[P2P-F] Fwd: Call for participation: in/compatible.research

Fri Jul 15 09:54:03 CEST 2011

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From: Tatiana Bazzichelli <tati at trick.ca>
Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Subject: Call for participation: in/compatible.research
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Call for participation: in/compatible.research

International PhD workshop and conference, organised by Digital Aesthetics
Research Centre/Centre for Digital Urban Living, Aarhus University, in
partnership with the transmediale festival for art and digital culture, and
Universität der Künste, Berlin.

November 16-18, 2011
Vilém Flusser Archive, Universität der Künste, Berlin.

"Transmediale.12 postulates that incompatible beings drive the logic of
contemporary cultural production. in/compatible beings are understood as
aesthetic things and processes that do not necessarily connect on the terms
we are used to. The festival wants to raise the question of what happens
when such incompatible beings are brought to the fore rather than hidden
away in the dark underbelly of digital culture?"

In the context of developing a platform for knowledge exchange, and research
across the arts and sciences, transmediale and Aarhus University have
established a partnership to foster new forms of collaborative peer-review
and knowledge dissemination. The first project will be a PhD workshop and
conference departing from the theme of the 25th transmediale festival
upcoming in early 2012: in/compatible. This theme addresses unresolved
tensions in-between different technologies, their cultures of production and
use, as well as the tensions between different approaches to contemporary
media culture.

"The simultaneous monumental failure and global ubiquity of technology seems
to move us beyond the polarity of utopia and dystopia. Instead we are
entering the blurred environments of the unadapted, monstrous and
'uncorporated'. These increasingly unclear tension-states between open and
closed, military and civilian, idealistic and commercial, are giving rise to
a new kind of 'techno-cultural uneasy'. The in/compatible in this context is
a singular moment where it becomes evident that certain technologies or
models of thought are not possible to use in combination. Artists,
practitioners and thinkers engage this imperfect nature of technology. They
give it a cultural shape, developing a critical reflexivity that responds to
the ever-changing social and economical terrains of the networked world."
(From Open Call for Works, transmediale 2012: in/compatible. Read the full
thematic call at
http://www.transmediale.de/**festival/call-for-works<http://www.transmediale.de/festival/call-for-works>
)

The aim of the in/compatible.research PhD workshop and conference is to
explore the compatibility and incompatibility of various objects, processes
and systems. For DARC, the workshop is a continuation of research in
interface criticism and the role of artistic practices and aesthetic theory
within interface culture. One of the assumptions is that critical insights
and new possibilities derive from the various incompatibilities of
interfaces (including those between humans and machines, as well as within
humans and machines). For transmediale, the workshop represents a beta
project of its new "resource for transmedial culture," which is a framework
for transmediale related events happening before and after the festival. The
resource is a new distributed working methodology of the festival based on
continuous knowledge development and community involvement throughout the
year; thus the workshop is both an independent event and a research-based
exploration of the forthcoming theme of transmediale.

We are looking for proposals from PhD researchers to take part in this
international workshop and conference to explore the forthcoming theme of
transmediale: in/compatible.

A total of 15 PhD international researchers will be selected and asked to
participate: firstly initiating a discussion process in a blog, and then in
the PhD workshop held at the Universität der Künste, Vilém Flusser Archive
in Berlin, Nov. 16-18. The outcome of the process will be published in a
transmediale thematic publication and presented as part of the programme of
the festival in 2012. In the selection of participants, we are looking to
address the theme of in/compatibility in terms of the diversity of research
traditions and disciplines represented, including practice-based research.
Across the same days as the PhD workshops, an international research
conference will be held to create a platform of exchange between scholars,
researchers and artists exploring the in/compatible topic.

We are looking for contributions that broadly align to the following
headings:

INCOMPATIBLE INTERFACES
Various socio-technical systems communicate with each other in networks, but
how do they distribute sense perception and relations of power and control,
and not least what are the aesthetic and critical responses to these
distributions (such as glitch, sousveillance or FLOSS)?

INCOMPATIBLE METHODS
There are ever more competing ways of understanding and addressing knowledge
production, so what is the role of emergent practice, artistic research
methods and more traditional research methods across the arts and sciences
(such as media archaeology, speculative realism and aesthetic theories)?

INCOMPATIBLE MARKETS
In the collapsing distinctions of production and consumption, and with new
models of socialisation and exchange, what are the alternative economies and
business models that emerge (in the context of the marketisation of
research, creativity and sociality)?

Applications will be reviewed by a panel comprised of representatives from
Aarhus University and transmediale. The workshop is free, but participants
will need to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. For
fundraising purposes, letters of support can be issued upon request. 5 ECTS
credits are offered for full participation. Some places will be reserved for
students coming from the organizing institutions.

We are seeking proposals consisting of a biography (500 characters), a
statement on current research/description of PhD project (1000 characters),
and an abstract for a paper presentation (1500 characters).

Proposals should be sent using the online form: http://www.transmediale.de/*
*content/incompatibleresearch-**call-participation<http://www.transmediale.de/content/incompatibleresearch-call-participation>

Deadline: Aug. 15
Acceptance: Sept. 15

Organised by:
Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, DK (
http://darc.imv.au.dk)
Centre for Digital Urban Living, Aarhus University, DK (http://www.**
digitalurbanliving.dk/ <http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/>)
transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin, DE (
http://www.transmediale.de)

Promoted by:
transmediale resource and Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin.

Hosted by:
Universität der Künste, Berlin (http://www.udk-berlin.de).

Nov. 16-18, 2011

For more information, go to
http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_**id=2401<http://darc.imv.au.dk/?page_id=2401>

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