Hello everyone (& apologies for cross-posting), I am happy to invite you to an online event organised at KCL-DDH. Hope you can make it! --- *Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction* Date: *20 June 2022* Time: *16:00-18:30* (London time) *Register with this Teams link <https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVg,GmZ934gLO0i-L_TEhou70Q,qhZiP3fRSEeagC8lLsNNug,SAZElHKxlkWMDSg0iuiFJA,MBL11zzmYkiEOZ2LnI8oGA,TQl8ZLeOpEiDXGHpjIMH4w?mode=read&tenantId=8370cf14-16f3-4c16-b83c-724071654356>* How do emerging cultural formats like dating profiles, Instagram face filters, GAN imagery, or blockchain-enabled communities contribute to spread out our increasingly distributed, digitally augmented identities? This online event, which is part of the *Online Crowds* workshop series organised by King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities, features presentations by critics and artists who work on digital culture, art, and identity in critical ways. Taking her Instagram filters exhibition project “Art Layers” (2021) as a starting point, Valentina Tanni <http://www.valentinatanni.com> will analyze the different roles that AR filters can play in the context of today's social media - from light, playful approaches to complex artistic experimentations on the topic of self-identity and reality perception. Midgray <https://midgray.org/> (Kris Blackmore and Simon Boas) will discuss their layered work on internet dating platforms, privacy, and masculinity. These projects involve algorithmically identifying misogyny in dating app user profiles on OkCupid, ultimately leading to thoughtful and nuanced conversations about consent and masculinity that aren't typically seen in mainstream media. Ksenia Fedorova <https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ksenia-fedorova> will address the ways the social imaginary is affected by the capabilities of digital technologies and the creative response to this state of affairs, registered in practices ranging from political activism to interactive art and mixed reality performance. Max Dovey <https://maxdovey.com/> will discuss projects that involve performance, improvisation and live action role play to confront emergent techno-social configurations within live, embodied and situated contexts. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion session moderated by Nicola Bozzi <http://twitter.com/schizocities>, Lecturer at King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities. ---- Nicola Bozzi Lecturer in Digital Innovation Management Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Recent Publications: Bozzi, N. (2021), "Dramatization of the @GANGSTA: Instagram Cred in the Age of Glocalized Gang Culture”, Wiest, J.B. (Ed.) *Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age* (*Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 20*), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020210000020010 Bozzi, N. (2020) #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. *Social Media + Society*. DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120926644