Dear all, I am organising the event below. Places are limited, so please make sure you email me to book a place if you'd like to attend. best, olga Senior Lecturer Media Arts Royal Holloway University of London *Digital Subjects* *12 May 2016, Senate House, London* *Organiser:* Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway University of London Digital subjects can be many things: a nested set of abstractions assembled by algorithms; a dynamic data aggregate feeding upon the movement of bodies in space and time; an experiential, sensuous presence and performance online. Digital subjects are the subjects of profiles, video channels, search query histories, inboxes, logs of GPS coordinates, traded data of financial transactions or travel card usage. The reason why it's worth calling them subjects are the new ontological and epistemological demands placed by the rapid development of computational infrastructures and our cyborgian lives. The question of the digital subject is a political question wielded by the disciplinary lines of differentiation. These lines are cut in the thick distance that joins together human, posthuman, nonhuman and the digital (Goriunova). Some humanities regard digital subjects from the point of view of the operation of representational data surveillance (data gathered forms a shadow of the human (Raley)) and a political/legal question (Rouvroy); some data sciences ignore the distance and claim that data gives direct access to, in this case, humans (people are equal to their tweets). Many contemporary art practices, especially feminist performances online, explore the distance as a thick field of production that is not fully determined (Scourti). The aim of the event is to rethink the subject and think the digital subject from the point of view of different genealogies, reasons, expressions and logics. What we aim to work towards is not a return to any previous form of unity, but a way to construct an understanding of computational kinds of subjects and their ways of generation, production, and sustenance. *This is a Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre event in cooperation with the Department of Media Arts* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *PROGRAMME* *12 May, **Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU* *ROOM BSQ-SH264* 9.30 Registration 9.45 Introduction Chair: *Silvia Mollicchi* 10.00 – 10.50 *Lisa Blackman,* Data are Us? The challenges of computational cultures for theorising the subject(s) of digital mediation 10.50 - 11.40 *Luciana Parisi,* The Alien Subject of AI *Coffee break* 11.40 – 11.50 Chair: *Nathan Jones* 11.50 - 12.40 *Katerina Kolozova*, Subjectivity without physicality *Lunch break* (lunch not provided) 12.40-13.30 Chair: *Scott Wark* 13.30 - 14.20 *Andreas Bernard, *The Knowledge of the Profile. Conceptions of the Self in Digital Cultures 14.20 - 15.10 *Christoph Engemann,* Declarative & Procedural Identity - Governmediality after Snowden *Coffee break* 15.10-15.30 Chair: *Giles Askham* 15.30 - 16.20 *Rózsa Zita Farkas, *Feminist Performance on the Web 16.20 - 17.10 *Erica Scourti, *Evasive Actions: on the Limits of Intelligibility *Attendance: free. Please register by emailing Olga Goriunova at olga.goriunova@rhul.ac.uk <olga.goriunova@rhul.ac.uk>* Longer description, abstracts and bios can be found online at: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/events/eventsarticles/digital-subjects1...