Short Bio
At IXDM, Dr. Johannes Bruder heads the Critical Media Lab and together with Lucie Kolb, the MAKE/SENSE PhD Program. He teaches the module ‘Documenting’ in the MA Transversal Design. Johannes studies the speculative and imaginary aspects of infrastructures – sociological models, psychological mechanisms, and affective potentials encoded in infrastructural designs ranging from algorithmic systems to financial markets to pipelines. He has a strong interest in experimenting with research methods, knowledge practices, alternative pedagogies and modes of documenting that unsettle disciplinary paradigms and render research in the humanities operational in real-world contexts. He has contributed to events and exhibitions incl. Transmediale, the Anthropocene Curriculum, the Solar Biennale, the Beijing Art and Technology Biennial. His writing has been published by Routledge, MIT Press, Open Humanities Press, Valiz, MQUP, and Bloomsbury, as well as in journals such as ST&HV, Discourse, culturemachine, and Digital Culture & Society.
Publications https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1749-8338
Projects criticalmedialab.ch
Awards
Best PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Lucerne (2015)