Critical Media Lab Basel

22/10/2022

دعوة للفنانين والباحثين

الإيكولوجيا الممتدة هو برنامج مشترك لمدة ١٨ شهر بين مدرار وكريتيكال ميديا لاب في بازل. يهدف البرنامج إلى الخلق والتفكير في الطرق التي يمكن أن تغير بها تقنيات الواقع الممتد علاقتنا مع البيئات المادية، وبالتالي أنفسنا والكائنات الأخرى. لا يتم استخدام الواقع الممتد كأداة للوساطة أو التعزيز أو كشكل جمالي فحسب، بل هو أيضًا أداة للتأمل وإعادة البناء وطريقة للبحث التحويلي وكذلك وسيلة للإنتاج. إن قدرات الميديا الغامرة والمحيطة على قراءة المساحات والأماكن بشكل فني ومبدع يثير التعاطف وربما الاهتمام بأماكن ذات أهمية ومجتمعات الممارسة. لدى البرنامج قدرة على سد الفجوات بين البحث والإنتاج، والمساحات والمشاكل "الافتراضية" و"الحقيقية"، فضلًا عن تسهيل الحوار المستمر بين الفنانين المصريين والسويسريين ووسط أوروبا.

الإيكولوجيا الممتدة بتنظيم كل من مدرار للفن المعاصر وكريتيكال ميديا لاب بدعم من المؤسسة الثقافية السويسرية - بروهلفتسيا القاهرة


الهوية البصرية من تصميم تسنيم توحيد


لمعرفة المزيد: https://www.medrar.org/extended-ecologies-open-call/

Open Call for Artists & Researchers

Extended Ecologies is a one-year, joint programme between Medrar* in Cairo and Critical Media Lab Basel that aims to create and reflect the ways that extended reality (XR) technologies can transform our relationship with physical environments, and so ourselves and other beings. XR is not only to be used as a tool of mediation, augmentation or ornamentation but is also a tool for reflection and re-creation, a method of transformative research as well as a means of production.
The capacities of immersive and surround media to artistically and creatively translate space, place, and evoke empathy and so potentially care, for places of concern and communities of practice, are foregrounded. In its formats, the programme is able to bridge gaps between research and production, ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ spaces and problems, as well as facilitate the ongoing dialogue between Egyptian and Swiss and central European artists.

Extended Ecologies is organised by Medrar for Contemporary Art and Critical Media Lab Basel (CML) with the support of Pro Helvetia Cairo - Swiss Arts Council


Visual identity by Tasneem Tawheed


Find out more here: https://www.medrar.org/extended-ecologies-open-call/

16/12/2020

Niklas Egberts at IXDM Critical Media Lab’s last colloquium session of 2020 - on “Techno-ecological Storytelling in Ian Cheng’s ‘Emissaries’”

07/11/2020

Cycles of Circulation (Dr. Jamie Allen, Dr. Sria Chatterjee, Karolina Sobecka, Solveig Suess) present today at the Swiss Geoscience meeting in Zurich and online, part of the mLAB University of Bern residency project "Climatology & Climatography of Care"

https://criticalmedialab.ch/cycles-of-circulation-at-the-18th-swiss-geoscience-meeting-in-zurich/

https://www.geography.unibe.ch/services/mlab/mlab_residency/index_eng.html

Left image: Lester Beall posters promoting the Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1930). Right images: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office’s posters promoting the Green New Deal (2019).

06/11/2020

Next week, as part of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd's 2020 Laboratory Week, Jamie Allen and artist/researcher and collaborator Abbéy Odunlami host the workshop "Food Spectacles: Seeing Power, Eating Culture”, part of interests in urban metabolism, agricultural industry and culinary cultures, also related to the Cycles of Circulation research project.

As part of the International Laboratory Week 2020 at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Senior Researcher Jamie Allen and collaborator Abbéy Odunlami will host a workshop on “Food Spectacles: Seeing Power, Eating Culture”, part of interests in urban metabolism, agricultural industry...

26/10/2020

This week, Critical Media Lab Basel – Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures' Jamie Allen is at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (online and off) for continent.'s collaboration with Anthropocene Curriculum⎢HKW and other friends for The Shape of a Practice: Negotiating Context in the Anthropocene.

(UN)MUTABLE CHANNELS BY TEMPORARY CONTINENT.
The Shape of a Practice Discourse Program

https://www.hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_176184.php

A sound installation by Jamie Allen, Louise Carver, Nina Jäger, Sarrita Hunn, James McAnally, Clémence Hallé, Benoît Verjat, Duncan Evennou and Anne-Sophie Milon

(un)mutable channel collects voices and atmospheres from throughout the Mississippi River Valley. Mediated and spatialized through sound, the multiple and irrepressible flows of the Mississippi River provide an archival backdrop for pivotal streams: recorded and real time discussions with local habitants and activists, interviews with Anthropocene researchers, current news feeds, and live performances.

Framed as the voice of a temporary continent—materially, geographically and mythically constituted—the installation joins the dynamic, processual, and always flowing Mississippi, to populate an estuary of media streams evolving from a turbulent river.

(un)mutable channels contains original materials recorded by Temporary continent. and from Listening to the Mississippi 2015 – 2019 (Monica Moses Haller, Sebastian Muellauer).

The project is part of Canada’s culture program as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020/21 and is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.

The sound installation will be present at HKW, Berlin, and streamed for the duration of The Shape of a Practice discourse program via the online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org

In addition to the ongoing sound installation that runs for the duration of The Shape of a Practice, individual conversations and soundscapes will occur at the below stated times.

06/10/2020

The Cycles of Circulation project excitedly announces an instagram research account that expands and elaborates the places, disciplines and discourse where the ubiquitous and powerful model of the ‘cycle’ shows up.

https://www.instagram.com/cyclesofcirculation/

It is a catalogue of theoretical and diagrammatic cycles that spans disciplines from ecology to psychology to literature and everything in between. Delivered in a scrollable Instagram format, the project provides an incomplete but telling overview of the pervasiveness of cyclical concepts across time and culture, triggering further curiosity, and involved communities to question what the cycle does or can do. In tracing cycles from different fields and through various discourses, we see how these operate as formal projection, and how they order processes that might be, or might be described, otherwise. The cycle here acts as a worldmaking device that generates physical and graphic forms, results, actions, cosmologies, and intellectual, emotional and spiritual sensibilities. The sheer pervasiveness of the cycle helps us ask after how we wound up living in a world with so many cycles, and how things might be otherwise.

was compiled and prepared by and Research and editorial contributions to this project were made by editor and urban studies graduate student Isabella Frances Baranyk.

https://criticalmedialab.ch/cyclesofcirculation/