Current Activities

Abstract Subjects. How an I becomes an X in new data calculations

Lukas Mairhofer: Lecture "Ways of Observing" at the University of Wuppertal

Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode der digitalen Kulturen

Colloquium: Mario Schulze und Sarine Waltenspül (ZHdK) "Datenfilme. Zur digitalen Realanalyse eines analogen Strömungsfilms"

Kritik der Environmentalität. Über den neuen Vereinnahmungsapparat in digitalen Kulturen

Lecture: Klaus Schmeh "DRM und andere Verschlüsselungen"

Call for Papers: Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2020

Digital Age. Geschichtskonzepte digitaler Kulturen

Reichweitenangst. Batterien und Akkus als Medien digitaler Kulturen

Lukas Mairhofer: Lecture "Quantenphysik"

Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies

Mario Schulze is now fellow at the MECS

Workshop: Ephemera. Data & Drama

Trial and Lots of Error. Governance in Digital Cultures

Lecture: Virtual U: Simulating Higher Education

Algorithmisches Management in digitalen Kulturen

Software, Sociality, and Digital Cultures

DFG-Sym­po­si­um: Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften

Performing posthuman für digitale Kulturen. Episoden einer großangelegten Umstellung 1966 – 2019

Überwachen und Unterhalten. Organisation in digitalen Kulturen

Lecture: Im Paradis des Taktilen. Reale Experimentalsubjekte und spekulative Assistenzmedien

Lecture: Dan L. Burk (Irvine, CA) "Exhaustion of Copyrights in Digital Objects"

Lecture: Exhaustion of Copyright in Digital Objects

Book Release: Sebastian Vehlken "Zootechnologies. A Media History of Swarm Research

Exhibition: Filme des Windes

Workshop: Windkanäle. Wissen, Politik und Ästhetik bewegter Luft

Jeremiah Lasquety-Reyes: "Agent-Based Modelling: Fundamentals and Future Directions"

MECS Fellow Martin Woesler now "European Academian"

Lec­tu­re: Platform Worlds

Talk: "Dying Experiments. A case study"

Einführung: Was sind digitale Kulturen?

Book Launch: In Search of Media

Lecture: The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Peter Krapp: Lecture “The Error at the End of the Internet: Miscommunications"

Peter Krapp: 17th biennal Symposium on Cryptologic History

Jeremiah Lasquety-Reyes: Presentation on "Using Godot for economic simulation and agent-based modeling

Digitalisierung und die geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe des kalten Krieges

Jeremiah Lasquety-Reyes: Journal Article “Towards Computer Simulations of Virtue Ethics”

Workshop: Beyond the Standard Model: historical-critical perspectives

Conference: 'Modeling the Pacific' in collaboration with the UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Peter Krapp: Moderation of the final panel discussion "Kulturelle und disziplinäre An- und Abschlüsse"

EVE­NING COL­LO­QUI­UM w/ Sha­ne Den­son “Images of Di­s­cor­re­la­ti­on”

Discussion: ›AGAINST PRESENTISM‹

Discussion ›Against Presentism‹

Arianna Borrelli: Lecture "Von Spuren zu Teilchen"

“Against presentism. Historicizing mediality”

Hannah Zindel: Aerocene Community Summer Gathering, Studio Saraceno, Berlin

WORK­SHOP “Dis­con­nec­tion”

Hannah Zindel: Researcher in Residence an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZhDK)

Workshop: Making Sense(s) – Die Medialität der Nahsinne

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”

Mind the Game! Computer Games driving AI and transforming Society

Exhibition and book launch: ”Die Ankunft eines Kätzchens. Die 1. Computersimulation eines Lebewesens”

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

Fabrizio Li Vigni: Les systèmes complexes et la digitalisation des sciences. Histoire et sociologie des instituts de la complexité aux États-Unis et en France

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

Conference // Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology

Summer School // Historiographies of Digital Cultures

Undergraduate Summer School // Sound and Vision in Digital Cultures

Workshop: Digital Labour and Migration

Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities

Talk: „Fortress Formats. Preventing the Dissemination of the Moving Image"

Talk: „Fortress Formats. Preventing the Dissemination of the Moving Image"

Talk: „Cross-Media Distribution: New Sports Films”

