[csaa-forum] cfp Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Cultures/ Technology

[Ned Rossiter]

DIGITAL CULTURES: KNOWLEDGE / CULTURES / TECHNOLOGY
International Conference
Co-organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University, as part of the Knowledge/Culture Series<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/knowledge_culture_series>
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
19-22 September, 2018
https://digitalculturesconference.org/

Initiated by Armin Beverungen (CDC) & Ned Rossiter (ICS)
Organizing Steering Committee
CDC: Armin Beverungen, Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad, Mathias Denecke, Randi Heinrichs, Laura Hille, Claus Pias, Daniela Wentz
ICS: Ilia Antenucci, Helen Barcham, Philippa Collin, Gay Hawkins, Tsvetelina Hristova, Liam Magee, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Teresa Swist

Submissions are now open and will close on 30 March, 2018.

Please find the call below and visit our website for information on detailed topics, invited speakers and submission guidelines.
Call for Papers

The advent and ubiquity of digital media technologies precipitate a profound transformation of the spheres of knowledge and circuits of culture. Simultaneously, the background operation of digital systems in routines of daily life increasingly obscures the materiality and meaning of technologically induced change. Computational architectures of algorithmic governance prevail across a vast and differentiated range of institutional settings and organizational practices. Car assembly plants, warehousing, shipping ports, sensor cities, agriculture, government agencies, university campuses. These are just some of the infrastructural sites overseen by software operations designed to extract value, coordinate practices and manage populations in real-time. While Silicon Valley ideology prevails over the design and production of the artefacts, practices and institutions that mark digital cultures, the architectures and infrastructures of its operations are continually rebuilt, hacked, broken and maintained within a proliferation of sites across the globe.

To analytically grasp the emerging transformations requires media and cultural studies to inquire into the epochal changes taking place with the proliferation of digital media technologies. While in many ways the digital turn has long been in process, its cultural features and effects are far from even or comprehensively known. Research needs to attend to the infrastructural and environmental registrations of the digital. Critical historiographies attend to the world-making capacities of digital cultures, situating the massive diversity of practices within specific technical systems, geocultural dynamics and geopolitical forces. At the same time the contemporaneity of digital cultures invites new methods that draw on digital media technologies as tools, and, more importantly, that engage the intersection between media technologies, cultural practices and institutional settings. New organizational forms in digital economies, new forms of association and sociality, and new subjectivizations generated from changing human-machine configurations are among the primary manifestations of the digital that challenge disciplinary capacities in terms of method. The empirics of the digital, in other words, signals a transversality at the level of disciplinarity, methods and knowledge production.

This conference brings together research concerned with studying digital cultures and the ways that digital media technologies transform contemporary culture, society and economy. The hosts specifically encourage approaches to digital cultures emerging from media and cultural theory, along with transnational currents of communications, science and technology studies. We also explicitly invite researchers from digital humanities, digital anthropology, digital sociology, gender studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies, architecture, organization studies, environmental studies, geography and computer science to engage in this endeavor to develop a critical humanities and cultural studies alert to the operations, materialities and politics of digital cultures.
Invited speakers include:
Simon Denny, Artist, Berlin/Auckland
Jennifer Gabrys, Goldsmiths, University of London
Orit Halpern, Concordia University
Nanna Heidenreich, Internationale Filmschule Köln
Kara Keeling, University of Southern California
Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts
Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi

With more coming soon, including details on spotlight sessions.

Conference themes
[Histories] Historiographies of Digital Cultures
[Ecologies] Environmental Media, Media Ecologies and the Technosphere
[Economies] Platforms, Economies and Organization
[Subjectivities] Biohacking, Quantification and Data Subjectivities
[Collectivities] Digital Publics, Movements and Populisms
[Futures] Contemporary Futures and Anticipatory Modelling

Organized with the following partners:
Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen
Berlin Institute for Empirical Research in Integration and Migration (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin
ephemera: theory & politics in organization
Meson Press

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Ned Rossiter
Professor of Communication
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Western Sydney University
Parramatta Campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia


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