Dr. Johannes Bruder
Dr. Johannes Bruder
Leiter Forschung IXDM
Dr. Johannes Bruder is a scholar of digital culture and technology with a background in STS and media studies. He focuses on psychological categories, sociological models, and speculative designs encoded in digital technologies to get a grip on social and psychic life. Johannes’s first monograph, “Cognitive Code. Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain” (MQUP, 2019) is based on fieldwork in labs at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and provides insights into the bio-politics of contemporary machine learning. He has a strong interest in experimental research methods, alternative pedagogies and critical publishing practices that unsettle disciplinary paradigms and render humanities research operational in real-world contexts.
Johannes is the Head of the Critical Media Lab, facilitates learning in the BA Process Design @ Hyperwerk and the MA Experimental Design, and is a member of the PhD program MAKE/SENSE. He was invited for fellowships at King’s College London, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, and Concordia University Montréal and taught at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, the University of Basel, the University of Lucerne, ETH Zürich, and Sciences Po in Paris. His work has been published in Science, Technology & Human Values, Tsantsa, culturemachine, Discourse, among others; he contributed to books published by MIT Press, Routledge, Valiz, De Gruyter, and more.
Books
Cognitive Code. Post-anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain. McGill-Queen’s University Press (2019). https://www.mqup.ca/cognitive-code-products-9780773559172.php.
Journal articles
“Neuropsychologies of the Paranoid Mind and the Technologies they Breed”, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture. (in preparation)
“Cloud Cosmogram” (with Maya Indira Ganesh), Datafarms. Circuits – Labour – Territory, https://www.datafarms.org/2019/12/16/cloud-cosmogram/.
“Psychic residues, or: maths, wires, code”, in: Krewani, Heibach, Schütz (eds.), The Construction of Media Authorship. History – Present – Future (forthcoming, DeGruyter).
“Where the sun never shines. Emerging Paradigms of Post-Enlightened Cognition”, Digital Culture & Society, Vol. 4 (1) (2018), pp. 133-145. PDF.
“Infrastructural Intelligence. Contemporary entanglements between neuroscience and AI”, Progress in Brain Research, 233 (2017), pp. 101-128, doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2017.06.004.
“Enjoy the Creepy Naked Cyber Girl!”, continent., Vol. 5(1) (2016), http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/231, with Sarah Benhaïm.
“Letter from the Editors: Lost & Found, continent., Vol. 5(1) (2016), http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/224, with Felix Gerloff & Jamie Allen.
“Editorial: Bilder der Aliaa Magda Elmahdy – Eine Kontroverse”, Rheinsprung 11. Zeitschrift für Bildkritik, No. 4 (2012), with Thomas Brandstetter.
“Sirs, Mr. Motaba, ganz aus der Nähe und höchstpersönlich. Folgen des Changierens zwischen Bild und Modell in Wolfgang Petersens Outbreak (1996)”, Rheinsprung 11. Zeitschrift für Bildkritik, No. 2 (2011), pp. 99-111.
“Die Kultur der Komputation. Digitale Bilder als Index?”, Kunsttexte 1/2010, www.kunsttexte.de.
Edited
“Lost & Found”, continent., Vol. 5(1) (2016), ed. with Jamie Allen & Felix Gerloff, http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/issue/view/23.
“Bild Modell Aller-Retour”, Rheinsprung 11. Zeitschrift für Bildkritik, No. 2 (2011), ed. with Inge Hinterwaldner, Martina Merz, Reinhard Wendler.
“Streitbilder/Controversial Images”, Rheinsprung 11. Zeitschrift für Bildkritik, No. 4 (2012), ed. with Thomas Brandstetter.
Contributions to edited Volumes
“Why is it so hard to describe experience? Why is it so hard to experience description?” in: Bruno Latour (ed.), reset Modernity! Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 496-515
“Fetish”, in: James Elkins et al. (ed.), Theorizing Visual Studies. Writing through the Discipline, New York: Routledge, pp. 120-122.
Contributions to edited volumes
“Alexa’s Body”, in Claudia Mareis und Nina Paim (eds.), Design Struggles, 283-297. Amsterdam: Valiz.
“Cloud Cosmogram” (with Maya Indira Ganesh), in: Kevser Güler and Süreyyya Evren (eds.)
Celestial Bodies. Istanbul: Arter (2021)
Journal articles
“Optimal Brain Damage. Histories of our Nervous Present” (with Orit Halpern), Culturemachine 20 (Machine Intelligences in Context: Beyond the Technological Sublime; forthcoming)
Reviews
“The brain, the person, and the social: a workshop report.” Somatosphere, 11 July 2011. http://somatosphere.net/2011/brain-person-and-social-workshop-report.html/.
“The brain, the person, and the social. How can STS deal with neuroscience objects and practices?” EASST Review 29/4 (2010), p. 4-6.
“Of Demons, Geniuses and the Rat Man”, Science as Culture 20/3 (2011), pp. 405-410.
Best PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Lucerne (2015)
2021, Critical Media Studies, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Race-Design-Technology
2019, History of Tech, ETH Zurich, Infrastructural Imaginaries (w/ Daniela Zetti)
2018, Critical Media Studies, Academy of Art and Design, Tripping out!
2018, Critical Media Studies, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Computer-(r)aided design
2017, Critical Media Studies, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Mediating Critique
2016, Kontext, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Infrastructural Imaginaries / Imaginary Infrastructure (w/ Jamie Allen)
2015, MA Design, Master Studio Design, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Resetting Modernity (w/ Jamie Allen)
2015, Kontext, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Do you watch Hollywood movies?
2014, Kontext, Academy of Art and Design Basel, ParaMedia (w/ Jamie Allen)
2014, MA Design, Master Studio Design, Academy of Art and Design Basel, ANT and its Love for Monsters
2013, BA Gesellschafts- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, University of Lucerne, Medien der Sichtbarkeit
2012, MA Design, Master Studio Design, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Design mit ANT: Praxistheorie und kreativer Prozess
2011, MA Visual Communication and Iconic Research, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Making visible: Techniques of Visualisation
2010, eikones Summer School 2010, University of Basel, Die Visualität der Gesellschaft
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