Dear all, We invite artists, theorists, researchers, designers, and technologists working across life, sound, and food (not limited) to submit their work for POM Fukuoka 2027.
Politics of the Machines (POM) is an international platform dedicated to exploring the shifting relations between humans, machines, and the ecologies of mediation that bind them. Since its inception, POM has brought together artists, theorists, researchers, designers, and technologists to examine how forms of agency, perception, and communication emerge across human and nonhuman systems. The 6th edition of POM Conference will take place in Fukuoka, Japan, form March 17-20, 2027 at Kyushu University - Ohashi Campus. This time's theme is Culturing Transduction. We welcome submissions in a range of formats, including academic papers, lecture-performances, artistic interventions, and workshops under the following tracks. Proposals for alternative formats are also encouraged and will be considered by the conference organizers. Please indicate your intended presentation format in your submission. List of Tracks - Track 01 The Landscape of Transduction: Infrastructural Entanglements of Energy, Data, and More-than-Human Life. - Track 02 Parasitic Transductions Beyond the Human. - Track 03 Real Machines: Computation, Subjectivity, and the Politics of Reality-Production. - Track 04 Technogenetic Transductions across Fields of Experience: Affective Politics in/for Times of Crisis. - Track 05 Transducing Disgust: Bodies, Technologies, and the Synthetic Uncanny. - Track 06 Methoding transduction: Sound, Data, Sonic Research. - Track 07 Metabolic Worldviews and Hybrid Intelligences. - Track 08 Fermentative Systems. - Track 09 Unhearing Bodies: Life as Transduction. -Track 10 (Open Track) Speculations and Culturing Immature Ideas. How can we reformulate the critical relationship between humans and machines from experimental artistic and scientific perspectives? How can we cultivate alternatives to dominant modes of thought in an era of crisis, marked by intensifying geopolitical conflict and economic inequality? Addressing these questions under the theme of Culturing Transduction, POM Fukuoka 2027 examines how processes of transformation across life, sound, and food might be reimagined, and how these processes shape artistic creation, cultural production, and perception. As the first POM to be held in East Asia, this theme brings these three domains into dialogue while drawing on the distinctive facilities of the venue, Kyushu University Ohashi Campus, including the Biofood Lab and the Acoustic Research Center. More information can be found on the conference website: https://pom-conference.org/fukuoka-2027/ Applicants are invited to submit an abstract of up to 500 words under one of the conference tracks by 30 August 2026. Submissions that do not specify a track will be assigned by the conference organizers to the most appropriate one. All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work as part of the conference program. Submission platform https://pom-conference.org/submit/ Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to register for the conference in order to present their work. Following the conference, they will also be invited to submit a full paper of up to 4,000 words, including references. Further details and a formal call for papers will be announced in due course. *Please note that POM is unable to provide financial support for travel, accommodation, registration, or other participation-related expenses. JO Kazuhiro & POM Fukuoka 2027 Committees --------- JO Kazuhiro, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Acoustic Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, 815-8540 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
