From maxdovey at gmail.com Tue Nov 15 18:35:09 2016 From: maxdovey at gmail.com (Max Dovey) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:35:09 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: 2 weeks till MoneyLab #3 Message-ID: *MoneyLab #3 Failing Better * Symposium | Workshops | Exhibition 1 - 2 December 2016 Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam *A two-day symposium featuring talks, workshops and performances that confront the notion that finance is too big to fail.* *Themes* Universal Basic Income, Feminist Economics, Global Finance, Financial Surveillance, Post-Work Society, Decentralized Democracy, Blockchain Governance, Smart Contracts, Credit Unions, DAOs, Publishing Models, P2P Distribution, Copyright Law, Streaming Models, Platform Cooperativism, Community Currencies, Commons Transition *Background* After Bitcoin forked, and remains in tatters, it is now blockchain technology that ignites visions of deregulated and decentralized organization, while it is simultaneously sanitized by commercial banks. Meanwhile the sharing and ?service? economy lost its innocuous veneer and streaming services have failed and continue to fold the music industry. Despite the mutation of crowdfunding into crowd-equity and platform co-operatives, artists and designers continue to struggle to financially support themselves. All the while the financial mediators of the previous centuries continue to drag themselves onward into global debt. We are failing better, nonetheless. Workers? unions are on the rise and numerous collectives are working together to collectively ensure their own wellbeing and build alternative models of social governance. The aspirations of grassroots organizations such as DiEM25, that promise to liberate social democracy from the stronghold of global finance, are gaining momentum across Europe. People?s parties such as Podemos and the Five Star Movement get closer to an electoral majority. This momentum has thrust radical economic alternatives onto center stage and some governments in Europe have begun experimenting with progressive policies such as a living working wage and a universal basic income. MoneyLab #3 will assess the ambition of financial provocations that have ignited to establish a terrain of social and political reform, from decentralized networks to state governments. The rift we find ourselves in goes much further than 'the banks? and financial retaliation can be considered more than attempts to fail better. *Speakers * Virginia Alvarez, Tori Abernathy, Steyn Bergs, Anne Breure, Ruth Catlow, Alex Foti, Frank Jan de Graaf, Max Haiven, Austin Houldsworth, Dmytri Kleiner, Bindu De Knock, Jeroen Van Loon, Thomas Kern, Richard Kohl, Silvio Lorusso, Nathalie Mar?chal, Renzo Martens, Nick McGuigan, Dan Mihaltianu, Sabine Niederer, Johannes Ponader, Patrice Riemens, Arthur R?ing Baer, Emily Rosamond, Trebor Scholz, Brett Scott, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Cassie Thornton, Nathaniel Tkacz, Ben Vickers, Henry Warwick & Koos Zwaan. *Workshops* The Accountability Institute, Baltan Laboratories, Bitcoin Wednesday, Feminist Economics Department, FIBER, Fine Art Financ? Lab, Furtherfield, Nethood, PublishingLab & University of the Phoenix. *Evening Program * Thursday 1 Dec: Fiscal Drag Live, Mezrab, Amsterdam Friday 2 Dec: Failing Better Afterparty, Roest, Amsterdam *Practical information* Tickets: ? 10 per session ? 30 per day ? 60 two day pass Students: 50% discount on all tickets All tickets include lunch and evening program. Full program available here *bit.do/moneylab3* *networkcultures.org/moneylab* @INCAmsterdam #MoneyLab -- Forget Network - a monthly radio show on Itunes and Soundcloud MoneyLab | 1 & 2 Dec 2016 | Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au Wed Nov 16 04:24:32 2016 From: Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 03:24:32 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Extended deadline: Transformations Journal: Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts Message-ID: Hi Fibreculturalists, we have extended the deadline for the upcoming issue of Transformations journal on the Environmental Arts, please see below, and forward to any colleagues you think would be interested. Transformations Journal: Call for Papers Issue 30: Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts Co-editors: Grayson Cooke, Warwick Mules, Erika Kerruish and David Rousell This special issue seeks contributions from scholars who are developing innovative concepts, strategies and practices for the environmental arts. Such critical reconceptualisations of the field are urgently called for in response to mounting evidence that we have entered the Anthropocene epoch, a time typified by climate change, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, ecological instability, resource depletion, ubiquitous digitisation and rapid advances in biotechnology and computer science. In revealing the profound entanglement of human culture and natural phenomena in the contemporary world, the