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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Automation Culture:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></b></p>

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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intersections between Art, Automation, and Living Systems</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">17th-19th November 2023 </span></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The University of Western Australia, Perth. </span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keynotes</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: </span></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof. Gunalan Nadarajan (University of Michigan) </span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CFP Submission Deadline: March 6<sup>th</sup>, 2023 </span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Since the dawn of mechanical automation there has been a desire to explore the creative potential of automated processes. Some of the most note-worthy examples of clockwork automata from the eighteenth

 century are figures who are made to perform ‘creative’ tasks, such as drawing, writing poetry, or playing a musical instrument. Even earlier, mechanical fountains depicted birds singing and in more recent times we see an interest in AI-generated art, or AI’s

 seemingly creative approach to games such as chess. </span></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These fascinations are based on the assumption that automation is framed and usually discussed in the realm of the non-living that attempts either to emulate/mimic life-like properties such as movement,

 the appearance of sentiency/creativity, and metabolism, or express mechanic qualities that goes beyond the abilities of the living. When these categories are hybridised, troubled or blurred, automata seem both remarkable and unsettling. </span></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This conference discusses thought experiments and case studies which metaphorically and literally transgress the relationship between art, automation and living systems (human and non-human), focusing

 on processes of automation in decision making, judgement, food systems, care-giving, and labour. By troubling the categories of art and automation, can we change the way we approach the increasing automation of life and culture? </span></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The event will include papers, performances, workshops, and roundtables. </span></p>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topic areas may include but are not limited to: </span></p>

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<li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Animal Studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Biological Arts & Biodesign</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Biopolitics</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Cultural Studies and Literary Studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Economic History</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Environmental Humanities, Posthumanism and Extinction Studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Feminist, Queer, Race, Post-Colonial and Disability Studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">History of Science</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">History of Aesthetics</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Indigenous Futurisms</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Law and Technology studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Media Studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Musicology and Theatre and Film Studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Non-Human Biopolitics & Bioethics</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Philosophy and Ethics</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Political Theory and Political Philosophy</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Robotics and Computer Science</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Science, Technology and Society studies</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Science Fiction and Speculative Fabulations</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-color:white"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Synthetic Biology</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; background-color:white">Transhumanism and AI</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br>

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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please send an abstract of 300 words to Sarah Collins: sarah.collins@uwa.edu.au by March 6<sup>th</sup>, 2023</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. Presenters

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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Programme Committee</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Oron Catts, Sarah Collins, Elizabeth Stephens, Ionat Zurr </span><br>

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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This conference is a part of a project exploring the cultural and intellectual history of automated labour, with support from the Australian Research Council (</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://automationcultures.com/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue">https://automationcultures.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">). </span></li></ul>

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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt; color:black">Elizabeth Stephens</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt; color:black"><br>

Associate Professor of Cultural Studies</span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:black"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:black">Immediate Past President, <a href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcsaa.asn.au%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crob.cover%40rmit.edu.au%7C13908676db3d48d28fb908d9a49cba4b%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C637721815407531944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=k5ZGut1dYeBU33zeiFjxLff31zdik8S0z6TCGZdYrvw%3D&reserved=0" title="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcsaa.asn.au%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crob.cover%40rmit.edu.au%7C13908676db3d48d28fb908d9a49cba4b%7Cd1323671cdbe4417b4d4bdb24b51316b%7C0%7C0%7C637721815407531944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL" style="color:rgb(0,120,212)">Cultural

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