In April 2019, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a four-part series by Bridle called "New Ways of Seeing"[8] examining how technology influences culture, an analogue to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. In March 2020 Bridle presented a keynote address at the Spy on me 2 festival (held in Berlin and online).[9] Their 2019 film Se ti sabir that has its starting point in the Mediterranean Lingua Franca, premiered on 19 March 2020 in Berlin. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be streamed on the HAU-YouTube channel.[10]
In 2024, the Schelling Architecture Foundation rescinded their €10,000 architecture theory prize to Bridle after Bridle's signature on an open letter, along with thousands of other writers and artists, committing to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, that states: "We will not work with Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.” Bridle was quoted as remarking on the irony in that their 2022 book Ways of Being, for which they were to receive the prize, addresses Israel’s “apartheid wall” in the West Bank and draws a link between genocide and ecocide. Notably, the foundation is named after German architect Erich Schelling, who was a member of the German Nazi party and of its Sturmabteilungparamilitary, and was involved in the construction of the offices of the party newspaper Der Führer.[2]
Bridle's artworks and installations have been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
In popular culture
For their 2022 book on the nature of intelligence, Ways of Being, they were interviewed by Brian Eno at a 5x15 event.[11]
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