Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 620.
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[1] From: Caroline Winter <winterc@uvic.ca>
Subject: CFP for the DHSI 2022 Conference & Colloquium – Proposals Due April 4 (114)
[2] From: Amanda Lagerkvist <amanda.lagerkvist@im.uu.se>
Subject: Digital Existence III: Living with Automation (159)
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Date: 2022-03-28 19:02:26+00:00
From: Caroline Winter <winterc@uvic.ca>
Subject: CFP for the DHSI 2022 Conference & Colloquium – Proposals Due April 4
Hello, everyone
This is a reminder that the CFP for the Digital Humanities Summer
Institute (DHSI) 2022 – Online Edition
<https://dhsi.org/dhsi-2022-online-edition/> Conference & Colloquium is
open for another week, until *Monday, April 4!*
Since 2009, the DHSI Conference & Colloquium has been a valued part of
the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute. It offers an opportunity
to present diverse, dynamic digital humanities research and projects
within an engaging, collegial audience that actively fosters the ethos
of the greater DHSI community.
Although we’re not able to gather together in person this year for DHSI
2022, we are delighted to be able to hold this event in a virtual space
as part of DHSI 2022—Online Edition (June 6–10 2022).
Presentations may focus on any topic relating to the digital humanities.
Submissions are welcome from all members of the digital humanities
community, including faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, early
career scholars, independent researchers, librarians and others in the
GLAM community, alt-academics, academic professionals, those in
technical programs, and those new to the digital humanities.
The Conference & Colloquium is a relatively informal venue for sharing
work and ideas, and we encourage presenters to think beyond the
traditional conference paper format for their presentations and to
invite feedback and engagement from the DHSI community.
This year, live online discussion sessions will be held on*Friday, June
10 between 9:30–11:30am (Pacific time)* for those who wish to
participate, as an opportunity for attendees and presenters to discuss
pre-recorded presentations.
Submissions are welcome in three formats:
*Conference Presentations*
Recorded presentations should be *10–15 minutes long* and will be
organized into themed sessions. This format is well suited to presenting
research findings, in-depth argumentative papers, or reports on
completed research.
*Colloquium Lightning Talks*
Recorded presentations should be*5 minutes long* and will be organized
into themed sessions. This format is well suited to demonstrations of
new tools, reporting on in-progress research, announcing new projects
and tools, and brief, tightly focused argumentative papers.
*Posters*
Digital posters will be showcased throughout DHSI in an online exhibit.
This format is well suited for summarizing research results, showcasing
tools and techniques, and sparking further discussion. Multimedia and
interactive posters are welcome.
Please submit proposals through this online submission form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeV4hVw1e_h4lrItxMlk3y_tQL30qQdQNouLId
LlY_7_Yao3A/viewform?usp=sf_link>.
This form asks for
●the title of the presentation
●the names and emails of all contributors
●a 200–250-word abstract
●a list of 5 keywords describing the presentation
*The deadline for submissions is April 4*. Submissions will be reviewed
by the Conference & Colloquium committee, with presenters being notified
in late April.
After the event, we will invite presenters to contribute papers to a
special issue of /Interdisciplinary Digital Engagements in Arts &
Humanities (IDEAH)/ <https://ideah.pubpub.org/>, a peer-reviewed,
online, open-access journal founded to showcase the innovative, engaging
scholarship shared annually at DHSI.
For more information, contact the DHSI Conference & Colloquium Chair,
Caroline Winter (winter <mailto:winterc@uvic.ca>c@uvic.ca
<mailto:winterc@uvic.ca>).
This conference is part of DHSI 2022—Online Edition
<https://dhsi.org/dhsi-2022-online-edition/>. Other aligned conferences
and events are:
* Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship
* Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities
* Right to Left (RTL)
* Project Management in the Humanities
* Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences
* GraphPoem
The CfP for all conferences is open till April 4. To submit an abstract
or learn more about these events, visit our page
<https://dhsi.org/dhsi-2022-online-edition/#aligned-conferences-and-
events-2022>.
