From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Mon Nov 9 18:00:22 2015 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 18:00:22 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?utf-8?q?New_Issue_of_the_Fibreculture_Journal?= =?utf-8?b?4oCUSXNzdWUgMjXigJRBcHBzIGFuZCBBZmZlY3Q=?= Message-ID: We are delighted to announce the publication of Issue 25?Apps and Affect. This is issue was edited by Svitlana Matviyenko, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, and, from the journal's side, Andrew Murphie. You can read online, or download individual or issue pdfs or epubs here: http://twentyfive.fibreculturejournal.org/ FCJ-179 On Governance, Blackboxing, Measure, Body, Affect and Apps: A conversation with Patricia Ticineto Clough and Alexander R. Galloway?Svitlana Matviyenko, Patricia Ticineto Clough & Alexander R Galloway FCJ-180 ?Spotify Has Added an Event to Your Past?: (Re)writing the Self through Facebook?s Autoposting Apps?Tanya Kant FCJ-181 There?s a History for That: Apps and Mundane Software as Commodity?Jeremy Wade Morris and Evan Elkins FCJ-182 Middlebroware?Fr?d?rik Lesage FCJ-183 iHootenanny: A Folk Archeology of Social Media?Henry Adam Svec FCJ-184 Interpassive User: Complicity and the Returns of Cybernetics?Svitlana Matviyenko FCJ-185 An Algorithmic Agartha: Post-App Approaches to Synarchic Regulation?Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy FCJ-186 Hack for good: Speculative labour, app development and the burden of austerity?Melissa Gregg FCJ-187 The Droning of Experience?Mark Andrejevic -- This issue of the Fibreculture Journal explores a moment along this hypothetical trajectory by investigating the contemporary intersection of ?Apps and Affect?, publishing papers from a conference of that name organised in October 2013 by faculty and students at Western University (specifically from its Faculty of Information and Media Studies and Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism). By recognising apps as objects that are related to the constitution of subjects, as a component of biopolitical assemblages, and as a means of digital production and consumption, our conference aimed to make an intervention in what had ? since the announcements of the App-Store and the iPhone3 in 2008 ? been a largely technical and rather technophiliac public discussion of apps. Isn?t it paradoxical, we asked, that instead of becoming ?transparent? and ?invisible? ? as envisioned by the thinkers of ubiquitous computing decades ago ? the app-ecosystem manifests itself as permanent excess: excessive downloads, excessive connections, excessive proximity, excessive ?friends?-qua-?contacts?, excessive speeds and excessive amounts of information? How does the app as ?technique? (Tenner), indeed as ?cultural technique? (Siegert) and as ?technics? (Stiegler), channel our ways of maintaining relations with/in the media environment? Do the specific and circumscribed operations of individual applications foster or foreclose what media theorists call the transformative and transductive potential of collective technological individuation (Simondon)? How might we think about the social, political and technical implications of this movement away from open-ended networks like the internet towards specific, focused, and individualised modes of computing? Do apps represent ?a new reticular condition of trans-individuation grammatising new forms of social relations? (Stiegler) or do they signal instead the triumph of ?regulatory? networks over ?generative? ones (Zittrain)? If apps are micro-programs residing by the hundreds and thousands on cell-phones, mobile-devices and tablets, and affects are corporeal excitements (and depressions) running beneath and beyond cognition, what is the relation of apps to affects? ?the Editors -- *** "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead Andrew Murphie - Associate Professor School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Editor - The Fibreculture Journal http://fibreculturejournal.org/> web: http://www.andrewmurphie.org/ tlf:612 93855548 fax:612 93856812 room 311H, Robert Webster Building -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.tkacz at warwick.ac.uk Wed Nov 18 14:12:31 2015 From: n.tkacz at warwick.ac.uk (nathaniel tkacz) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:12:31 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP: STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DATA, COGNITION AND INTELLIGENT DEVICES Message-ID: STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: DATA, COGNITION AND INTELLIGENT DEVICES 21st and 22nd of April, 2016 Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies The University of Warwick Website: http://warwick.ac.uk/streamsofconsciousness Call for Presentations: ?What?s on your mind?? This is the question to which every Facebook status update now responds. Millions of users sharing their thoughts in one giant performance of what Clay Shirky once called ?cognitive surplus?. Contemporary media platforms aren?t simply a stage for this cognitive performance. They are more like directors, staging scenes, tweaking scripts, working to get the best or fully ?optimized? performance. As Katherine Hayles has pointed out, media theory has long taken for granted that we think ?through, with and alongside media?. Pen and paper, the abacus, and modern calculators are obvious cases in point, but the list quickly expands and with it longstanding conceptions of the Cartesian mind dissolve away. Within the cognitive sciences, cognition is now routinely described as embodied, extended, and distributed. They too recognize that cognition takes place beyond the brain, in between people, between people and things, and combinations thereof. The varieties of specifically human thought, from decision-making to reasoning and interpretation, are now considered one part of a broader cognitive spectrum shared with other animals, systems, and intelligent devices. Today, the technology we mostly think through, with and alongside are computers. We routinely rely on intelligent devices for any number of operations, but this is no straightforward ?augmentation?. Our cognitive capacities are equally instrumentalized, plugged into larger cognitive operations from which we have little autonomy. Our cognitive weaknesses are exploited and manipulated by techniques drawn from behavioural economics and psychology. If Vannevar Bush once pondered how we would think in the future, he received a partial response in Steve Krug?s best selling book on web usability: *Don?t Make Me Think!