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Drawing on a vision of the future from a hundred years ago, this symposium asks what editorial experimentation can mean in the present and how the processes of book production – design, printing and distribution – influence the interpretation of the world. 

Organized by Rachel Robinson and Verónica Stedile Luna

An ICI Berlin event in cooperation with University of Galway.

Registration required.

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Claudia de la Torre will lead an informal gathering to share and reflect on her editorial practice. It will be structured around a selection of artist books she has produced over the past fifteen years, placed in dialogue with other books from her personal collection that in different ways resonate with them. This will not be a chronological or theoretical presentation, but rather a meeting of editorial objects that allow participants to think together about materiality, narrative, and publishing as an artistic practice.

Part of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book

Registration required.

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All of the works on display are ‘book objects’ —hybrids of unique artworks and mass-produced artefacts that oscillate between sculpture and publication. Michalis Pichler uses antiquarian books as his main material and subjects them to surgical interventions that highlight their physical fragility and their cultural resilience. 

By and with Michalis Pichler

Opening Hours:
Thursday, 19 March, 14:00 – 18:00
Wednesday, 25 March, 14:00 – 18:00

Part of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book

No registration required.

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This talk explores scale and simulation. In the scientific context, simulations are often epistemic tools that can be larger or smaller or faster or slower than the target of study. But in cases where the thing of interest is that which is remote or inaccessible, the scale is simply 1:1.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Scale.

Registration opens on 10 March 2025.
Livestream available.

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This workshop challenges the notion that the user is the only or most effective means of accounting for the various forms of practical knowledge and expertise involved in human-machine interaction, and proposes that a more diverse range of figures is needed.

With Tyler Reigeluth and Magdalena Krysztoforska

Organized by Magdalena Krysztoforska

Registration opens on 11 March 2026.

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As technological systems become increasingly distributed, embedded, and multiscalar, an ever-larger part of how they function seems to escape human perception and understanding – at least at an individual level.

Part of the workshop Beyond the User

Organized by Magdalena Krysztoforska

Registration opens on 11 March 2026.

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Organized by James Harker, Clio Nicastro, and Laura Scuriatti for Bard College Berlin in cooperation with ICI Berlin

Autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. This workshop explores the history of these forms, and is interested in their genealogies, as well as in the politics and aesthetics of subjectivity, especially in the moments when these practices have intensified. 

The organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute talks. Abstracts of 300 words and short bios should be sent by 15 March 2026 to  theselfatscale@ici-berlin.org

As with all events at the ICI Berlin, there is no registration fee. Any further queries should be addressed to the organizers.

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