Dear Baruch Thanks for telling us about this! p.s.
<at the damn of the age of networked computers> could catch on (:-)/ ... B On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 02:57, Baruch <bar...@trick.ca> wrote: > Dear Nettimers > some of which actually met our guide through hypermodernity, Vilém Flusser > back in those tumultuous days at the damn of the age of networked computers. > This coming Wednesday, we are celebrating his 101st birthday with a > 12-hour dialogical stream. > anyone who wants to join the zoom call should get in touch > program is here, with stream viewing options > http://flusser.club/en/flusser-100-2021/ > please join us > > best > > Baruch > co-chair flusser.club e.V. > @baruch > > > On 8. May 2021, at 12:00, nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org wrote: > > Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to > nettime-l@mail.kein.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nettime-l-ow...@mail.kein.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Reminder: Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of > Abundance (8-10 Sept 2021) (Christopher Haworth) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 11:17:00 +0100 > From: Christopher Haworth <littl.shyning....@gmail.com> > To: "nettime-l@mail.kein.org" <nettime-l@mail.kein.org> > Subject: <nettime> Reminder: Information Overload? Music Studies in > the Age of Abundance (8-10 Sept 2021) > Message-ID: > <cakrv1wv_m2hhkspy7d4vyh0zmcc9ui4wqhe4sbbv1s1t3ya...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of Abundance > > > 8-10 September 2021, University of Birmingham > > Keynote Speakers: Robin James (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) > Nick Seaver (Tufts University) > More speakers TBA > > > > --Deadline for receipt of abstracts extended to 14 May > > --Contributions will be considered for an edited volume arising from the > conference > > For those investigating any musical activity after about 1994, the main > sources of research data will not be print archives or discrete media?they > will be World Wide Web media. The Internet Archive, the web?s library, > today holds over 525 billion archived web pages, while API and post-API > archiving initiatives make social web platforms accessible as research > databases. At first glance, no other archive is more inclusive in terms of > whose voices it represents, and none more comprehensive in terms of the > insights it provides into the thoughts, desires and musical tastes of > ordinary people. To paraphrase the web historian Ian Milligan, whose recent > book provides the title and framing for this conference, we might suggest > that in its scale, granularity and plurality, the web represents the music > historian?s dream. > > Yet there is good cause to be sceptical of claims to a more ?democratic? > archive in an age of surveillance capitalism. Contrary to early hopes that > the internet would bring about greater egalitarianism, Shoshana Zuboff > argues that the political economy of contemporary digital communications is > characterised by ?radical indifference? in the service of maximising data > flows. The harms that algorithms perpetuate through biased and incomplete > training data suggest that visibility within the archive remains strongly > patterned according to race, gender, prosperity, ability and geography. > Intersecting with these concerns is a question of how the superficial > ?abundance? of stories to be told about music in the last twenty-five years > impacts on questions of historical theory. Is it possible that a surfeit of > available paths through the data compensates for a lack of meaningful > historicity over the same period? > > With this conference we seek to gather researchers who are interested in > the epistemological, methodological, ethical, and disciplinary problems > that arise when studying music in the age of abundance. The below questions > are intended to be indicative rather than exhaustive: > > What skills and literacies are required to treat web media as primary > sources? Does treating web media as music literature prompt a further call > for musicology to reflect on its disciplinary and medial borders? > > How might music historians and other researchers work with one another > towards the curation of shared datasets, mutually agreed best practices, > and a culture of collaboration? What are the barriers to these ways of > working in music studies? > > What ethical and epistemological questions are raised when ordinary (and > often anonymous) people and everyday activities take centre stage in the > writing of music history? > > How should music researchers navigate a ?post-Cambridge Analytica? world in > which platform APIs are increasingly restrictive in terms of what data they > make available? Is it necessary to work within the ?Realpolitik? of social > media data access, or should scholars consider the active breach of > platform rules in the public interest? > > Does the World Wide Web necessitate new thinking around matters of history > and historiography? How helpful are recent attempts to periodise the last > 30+ years in cultural-political terms (?the long 1990s?, ?the > contemporary?, etc)? Do generational politics inflect our understanding of > recent music history in new ways, or our perspectives on history as music > researchers? > > Paper titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words, together with a > 100-word bio, should be sent to muscon2...@contacts.bham.ac.uk by Friday > 14th May 2021. Notification of acceptance will be sent via email by Monday > 7th June. > > Full preparations are being made for an in-person conference, however > online participation via Zoom will also be possible. > > Organising committee: > > Christopher Haworth > Danielle Sofer > Edward Spencer > > This conference is funded by the UKRI AHRC Early Career Leadership > Fellowship, Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music. > > Further updates will be posted to the conference website: > > > https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/music/events/2021/information-overload-music-history-in-the-age-of-abundance.aspx > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mx.kein.org/pipermail/nettime-l/attachments/20210507/7400c5bf/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > > End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 164, Issue 3 > ***************************************** > > > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: -- Bronaċ
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