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Institute of Diagram Studies

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Education
  • 2015 – 2020: PhD. School of Communication, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • 2008 – 2010: MA RCA (Distinction). Design Interactions, School of Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • 2003 – 2006: BA Graphic and Typographic Design (Cum Laude)
    Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), The Hague,
    The Netherlands
Exhibitions
  • Esoteric Ecotechnics. Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking: 25-09-2025 to 05-10-2025, International Festival of Computer Art (MFRU#31), Maribor, Slovenia curated by: Davide Bevilacqua & Lara Mejač
  • Casting A Spell In Computational Regimes : 12-10-2024 to 19-10-2024, SomoS Arts, Berlin, Germany – curated by: Arianna Fort
  • Understanding AI through the politics of divination and chicanery: 30-05-2024, Conversation with Natalia Stanusch, AIxDesign project (online)
  • Radical Futures Conference: 08-05-2024, University College Cork, Ireland
  • Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics: 03-05-2023, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (remote) panel with: Omri Elisha, Leona Nikolić, and Jeremy Stolow
  • Hybrid Futures lecture series :25-11-2020, University of the Arts London, UK curated by Dr. Betti Marenko
  • Scrolling the Arcane :01-10-2020 to 30-10-2020, Porto Planetarium, Portugal – curated by Joana Pestana
  • Method & Critique; frictions and shifts in RTD: 05-2019, Research Through Design, Technical University, Delft, The Netherlands with: Dr Betti Marenko
  • Supra Systems: Office Rites: 23/24-09-2018, V&A Digital Design Weekend, London, UK
  • Everything Happens So Much: 15-09 to 17-10-2018, London Design Festival, UK
  • Uncertainty Playground: 09 to 10-2017, London Design Festival, UK
  • Prima Materia: Alchemical Thinking And Making In Art, Design And Music: 05-2016 – Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • The Garden at Night: 12-03-2016, RA Lates, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
  • Digital Choc: Futurama: 02/03-2016 – Institut Français, Tokyo, Japan
  • Future Fictions: 10-2014 to 01-2015, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium curated: Karen Verschooren
  • RGS-IBG Annual Conference: Royal Geographical Society 08-2014, London, UK
  • COMING SOON: Real Imaginary Futures: 05 to 08-2014, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands curated by: Lukas Feireis
  • Blueprints for the Unknown (co-curator): V_2 Institute for the Unstable Media 05-2014, The Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Grow Your Own: 10-2013 to 01-2014, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • Research Through Design: Praxis and Poetics: 09-2013, Newcastle, UK
  • Project Genesis: 08-2013 to 08-2015, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  • Stranger than Fiction (co-curator): Pop-up exhibition at the SB 6.0 conference 07-2013, Imperial College, London, UK
  • Transnatural: The State of Autonomy: 09 to 10-2012, NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Hack the City: 06 to 09-2012, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland curated by: Dr Teresa Dillon
  • ACM Multimedia Conference exhibition: 11-2011, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
  • What If… 09 to 10-2011, Beijing International Design Triennial, National Museum of China curated by: Fiona Raby

Institute of Diagram Studies

The Institute of Diagram Studies is an independent structure for research and creative practice led by David Benqué. It stretches from graphic design to software development and media theory. The institute deploys the language of diagrams to read existing systems (algorithmic, technical, political) and to write new interventions such as publications, archives, software, or visualisations.

Institute of Diagram Studies
Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires in collaboration with Lucile Olympe Haute  https://sigil-seance.diagram.institute/ 
2024
Institute of Diagram Studies
Case board, traces, & chicanes: Diagrams for an archaeology of algorithmic prediction through critical design practice (2020) PhD Thesis, https://diagram.institute/publications/phd-thesis/
2020
Institute of Diagram Studies
Architectures of Choice Vol.1 YouTube https://diagram.institute/projects/architectures-of-choice/
2018