Yann Patrick Martins is a PhD candidate at ECAM, and currently working as research coder at the Critical Media Lab, developing agent-based models for the project “Thinking Games for Commoning”, and Self Organizing Maps for the “Architectonic Studies of Radio” project. Despite his practice rooted in programming, his personal research looks at the ways in which capitalist mode of production and machine learning are re-enacting forms of inequality and discrimination, focusing on the recommender algorithms of YouTube.
He also has pioneered a teaching programme at the Critical Media Lab Basel that links technological education and cooking practices since 2018.