Biography
Dr. Johannes Bruder is the Head of the Critical Media Lab Basel and co-leads the MAKE/SENSE PhD Program at the Basel Academy of Art and Design, FHNW. He studies the speculative and imaginary aspects of infrastructures – sociological models, psychological mechanisms, and affective potentials encoded in infrastructural designs ranging from algorithmic systems to financial markets to pipelines. He has contributed to events and exhibitions incl. Transmediale, the Anthropocene Curriculum, the Solar Biennale, the Beijing Art and Technology Biennial. His writing has been published by Routledge, MIT Press, Open Humanities Press, Valiz, MQUP, and Bloomsbury, as well as in journals such as ST&HV, Discourse, culturemachine, and Digital Culture & Society. Johannes has a strong interest in experimenting with research methods, knowledge practices, alternative pedagogies and modes of documenting that unsettle disciplinary paradigms and render research in the humanities operational in real-world contexts.