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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Automated Knowledge and Autonomous Publishing Infrastructures – Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Digital Life Research Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Institute for Culture and Society in collaboration with Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2-3 November 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/automated_knowledge_and_autonomous_publishing_infrastructures">https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/automated_knowledge_and_autonomous_publishing_infrastructures</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Venue: Parramatta City Campus, 1PSQ, Level 8, Room 12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organizers: Liam Magee and Ned Rossiter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Summary<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The prospect of cognition outsourced to machines is a worry for many. The automation of knowledge generation and AI-delivered modes of teaching particularly afflicts those working in the university. For many
years academics have submitted to the political economy of publishing industries for the trade-offs on offer: esteem and prestige, job security, an outlet for intellectual expression, a basis for research grant applications, and perhaps some sense of community.
The horizon of doom again raises questions of an existential kind, not least of which hangs off a sense of futurity without purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Purposelessness finds specific form with the rising spectre of machinic, semi-automatic and theory-less knowledge. Examples of the algorithmically-sourced journal article appear in numerous forms, from the
apparently benign reference lists curated through Google Scholar’s indexing to machine learning-based inferencing that stretches from method and findings to analysis and conclusions. Increasingly research can meaningfully ask itself what parts of its canonical
knowledge format can the algorithm compute effectively? Is its automaticity itself a sign of the journal article’s obsolescence?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As one example, Kosinski and Wang, two social psychologists from Stanford, have applied machine learning, apparently with great success, to the identification of sexuality among photos extracted from dating
websites. Quite aside from the obvious dangers its conclusions imply, the paper itself can be described as an “augmented reality” – one in which algorithms construct new links between the structure of faces and sexual preference, a new phantasm or simulation
of the “real,” minimally “augmented” by contributions from human authors. It begs a return to Freudian and Derridean concepts of unconscious or automatic writing, with a terrifying new political spin. The algorithm identifies your sexuality, and partly writes
up its own findings. For now, astute review can pick apart bias in its assumptions and interpretations. But the era of machinic knowledge production and review is also clearly underway.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The cold sword of autonomous knowledge production devoid of the all-too-human qualities of curiosity and doubt, elation and despair adheres to the proliferation of machinic imaginaries. When facial recognition
technologies get airplay for their supposed capacity to identify sexuality and our intellectual capabilities, it would seem we have well and truly entered the augmented reality of control society. If reality is determined by the fallacy of machine intelligence,
then what implications does this hold for knowledge generated out of the academy?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But might we also see this as an occasion to crystallize a politics of autonomy? For writers, designers, scholars and theorists, this two-day workshop explores how publishing infrastructures might reside at
the core of knowledge production predicated on the logic of an autonomous commons. Indeed, how might we envisage something like an AI commons? What are the parameters through which wild theory, for instance, might be produced by the machine while we kick back
with another glorious day at the beach? And, more seriously, how might an automated commons guard against data expropriation that increasingly defines extractivist economies of the tech sector and university alike? In pursuing the possibility of autonomous
knowledge infrastructures, this workshop advances a politics of collaborative constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">DAY 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2 November<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10.00–10.30am Welcome and Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10.30–12.30pm Automating Knowledge and Invasive Apparatuses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">12.30–1.30pm Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1.30–3.30pm Open Knowledge Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3.30–3.45pm Tea/coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3.45–4.30pm Summary panel
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">DAY 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3 November<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10.30–12.30pm Implementing New Knowledge Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">12.30–1.30pm Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1.30–3.30pm Knowledge Production and Autonomous Infrastructures (Fibreculture Publications)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3.30–3.45pm Tea/coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3.45–4.30pm Closing panel and discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">No registration fee required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RSVP by 30 October: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y9pfr3bl">
https://tinyurl.com/y9pfr3bl</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Panel Summaries:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Automating Knowledge and Invasive Apparatuses</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Drawing on political traditions and practices of autonomy, this panel undertakes the work of translation to forge a connection with media of expression. We introduce the concept autonomous media as an analytical
device and empirical condition that marks the arrival of computational systems able to exert a form of sovereign authority over the organization and management of society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Liam Magee, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ned Rossiter, Institute for Culture and Society/School of Humanities and Communication Arts, WSU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Open Knowledge and Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This panel looks at the evolving role of publishing in opening up the access to and creation of knowledge in various contexts. Through the examinations of digital publishing, open access, and literature translation,
the presentations interrogate the dynamics of publishing in removing the socio-economic and intercultural barriers against the growth and exchange of knowledge, as well as the political economy of the initiatives. The panel further discusses what we mean by
“open knowledge” in the digital globalisation of publishing today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Xiang Ren, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lucy Montgomery, Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), Curtin University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ivor Indyk, Centre for Writing and Society, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Implementing New Knowledge Environments</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Digital Humanities Research Group is a member of the “Implementing New Knowledge Environments” consortium: a collaborative group of researchers based mainly in Canada focussed on networked open social
scholarship (<a href="http://inke.ca/" target="_blank">http://inke.ca/</a>). The activities of INKE include an “open scholarship policy observatory”. In this panel we discuss the implications of INKE for the digital humanities at large, and how Australia can
contribute a unique perspective to Canadian and global discussions on new modes of scholarly knowledge production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rachel Hendery, Digital Humanities Research Group, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jason Ensor, Library, WSU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hart Cohen, School of Humanities and Communication Arts/Institute for Culture and Society, WSU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Knowledge Production and Autonomous Infrastructures (Fibreculture Publishing)</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Open access, online publishing finds itself “occupying” the “publishing” of old. With this, it also challenges academic and more general research practice. It would be great to say that this resonates with
the like of “Occupy Wall Street”. Yet OA and online publishing are also caught up in what is literally a struggle over capital, institutions, and sovereign territories. In this session, we will give short presentations on the practical role of abstractions;
the new research environment in which students face “infinite knowledge”; and the politics of identity/identifiers in academic practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Andrew Murphie, School of the Arts & Media, Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, UNSW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mat Wall-Smith, Director of Learning,
<a href="http://polygondoor.com.au/">Polygon Door</a>, Wollongong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Glen Fuller, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">-- </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ned Rossiter<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith NSW 2751<br>
Australia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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