Call for Papers - Symposium 2016 @ Sonorities Festival 2016
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Creative Technologies: Relationships In Between
The next edition of the Two Thousand + symposium series takes place on
Saturday, the 26th November 2016 at Queen’s University Belfast, Sonic Arts
Research Centre.
The Symposium is curated by Tristan Clutterbuck, Juan Manuel Loaiza and
Franziska Schroeder.
Deadline: 15th April 2016 (extended)
Keynote Speaker: Satinder P. Gill
Satinder is a researcher at the Centre for Music and Science at Cambridge
University. Satinder investigates the processes underlying knowledge transfer
in human interaction, the role of the body in sense-making, and the dynamics of
technologically-mediated interaction. Satinder has a PhD in Experimental
Psychology, and her recent book ’Tacit Engagement: Beyond Interaction’
(Springer, 2015) explores how digital technology is altering the relationships
between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be
reconsidered to reflect this – how we can make sense of each other, handle
ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled
judgments in our modern society. Gill presents new directions for research at
the relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of arts,
science and technology, and in so doing, presents philosophical and artistic
questions for future research on human connectivity in our digital age.
Call for papers
The symposium will have a specific thematic focus on technology, interaction,
and mediated relationships. The refrain “Relationships In Between” invokes
different ideas about the entanglement of experience, embodiment, skill, and
technology, along lines of socially embedded creativity. We would like to open
a space for interdisciplinary dialogue on notions of technologically mediated
(social) interaction, potential topics for talks could be (but are not limited
to);
enaction
artificial intelligence
agency and autonomy
interface/interaction design
the technical constitution of the subject
software and language
technologically mediated performance
dynamics
technology, gender, and labour
recall and memory
live coding
network theory
cybernetics
philosphy of technology
science and technology studies
the technical turn
technicity and ecology
We are interested in how practitioners and thinkers of sonic arts, music and
improvisation from a wide variety of backgrounds address notions of
technologically mediated (social) interaction in their thinking and practice.
We wish to create a dynamic forum where practitioners and theorists, as well as
ethnographers of improvisatory culture and practices can debate and exchange
insights and approaches. We welcome proposals for paper, and or panel
presentations which address the theme ‘Creative Technologies: Relationships In
Between' across disciplines, as well as those proposals that link strategies of
technological mediation and sonic arts to the idea of mediated relationships.
The symposium, as always, will run alongside the Sonorities Festival of
Contemporary Music (24 – 28 November) and symposium attendees will have free
access to all festival related events.
Submissions
Please submit a short abstracts of 350 words max. through the Google Doc here
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sonorities/symposium.html
