Ute Holl teaches media studies at the University of Basel, focusing
on aesthetics, epistemology, and the theory of audiovisual, acoustic,
and electroacoustic media, as well as on visual and sound archives of
the Global South. Recent publications include: “‘Intelligence with an
Agency’: Psychotechnik, Maschinenlernen und die Frage nach Entscheidungsmacht,”
in Die Macht des Psychotechnischen, ed. Bernd Bösel
and Jutta Weber (Campus, 2025); “R. W. Fassbinders filmische Historiografie:
Zum Melodramatischen in Angst essen Seele auf,” in Rainer
Werner Fassbinder: Kino der Subversion (Schüren, 2026); “Nicht
angemessen: Verhalten unter Bedingungen von KI,” in Zeitschrift für
Medienphilosophie, ed. Beate Ochsner and Markus Rautzenberg (forthcoming).
Together with Peter Ott, she has made documentary and fiction
films: Traum Wolken Off Exil / Dreams, Clouds, Off, Exile (2017); and
Amitié (2024).