After a short summer break, and a special edition at Ars Electronica, our Loops series returns to our studio! For this first meeting, we will host Cade Diehm and Benjamin Busch (@benbusch), who will discuss new approaches to archiving and the shortcomings of the digital infrastructure - in conceptualisation and application - that lead to a fragmentation of digital politics and economics.

Cade Diehm is the founder of the New Design Congress, an international research organisation forging a nuanced understanding of technology’s role as a social, political and environmental accelerant. With a multi-disciplinary background in information security, interface politics and digital systems, Cade and his team study digital infrastructure to understand how technology at scale influences the perspectives and safety of policy-makers, activists and researchers.

Benjamin Busch is a US-American visual artist living in Berlin. First trained as an architect (M.A. Arch.), he received his M.A. in Spatial Strategies in 2017 from the Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin. In his artistic practice, he employs architecture as a narrative device to shed light on underrepresented communities. Through his critical writing, social practice, and mixed-media and multimedia artworks, Busch engages the production of space as a convergence of its perceived, conceived, and lived modalities.

See you on 7 November at 7 pm!