Practices of Old Data Regimes (Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal)

Cancelled! CDC-Forum: Der Simulationsreaktor als Lernhilfe. Argonaut, Anwendungswissen und der Aufbau der Atomindustrie in der BRD

CDC-Forum: Disruptive Technologien (Workshop)

CDC-Forum: Good Enough Software: A Book Overview

CDC-Forum: Rethinking the "Standard" in Digital Standards

CDC-Forum: Stabile Daten, immune Körper: Narrative der Epidemie

CDC-Forum: Urban Extractivism: Data, Value and Computing Infrastructures

CDC-Forum: Spatial Conditions of Work and Play: Intangibility Replaces Haptic Experience

CDC-Forum: Wie kann man die industrielle Praxis der KI medienethnographisch erforschen?

CDC Forum: The space between us: Networks after the pandemic

CDC Forum: "Remote is the new normal"? Digitale und prädigitale Geschichten der Heimarbeit

CDC Forum: Simulating pandemics: Welches Wissen liefern Simulationen?

CDC Forum: Lost in Translation. Chancen und Barrieren der digitalen Lehre

CDC Forum: Überwachungs- und Krisenkapitalismus

CDC Forum: Epidemiologie der Serie

CDC Forum: Abwesenheitspflicht. Der Status von “Präsenz” in Zeiten der Pandemie

CDC-Forum: Pandemic Media

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Sha­ne Den­son “Images of Di­s­cor­re­la­ti­on”

Discussion ›Against Presentism‹

“Against presentism. Historicizing mediality”

WORK­SHOP “Dis­con­nec­tion”

WORK­SHOP “Ma­king Sen­se(s). Die Me­dia­lität der Nah­sin­ne”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Mar­tin Woe­s­ler “So­cie­ty 5.0 in Chi­na”

Michel Pêcheux – Ideologie und Diskurs

“Organizing creativity and attention”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ben Pe­ters “On the Pro­ver­bi­al Stu­pid His­to­ry of Smart Tech­no­lo­gy”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ga­brie­le Scha­ba­cher “Di­gi­tal Re­gimes of Con­trol. Bet­ween So­ci­al Uto­pia and Tech­ni­cal Failu­re”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Ru­pert Ga­de­rer “Shits­torm. Agi­ta­ti­on, Si­mu­la­ti­on und Kampf in di­gi­ta­len Le­bens­wel­ten”

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Gott­fried Schnödl “Na­tu­ra­li­sie­ren, On­to­lo­gi­sie­ren, Öko­lo­gi­sie­ren. Zu Na­tur­vor­stel­lun­gen in Tech­nik- und Me­di­en­theo­rie”

WORK­SHOP “Data and Dra­ma. Sce­nes from Eth­no­gra­phic Field Work”

WORKSHOP. Batterien enthalten? Elektrochemische Zellen als Medien des digitalen Zeitalters

MECS LECTURE. Stefan Willer: Verhinderte Zukunft. Präventionsfantasien in der Gegenwartsliteratur

BOOK SERIES LAUNCH. In Search of Media

Eva Illouz: Parting Ways: Authenticity vs. Social Critique

MECS LECTURE. Patrick Vonderau: Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

WORKSHOP. Phänomene digitaler Kulturen

BOOK LAUNCH. Timon Beyes/Jörg Metelmann:The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture

WORKSHOP. The Arcanum in Digital Cultures

MECS LECTURE. Rudolf Seising: Anfänge von Digitalisierung und Algorithmisierung der Mustererkennung

BOOK LAUNCH. Andreas Bernard: Das Diktat des Hashtags