Desire for Transmission - On Movements of Materials and Knowledges

'Desire for Transmission' is the second volume of Basel Dialogues, the critical book series from the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Composed of conversations from recent public symposia, intimate meetings, international festivals, and academic seminars, the dialogues feature the school's professors, students, and their guests - from the fields of visual art, design, filmmaking, media theory, science, coding, and poetics - all grappling with transdisciplinary practices pursued amidst a multivalent world. Their conversations cover technologies of transmission amid conditions of surveillance and resistance; trance techniques and cybernetics of the moving image; the languages of realism and fantasy that infuse both fashion and publishing; the immaterial histories of material knowledges; and contemporary image production's role in justice.