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Iyo Bisseck is a French-Cameroonian media artist, interaction designer, and programmer. She develops a practice that blends immersive digital environments, sculptural installations, animated images, and video games. Active in collectives such as Dreaming Beyond AI and Matri-Archi(tecture), she designs online platforms that support cultural and activist initiatives. Their work critically examines the construction, use, and perception of archives in contemporary contexts, focusing on the materiality of the digital while exposing colonial continuities. Engaged in preserving and reinventing archives, Iyo weaves diasporic narratives through fiction and interactive media. 

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activities

  • The Reciprocal Trap
    V2_, Realities in Transition 2 – Unwritten Worlds,
    Online + Rotterdam, Netherlands
    residency
    Jun 2026
    Nov 2026
  • Life-Affirming Visions of Technology, working Group on Abolitionist Demands
    Coalition of organisations gathered by Weaving Liberation
    Marseille, France
    workshop
    May 2026
    Jun 2026
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    Democratic Digital Commons Online Assembly 1
    European Alternatives
    Online
    discussion
    May 2026
  • Hackathon: Visual surveillance in EU migration policies
    Protect not Surveil, Oasi San Giacomo
    Verona, Italy
    workshop, discussion
    Apr 2026
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    [Cancelled] Dreaming Beyond AI: Portals Behind the Algorithm
    ifa Galerie
    Stuttgart, Germany
    curation, exhibition
    Apr 2026
    Aug 2026
  • Platform Condition
    FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    workshop
    Mar 2026
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    Technoaffection Against Control: Abolitionist Futures Beyond TESCREAL
    University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Vienna, Austria
    discussion, workshop
    Nov 2025
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    Embodied Restoration Lab by Afaina de Jong
    19th Venice Architecture Biennale
    Venice, Italy
    discussion
    Oct 2025
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    Phd Forum
    Microsillons, HEAD, Haute école d'art et de design
    Genève, Switzerland
    fellowship
    Oct 2025
    May 2026
  • Listening to the Gaps, Metadata, Archives, and AI decontextualisation
    HKB, Bern Academy of the Arts
    Bern, Switzerland
    workshop
    Oct 2025
  • Building Situated technologies
    Weaving Liberation retreat
    Lesbos, Greece
    discussion
    Sep 2025
  • Building Archive Collectively with Afaina de Jong
    Master contextual design, Design Academy Eindhoven
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
    workshop
    Sep 2025
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    Black Feminist Visions of Tech with Laurence Meyer and Sarah Diedro Jordão
    Nebula Global Gathering
    Estoril, Portugal
    discussion, workshop
    Sep 2025
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    Regenerative Archives: Transforming perspectives on design and digital culture
    Het Nieuwe Instituut
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    discussion
    Jun 2025
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    Unwired Currents—Imagining Technologies Otherwise fellowship
    Futuress x Dreaming Beyond AI x Dezentrum x Materio Obscura x Franca
    Online
    mentor
    May 2025
    Oct 2025
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    Coalition Building in Times of AI: Intersecting Struggles
    Dreaming Beyond AI
    Barcelona, Spain + online
    hosting residency
    Apr 2025
    Jun 2025
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    STOKVEL
    Matri-Archi(tecture) x Kunsthalle Bern
    Bern, Switzerland
    discussion
    Apr 2025
  • Nouveau Grand Tour NL
    Minus One, Het Nieuwe Instituut x Institut français NL
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    residency
    Apr 2025
    Jun 2025
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    Elever nos archives collectivement
    Salon de la dispersion
    Genève, Switzerland
    workshop
    Mar 2025
  • Cultiver les communs pour (re)définir nos mémoires collectives ?