* Streams of Consciousness aims to explore cognition, broadly conceived, in an age of intelligent devices. We aim to critically interrogate our contemporary infatuation with specific cognitive qualities ? such as ?smartness? and ?intelligence? ? while seeking to genuinely understand the specific forms of cognition that are privileged in our current technological milieu. We are especially interested in devices that mediate access to otherwise imperceptible forms of data (too big, too fast), so it can be acted upon in routine or novel ways. Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: - data and cognition - decision-making technologies - algorithms, AI and machine learning - visualization, perception - sense and sensation - business intelligence and data exploration - signal intelligence and drones - smart and dumb things - choice and decision architecture - behavioural economics and design - technologies of nudging - interfaces - bodies, data, and (wearable) devices - optimization - web and data analytics (including A/B and multivariate testing) Confirmed Speakers: LOUISE AMOORE, JAMES ASH, DAVID BERRY, WILLIAM DAVIES, MICHAEL DIETER, STEVE FULLER, JENNIFER GABRYS, ANTOINETTE ROUVROY, NATASHA SCH?LL, NICK SRNICEK, NIGEL THRIFT, MICHAEL WHEELER. Please submit individual abstracts of no longer than 300 words. Panel proposals are also welcome and should also be 300 words. Panel proposals should also include indvidual abstracts. The deadline for submissions is Friday the 18th of December and submissions should be made tocimconf at warwick.ac.uk. Accepted submissions will be notified by 20th of January 2016. Streams of Consciousness is organised by Nathaniel Tkacz and Ana Gross. The event is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. ----------------------- Nathaniel Tkacz | Associate Professor - CIM - The University of Warwick Tw: @__nate__ | Current Research: Interrogating the Dashboard: Data, Indicators and Decision-making Latest Book: Wikipedia and The Politics of Openness (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Times Higher Education Book of The Week, 2015 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From difusion at medialab-prado.es Fri Nov 20 17:26:39 2015 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (Difusion Medialab-Prado) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:26:39 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Interactivos?'15: Material Cultures in the Digital Age. Call for collaborators Message-ID: <564F49BF.708@medialab-prado.es> Interactivos?'15: Material Cultures in the Digital Age. Call for collaborators Call to collaborate in the project workshop *Interactivos?'15: Material Cultures in the Digital Age* , that will be carried out *from **December 2 to 16, 2015*. Collaborators will participate in the production of the selected projects . The workshop is complete with a series of conferences and meetings and takes place in the framework of the project Common Objects , in cooperation with Constant vzw . Free registration. Deadline: *November 30*, 2015. Medialab-Prado offers free lodging to collaborators in youth hostels during the workshop (limited seating, shall on request and by order of registration).The last day to ask for a place is Nobember 23. 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This arrival of social robots is challenging understandings of human-machine relationships and generating diverse aesthetic, ethical and political debates. Matters of interest include asymmetries in human-robot relationships, the co-constitution of humans and robots, the place of robot labour, the significance of machine embodiment, and accounts of human-robot communication, among other topics. Commonly, the ways in which social and cultural norms shape social robotics do not receive enough critical scrutiny. This special issue of Transformations examines the ways in which human-machine relationships are configured in social robotics. It seeks contributions that recognise that contemporary robotics produces and circulates cultural values, and consider how social robots continue and diverge from other expressive and communicative practices. In so doing it tests the scope and limits of the category of social robotics. We invite submissions in the areas of philosophy, critical, cultural and media studies, science and technology studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include: ? emotional relationships between humans and robots ? ideas of the human circulated by robotics ? connections between fictional and non-fictional robots ? robotic cultures and cultures of robotics ? social robots as mediation ? agency in human-machine assemblages ? the machine as Other ? robotic artworks as social robots ? the embedding of normativity in social robots ? affective robotic labour ? the representation of robots and robotics in cultural texts and artworks Abstracts (500 words): due 15 February 2016 with a view to submit by 23 May 2016. 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