Booklaunch meson press

Book Launch: Interferences | Events

Oliver Nachtwey: Production Models of Digital Capitalism

CDC reading group with Fiorenzo Iuliano

Lecture: Nana Petzet

Workshop – Politische Öffentlichkeit und Medientechnologien (in German)

Workshop – CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures

Chris Tedjasukmana: Zwischen Selbstentblößung und Selbstermächtigung

CDC reading group with Stefan Römer

Authors' workshop

CDC reading group with Dennis Tenen

Workshop AG Mediengeschichte

CDC reading group with Megan Fernandes

Publication in the Public Folder

Thomas Lemke: Suspended Life: Exploring Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societie

Niklas Luhmann Conference

Booklaunch – Clemens Apprich: "Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures"

Workshop – Post-X Politics

Booklaunch: Andreas Bernard: "Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes"

Mara Mills: Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression

Workshop – Sigrid Weigel: Grammatology of Images

Sigrid Weigel: On the Rise of Digital Stupidity

Translation award received (Börsenverein)

Workshop – Silicon Trolls. Net Cultures, Neo-Fascism and Technological Determinism

Book launch: "Performing the Digital" and "Nach der Revolution"

Fellowship at Harvard University

Conference: Über Leben

Travelling Codes

MECS vacancies

“Reparations” – Steve Kurtz

»Research Colleges in Germany«

Simulation and embodied cognition in Neuroscience and AI

“Working on ENIAC: Design, Repair and Maintenance in the Early Digital” – Thomas Haigh

Herwig Weiser »aftermatharchitexture«

ReproReality HackLab 005 – 006, FertilityCave 1.0.7

“The Politics and Aesthetics of Inventive Infrastructures of Repair” – Lara Houston

“The Ragpicker Meets the Composter: Maintenance, Repair and Transformation” – Kristina Lindström & Åsa Ståhl

“Repairing Futures: Anticipation, Participation and Speculation” – Laura Forlano

“Designing the Humanities” – Tara McPherson

Workshop “Designing the Self” – with Paula Bialski, Laura Hille, Andreas Bernard and others

“Designing Feminist Futures” – Kat Jungnickel

“Transforming Matter” – Felipe Fonseca

MECS Summer School 2016

Behind the scenes of MECS

Hackademia: Ethnographic Project Presentation

New semester, new fellows

Radical Engineering

From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek and the Astronomical Rise of Hacker Politics

Gagged and Doxxed

Concepts of/for Hacking, Leaking and Breaching

Historically informed ethnography: Contextualising hacker practices

News from our former MECS fellow Lev Manovich

Jacob Gaboury »Queer OS: A User’s Manual«

Summary of MECS Annual Conference »Agent Cultures and Zombielands«

Book review of MECS alumni Jussi Parikka's »A Geology of Media«

Daniel Cardoso Llach's lecture on »Soft­ware and the Ima­gi­na­ti­on of De­sign: Pro­bes and Pro­s­pects« is now available to view online

Lev Manovich's paper "The Science of Culture? Social Computing, Digital Humanities and Cultural Analytics" is now available to read online

Ecologies of Existence

Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics and the Labour of Circulation

Jennifer Gabrys: Program Earth

Interview with Alexander Galloway in the current edition of »F.A.S«

MECS // Movie Screening // June 23, 2016 // 19:00 - 21:00 //

MECS Annual Conference 2016: Agent Cultures and Zombielands

Tracing Bergson. Perspectives on Life and the Sciences

Reading Algorithms. Queer and Transgressive Encounters

MECS Senior Fellow Elena Esposito on »The Construction of Unpredictability«

Sebastian Vehlkens lecture »The Alternative Futures Approach« is now available online

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

Workshop »The Cybernetic Hypothesis«

Jason W. Moore in conversation with Erich Hörl: World-Ecology, General Ecology and Cyberneticization

MECS goes Villa Vigoni

Sabina Jeschke's lecture on »Cybernetics in 4.0« is now available to view online.

Essay by Sebastian Vehlken in »Die Epilog«: Cannes, muss aber nicht!

Re-thinking Relationality in the Sociotechnological Condition

Interview with Alexander Galloway by »Los Angeles Review of Books« (LARB)

Christiane Voss - Her (Spike Jonze 2013)

Elena Meilicke - Ex Machina (Alex Garland 2015)

Eva Illouz: Knowing way too much... Love, Therapy, Technology

Non-knowledge and digital cultures

Interferences

MECS at ÜBER Magazine