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Guest Post: Time Travel Through Our Digital Past with Nicole Savoy

What does it take to keep born-digital art accessible over time? Nicole Savoy from Rhizome explores emulation as a living preservation practice reflecting on TechBrunch: Born-Digital Art within the Time Travel through our Digital Past Project support by the SKKG.

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Lauren Lee McCarthy’s AUTO: A Collective Encounter with Autonomous Systems

In October 2025, a self-driving PostBus appeared on Münsterhof — not to drive, but to ask what happens when we let automated systems guide us. In this look-back, we revisit Lauren Lee McCarthy’s AUTO and the collective experiment it created in the middle of Zürich.

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The Making of Guide to DAOs

Hannah-Katharina Chabbani and Marc Bredemeier, winners of the Friends of HEK Open Call, interview each other about their project.

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Link to: Guide to DAOs, a project realized through Friends of HEK

Guide to DAOs invites you to explore shared governance, ethics & digital culture—together. Add your thoughts on the Live Annotation Wall.

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Fungal Networks and Spaces of Consciousness: Interweaving Nature, Technology and Art

How can fungi shift our perspective on intelligence? Susanne Hartmann shares insights from her work Experiments III, on view in the HEK exhibition «Other Intelligences» until 10.08.2025.

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The Ocean in Your Lungs: Why Plankton Matter

What connects the air in your lungs with glowing oceans and towering cliffs? Artist and researcher Anthea Oestreicher explores how microscopic plankton shape our world – from oxygen and climate to stone and memory. Experience it live at her TechBrunch on August 10 at HEK, during the “Other Intelligences” finissage weekend.

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(Video Game) Preservation is Political : Video Games as a Cultural Force and Heritage

What do online games reveal about our digital culture? And why does their preservation matter? Adrian Demleitner looks at how games emerged in Switzerland, what stories they carry with them – and why preserving them is a cultural and political responsibility.

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Surveillance, Silence, and Strollers: A Conversation with Alfatih

Fatima Salum Said from HEK’s education team sits down with alfatih, one of the winners of the Pax Art Awards 2024, to talk about surveillance, silence, and the blurred lines between humanity and machine.

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