Caroline
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Caroline Winter, PhD (she/her)
INKE Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship, ETCL,
University of Victoria
MLIS Candidate, School of Library and Information Studies, University of
Alberta
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-1161
<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-1161> | @editrixcaroline
<https://twitter.com/EditrixCaroline> | www.carolinewinter.com
<www.carolinewinter.com> | winterc@uvic.ca <mailto:winterc@uvic.ca>
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Date: 2022-03-28 14:09:42+00:00
From: Amanda Lagerkvist <amanda.lagerkvist@im.uu.se>
Subject: Digital Existence III: Living with Automation
DIGMEX and The Sigtuna Foundation present
Digital Existence III:
LIVING WITH AUTOMATION
A conference about AI, biometrics and the human condition
The Sigtuna Foundation
One-day symposium May 31, 2022
The DIGMEX Network, in collaboration with the Sigtuna Foundation, are
excited to finally present “Digital Existence III: Living with
Automation,” following on from the two previous conferences “Digital
Existence: Memory, Meaning, Vulnerability” (2015) and “Digital Existence
II: Precarious Media Life” (2017). Day one of our conference will be an
open one-day symposium, held at the Sigtuna Foundation (just outside of
Stockholm) on May 31. It will feature a series of keynote lectures by
distinguished international guests from the humanities, with expertise
on AI and the human condition. We welcome interested participants from
inside and outside academia to register as audience!
The May 31 program will include the following keynote speakers and events:
Prof. Amanda Lagerkvist, Dept. of Informatics and Media, Uppsala
University, PI of the WASP-HS Project BioMe and the Uppsala Informatics
and Media Hub for Digital Existence.
“Introduction: AI as Existential Media”
Prof. N. Katherine Hayles, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita
of Literature, literary critic and theorist.
“Inside the Mind of an AI: Materiality and the Crisis of Representation”
Dr. Benjamin Peters, Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media
Studies at the University of Tulsa and affiliated fellow at the
Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
“What Comes after the Anthropocene? Soviet AI and the Collapse of Other
Inhumanely Smart Environments”
Prof. Joanna Zylinska, Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital
Practice, Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London,
writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working on digital technologies,
new media, ethics, photography and art.
“Imaging the Future: The Eye, the ‘I’ and AI”
Prof. Btihaj Ajana, Professor in Ethics and Digital Culture at Kings
College, international scholar and media practitioner in the fields of
digital culture and social analysis.
“The Immunopolitics of Covid-19 Technologies”
Prof. Nick Couldry, Department of Media and Communications, London
School of Economics and Political Science. Sociologist of media culture,
focusing on media practices, ethics and data colonialism.
Endnote
Dr. Jacek Smolicki, interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and
soundwalker interested in techniques of attending to (as in paying
attention) and recording (as in calling to mind and heart) human and
other-than-human realms, events, and existences.
Art Exhibition: “Slip of the Digital Tongue”
Due to the limited amount of seats, please declare your interest in
participating by sending an email to
matilda.tudor@im.uu.se<mailto:matilda.tudor@im.uu.se> who will then
confirm the availability and help out with registering procedures.
Members of the DIGMEX network will be prioritized. The symposium is
without charge, but participants will have to pay for lunch and
refreshments at the Sigtuna Foundation venue.