    Noircir Wikipédia
    Genève, Switzerland
    discussion
    Mar 2025
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    IN-FORM-ALL launch
    Matri-Archi(tecture) x LAPA
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    publication, discussion
    Mar 2025
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    « Machina sapiens », week-end culturel de l'IA
    la Conciergerie
    Paris, France
    exhibition
    Feb 2025
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    Portes ouvertes de La Friche #3, explorer les communs numériques
    Palais de Tokyo
    Paris, France
    exhibition
    Dec 2024
  • Beyond universality: interactive stories and situated knowledge
    Hyperwerk, FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    workshop
    Nov 2024
  • Raising archives collectively
    Weaving Liberation Retreat
    Sarajevo, Bosnia
    workshop
    Oct 2024
  • Presentation of Dreaming Beyond AI residency
    AI & Digital Justice Tools Roundtable, Mesh Festival
    Basel, Switzerland
    discussion
    Oct 2024
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    La Friche
    Palais de Tokyo
    Paris, France
    residency
    Oct 2024
    Dec 2024
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    Decolonize generative AI : a dialogue between artists and researchers
    Center for Internet and Society CNRS
    Paris, France
    discussion
    Oct 2024
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    The Drone behind the Falling Star
    Art University Linz
    Linz, Austria
    lecture, discussion
    Sep 2024
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    Wilderness Garden
    Ars Electronica, Salon FIFTITU%
    Linz, Austria
    solo show
    Sep 2024
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    Raising archives collectively
    Embodied Restoration Lab by Afaina de Jong, Het Nieuwe Instituut
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    workshop
    Apr 2024
  • What does it mean to build within walls that we dream of abolishing ? with Tina Reden
    FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    workshop
    Apr 2024
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    Raising archives collectively
    Decolonial Envisioning by allapopp
    Berlin, Germany
    workshop
    Mar 2024
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    Who Benefits from Reconciliation? Negotiation, self determination, struggle and design justice in the digital age with Sinem Görücü
    İyi Tasarım/Good Design İzmir_8
    İzmir, Turkey
    discussion
    Dec 2023
  • Traces in the city
    İyi Tasarım/Good Design İzmir_8
    İzmir, Turkey
    workshop
    Dec 2023
  • Teachable realities, navigating spaces through AI temporalities
    Master contextual design, Design Academy Eindhoven
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
    workshop
    Dec 2023
  • Designing multi-modal narratives
    Hyperwerk, FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    workshop
    Nov 2023
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    Les récits de l'IA
    Pyxis Exploration numérique
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    lecture, discussion
    Nov 2023
  • Récits intéractifs
    HEAD – Genève, Haute école d'art et de design
    Geneva, Switzerland
    workshop
    Nov 2023
  • In the loop, on Artificial Intelligence and Time by Dreaming Beyond AI
    Kampnagel
    Hamburg, Germany
    curation, exhibition, discussion, hosting residency
    Oct 2023
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    SeeD Pilot Project Exhibition “VIRTUAL LAB”
    Shenzhen Long Cheng Commune Creative Innovation Center
    Shenzhen, China
    exhibition
    Oct 2023
    Jan 2024
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    Meeting spaces & access in public space: physical & digital?
    CURRENT - ART AND URBAN SPACE festival
    Stuttgart, Germany
    facilitator
    Sep 2023
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    Presentation of Dreaming Beyond AI at "Design and Digital Justice" DGTF conference
    Berlin University of the Arts
    Berlin, Germany
    lecture, discussion
    Jun 2023
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    Whole Web Catalog
    Ecole des Arts Décoratifs
    Paris, France
    discussion
    May 2023
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    Oasis dotwet
    Akademie Der Künste
    Berlin, Germany
    exhibition, performance, residency
    Apr 2023
    Jun 2023
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    AI, Can You See Me?
    Campus Fonderie de l'image
    Montreuil, France
    lecture
    Jan 2023
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    Participation at Design Threads Reports
    Porto Rocha
    Online
    publication, discussion
    Nov 2022
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    Hacking Narratives, Questioning Neutrality with Sherida Kuffour
    Hyperwerk, FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    workshop
    Nov 2022
  • Shared environment as a carrier bag, creating virtual worlds
    KISD - Köln International School of Design
    Köln, Germany
    workshop
    Oct 2022
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    Interview Connecting Worlds: tangible and virtual realities
    FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    publication, discussion
    Oct 2022
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    Résidence artistique
    Eeeeh!
    Nyon, Switzerland
    residency
    Sep 2022
  • Jury for the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication
    HEAD – Genève, Haute école d'art et de design
    Geneva, Switzerland
    jury
    Jun 2022
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    Oasis dotwet Residency
    HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU3)
    Berlin, Germany
    residency
    Jun 2022
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    The Human Detector
    Musée de la main
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    exhibition
    Apr 2022
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    The Human detector
    Shoof Gallery
    Stockholm, Sweden
    exhibition
    Jan 2022
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    Forgotten memories with Lorenzo Ballirano
    Reality is not, UNI
    Zurich, Switzerland
    exhibition
    Dec 2021
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    Emancipation Through the Virtual
    Coding Resistance, Futuress
    Online
    lecture
    Oct 2021
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    Coding Resistance Fellowship
    Futuress
    Online
    facilitator
    Oct 2021
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    Connecting Worlds: tangible and virtual realities
    FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    workshop
    Oct 2021
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    International Workshop Week
    FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    lecture
    Oct 2021
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    Aesthetics of Fiction/Writing/Literature/Design |Roundtable
    Brave New Lit.
    Online
    publication, discussion
    Sep 2021
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    O U T POST Opacity
    Post Festival
    Copenhagen, Denmark
    lecture
    Aug 2021
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    Subversif.ve.s, graphisme, genre et pouvoir
    Mudac
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    curation
    May 2021
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    Race-Design-technology serie
    FHNW, Basel Academy of Art and Design
    Basel, Switzerland
    lecture
    May 2021
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    💥We strike back! Feminist resistance on the Internet💥 with depatriarchise design
    depatriarchise design
    Online
    workshop
    Feb 2021
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    Hackerare l’algoritmo
    Menelique Magazine
    Milan, Italy
    publication
    Dec 2020
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    The Human Detector
    Eeeeh!
    Nyon, Switzerland
    exhibition, lecture
    Oct 2019
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    AI, Can You See Me?
    HeK Haus der Elektronischen Künste
    Basel, Switzerland
    publication
    Sep 2019