Why do I (not) go to museums?
April 21, 2026 5:26 pm Leave your thoughts«Who goes to museums – and who is left out?» Key insights from the roundtable «Cultural Participation» on 20 March 2026, organised in collaboration with Kuverum.
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Guest Post: After the Dataset — An Introduction by Gazelli Art House
April 15, 2026 2:02 pm Leave your thoughtsSelected by the Friends of HEK community, After the Dataset by Gazelli Art House explores how AI shapes cultural memory and visual knowledge. In this guest post, curator Pegah Hoghoughi introduces the exhibition, opening Friday, 17.04.2026 at 17:00 (CEST) on virtual.hek.ch.
Guest Post: Time Travel Through Our Digital Past with Nicole Savoy
January 22, 2026 4:08 pm Leave your thoughtsWhat 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.
Lauren Lee McCarthy’s AUTO: A Collective Encounter with Autonomous Systems
November 26, 2025 11:59 am Leave your thoughtsIn 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.
The Making of Guide to DAOs
August 15, 2025 11:48 am Leave your thoughtsHannah-Katharina Chabbani and Marc Bredemeier, winners of the Friends of HEK Open Call, interview each other about their project.
Link to: Guide to DAOs, a project realized through Friends of HEK
August 7, 2025 1:34 pm Leave your thoughtsGuide to DAOs invites you to explore shared governance, ethics & digital culture—together. Add your thoughts on the Live Annotation Wall.
Fungal Networks and Spaces of Consciousness: Interweaving Nature, Technology and Art
July 10, 2025 4:14 pm Leave your thoughtsHow 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.
(Video Game) Preservation is Political : Video Games as a Cultural Force and Heritage
June 27, 2025 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsWhat 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.