DATA {PUBLICS} International Research Forum, Goldsmiths University of London

with keynotes by LEV MANOVICH and RAVI SUNDARAM,
and contributions by LUCIANA PARISI, IGNACIO VALERO, STEPHEN GRAHAM, JENNIFER GABRYS, MATTHEW FULLER, PAOLO GERBAUDO, DANI ADMISS, CECILIA WEE, LISE AUTOGENA, JOSHUA PORTWAY, SIMON YUILL, and others.

Bringing together artists and scholars from different fields, the research forum has explored the following intersecting themes:

  • Cognitive Capitalism: Retheorising Calculative “Reason” within the Context of the Digital Infrastructure of Neoliberalism.
  • New Forms of Labour in the Creative Economy: Creative Economy as a Mode of Digital Labour Reform.
  • Digital Relations and Affective Capital: Breaching the Limits of Neoliberal Prosperity Theology.
  • New Vulnerabilities: the Precarious Life of Big Data as Performed through Social Practices.
  • Banking the Social: Shaping and Anticipating the Future through Social Data Mining.
  • Digital Self-Crafting: The Ethics of Individual Mediation through Self-tracking, Self-surveillance, Self-improvement Self-care and Self-governance.
  • Design Technology: the Interface between People, Architecture and the City.

26-27 January 2017
Goldsmiths
New Cross, London

28 January 2017
Gasworks
London

26 JANUARY 2017

LEV MANOVICH

How i edit my instagram: big data, algorithms, and the study of global visual culture

 

 

 

 

27 JANUARY 2017

PETER MÖRTENBÖCK

Opening Remarks

 

JENNIFER GABRYS

Sensing Air and Creaturing Data

 

RAVI SUNDARAM

Everyday Disjunctions: Public Expression After the Mobile Phone

 

LUCIANA PARISI


Statistical Intelligence and Data Capitalism

 

MATTHEW FULLER

In Praise of Plasticity

 

IGNACIO VALERO

The Emotariat, Accelerationism, and the Republic of Data: An Inquiry into an EcoDomic Aesthetic(s) of the Common(s)

 

PAOLO GERBAUDO

Fighting Against Data Monopoly Capitalism

28 JANUARY 2017

CECILIA WEE and DANI ADMISS

Co-Building Worlds: Data-Discourses and Other Stories

 

JOSHUA PORTWAY, SIMON YUILL, DANI ADMISS and CECILIA WEE

Plenary Discussion + Closing Remarks

 

JOSHUA PORTWAY

Formulating New Aesthetics for a Data-Saturated World

 

SIMON YUILL

The “Values and Value” of Algorithmic Time