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Opening Critical Media Lab Basel: Design, Media and Criticality

Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (ixdm), Academy 
of Art and Design FHNW, Basel

Opening Critical Media Lab Basel:
Design, Media and Criticality

We are happy to invite you to the opening of the Critical Media Lab 
Basel. The lab is an integral part of the Institute of Experimental 
Design and Media Cultures (ixdm) at the Academy of Art and Design 
FHNW Basel. We celebrate the opening on Thursday, 20th November 2014 
with scholarly and artistic presentations, discussions and a sound 
performance all arranged around the topic of 'Design, Media and 
Criticality'.

Located within the new campus facilities the Critical Media Lab is a 
vibrant, international hub for historically and contextually engaged 
critical media and design practices. A group of international media 
artists, design researchers and scholars from the fields of cultural, 
media and socials studies operates under the direction of Prof. Dr. 
Claudia Mareis and conducts highly innovative, interdisciplinary 
research projects at the crossroads of design, media arts, science 
and technology. Outputs include publication, lectures, as well as 
public-facing artefacts and exhibition designs. Concurrently the 
Critical Media Lab is developing a set of contemporary and pioneering 
research methods through projects supported by the Comission for 
Technology and Innovation (CTI) and the Swiss National Science 
Foundation (SNSF). These methods include practice-based research 
through critically reconstituting, restoring and examining historical 
technologies, the technology-based sensibilisation for algorithms and 
imperceptible media signals, and steering public discourse towards 
media technological issues through artistic and designerly practice. 
The newly constructed lab facility at the new Campus of the Arts at 
the Academy of Art and Design FHNW Basel provides a space and 
up-to-date media technologies supporting our projects.

Opening hours: 6 to 10 pm
Free entrance, although places are limited

Contact
claudia.mareis at fhnw.ch
Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis
Phone: +41 61 228 40 22

xdm.ch
Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Freilagerplatz 1
4023 Basel, Switzerland