Conference rationale
AI (artificial intelligence) is mounting on the human horizon, evoking
both hopes and fears. Mapping itself onto almost every conceivable realm
of human life and experience, AI is however not only a concern for the
future: it is already here, at our fingertips. As AI is part of our most
intimate lives, quantified self-imaginings, embodied perceptions, and
our emergent practices of care and of law enforcement – especially via
biometrics – our lives are increasingly ‘on automatic.’ But where did
this world stem from – historically and ideologically? What founds it
philosophically? How can it be (re)conceived, theoretically and
artistically, in order for us to responsibly craft AI to serve human
kind? What can we learn from attending to how we already live with
automation – about risks and possibilities – and from how we have lived
with its imaginaries on our horizon throughout history, in fiction and
techno-progressivist discourse and practice? What are the existential
needs and necessities that face us anew with AI? And can we now harness,
as scholars in the humanities, those rich sources of insight and wisdom
about the human condition, that remain our footing, while mobilising
them creatively and critically for a new era with ‘responsible AI’
(Dignum 2019)? This symposium is motivated by the fact that in
increasingly conspicuous ways, leading AI alignment collaborations to
develop philosophically robust notions of “benign AI”, are almost
entirely absent of any in-depth engagement with humanistic knowledge,
whether philosophical, historical, artistic or anthropological. AI must
be placed in historical sociopolitical contexts, yet their many
exigencies and meanings also require looking backward to our history as
scholars in the humanities, as much as looking beyond its classic
trajectories, to find novel and pertinent framings.
From the perspective of existential media studies (EMS), which revisits
classic questions and themes in existential philosophy about ‘what it
means to be human’ – while upgrading them to our contemporary
technologized culture in conversation with posthumanist and new
materialist debates – the stakes are foremost existential (Lagerkvist
2022). Technologies define and redefine the human condition. Hence,
automated data services are conceived as everyday “mundane data;” they
co-condition our world and media are our material infrastructures of
being (Peters 2015). Yet, automation is simultaneously theorized as a
fresh source for embodied disharmony, friction, vulnerability and social
injustice. Not only do we use technologies; our lives are increasingly
digitally “thrown”, to draw on the language of Martin Heidegger, into a
highly connected, fast changing technological world that uses us,
threatening to leave us displaced and ever more vulnerable (Lagerkvist
2016, 2019). In EMS human existence is consequently conceived also as an
ongoing moral project (Kierkegaard 1849/1989; Sartre 1956), stretched
out in an anticipatory mode towards horizons of the possible, the
contingent and the imperative. EMS thus maintains that the towering
existential and ethical task of our time is to reflect upon, and take
responsibility for, the media technologies that we develop, use and
embrace, and how that embrace simultaneously raises new affordances and
limits; the new resources and risks of modern human life. This
conference will take existential media studies in new directions,
prompting a necessary interrogation of AI and biometrics from creative,
imaginary, artistic, philosophical and historical angles, while
anthropologically centring on experiences of living with automation in
today’s world.
Context and funding
The symposium is an activity within the project “BioMe: Existential
Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday
Lifeworlds” (2020-2024), headed by Prof. Amanda Lagerkvist (based in the
Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence:
http://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence) and hosted by the
Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University. BioMe is part
of the national research program WASP-HS: Wallenberg AI, Autonomous
Systems Software Program – Humanities and Society: https://wasp-hs.org
(2020-2030) financed by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
(MMW) and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (MAW). The
conference is co-organized by the DIGMEX network and the Sigtuna
Foundation, and co-funded by MMW, MAW, Uppsala University and the
Sigtuna Foundation.
Best regards,
Amanda Lagerkvist
Amanda Lagerkvist
Professor of Media and Communication Studies
PI of the WASP-HS Project BioMe and the Uppsala Informatics and Media
Hub for Digital
Existence<https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence>
Dept. of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
Box 513, SE- 751 20 Uppsala
Office: +46(0)18-471 1522 Mobile: +46(0)73-660 0574
E-mail: amanda.lagerkvist@im.uu.se<mailto:amanda.lagerkvist@im.uu.se>
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Research Fellow at Worlds of AI - Department of Informatics and Media -
Uppsala University, Sweden (uu.se)<https://im.uu.se/research/worlds-of-ai>
New book: Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation, to
be published by Oxford University Press,
2022<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/existential-media-9780190925567?typ
e=listing&prevNumResPerPage=20&prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&sta
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