Qingyi Ren (任晴宜, They/Them) is a Science and Technology Studies (STS) researcher at Critical Media Lab Basel, a mentor in the MA Transversal Design program at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, and a lecturer in MA Interaction Design at UAL London College of Communication.
Their research examines machine learning and AI as sociotechnical systems, with particular attention to how categories, datasets, and computational practices are produced, negotiated, and situated within specific institutional and cultural contexts. Informed by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and queer studies, their work investigates the politics of classification and knowledge production, as well as the assumptions and forms of normativity embedded in computational systems.
Their PhD project “Queerness as Gap” is funded by The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from 2024 to 2028.
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Happening/Happened:
09-09-2026
Debugging Realities exhibition
Ars Electronica 2026 Negotiating Humanity· Campus Exhibition
20-06-2026
Reading the Body: Emotion, Affect, and the Datafied Face talk
Security Vision Project, Leiden University
25-04-2026
Growing in Algorithmic Ruins: Contamination as Queer-Feminist Method
paper
Australian Feminist Studies
18-11-2025
Exploring Digital Safe‑Spaces
- Session 3: Algorithms, Visibility & Collective Change: Critical Conversations About Platform Logic talk
Edgelands Institute
25-08-2025
Conversation: Hacking Systems, Hacking Futures! talk
HackThePromise Festival
25-08-2025
Regimes of Representability talk
CML x Digital Humanities Lab
25-03-2025
GenTec: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Series on Gender and Technology. talk
ETH zürich
27-02-2025
Encoding Realities, Decoding Power
Exploring New Formations of Gender, Race, and Sexuality within Artificial Identities
paper
Computational Media Lab
16-07-2024
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