Digital culture

Critical data, algorithm and AI studies

The research cluster examines the production, distribution and reception of data, models and machine learning technologies, with a particular sensitivity to gendered, racialized, colonial and class-based dimensions of computational regimes, among other things through the Critical Data and Machine Learning Lecture Series organized by AI REUSE and DALOSS.

Digital art & aesthetics

The cluster investigates the cultural roles, emergences, and imaginaries of digital art and artistic research practices, including new media art, music and sound art, video games, expanded reality and virtual worldmaking. Current projects investigate the aesthetic and creative implications of algorithmic behaviours and cultures, genre and the authenticity of data and digital objects.

Everyday use of technology 

The research cluster examines the ways in which digital technologies are ingrained in everyday lives – as habits, as mundane practices, as addictions, as algorithmic anticipations that affect the way humans relate, sense and engage with each other (intimacies and communities) as well as their environments (homes, cities, landscapes).

Digital infrastructures 

The research cluster investigates the complex interplay between digital infrastructures and forms of materiality in the digital age. A focus of the research cluster lies in the acceleration of platformised distribution and consumption, and the geopolitical potential of digital mediators as well as their relation to the materiality of infrastructures. 

Digitalization and platformization of cultural production, industries and institutions

Digitalization of cultural production and institutions impact on a range of economic, political, and aesthetic aspects. Current research projects in the cluster focus on the ways in which forms of digitalization facilitate new socio-cultural practices and cultural imaginaries. Furthermore research projects in the cluster investigate how cultural industries and cultural-economic models shift due to the influence of digitalization, and how digital platforms shape and reconfigure cultural, political and socio-economic landscapes.