For the first Loops session of the new semester, we open with a cross-disciplinary forum in a special collaboration with Princeton University on investigative media aesthetics and journalism. We will be exploring how conflict and migration demand accountable evidence and how this work informs justice and reporting.

Joining us are Dr. Anna Polze, media scholar at Ruhr University Bochum, whose work traces the visual cultures of migration and the crises of digital evidence; Fred Abrahams, former Human Rights Watch and now guest faculty at Bard College Berlin; and artists and researchers Engy El Shenawy and Federico Zurani, who explore how images and simulations construct narratives of war, testimony, and power.

The collaboration with Princeton University was developed together with journalist and professor Deborah Amos and her students. Together we hope to open a lasting collaboration and an ongoing conversation on investigative media aesthetics and on how journalism, art, and research can continue to document and question political realities.

We are thrilled to begin the academic year with this shared event that brings together universities, disciplines, and generations of inquiry. The session is open to the public and will be streamed live on our channels.

As always, we will end the night with drinks and informal conversation at our studio bar.

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