CFP: Re-Shaping AI, May 2023 in Montreal Canada. Due in 2 weeks
Please share widely – Due 18 January 2023 On behalf of our international Shaping AI team, please consider applying to our symposium on Re-Shaping AI in Montreal. Details below, apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ol-0DwCaXKWUQclBY-EE49g8gqlbpYrCIDU87mf6olM... <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2F1Ol-0DwCaXKWUQclBY-EE49g8gqlbpYrCIDU87mf6olM%2Fedit&data=05%7C01%7Cfenwick.mckelvey%40concordia.ca%7C63f67da3a4b3496775b508dad9fca355%7C5569f185d22f4e139850ce5b1abcd2e8%7C0%7C0%7C638061977231828552%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kvkl423J6usMpKEnVS1X7YxIo0q%2FKTo5UHeDEtKHKUs%3D&reserved=0> *Call for Submissions* 21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists, startup founders and global companies to policy makers, journalists, and civil society. For some, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems, which in turn will change how we live, communicate, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. Our symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Canada <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shapingai.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfenwick.mckelvey%40concordia.ca%7C63f67da3a4b3496775b508dad9fca355%7C5569f185d22f4e139850ce5b1abcd2e8%7C0%7C0%7C638061977231828552%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EfkfGOW60kp0vIiU6o6ZFkywBLBOyclN3Gk8oUJZ7y4%3D&reserved=0>, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s media representations, policy framings, and scientific debates. Crucially, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI, including practice-based research or research-creation. The symposium runs from May 23-24 at the Milieux Institute <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmilieux.concordia.ca%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfenwick.mckelvey%40concordia.ca%7C63f67da3a4b3496775b508dad9fca355%7C5569f185d22f4e139850ce5b1abcd2e8%7C0%7C0%7C638061977231828552%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hiGTRvY68RvNthZ5WPg9BB4%2B%2BKApDlVeRUq21cxS450%3D&reserved=0> at Concordia University <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.concordia.ca%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfenwick.mckelvey%40concordia.ca%7C63f67da3a4b3496775b508dad9fca355%7C5569f185d22f4e139850ce5b1abcd2e8%7C0%7C0%7C638061977231828552%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5T8yPDkhwZAxZyDuwXGdsYAzw5tN8ml7ihcJluAlrbg%3D&reserved=0> in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Presentations in person are encourage. Remote participation will be available. We encourage submissions along these following themes: 1. Global, Local, and Frictions of AI governance 2. AI Cultures 3. Media representations of AI 4. Ethics, a Techno-Solution to AI Controversies? 5. Reflexivity and Positionality in AI Labs / Scenes / Collaborations 6. Research Methods after AI 7. Mapping AI Publics 8. Skill Sharing on AI Engagements 9. AI in and through Artistic Practice Admissions will be guided by our desire to broaden our critical cases around shaping AI, encouraging submissions outside EU and Anglocentric contexts. Student submissions are welcome. The symposium’s format encourages discussion with presentations capped at 10 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion. Submissions due 18 January 2023. Abstracts 500 words or less.
The call for papers is now open for - *The Datafied Family* – a free, fully online day-long event on Wednesday 28th June 2023, hosted by Professor Ranjana Das of the University of Surrey, UK, with funding from the Institute of Advanced Studies. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK; Professor Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, India; Dr Giovanna Mascheroni, Catholic University of Milan, Italy and Professor Veronica Barassi, University of St Gallen, Switzerland
From body-trackers, non-human digital support apps, smart home tech, parenting apps and gadgets, surveillance devices from the womb to the cradle, technologies of intimacy and play in the Internet of the Things, and wellbeing and wellness support bots – the textures of family life are changing – at disparate paces across global cultures and economies with a steady increase in family technologies, which are subtly, and not so subtly altering the doing of care, intimacy, leisure, learning, play, routine and more.
WEBSITE:https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounter... CALL FOR PAPERS The Datafied Family – will raise and respond to a set of key questions – without restricting its topics to these alone. Overarchingly, we ask 1. In what ways have family dynamics – routines, caring, intimacies, leisure, play, learning, parenting and more – been interrupted, (re)shaped, or transformed by the steady algorithmizing of everyday family life? 2. What material artefacts – toys, apps, smart home tech, educational applications, portals and meta-portals – punctuate family life and to what effect? 3. What inequalities, injustices, and power dynamics are being rehearsed or reshaped through the datafication of family life? 4. How is the algorithmic shaping of domestic routines and rapports encountered in practice, resisted, or reshaped through human agency? 5. What global perspectives remain less visible and unincorporated in theorising the datafied family, including the disparities between the global north and south? The event welcomes paper submissions on its submission portal in the following areas – which are indicated below but not produced as an exhaustive list – • Surveillance technologies in the home • Body trackers • Geo-location devices and relationships • Datafication of intimacies and sexuality • Parenthood, parenting and platforms • Childhood, big data and datafication of childhood • Rights based perspectives on data technologies in the family • Kinship, routines, time and technology • Aging, care and emerging technologies • Smart home technologies • Leisure, play, learning and Big Data • Algorithmic cultures, resistance, play and algorithmic shaping of family life • Data driven discrimination • Data inequalities and injustices • Redefining ‘family’ in an era of datafication Abstract submission details: Final Submission Deadline:28th February 2023 Notification of Outcome:March 20th 2023 Event date:28th June, 2023, 930 am to 3 pmUK time. Submission portal: [*please submit your abstract herehttps://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounter...]. If any questions, please get in touch with Professor Ranjana Das, atr.das@Surrey.ac.uk Ranjana. Prof Ranjana Das Professor in Media and Communication University of Surrey Mastodon: @ProfRanjanaDas@mastodon.online Twitter: @ProfRanjanaDas
participants (2)
-
Fenwick Mckelvey -
Ranjana Das