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Sylvia Wynter has produced a rich body of work synthesizing Black studies, anthropology, cybernetics, literary studies, Caribbean studies, feminist theory, and more. One pivotal concept within her theoretical apparatus is that of the human.

With Kirill Chepurin, Lama El Khatib, Jacqueline Frost, Tobi Haslett, Henrike Kohpeiss, Yaniya Lee, Matthew Milbourne, and Ben Woodard

Organized by Kirill Chepurin, Tobi Haslett, and Ben Woodard.

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This event will engage with the debates surrounding Slow cinema as both an aesthetic movement and a political intervention. Based on Rosa Barotsi's new book Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema, the discussion will focus on how extended duration and dead time in film have been seen as challenging capitalist temporalities while simultaneously risking recuperation by the very systems they purportedly resist. 

With Rosa Barotsi and James Burton

Organized by ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press

Livestream available.
Registration required.

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The first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth century, Italian Futurism sought to integrate modern life into every imaginable medium and format, from painting to politics, photography to dance, architecture to music.

Organized by Filippo Bosco and moderated with Max Boersma.

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 24 Jun 2025.

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This event explores the problem of abstraction through the lens of modelling practices, taking as its point of departure the recently published volume Breaking and Making Models (ICI Berlin Press, 2025). The discussion focuses on a central philosophical tension articulated throughout its pages: the role of abstraction in enabling, shaping, and sometimes constraining the epistemic and imaginative scope of scientific and artistic practices.

With Julia Sánchez-Dorado, Ross Shields, and Ben Woodard. Moderated by Maria Dębińska.

Organized by ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press.

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 24 Jun 2025.

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Based on Zeynep Bulut’s book, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (Goldsmiths Press, 2025), this presentation and discussion will explore how one can imagine voice as skin and what such an imagination offers in times of crisis and uncertainties.

With Zeynep Bulut, Brandon LaBelle, and Holger Schulze.

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 1 Jul 2025.

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Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.

Hardcover | 38.5 EUR
Paperback | 21 EUR

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The pioneers of what has been labelled New Queer Cinema laid the foundation for a Queer Post-Cinema — a movement in which artists experiment with technology in innovative ways. Through original readings of Todd Haynes’s early films, Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana’s videos and installations, Su Friedrich’s digital video Seeing Red, Charlie Prodgers’s iPhone film Bridgit, and Claire Denis’s science-fiction film Highlife, this monograph shows how artists are creating a new form of resistance in the time of the digital image and generative AI.

Hardcover | 39 EUR
Paperback | 21.5 EUR

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