Maria Maddalena Lenzi
M. Maddalena Lenzi is an Italian designer and artist based in Basel, Switzerland. With a MA in Transversal Design from HGK, she practices collective conspiring against authoritarian and atomizing infrastructures. Maddalena works at the intersection of community-oriented projects and cultural organizations, she co-organized HackThePromise Festival: Hacking Systems, Hacking Futures! and the exhibition Careful vs Careless in Basel. Since 2025, she is part of the Unofficial Hiking Society.
Session
This talk examines far-right communicative fascism through the concept of Really Fake, where truth and fiction blur across synthetic media. Through case studies of Trump and Meloni, it explores conspiracy and victimhood as tools of world-making, proposing conspiring as a collective, emancipatory practice of resistance.