Zurich-based French media artist Bérénice Serra has joined Collegium Helveticum as an Early-Career Fellow. In her work, she explores how visual cultures function within networked environments, examining how images circulate and become operative across technical, social, and political contexts. In her fellowship project “Watch Your Kids!” (2026–2027), she will explore the politicization of adult-child relationships through digital platforms. Her project is supported by Prof. Dr. Roland Meyer as an Associate Fellow.

Berenice Serra (born 1990 in France) is a media artist based in Zurich. Her research draws on the politics of user-generated content, open-source intelligence methods (OSINT), and post-digital writing systems. Her projects have examined how offline selfies can be repurposed in facial recognition datasets, how gestural text input constitutes a form of writing on touchscreens, and how openly available images are analyzed to document conflicts from a distance. Working in the tradition of tactical media, she is especially interested in everyday uses of technology that challenge existing systems.

At the Collegium, Bérénice will develop Watch Your Kids!, a video essay on how digital systems contribute to defining what childhood means today, and how their design choices reflect broader political views, uncovering power dynamics underlying adult-child relationships. By looking closely at the infrastructures that organize children’s digital lives, the project questions current protectionist approaches and explores other ways of thinking about children's autonomy and agency in networked societies.