events

Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 16.00–18.00 at Emergent Digital Media class, AdBK, new build­ing, room E.O3.26 In this talk, Rosemary Lee will present the cen­tral themes of her research on the inte­gra­tion of machine learn­ing in artis­tic prac­tice, draw­ing from her book “Algorithm, Image, Art” (2024) as well as her own explo­rations in recent projects “A…

Oct 14, 2025, 7pm at AdBK Munich, room E.EG.0.28 Bringing togeth­er an array of ref­er­ences from eco-fem­i­nism to technophi­los­o­phy, from his­tor­i­cal mate­ri­al­ism to con­tem­po­rary art, I will affirm the imper­a­tive of inter­na­tion­al inter­sec­tion­al strug­gle and sol­i­dar­i­ty which has per­sist­ed through the his­to­ry of tech­no­log­i­cal and sci­en­tif­ic advance. Post-indus­tri­al soci­ety is real­ly most-indus-tri­al soci­ety, post-moder­ni­ty is…

Exhibition, July 26–31, 2025, Aula, AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2–4, 80799 Munich Dwelling (v.) is liv­ing in a spe­cif­ic place. In tech­nics, dwelling is the reg­u­lar­i­ty of paus­ing slight­ly with­in mechan­i­cal motion. This year’s con­tri­bu­tion of the Emergent Digital Media class to the annu­al AdBK Munich exhi­bi­tion refers to ‘mir­ror dwellers’, a term used in vir­tu­al…

ConferenceTue, June 3, 17.30–21 and Wed, June 4, 12–19 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Central Lecture Hall, free admis­sion With: Gregory Chatonsky, Simon Denny, Navine G. Dossos, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mat Dryhurst, Constant Dullaart, Antonio Somaini – Recording of the event in July/August on www.carrier-bag.net – There is a strange dis­con­nect in tech’s recent effects on…

AdBK München, room A.U1.12 (cel­lar)Opening: 6.2.2025 7 pmOpen: Fri, Mon, Tue 2 — 8 pm; Sat, Sun 12am — 8pmURL: https://virus.johanneskiel.de Viral Infection: Lysogenic Data Cycle Viral Infection, a web-con­nect­ed inter­ac­tive robot­ics instal­la­tion, exam­ines the repro­duc­tive behav­iour of dig­i­tal frag­ments on the verge of embod­i­ment. Johannes Kiel explores how tech­nol­o­gy and auto­mat­ed algo­rithms affect the…

Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones December 3, 2024, on-line, 12.00–20.00 CET Video doc­u­men­ta­tion and texts are here: https://carrier-bag.net/focus/dronomation/ The one-day online con­fer­ence looks to present con­tem­po­rary cri­tiques of drone-tech­nolo­gies, their scop­ic regimes and increas­ing reliance on so-called AI sys­tems. Instead of fetishis­ing the pre­sumed auton­o­my of these weapons, this con­fer­ence looks at…

Conference on Tue, Nov 5, 09–18 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Main Building, Central Lecture Hall, free admis­sion With: Elisa Giardina Papa, Orit Halpern, Francis Hunger, Vladan Joler, & Evelyn Kreutzer, Kevin B. Lee, RYBN, Felix Stalder, Hito Steyerl Video record­ings and texts here: https://carrier-bag.net/focus/ai-answer-question/ The polit­i­cal econ­o­my of AI impacts on both its gen­er­a­tive…

self-orga­nized exhi­bi­tion in the frame of the Jahressausstellung der AdBK München. indi­vid­ual works Arriving at crit­i­cal inquiry of one’s resource, ener­gy and raw mate­r­i­al con­sump­tion –par­tic­u­lar­ly in scope of the spec­u­la­tive dis­course encom­pass­ing new media tech­nol­o­gy, machine learn­ing and gen­er­a­tive process­es –has become a codex for curat­ing with the mul­ti-faceted nature of the term ‘root’.…

Lecture: Björn Ommer. Tue 11 June, 2024, 7 pm, Room E.O3.26 (Emergent Digital Media class), New Building, Academy of Fine Arts Munich Since 2022, Stable Diffusion has become one of the most impor­tant gen­er­a­tive mod­els in the field of so-called arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, along­side Midjourney and Open AI’s Dall‑E. Since Stable Diffusion aligns with the open…

Lecture by Amanda Wasielewski Tue May 28, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München Video record­ing here: https://carrier-bag.net/video/the-opticality-unconscious/ Inspired by Rosalind Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious, Amanda Wasielewskis lec­ture explores how a hybrid prac­tice of writ­ing and image cre­ation can shed light on the often-derid­ed stric­tures of mid-cen­tu­ry mod­ernism in New York, name­ly the ideas…