[csaa-forum] Future Affects: a Collaboratory on Art, Affect and Automation at UQ, Draft Programme

[Elizabeth Stephens]

The draft programme for Future Affects: A Collaboratory on Art, Affect and Automation is now available.

Please note that this event is free, but very close to capacity. RSVPs essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/future-affects-a-collaboratory-on-art-affect-and-automation-tickets-37481020742. A flyer for the event is attached.

Event Description
Researchers and practitioners across a wide range of disciplines have increasingly recognized the importance of working collaboratively in order to tackle the complex challenges and cultural transformations produced by the emergence of a new data society driven by algorithms, automated technologies and artificial intelligence. What new ways of thinking are emerging in response to these transformations? What new bodies of knowledge will help us make sense of the affective and perceptive dimensions of post- and non-human assemblages, and the new temporal and affective networks to which these are beginning to give rise? How is the future already affecting the present?

The aim of this collaboratory is to provide a discussion forum for the sharing of ideas and development of multi-disciplinary networks for those interested in these vital intersections of art, affect and automation. Presentations will take the form of 5-minute provocations, offering works-in-progress, ideas-in-formation and concepts-in-emergence. Our desire is to think future affects together.

This event is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions and ARC Future Fellowship FT170100214.

Future Affects: Draft Programme
10am-6pm, Monday November 6 2017
IASH Seminar Room
Level 4, Forgan Smith Tower
University of Queensland

10.00-10.15: Opening remarks

10.15-11.00: PANEL ONE: Algorithmic Cultures
Peta Mitchell and Marcus Foth: Algorithmic futures and the future city
Caroline Wilson-Barnao: The algorithmic museum and the automation of culture
Kathryn Fox [Brimblecombe-Fox]: Militarised Imaginations

11.00-12.00: PANEL TWO: Automation and Affect
Dr Laini Burton: Automating the senses: Cyborg Nest’s ‘The North Sense’
Guerrilla Knowledge Unit (Linda Knight & Jacinta Leong): ME/YOU/US + AI’
Erika Kerruish: The expression of empathy by robots: feeling unlike you
Lisa Bode: Towards a history of the synthespian

12.00-12.45: LUNCH

12.45-1.45: PANEL THREE: Medical, Legal and Historical Perspectives
Dolly MacKinnon: Pulse
Andrew Ventimiglia: The Angel in the Machine: Divining Legal Authorship in Channelled and Computer-Generated Works
Paul Tyson: Techne and Telos
Russell Smith: In the Automatic Factory

1.45-2.30: PANEL FOUR: Affective Aesthetics and Gender
Susan Best: Performance art and the collective body
Nike Sulway: Imagine me: a provocation
Shamara Ransirini: Militant Corporealities: Gendering Affect and the Insurgent Body in Political Conflicts

2.30-3.00: AFTERNOON TEA

3.00-3.45: PANEL FIVE: Affective and Aesthetic Orientations
Grayson Cooke: Remote sensing of the Earth: affective and aesthetic dimensions
Indy Clark: The Future in the Past: Garden City Poetry, 1885–1936
Frederico Fialho Teixeira: Affects and Percepts in Autopoietic Synesthetic Design

3.45-4.45: PANEL SIX: Affect and Algorithms
Anna Gibbs: Algorithmical, Atmospherical
Michael Richardson: Affect and Algorithmic Politics
Karin Sellberg: Prognostic Ontology
Elizabeth Stephens: The Mechanical Turk: The Human(ities) in the Machine

4.45-5.00: Closing discussion

5.00-6.00: Reception (Level 3 of the Forgan Smith Tower)



Elizabeth Stephens
ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Cultural Studies
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
University of Queensland
St Lucia Australia 4072
Webpage: http://uq.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens


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