Karen Lancel Studio Lancel/Maat
www.lancelmaat.nl Address: Oostersekade 2, 1011LH Amsterdam NL Studio address: Oude schans 15k, 1011KR Amsterdam NL M: 0031(0)624873424 / 0031(0)628536885 PhD candidate Technical University of Delft | Participatory Systems Initiative > On 23 Jan 2020, at 13:13, Hanns Holger Rutz <cont...@sciss.de> wrote: > > **ALMAT - Algorithms that Matter** > **Symposium on Algorithmic Agency in Artistic Practice** > > 6–7 July 2020, Graz Austria > > **Extended submission deadline: 16 February 2020** > > https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html > > Please feel free to distribute this call to your networks. > > Artists and scientists have worked with digital computers for over > seventy years, and algorithmic practices exist for a lot longer. But in > recent years, increased computing power and decreased costs and > miniaturisation of machines have created a new quantity and quality of > everyday exposure, economic and political criticality, and with it a > wave of public attention and discourse. As artists-researchers, how do > we incorporate this new situation into our practices, and more > importantly, how does this changed situation retroact on our > understanding of the role of digital art, sound art and artistic > practice itself? > > Rather than understanding algorithms as existing and transparent tools, > the ALMAT Symposium is interested in their genealogical, processual > aspects and their transformative potential. We seek critical approaches > that avoid both mystification and commodification, that aim at opening > the black box of "wonder" that is often presented to the public when > utilising algorithms. > > The foundation for the symposium is given by the eponymous project ALMAT > – Algorithms that Matter. ALMAT is an artistic research project by > Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò funded by the Austrian Science Fund > (FWF AR 403-GBL) and hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and > Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. > > ALMAT 2020 will take place (06–07 July) adjoining the 8th Conference on > Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X – xCoAx (08–10 July). xCoAx > is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and > media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry > on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that > connects them all. xCoAx has issued a separate call for participation – > http://www.xcoax.org – and reduced combi-tickets are > available for xCoAx + ALMAT. > > **Call for Contributions** > > The ALMAT Symposium calls for artistic research contributions in the > following two categories: > > 1. Contributions exploring the symposium's theme and the questions > arising from it. This may include: > - What are the material qualities specific of algorithms and > algorithmic practices? How does the algorithmic become malleable > as material? > - Are there particular affordances of the algorithmic? > - How does algorithmic agency unfold, how can it be observed, > formulated, or communicated? Which alternatives to traditional > concepts such as control/controller could be formulated? > - How does the reconfigurative "intrinsic" or "speculative" > movement of algorithms extend to or retroact on the artist or > recipient, how does it shape their interactions? > - How can artistic experimentation with algorithms be communicated > to an audience, how may it help sensitise and empower people to > take ownership of the algorithmic? > - Which are the thresholds of heteronomy/autonomy, what makes an > algorithmic practice become generative? > - What are philosophical, technological, aesthetic or artistic > consequences of acknowledging the agency of algorithms? > > 2. Contributions that explicitly refer to the research, the > experiences and the case studies of the ALMAT research > project. Contributions may be commentary, continuation, critique > or, more in general, a response to one or more aesthetic and > theoretic manifestations and artefacts reflected in the project's > documentation. The project's (ongoing) documentation is an online > hypertext starting at the Continuous Exposition: > https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/381566 . In > particular, we identified a number of works that are > good candidates for responses, as they will be visible or audible > during the symposium (see submission page). > > For more information and details of contribution formats and > application process, please refer to: > https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/698006 > > Contact: For any questions, please write to <al...@iem.at>. > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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