From Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au Mon Sep 19 01:23:35 2016 From: Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:23:35 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP: Transformations Journal: Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts Message-ID: Transformations Journal CFP: "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 conceptualisations, 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. 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. Abstracts (200-400 words) are due 18th November 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 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 Wed Sep 28 07:58:31 2016 From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:58:31 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?=91Decoding_Publics=3A_A_Review?= =?windows-1252?q?_of_Digital_Media_Analytics_Tools=92?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for multiple posts The News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra is delighted to announce the publication of ?Decoding Publics: A Review of Digital Media Analytics Tools? by Mathieu O?Neil and Daniel Kelley >From the Introduction: ?We live in the age of what Castells calls ?mass self-communication?. As a result ever-more data about the online communications of people and organisations are being produced, as well as about the spread and impact of these communications. Another consequence is that new software tools are regularly announced as the ?next big thing? in online analytics. This report is not meant as the definitive word on the subject, or as a complete snapshot of the state of play. We simply aim to provide an entry-point for those who are considering engaging with online data analytics. [...] The report contains brief reviews of fifteen social media software analytics tools assessed using the same criteria, to evaluate the potential of these tools for teaching and training purposes.? Tools reviewed include: Discovertext, Netlytic, Twitonomy (text analytics) NodeXL, Netlytic (social networks analytics) Issue Crawler, VOSON, Webometrics Analyst (hyperlink analytics) Google Analytics, Hootsuite, SocialMediaMineR (action analytics) Countly, Mixpanel (mobile analytics) Followerwonk, Tweepsmap (location analytics) The report can be downloaded for free here: http://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/publications -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au Thu Sep 29 04:33:52 2016 From: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au (Mathieu ONeil) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 02:33:52 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Journal of Peer Production #9 "Alternative Internets" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Journal of Peer Production #9 "Alternative Internets" The Journal of Peer Production editorial team is delighted to announce our latest release, JoPP #9, "Alternative Internets" edited by F?lix Tr?guer, Panayotis Antoniadis and Johan S?derberg. As always, the peer review process - including original submissions, reviews, revised papers, and signals - is accessible. The issue is available for free here: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/ >From the Introduction: The hopes of past generations of hackers weigh like a delirium on the brains of the newbies. Back in the days when Bulletin Board Systems metamorphosed into the Internet, the world's digital communications networks - hitherto confined to military, corporate and elite academic institutions - were at grasping reach of ordinary individuals. To declare the independence of the Internet from nation states and the corporate world seemed like no more than stating the bare facts. Even encrypted communication - the brainchild of military research - had leaked into the public's hands and had become a tool wielded against state power. Collectives of all stripes could make use of the new possibilities offered by the Web to bypass traditional media, broadcast their own voice and assemble in new ways in this new public sphere. For some time, at least, the Internet as a whole embodied "alternativeness." JOPP# 9 CONTENTS Alt. vs. Ctrl.: Editorial notes for the JoPP issue on Alternative Internets F?lix Tr?guer, Panayotis Antoniadis and Johan S?derberg PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC PAPERS In Defense of the Digital Craftsperson James Losey and Sascha D. Meinrath Hacktivism, Infrastructures and Legal Frameworks in Community Networks: The Italian Case of Ninux.org Stefano Crabu, Federica Giovanella, Leonardo Maccari and Paolo Magaudda Enmeshed Lives? Examining the Potentials and the Limits in the Provision of Wireless Networks. The Case of R?seau Libre Christina Haralanova and Evan Light Going Off-the-Cloud: The Role of Art in the Development of a User-Owned & Controlled Connected World Daphne Dragona and Dimitris Charitos Gesturing Towards "Anti-Colonial Hacking" and its Infrastructure Sophie Toupin The Interplay Between Decentralization and Privacy: The Case of Blockchain Technologies Primavera De Filippi Finding an Alternate Route: Towards Open, Eco-cyclical, and Distributed Production Stephen Quilley, Jason Hawreliak and Kaitlin Kish EXPERIMENTAL FORMAT Alternative Policies for Alternative Internets Melanie Dulong de Rosnay =-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: