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SUMMARY:Monthly Institute Team Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/monthly-institute-team-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Sarah T. Roberts presents to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Judging Themselves: Facebook as Extrastate Sovereign (and Why We Should Worry). \nIn this brief and nascent talk (followed by lively collective discussion)\, Professor Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) will offer an analysis of what Facebook is _really_ up to with its Oversight Board\, and what the activation of that body reveals about Facebook’s vision of itself in the world. Spoiler alert: the vision is nothing short of a combination of soft power (Nye) _and_ extrastate sovereignty (Ong; Easterling)\, and _that_ is nothing short of ominous.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/sarah-t-roberts-presents-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210310T123000
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SUMMARY:Kishonna Gray talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Title for Kishonna’s talk is her new book: Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/kishoonna-gray-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Left and Right\, or Being who/where you are - Performances
DESCRIPTION:Performance Dates & Registration\nMarch 13 – tickets and registration here \nPlease note: Participants will need Chrome and a laptop or desktop to be able to access the performance (no mobile or iPad access possible). For the best experience\, we also recommend the use of headphones throughout the performance. \nDescription\nIn this time of intense divisions\, a left partisan and a right partisan speaking with each other seems like an impossible conversation – or\, at least\, a conversation that is impossible to have meaningfully on certain so-called “hot-button” topics and complex realities\, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or immigration. \nThis devised\, interactive online multimedia performance stages scenes that feature such conversations … performed by both human actors and bots. The human and machinic actors play different characters that embody\, complicate\, and deconstruct different types of performative\, prescribed political identities on the left-right spectrum (approached with a US-focus but through a transnational lens). These political identities are shown to be not static or unalterable\, rather\, the result of relational\, performative processes that occur over time and with technology. Theatrically playing with(in) these processes\, Left and Right aims to call forth more capacious ways of being – and being political. \nPresented by Brown Arts Initiative. Free and open to the public. Registration required. \nCredits\nConcept & Directing: Ioana B. Jucan\nText: Patrick Elizalde\, Andra Jurj\, Marcela Mancino\, Fabiola Petri\, Ioana B. Jucan\, Melody Devries\nActors: Marcela Mancino\, Patrick Elizalde\, Andra Jurj\, Fabiola Petri\nDigital Design and Development: Tong Wu\, Nuntinee Tansrisakul & Yuguang Zhang\nTheatrical Design: Marcela Mancino\nBot Design: Roopa Vasudevan\nBot Concept: Roopa Vasudevan\, Anthony Burton\nChoreography: Adriana Barza\nSound Design: Peter Bussigel\nProduction Manager: Madeline Greenberg\nDramaturgy: Melody Devries\nPerformance Consultants: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Alex Juhasz\, and the Beyond Verification Team associated with the Digital Democracies Institute (SFU)
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/left-and-right-or-being-who-where-you-are-performances/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210315T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210315T100000
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SUMMARY:Wendy presents at Brown University - Terranova and Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:Wendy will be presenting to Ariella Azoulay & Bonnie Honig’s class on Modern Culture & Media on Terranova and Ahmed at Brown. \nClosed to class members only.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-presents-at-brown-university-terranova-and-ahmed/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210322
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SUMMARY:Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Society’s annual conference provides a forum for scholars and teachers of film and media studies to present and hear new research; to provide a supportive environment for networking\, mentoring\, and collaboration among scholars otherwise separated by distance\, language\, or disciplinary boundaries; and to promote the field of cinema and media studies among its practitioners\, to other disciplines\, and to the public at large\, in part through public recognition of award worthy achievements and other significant milestones within the field. \nEach Spring the Society announces the location of the next conference and calls for proposals for open call papers\, panels\, workshops\, and screenings. Members and registered website users can post calls for papers and panel and workshop announcements to the Conference Bulletin Board to solicit presenters. Online submission forms are available in June for paper\, panel and workshop abstracts\, bios\, and bibliographies and film synopses.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/society-for-cinema-media-studies-conference-2021/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210317T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210317T133000
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SUMMARY:Ani Maitra talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Ani Maitra is associate professor of Film and Media Studies at Colgate University. His teaching and research interests span the fields of postcolonial and diaspora media cultures and gender and sexuality studies. His essays have appeared in edited volumes and journals like Camera Obscura\, Continuum\, differences\, Film Quarterly\, Jindal Global Law Review and World Records. Maitra is the author of Identity\, Mediation\, and the Cunning of Capital (Northwestern University Press\, 2020). \nMaitra’s talk will be based on his book Identity\, Mediation\, and the Cunning of Capital (Northwestern University Press\, 2020). In this book\, Maitra calls for an urgent reevaluation of identity politics as an aesthetic maneuver regulated by capitalism. A dominant critical trend in the humanities\, Maitra argues\, is to dismiss or embrace identity through the formal properties of a privileged aesthetic medium like literature\, film\, or even the performative body. In contrast\, he demonstrates that identity politics becomes unavoidably real and material only because the minoritized subject is split between multiple sites of mediation—linguistic\, visual\, and digital—while remaining firmly tethered to capitalism’s hierarchical logic of value production. Only in the interstices of media can we track the aesthetic conversion of identitarian difference into value\, marked by the inequities of race\, class\, gender\, and sexuality.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ani-maitra-talks-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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SUMMARY:Wendy presents at Indiana as CAHI Distinguished Scholar Series
DESCRIPTION:Wendy will be presenting on ‘Roadblocks as Opportunities: Working Across Disciplines to Counter Polarization and Mis-Information’ \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun will join CAHI’s Distinguished Scholar series. Her work in Critical Data Studies is timely and crucial: she pushes us to heed the power of algorithms and big data in fostering discrimination and misinformation\, and offers tools for countering these trends. \nChun’s talk will outline projects led by Simon Fraser University’s Digital Democracies Institutes that analyze and counter the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” and mis/disinformation by integrating research in the humanities\, social and data sciences. In particular\, the talk will discuss how moving from factuality to authenticity opens avenues into understanding the spread of “fake news.”
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-indiana/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210324T123000
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SUMMARY:Solveig Suess & Asia Bazdriyeva talk to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Machines\, Datified Earths\nThe presentation will depart from the method of Geocinema\, which is to examine infrastructures of earth-sensing data as forms of cinema. Drawing on their recent fieldwork on the Digital Belt and Road Initiative in China and their subsequent documentary\, Making of Earths (2020)\, Solveig Suess and Asia Bazdyrieva will speak on the techniques of earth sensing\, vast resource extraction\, and present day demands aimed towards battling a future of climate change. While simple sets of data are accrued from geological to techno-political formations\, they translate into the many versions of Earths. These large-scale imaging operations feed back and circulate across scales of the body\, the apparatus\, the landscape.\n\nGeocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva (UA)\, Solveig Qu Suess (CH/CN)) is a collective that explores the possibilities of a “planetary” notion of cinema. Based in Berlin and Kyiv\, their practice has been concerned with the understanding and sensing of the earth while being on the ground\, enmeshed within vastly distributed processes of image and meaning making. Their work has been shown internationally\, including their first solo show Making of Earths at Kunsthall Trondheim Norway (2020) and group shows such as Critical Zones at ZKM Karlsruhe (2020-21) and Re-thinking Collectivity at Guangzhou Image Triennale (2021). They have given lecture-performances at the Ashkal Alwan Beirut\, ICA London\, HKW Berlin\, NYU Shanghai\, Matadero Madrid and have taught at the Berlin University of the Arts\, FAMU Prague\, Central Saint Martins London among others. They were 2018–19 Digital Earth Fellows and have been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020).
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/solveig-suess-asia-bazdriyeva-talk-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210325T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210325T103000
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SUMMARY:Wendy at the New Materialist Informatics Conference at University of Kassel\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:Wendy will be presenting a keynote at the conference entitled “Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition”\nWhat does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection? Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to “pattern recognition”\, this talk unpacks the logic and politics of recognition at the core of systems designed to automatically identify and classify users. It argues for the centrality of the humanities in understanding how we have become characters in a drama called “Big Data”.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-the-new-materialist-informatics-conference-at-university-of-kassel-germany/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210331T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210331T133000
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SUMMARY:Nanna Bonde Thylstrup speaks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:The politics of data (re)use \n\nNanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor in Digital Media and Communication at Copenhagen Business School. Her research is concerned with the politics of digital infrastructures and her current interests include the ethics of data reuse\, content moderation and digital sustainability. She is the author of The Politics of Mass Digitization\, published with MIT Press in 2018\, and co-editor of the book Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press 2021) and (W)archives (Sternberg Press 2021). 
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/nanna-bonde-thylstrup-speaks-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:By zoom
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