[csaa-forum] AusSTS 2025: CFP closes in 10 days; keynotes and collaborations announced

Wed Mar 5 14:33:08 ACST 2025

Hi all,

The Call for Proposals for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and
doing installations, and pre-submitted papers for the Australlasian Science
and Technology (AusSTS) 2025 conference closes on* Friday the 14th March. *

Theme: *Signals and Noises*

When: 9-11 July 2025

Submissions: *14 March 2025, 11:59 PM*

Where: Naarm/Melbourne: National Communication Museum (Hawthorn) and Deakin
Downtown (Docklands)

Submit: here
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learn more here
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[abstract
below]

*Confirmed keynotes and collaborations *

We are excited to announce a collaboration with the ‘Signal to Noise’
exhibition at the fantastic new National Communication Museum (NCM)
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Hawthorn, Naarm, for day 1 of the conference. The day 1 activities will
draw on the creative archives, exhibitions and interactive spaces in the
NCM and have been made possible thanks to generous support from the ARC
Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).

Day 1 will include a keynote panel on infrastructures of noise with Dang
Nguyen
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(RMIT), Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
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(University of Basel), Kate Mannell
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(Deakin)
and Fabian Offert
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(University
of California, Santa Barbara), as well as a series of workshops and a
public event in the evening with Eryk Salvaggio
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and
further international and national artists (to be announced soon!).

Day 2 and 3 will take place at Deakin Downtown in Docklands. On day we look
forward to a keynote on technologies of reproduction by Elizabeth Stephens
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(University
of Queensland), in discussion with Jaya Keaney
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(University
of Melbourne). The keynote will kick off a day of presentations,
pre-submitted paper workshops, and ‘Making and Doing’ sessions, which
include a poster format and short, timed tours where presenters will have a
few minutes to introduce their installations.

The keynote for day 3 on noise within health includes Warwick Anderson
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(University
of Sydney), Kari Lancaster
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 (University of Bath), and Christopher O’Neill
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 (Deakin).

For more information and details about the conference theme, ‘Signals and
Noises’ please check out the AusSTS website
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.

*‘SIGNALS AND NOISES’*

AusSTS 2025 seeks to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills,
practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of
information theory - the problem of *noise*.

Noise (as distortion, as error) is a problem for communication - it
corrupts and contaminates communication signals (as they fly along wires or
along undersea cables for example). But to eliminate noise entirely is to
shut signals down, to sever communication. To perfectly silence noise would
also mean perfectly silencing the signal to which it belongs. Signal and
noise are intimately, iteratively bonded in their material production,
reception and translation. What questions then might *signals and noises* ask
of STS? Is it simply a case, as it was for Shannon and Weaver (1949) of
eliminating noise as far as possible in the service of signal? *Or can we
listen to ‘noise’ differently?* Can the difference between what we seek to
understand or convey on the one hand, and the ‘unintended things’ that
trouble our efforts on the other, be illustrative? How might we work
creatively with the flotsam and jetsam of research, or trace the twisting
journeys of signals?

We encourage submissions
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that
grapple with the entwined nature of signals and noises in our efforts to
understand the world and listen to noise differently. We invite generous
readings of the theme. For more information and suggestions on engagements
with the theme, see <https://aussts.org
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or get in touch at <ausstsgrad at gmail.com>.

*Sponsored by*: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making &
Society (ADM+S), Deakin Science and Society Network, *Science, Technology,
& Human Values*, and the National Communication Museum.
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