Conversations on Art and Media is a new lecture series with invited guests from the expanded fields of media art and theory, co-organized by members of HfG Karlsruhe and ZKM. During summer semester 2025, the series discusses unconventional conceptions and materializations of computers as well as alternative ways of dealing with them. In the light of the quasi-monopoly of big tech companies and in view of powerful presets and standards, guest lectures and conversations will address the questions: To what extent can computers look or function differently? In which ways can we reflect on, perceive or handle computing devices differently or change them?

Concept: Victor Fancelli Capdevila (HfG), Julia Ihls (HfG), Tina Lorenz (ZKM), Lea Luka Sikau (ZKM), Nina Zschocke (HfG).

About our guests:

Tatiana Bazzichelli Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder and director of the Disruption Network Lab, a non-profit organisation in Berlin that explores the intersection of politics, technology and society. Her work focuses on whistleblowing, network culture, art and activism. Since September 2023 she is the director of the Disruption Network Institute: Investigating the Kill Cloud, a new centre for investigation and empirical research into the impact of artificial intelligence on new technologies of war, automated weapons and networked warfare. She is the author of Whistleblowing for Change (2021), Networked Disruption (2013), Disrupting Business (2013) and Networking (2006). She was a member of the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Award Committee 2020. In 2019-2021, she was appointed by the Federal Government and the City of Berlin as a jury member for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund), and in 2020-2023 she was a jury member for the Kulturlichter Prize, a new award for digital cultural education in Germany. For three years until 2014, she was a curator at the transmediale art & digital culture festival in Berlin, where she developed the year-round programme reSource transmedial culture Berlin and curated several conferences, workshops and art projects.

Joana Moll She is a Barcelona/Berlin-based artist and researcher whose work critically explores how techno-capitalist narratives shape the alphabetization of machines, humans, and ecosystems. Her research focuses on Internet materiality, surveillance, profiling, interfaces, and energy. She has presented her work at major institutions, museums, universities, and festivals worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, MAXXI, MACBA, ZKM, Ars Electronica, The Natural History Museum in Berlin, and Harvard, NYU, Cambridge, and ETH Zürich, among many others. Her work has been widely featured in international media such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, National Geographic, Wired, and MIT Press. She co-founded the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR [Barcelona], and has held fellowships at the BBVA Foundation, Weizenbaum Institute, and Critical Media Lab (Basel). She is currently a professor in the Art Department at KHM in Cologne, a visiting lecturer at Escola Elisava (Barcelona), and a fellow at Disruption Network Lab in Berlin.