From ingrid.hoelzl at cityu.edu.hk Wed Aug 12 16:41:30 2015 From: ingrid.hoelzl at cityu.edu.hk (Dr. HOELZL Ingrid) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:41:30 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Cfp: POSTMACHINE VISION, panel @ AAANZ 2015 Brisbane (24-25 Nov), deadline 28 August Message-ID: Call for papers: POSTMACHINE VISION, panel @ AAANZ 2015 Brisbane (24-25 Nov), deadline 28 August 2015 Panel convenor: Dr Ingrid Hoelzl, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong IMAGE | SPACE | BODY 2015 Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2015-conference/image-space-body-2015-call-for-papers/ The conference is hosted by The Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts, a collaboration between art history/theory departments at The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and QAGOMA. It will take place at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). The event coincides with the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 8) held at the same venues: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/apt8 POSTMACHINE VISION Today we are entering an era in which the question of the posthuman resonates with the question of the postmachine. This is because the very notion of the machine presupposes human presence. But now we might also have to consider the disappearance of the image, which is what this panel seeks to consider. Why? Consider drones for example. While the debate on how drones should be regulated has gone viral, little attention is paid to the fact that these flying robots are also flying cameras. The image supposes a viewer and, if there is none, then only data is being exchanged. Drones are likely to become one of the major imaging technologies of the 21st Century, but with the consequence of transforming the image into a plethora of algorithms, sensors and actuators. We can legitimately pose the question of the disappearance of the image, all the more so since technically speaking, what we are dealing with are visual data/visuals. The current development of this new machine of vision will render human control obsolescent. Drones will be capable of intelligence, of communicating with each other and of making decisions without us. But this question cannot be addressed only on the technical level, because, as Virilio (1994) put it, ?if we remove the image, not only Christ but the whole universe disappears?. The disappearance of the image in the age of the drone is also a philosophical and ethical debate, and if we are to open up this debate, we cannot forget that machines of vision - from the first optical devices to autonomous drones - are, before all, philosophical machines: systems of apprehending and acting upon/within the world, even if that world is (imagined to be) a posthuman world. The panel Postmachine Vision will explore the question of the image in the 21st century in the broadest sense, and it calls for participation from numerous intersecting fields such as art history, media history and theory, philosophy, visual studies, etc. Please send your proposals (max. 400 words abstract and a short bio) by 28 August to: ingrid.hoelzl at cityu.edu.hk Timeline: Submission of abstracts: 28 August Notification of acceptance: 11 September Return of speaker agreement form: 18 September Dr. Ingrid Hoelzl Assistant Professor School of Creative Media City University of Hong Kong Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Room M7073, tel. (852) 3442 2605 http://cityu-hk.academia.edu/IngridHoelzl Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited. From Sam.Hinton at canberra.edu.au Thu Aug 20 04:05:18 2015 From: Sam.Hinton at canberra.edu.au (Sam.Hinton) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 02:05:18 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: EVAA 2016 Call for Proposals Message-ID: <5914B8D6-A008-4355-A7A0-F951C2255FBF@canberra.edu.au> Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Australasia 2016 Canberra, 5th and 6th March, 2016 http://evaa.com.au/ Extended call for proposals EVAA is an interdisciplinary conference on visual technologies in culture, the arts and humanities. It is affiliated with EVA London (http://www.eva-london.org/). We welcome contributions from scholars, practitioners and professionals from fields including digital humanities, computer and information science, design, media, art practice, GLAM and heritage. In all these fields data and its representations are transforming practice and scholarship: this conference is about how we respond to this challenge. EVAA 2016 has extended the deadline for proposals and is calling for abstracts of up to 300 words for long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), presentations, demonstrations and creative works that engage with the broad conference themes. Please see the conference web site (http://evaa.com.au/) for more details. We are offering the option of double-blind peer review for all long and short papers. Reviewed papers will be published in an online volume with an ISBN to qualify for HERDC recognition. For details on submitting an abstract, please see: http://evaa.com.au/call-for-proposals/ The deadline for abstracts is October 15th, 2015. Twitter: @evaa2016 ? Dr Sam Hinton Convenor, Web Design and Production Faculty of Arts and Design University of Canberra CRICOS #00212K From s.cubitt at gold.ac.uk Sat Aug 29 10:54:58 2015 From: s.cubitt at gold.ac.uk (Sean Cubitt) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:54:58 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Fwd: CFP: 2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) References: Message-ID: Call for Participation 2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) - November 6, 2015 @ Goldsmiths, University of London FREE Registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-media-activism-and-organisations-smao15-tickets-17290579589 Social media (from mainstream platforms such as Twitter to organization-specific tools) have become increasingly pervasive. This is exemplified by the diversity of uses ranging from Twitter and Facebook use during the Arab spring to the use of Snapchat by highly surveilled activist groups. Many social movements have increasingly seen social media as a means to collaboratively crowdsource, to network and communicate with diverse stakeholders. In large organizations, social media is often supported because the technology can help foster the sense of a ?digital village?, where individuals are able to ?see? the lives of others within their organization and feel closer to them. However, the literature on social movements and social media has not fully grasped just how much social media has fundamentally changed the landscape of organizational communication, ranging from stakeholders being able to directly mobilize resources to making grassroots transnational social movements more organizationally feasible. Social Media, Activism, and Organisations (#SMAO15) seeks to better our understandings of how social media has shaped social movement organizations and the organization of social movements. The Social Media, Activism, and Organisations symposium will be held in London, England on November 6, 2015 at Goldsmiths, University of London. The symposium is sponsored by The Sociological Review, The Centre for Creative & Social Technologies at Goldsmiths, and the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths. We invite you to submit abstracts and short papers which explore the social media-influenced intersections of social movements and organisations. Full papers are not required for this conference, only short papers (~2500 words, excluding references) and abstracts (up to 750 words) related to the broad theme of ?Social Media, Activism, and Organisations?. Papers and abstracts should be submitted by September 7, 2015 via Easy Chair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smao15 and there is no preset template for submission. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the symposium. Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts may also be invited to submit full papers to a special issue of The Sociological Review, published by Wiley. #SMAO15 TOPICS OF INTEREST ? Organisational communication and social media ? Democratizing organisational structures via social media ? Gender, social media, activism, and organisations ? Activist knowledge aggregation techniques ? Enterprise applications and social activism ? Collaboration, social media, and activism ? Virtual teams, social media and activism ? Activist networks and organizational communication ? Social media and organizational leadership ? Communicating organizational messages via social media ? Social media and advocacy organizations ? Inter-movement organizational communication and social media ? Visual social media and organisations ? Implications of anonymous social media We welcome both theoretical and empirical abstracts and papers and the symposium seeks to showcase a variety of case studies to advance our understandings of how social media has shaped social movement organizations and the organization of social movements. Best wishes, Dhiraj Murthy Reader of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: