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DIZH bridge professorship
University of Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts
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Freue mich schon sehr auf diesen Abend mit @danielmartinfeige.bsky.social und Judith Siegmund – am 26. Februar in Zürich!
January 28, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Save the Date: Am 26. Februar kommt @danielmartinfeige.bsky.social zu uns nach Zürich an die ZHdK, um sein aktuelles Buch «Kritik der Digitalisierung» vorzustellen und anschliessend mit Judith Siegmund und @bildoperationen.bsky.social darüber zu diskutieren digitalculturesandarts.ch/vortrag-und-...
Vortrag und Gespräch mit Daniel M. Feige zu seinem Buch «Kritik der Digitalisierung» - digital cultures and arts
Toni-Areal, Hörsaal 1, Ebene 3, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich ‹Digitalisierung› ist in aller Munde: Ihre mangelhafte Umsetzung wird ebenso angemahnt, wie vor ihren Folgen gewarnt wird. Das neue Buch v...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Bayern 2 «Kulturleben» hat mich zu den Maduro-KI-Memes befragt – hier lässt sich jetzt nachhören, was mir dazu eingefallen ist
#AISlop #Slopaganda www.br.de/radio/live/b...
Bayern 2 | Bayern 2 Kulturleben
14.04 Worüber sprechen die Menschen? Donnerstags bieten wir einen Schwerpunkt an, in dem wir mit Fachleuten Hintergründe für Debatten und Diskurse klären, die gerade die Welt bewegen.    14.45 Bayern...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Congratulations to our colleague @kathrintrattner.bsky.social for publishing her book on «The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games»! We'll most certainly have a book presentation here in Zurich in the coming months, stay tuned for more …
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January 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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New year, new publication alert - and this is a big one for me. My book "The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games" is out! It’s an attempt to provide a systematic framework for analyzing enemies in military shooters.
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The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games: On Hostile Ground
This book delivers a unique way of understanding the heart of every first‑person military shooter game – its enemies – from within the genre itself to present a nuanced view of opponents in war games....
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January 8, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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By the way, the second short film we screened and discussed as part of our «Living in Platform Realities» opening night at Kino Xenix, Occitane Lacurie's amazing ‹doomscroll documentary› «Xena's Body,» is also available online and well worth watching! vimeo.com/879454111
xena's body (a menstrual auto-investigation using an iphone)
For health reasons, I happen to use the iOS native app that monitors my menstrual cycle. It has helped me turn my temporary scares into a realisation: my cycle is…
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January 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Nicolas Gourault's fantastic short experimental documentary film «Their Eyes» about the invisible human labor behind AI, which we showed and discussed at our «React & Respond» conference in Zurich last year, is now streaming on the NYT website www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Opinion | Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyes
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January 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Being invited to one of my favorite podcasts was one of the absolute highlights of my year. Thank you so much @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social for this honor – and thank you even more for your amazing work!
December 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Seit 2009 fragen wir unsere Autor:innen im Dezember: Was vom Jahr bleibt. Hier nun also die 17. Ausgabe www.cargo-film.de/anderes-kino...
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Coming in at no. 6, we have a stone-cold classic: "AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic" with @bildoperationen.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
Episode 62: AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic with Roland Meyer
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 2025-03-11 · 1h 15m
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December 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Vielen Dank für das Gespräch! Hat viel Spaß gemacht und war so lehrreich wie leider gruselig...
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Our dear colleague @kathrintrattner.bsky.social has published a fascinating new article about how ‹Civilization› players perceive the representation of ‹nations› and their historical role within the game – both the nation with which they identify as well as other nations
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My paper "'Was Barbarossa Not German?!' Nation, History, and Identity in Civilization Players’ Online Discussions" has just been published in the new issue of Eludamos! Very happy to see this out in the world

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“Was Barbarossa not German?!” : Nation, history, and identity in Civilization players’ online discussions | Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
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December 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Für @nd-aktuell.de hab ich ein paar Gedanken zu KI und Kitsch aufgeschrieben www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1196...
Aufstieg der Slopaganda
Das Internet der Gegenwart wird überschwemmt von massenproduziertem »KI-Schrott« mit scharfem Rechtsdrall
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December 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our dear colleague @kathrintrattner.bsky.social has published a fascinating new article about how ‹Civilization› players perceive the representation of ‹nations› and their historical role within the game – both the nation with which they identify as well as other nations
#OpenAccess
#GameStudies
My paper "'Was Barbarossa Not German?!' Nation, History, and Identity in Civilization Players’ Online Discussions" has just been published in the new issue of Eludamos! Very happy to see this out in the world

