From Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au  Tue Mar  5 00:31:58 2019
From: Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 23:31:58 +0000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP Transformations:  Inhuman Algorithms
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Transformations Issue 34 CFP
Inhuman Algorithms
Algorithms are integral to a digital, networked, automated society. Thrown into the public spotlight by a certain high profile search engine, algorithms are increasingly recognised to exercise agency in practices such as governance, surveillance, online personalisation, medicine, design, high frequency trading, credit scoring and plagiarism. Computational machines make decisions about things, people, places and experiences, and humans learn to address algorithms.
Algorithms have inhuman capacities. They do not become distracted, tired, impatient or emotional. At the same time the algorithm?s inhuman abilities can be understood as a desirable improvement on human skills. Algorithms are inhuman forces that bring social, political, material and cultural formations into being, generating and extinguishing possibilities. Their inhumanism transmutes ideas of the human and demands new (post)humanisms.
This special issue of Transformations seeks contributions that address the inhuman algorithm. We invite submissions in the areas of critical and cultural studies, media studies, anthropology and social science, science and technology studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  *   Inhuman excesses of the algorithm ? numeration, repetition, information, recursion, logics.
  *   Human-algorithmic ensembles and demarcations of the human and algorithm.
  *   Inhuman pasts and futures of the algorithm ? precedents, precursors, prospects.
  *   Elites of algorithmic culture.
  *   Algorithmic recognition and its anticipation.
  *   The temporality of algorithms ? real time input, prediction, speed.
  *   The politics of the algorithmic subjectivities and identities.
  *   Trust, opaqueness and transparency in algorithms.
  *   The intensification and modification of inhumane practices (poverty, racism, gender bias) by algorithmic processes.
  *   The co-evolution of algorithms, code and big data.
  *   The algorithm?s embedding in and of the social ? surveillance, personalisation.
  *   Hybrid and collaborative human-algorithm cognition.
  *   Defining and knowing algorithms.
  *   The materiality of algorithms ? computers, sensors, geography, connections.

Abstracts (200-400 words) are due April 30 2019, with a view to submit articles by 30 July 30 2019.
Abstracts should be forwarded to: editor at transformationsjournal.org<mailto:editor at transformationsjournal.org>
View the website:  http://www.transformationsjournal.org




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Southern Cross University
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From ned at nedrossiter.org  Tue Mar 19 11:33:02 2019
From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:33:02 +1100
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn
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for the interest for fc readers

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Subject: 	<nettime> Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn
Date: 	Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:01:09 +0100
From: 	Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl>
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Dear nettimers,

we have just published this essay on our blog: Algorithmic Hate: Brenton
Tarrant and the Dark Social Web, an analysis on the role of social media
in the Christchurch killings, by Luke Munn,?writing from Auckland/NZ:

http://networkcultures.org/blog/2019/03/19/luke-munn-algorithmic-hate-brenton-tarrant-and-the-dark-social-web/
<http://networkcultures.org/blog/2019/03/19/luke-munn-algorithmic-hate-brenton-tarrant-and-the-dark-social-web/>.


We hope to continue this conversation here on the list. How do you look
at the role of Facebook Live and Twitter?

Best, Geert






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From alex at slab.org  Sat Mar 30 16:49:00 2019
From: alex at slab.org (Alex McLean)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:49:00 +0000
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Dancing and
 Braiding, 17th May, Sheffield UK
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Symposium on Dancing and Braiding

https://algomech.com/symposium/

17th May 2019

Site gallery, Sheffield, UK

Tickets now available
<https://events.ticketsforgood.co.uk/events/1186-symposium-on-dancing-and-braiding>
- ?27.50 (?13.75 concs), including lunch and refreshments

Launching AlgoMech Festival <https://algomech.com/>, an interdisciplinary
symposium bringing together perspectives from digital media, choreography &
dance technology, traditional Andean and Ancient Greek textiles,
e-textiles, philology, live coding and architecture.

Through talks, discussion and performance, contributors to the symposium
will consider their work in the context of interlacing within and between
textiles, e-textiles, pattern, structure and movement, including dance.
Interfaces between materials, craft technologies, digital engineering,
responsive systems, embodied communications, threads, inter-weaving,
intertwining, braiding and building will provide a rich vein of dialogue,
experimentation and recent practice-led outcomes.

10:00 - 17:00 - Symposium (coffee from 09:30)

Note that following the symposium will be the AlgoMech festival exhibition
launch event with dance performance and screening. See
https://algomech.com/2019/ for details

Textile as interface


   -

   Victoria Mitchell (session chair)
   -

   Kate Sicchio <http://sicchio.com> (Dance and Choreography, Virginia
   Commonwealth University)
   Dancer, choreographer, coder
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   Berit Greinke <http://beritgreinke.net/> (University of Arts, Berlin)
   E-textiles, design

In and Out of Weaving

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   Thea Pitman <https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/109/dr-thea-pitman>
   - Session chair
   Latin American Studies, University of Leeds
   -

   Sandra de Berduccy <https://www.sandradeberduccy.com/> (to be confirmed)
   E-textile artist, Bolivia
   -

   Toni Buckby
   <https://tonibuckby.com/>Textiles and Digital Media, Sheffield Hallam/V&A

Interlacing structures in time and place


   -

   Ellen Harlizius-Kl?ck (session chair)
   -

   Victoria Mitchell
   Braiding & dancing
   -

   Marina Castan Cabrero
   <https://arcintexetn.com/list-of-the-phd-students/marina-castan-cabrero/>
   (Textiles, Royal College of Art, London)
   Architecture, textile

Threads and technologies on the move

   -

   Rosamaria Kostic Cisernos <https://rosasencis.org/> (Dance research,
   Coventry University)
   -

   Dave Griffiths <https://fo.am/kernow/> - Penelopean robotics
   Generalist, FoAM Kernow
   -

   Giovanni Fanfani <https://penelope.hypotheses.org/giovanni-fanfani>
   (Deutsches Museum, Germany)

Made possible with the support of European Research Council (682711:
PENELOPE - Weaving as a Technical Mode of Existence), Sheffield City of
Ideas, Sheffield City of Makers, Sheffield Cultural Consortium, and Arts
Council, England.
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