Shusha Niederberger

Shusha Niederberger researches and teaches in the field of art, culture and digitality. She studied visual and digital arts in Zurich and Vienna, was head of art education at the House of Electronic Arts (HeK) in Basel (2014-2021), and teaches contemporary net culture at F+F Schule für Kunst und Design in Zurich. She was part of the research project Creating Commons (2017-2019, IFCAR, ZHDK), which investigated digital artistic practices as commons. She is currently writing her PhD on user data practices as part of the research project Latent Spaces - Performing the Ambiguity of Data (IFCAR, ZHDK). She lives near Zurich. (2021)

Publications

• "Zur Performativität von Code", Apr 2013. Lecture given at the research workshop "out of control", Corner College, 20 Apr 2013. (German)

• "Zugang ist nicht genug: die gemeinschaftliche Arbeit an der Kultur", in Share: Medientechnologie und Kulturvermittlung, ed. Haus der elektroninschen Künste, Christoph Merian, 2018. (German)

• "Technologie von unten. Feministische Technologiekritik und algorithmische Gegenwart", Fabrikzeitung, 8 Jul 2019. (German)

• "Feminist Server – Sichtbarkeit und Funktionalität. Digitale Infrastruktur als gemeinschaftliches Projekt", Springerin 4, Vienna, 2019. (German)
  • "Feminist Server – Visibility and Functionality: Digital Infrastructure as a Common Project", Springerin 4, Vienna, 2019. [1] (English)

• "Über Codes, Arbeit und Anerkennung. Crashkurs in Technofeminismus", Fabrikzeitung, 29 Oct 2020. (German)

• editor, with Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder, Aesthetics of the Commons, Zurich: diaphanes, 2021, 275 pp. (English)

• "Radical Care – Shadow Libraries und die Imagination anderer Institutionen", Fabrikzeitung: "Der radikale Katalog", eds. Lucie Kolb and Eva Weinmayr, Zürich: Rote Fabrik, Dec 2021. (German)

• "Minor User: Subjectivity of Small Technology", A Peer-reviewed Newspaper 12(1): "Toward a Minor Tech", Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, Feb 2023, p 4. Toot. (English)

Interviews

• Gily Kolb, "Shusha Niederberger – Mediating Digital Nowness", The Art Educators Talk, Feb 2020. (English)

• Anthonie de Groot, "«Jetzt haben wir die Cloud und alles ist magic magic»", splatz.space, Nov 2023. (German)

Links

• Website
• Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@shusha, [2]
• Profile on ZHDK
• Academia.edu