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Biomedical visualisations can validate patient experiences and perceptions empowering patients and convincing doctors in the search for a diagnosis, treatment, or cure. However, they are often deceptive and of questionable legibility. They are also inaccessible to non-specialists and often de-contextualized.

With Marlene Bart, Cornelius Borck, Cat Dawson, and Lara Keuck

Organized by Alfred Freeborn (Universität Bielefeld), Elizabeth Hughes (MPIWG) and Robert Meunier (ICI Berlin)

Registration opens on 26 February 2026.
Livestream available.

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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 Galway University

Registration opens on 2 March 2026.

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Claudia de la Torre will lead an informal show and tell gathering, a space to share and reflect on her editorial practice. The session 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.

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

Registration opens on 2 March 2026.

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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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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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