advent of the Anthropocene has had a destabilising effect on dualistic philosophies and binary logics that have upheld rigid barriers between the human and the nonhuman, the organic and the inorganic, the natural and the artificial, the social and the material. New concepts are called for that can mobilise creative thinking and action outside of such anthropocentric and humanistic frameworks, and mobilise new practices that are both attuned and responsive to the rapidly changing environmental conditions of everyday life. >>> EXTENDED DEADLINE: Abstracts (200-400 words) are due 10th December 2016, with a view to submit articles by 31st March 2017. >>> Abstracts should be forwarded to: editor at transformationsjournal.org >>> View Transformations online: http://www.transformationsjournal.org This special issue further aims to establish a theoretical toolkit of conceptual resources that can provoke, incite and in-form experimental practices in the environmental arts. We define the environmental arts broadly for this purpose, with a particular emphasis on modes of thinking, feeling, sensing, designing, making, performing and composing that are attuned to environmental change and are inherently collective in nature. In this respect environmental artists have often been years and even decades ahead of others in responding to the conceptual and practical challenges of the Anthropocene. Since the 1960s, artists such as Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Helen and Newton Harrison, Joseph Beuys and Suzanne Lacy have enacted visionary environmental practices, while also conceptualising these practices within the broader fields of social theory and philosophy. The capacity for environmental artists to effectively respond to the Anthropocene is also apparent in the direct modes of address through which they are able to materialise new philosophical concepts in public space. For instance, rather than attempting to change public opinion about the environment and thus alter people?s behaviour, artists tangibly create new environments, artefacts and encounters that directly affect social perception, imagination and experience. jan jagodzinski (2015, p. 127) has described this as the unique capacity for the arts to operate as an ?avant-garde without authority?, working at the cutting edge of social, political and environmental transformation without making claims to disciplinary authority or truth. In this spirit, we invite submissions that may address the following areas of theoretical and conceptual inquiry: - Posthumanist conceptualisations of the environmental arts that account for the multiple ecologies of everyday life in the Anthropocene (Braidotti, 2013) and avoid reduction to subject/object schemata (Benjamin, 1999) - Theorisations of matter and materiality as agentic in relation to creative practice, thought and experience (Barratt & Bolt, ed. 2013; Barad, 2007). - Responses to the geological turn in the environmental arts (Ellsworth & Kruse, 2012), including those influenced by geo-philosophy (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) and the geology of media (Parrika, 2015) - The environmental arts as an applied and activist philosophy involving the composition, activation and mobilisation of concepts (Massumi, 2011) - New conceptualisations of technology, technique and technicity through the environmental arts, including those associated with social technologies (Stengers, 2005), virtual technicities (Manning, 2013), and technics (Steigler, 1998) and technologies of the self (Foucault, 1986). - The capacity for speculative fictions and geo-poetics to evoke new social worlds and a politics to come (Shaviro, 2014; Bogue, 2011; Negarestani, 2008) - Interspecies communication and collaboration in and through the environmental arts (Garoian, 2012) - The changing nature of public participation through and with the environmental arts, including their pedagogical affordances as places of learning (Ellsworth, 2005) - Concepts for new formations of sense (Ranciere, 2010) to break from neoliberal, market-based world views of the environment predicated on ecological sovereignty - New concepts of being-with and care (Nancy, 2000; Foucault, 1986) to replace the control and efficiency models of biopolitics and governmentality that currently define environmental policies and public debate. References Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Barrett, E., & Bolt, B. eds. (2013). Carnal Knowledge: Towards a ?New Materialism? through the Arts. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. Benjamin, W. (1999). ?Little History of Photography?, trans. Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter in Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934, ed. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 507-530. Bogue, R. (2011). Deleuze and Guattari and the Future of Politics: Science fiction, protocols and the people to come. Deleuze Studies, 5, 77-97. Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Ellsworth, E. (2005). Places of Learning: Media, architecture, pedagogy. New York: Routledge. Ellsworth, E., & Kruse, J. (Eds.). (2012). Making the Geologic Now: Responses to the material conditions of everyday life. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books. Foucault, M. (1986). The Care of the Self: the History of Sexuality, Volume 3, trans. Robert Hurley, Penguin, London. Garoian, C. R. (2012). Sustaining Sustainability: The pedagogical drift of art research and practice. Studies in Art Education, 53 (4), 283-301. jagodzinski, j. (2015). Affirmations and Limitations of Ranciere?s Aesthetics: Questions for art and its education in the Anthropocene. In Snaza, N., & Weaver, J. (Eds.). Posthumanism and Educational Research (pp. 121-133). New York, NY: Routledge. Manning, E. (2013). Always More Than One: Individuation?s dance. Durham: Duke University Press. Massumi, B. (2011). Semblance and Event: Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts. Cambridge: MIT Press. Nancy, Jean-Luc. (2000). Being Singular Plural. trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O?Byrne, Stanford University Press, Stanford. Negarestani, N. (2008). Cyclonopedia: Complicity with anonymous materials. Melbourne: re.press. Parrikia, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Ranci?re, J. (2010). Dissensus: on Politics and Aesthetics, trans. Steven Corcoran, Continuum, London. Shaviro, S. (2014). The Universe of Things: On speculative realism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Steigler, B. (1998). Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Stengers, I. (2005). Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practice. Cultural Studies Review. 11 (1), 183-196. -- Grayson Cooke Associate Professor of Media Course Coordinator Bachelor of Digital Media and Communications School of Arts and Social Sciences Southern Cross University P.O. Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: +61 2 6620 3839 http://scu.edu.au/digitalmedia http://www.graysoncooke.com CRICOS Provider: 01241G -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au Thu Nov 17 02:06:33 2016 From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 01:06:33 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP JoPP #11 CITY Message-ID: Call for Papers - Journal of Peer Production #11 CITY Editors: Penny Travlou, Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Panayotis Antoniadis ABSTRACTS DUE 31 JANUARY 2017 One of the welfare state?s key jurisdictions was to tend to housing and public space in benevolent ways. However, under the neoliberal dogma, commodification and gentrification threaten both the right to housing and the right to the city. In recent years, cities have become increasingly militarized and surveyed, resembling battlegrounds where freedom and democracy are under attack. At the same time, recent economic, political, and social crises have activated many counter-forces of resistance and creative alternatives for the grassroots production of food, health services, housing, networking infrastructures, and more. The role of technology has been contradictory as well. On the one hand, the Internet has enabled some of the most remarkable peer production success stories at a global scale, such as Wikipedia and Free and Open Source Software, among many others. On the other hand, it has empowered huge corporations like Facebook and Google to fully observe and manipulate our everyday activities, and oppressive governments to censor and surveil their citizens. At the city scale, technology offers opportunities for self-organization, like wireless community networks and numerous bottom-up techno-social initiatives, but also animates the top-down narrative of the ?smart city? and the commodification of the ?sharing economy" as a service provided by globally active platforms such as Airbnb and Uber. In this situation, peer production in space emerges as a vital bottom-up practice reclaiming citizen participation, and inventing new forms of community. In this context, some core challenges arise: ? If we choose not t? rely on global players to provide peer production support at a local scale, how could different areas of peer production in the city, digital and physical, interact and support each other? ? What types of governance models can adequately support peer production in the city? To address those challenges one needs to take into consideration the following: ? Lessons learned from the Internet and how they may be incorporated in the context-specific realities of the city. ? Knowledge-transfer methodologies across different localities. ? Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations (urban studies, media studies, sociology, architecture, cultural geography, informatics, etc.). ? Possible collaborations and synergies between activists that fight for the ?right to the city? and those that fight for the ?right to the Internet?. -Knowedge/experience transfer between non-urban settings (i.e. intentional communities, ecocommunities, the Transition movement, etc.) and the urban movements. ? Inquiry into research methods and methodologies to be developed and used for analysing ICT-mediated peer production in urban space. This special issue of JoPP aims to explore a wide variety of alternative and innovative peer practices, such as urban agriculture, food sustainability, the solidarity economy, right to the city movements, cooperative housing, community networks, P2P urbanism tactics, co-design practices and more, that are directly reflected in the production of urban space. We are particularly interested in novel combinations of theory, methodologies, and practices that can contribute to peer production in the city and enable new synergies between projects and communities. Topics may include, but are not limited to: ? Urban commons and peer production ? Case studies of innovative peer practices approached from different perspectives ? Comparative case studies on patterns of commoning and think-global / act-local methodologies ? The regional dimension: examples from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia ? Political issues of autonomy, hegemony, labour, gender, geopolitical and post-colonial perspectives ? Alternative forms of education and learning tools for promoting self-organization and community ? Innovative governance tools for peer production in the city ? Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methodological approaches ? Urban studies and the right to the (hybrid) city ? Open source urbanism/architecture ? Recycling/upcycling vs buying: making, consuming or prosuming the city? Important dates Abstract submission: 31 January 2017 Notification to authors: 15 February 2017 Submission of full paper: 15 May 2017 Reviews to authors: 15 July 2017 Revised papers: 15 September 2017 Signals due: 10 October 2017 Issue release: October/November 2017 Submission guidelines Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by January 31, 2017 and should be sent to . All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer Production guidelines. See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/. Full papers and materials are due by May 15, 2017 for review. Peer reviewed papers should be around 8,000 words. We also welcome experimental, alternative contributions, like testimonies, interviews and artistic treatments, whose format will be discussed case by case with the editors. *This special issue was initiated during the Hybrid City III (Athens) conference and developed further during the IASC Urban Commons (Bologna) and Habitat III (Quito) conferences.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ned at nedrossiter.org Wed Nov 30 02:40:47 2016 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:40:47 +1100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Data Politics and Power: Workshop with Professor Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths) Message-ID: <569b8f94-ed62-d838-e3f8-11b4a7c2e3e7@nedrossiter.org> Digital Life Research Program Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Data Politics and Power Workshop with Professor Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths) https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/data_politics_and_power Date: 8 December 2016 Time: 10.30am ? 1.30pm Venue: EB.2.18, Parramatta Campus Convenors: Ned Rossiter and Liam Magee Summary Before assemblages and agency, rights and privacy, access and distribution, there is data. The politics of data presupposes a political frame that serves as a template through which digital conditions are made intelligible and actionable. Data politics, by contrast, are a generative force that make possible ?worlds, subjects and rights?. For Evelyn Ruppert, Engin Isin and Didier Bigo, data politics contribute to the ?transformation of data subjects into data citizens? (forthcoming 2017). We might also draw connections between data politics and debates in German media theory (Kittler), Canadian communications (Innis), data ontologies and the materiality and technics of communication more broadly. This workshop explores these ideas and encourages participants to cast their own research in terms of data politics. Bio Evelyn Ruppert is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She studies the sociology of data specifically in relation to how different kinds of digital data are constituted and mobilised to enact and govern populations. Evelyn is PI of a five-year European Research Council funded project, Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS; 2014-19). She is also Founding and Editor-in-chief of a SAGE open access journal, Big Data & Society: Critical Interdisciplinary Inquiries, launched in June 2014. Recent books are Being Digital Citizens (authored with Engin Isin) published in April 2015 (RLI International) and Modes of Knowing (edited with John Law) published in August 2016 (Mattering Press). Participant numbers are limited. Preparatory readings by Evelyn Ruppert will be mailed separately to participants. Light catering will be provided. Please register here: http://tinyurl.com/z7tz8k3