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“Was Barbarossa not German?!” : Nation, history, and identity in Civilization players’ online discussions | Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
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December 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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My paper "'Was Barbarossa Not German?!' Nation, History, and Identity in Civilization Players’ Online Discussions" has just been published in the new issue of Eludamos! Very happy to see this out in the world

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“Was Barbarossa not German?!” : Nation, history, and identity in Civilization players’ online discussions | Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
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December 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Sehr guter Beitrag über eine Art "Plattformkitsch":

»AI Slop [ist] vor allem an die Distributionsbedingungen sozialer Medien angepasst. Sein Erfolg bemisst sich primär an seiner Verbreitung, und um diese zu steigern, nutzen seine Produzent*innen gezielt die Reaktionsökonomien der Plattformen aus.«
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ist das Internet tot und voller Bots? Was für die #deadinternettheory spricht und was nicht, bespricht @irmiwutscher.bsky.social mit @bildoperationen.bsky.social und dem Medienphilosophen Thomas Sommerer sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/...
Ö1 Digital.Leben - Die „Dead Internet Theory“
Die “Theorie vom toten Internet“ gesitert seit 10 Jahren durch das Netz. Sie äußert die Befürchtung, das Internet werde nicht mehr von Menschen befüllt und konsumiert, sondern gehöre nur mehr Bots.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Für @oe1digitalleben.bsky.social ist ist @irmiwutscher.bsky.social der «Dead Internet Theory» auf den Grund gegangen – ich durfte auch meine 2cents beitragen oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Ist das Internet tot? | MO | 15 12 2025 | 17:55
Die "Dead Internet Theory" befürchtet, dass das Netz nur mehr von Bots bevölkert ist
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December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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NOW ONLINE: The lastest special issue of Photography & Culture on «AI and Photography», guest-edited by Briankle Chang and Sarah M. Miller and featuring among others my essay «Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‹Photographic›»
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Photography and Culture
AI and Photography. Volume 18, Issue 3-4 of Photography and Culture
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December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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The excellent @bildoperationen.bsky.social paper on platform realism, foundational to understanding the AI aesthetic and its roots in nostalgia and conservatism, is online: journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...
“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...
In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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This is a great and very valuable list that Eryk has compiled, and I am more than grateful he included my essay on «Platform Realism.» Such a great honor! Many pieces in there I've missed, so I'll be busy the next hours checking them out …
It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Das war ein toller Abend an einem besonderen Ort – ganz herzlichen Dank an die @woz.ch für die Einladung, an @rahelestermann.bsky.social für Ihre klugen und ermutigenden Ausführungen, @crimew.gay für ein (krankheitheitsbedingt leider nur auf Video zugespieltes) wichtiges Abschlussstatement ...
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Endlich die super kompetenten @rahelestermann.bsky.social und @bildoperationen.bsky.social mal live gesehen.

@woz.ch im Neubad Luzern
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Für das ZHdK-Hochschulmagazin ZETT habe ich einen kleinen Essay über generative KI und synthetische Archive geschrieben www.zhdk.ch/meldung/synt...
Synthetische Archive | ZHdK.ch
02.12.2025
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December 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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OUT NOW in #OpenAccess: Mein Kurzessay «Plattformrealismus. Eine Ästhetik des Generischen», erschienen im Band «Generativität» aus der Reihe «Begriffe des digitalen Bildes», herausgegeben von Matthias Bruhn und Katharina Weinstock für @dasdigitalebild.bsky.social
"Generativität" - DFG Schwerpunktprogramm - Das digitale Bild
Heftreihe “Begriffe des digitalen Bildes”Sechster Teilband: “Generativität” Sechster Band der neuen Schriftenreihe “Begriffe des digitalen Bildes”, herausgegeben von Matthias Bruhn und Katharina Weins...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM