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The core of this community comprises guest researchers and doctoral candidates with temporary infrastructure access and intellectual participation, surrounded by a layer of affiliated nodes with sustained scholarly exchange, and an outer project layer of affiliated projects, nodes and other entities.

Core nodes

Media Archaeological Fundus Berlin

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PhD researchers (in alphabetic order)

Didar Ağlaç, Theorizing Therapeutic Play: Integrating Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives into Critical Media Studies, 5.2025–

Tohme Ali, When AI Designs: Knowledge Formation and the Epistemological Consequences of AI-Mediated Design Practice, 9.2026–

Lisa Bador, Phenomenology of Ghosts; Plasticity, Hypnosis, Cybernetics, 3.2022–

Manru Chen, Physicality in Interactive Visual Media, 11.2025–

Bibiana da Silva de Paula, Buried Temporalities: The Mineral Layers of Media and Their Artistic Recovery, 7.2025–

Marie-Luisa Körlin, Media of (In-)Accessibility. A Genealogy of the User Account, 04.2026–

Gregor Krüger-Pammin, Denken in Gefügen. Zur Epistemologie operativer Medien und verschränkter Kognition, 6.2023–10.2026

Viviana Laperchia, From Science Fiction to Technological Colonialism: AI in Indigenous Responsible Truth-telling, 12.2025–

Jingwen Li, Dispositif Analysis of Virtuality: Transformations of Digital Art Practices in Latent Space, 06.2024– (2nd supervision)

Yizhou Li, The Gender Politics of Algorithmic Resistance, 10.2025–

Ringo Lukas, Generated Realities – Fiktionen und ihre Narrativierung als Treiber soziokultureller (faschistischer) Umbrüche im Zeitalter von Algorithmen, Automatisierung und Generativer KI, 4.2024- (2nd supervision)

Emre Öztürk, Tracing the Globalization of Chicago Footwork Culture Through Media, 4.2022–

Ziming Peng, Technische Ästhetik und visuelle Medialität: Eine Medienarchäologie von 3D- und KI-computergenerierten Bildern, 06.2025–

Anya Shchetvina, Internet Manifestos (1974-2024): From Romantic Enchantment to Poetics of Operability, 12.2023–

Jack Wang-Clasen, Noise and Its Control: Discontent and Active Noise Control at Present, 04.2024–

Hosted networks

Friedrich Kittler Gesellschaft

Critical Data Lab

Guest researchers (in chronologic order)

Rowan Melling (DAAD, Simon Fraser University, 2024/2025)

Prof. Dr. Nobuhiro Masuda (Kyushu University, 2024/2025)

Prof. Dr. Jin Qian (Shanghai International Studies University, 2025)

Federico Mattioli (University of Turin, 2025)

Joanna Vidal (DAAD, 2025/2026)

Cao Jinyuan (CSC, East China Normal University, 2026)