wlvstarts2020: Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies Conference 2020 University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, UK, July 1-2, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.wlvstartsconference2020.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wlvstarts2020 |
STARTS Exhibition Opening | June 30, 2020 |
‘Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies’ Conference
wlvstarts2020 CFP
‘Art leads to new Science’ – Roger Malina
‘Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies’ is an interdisciplinary research project, led by Dr Denise Doyle at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, in collaboration with the EU STARTS (Science+Technology+Arts) Prize and Ars Electronica, Austria. This project is (1) investigating the methodological features of successful art-science-technology collaboration; and (2) analysing the forms of knowledge which art-science-technology collaborations produce. Emphasising both theory and practice, we invite research papers and practice-based submissions that address the possibilities of ‘catalytic artistic thinking’ for inter/antidisciplinary knowledge production, or which consider the possibilities of collaboration for engaging with shared socio-material problems – particularly in view of the Anthropocene paradigm and discourses on ‘contemporary nature’. We invite submissions on four broad themes, which correspond to various aspects of our research into contemporary art-science-technology practice: Collaborations, Translations, Histories and Ecologies. Additionally, the conference includes a panel for research/practice that fall directly under the remit of the STARTS Prize and the wider STARTS Ecosystem.
(1) Collaborations
Collaborations focuses on the practical, organisational structures of art-science-technology and which models work best for successful collaboration (i.e., flat, ‘lateral’ collaborations). Submissions may address any of the following: art-science-technology and industry; art-science-technology and policy; models of art-science-technology collaboration; anthropologies of art-science-technology/creative labour; hierarchies of knowledge production; interventions/residencies in the laboratory environment; the problem of inter/antidisciplinarity
(2) Translations
Translations concerns the problem/creative potential of the misunderstandings, slippages and disagreements which occur through art-science-technology collaboration, as well as question of how technology might mediate and/or facilitate dialogue between the arts and the sciences. Submissions may address any of the following: language and art-science-technology; disseminating art-science-technology; curating art-science-technology; art and data visualisation; art and artificial intelligence
(3) Histories
Histories emphasises the multiple historical functions of art-science-technology, addressing both historical lineages of art-science-technology and the possibilities of using art-science-technology for writing and/or engaging with broader historical questions. Submissions may address any of the following: geneaologies of art-science-technology; exhibition histories of art-science-technology; global histories of art-science-technology; art and cybernetics; the computer and the arts; histories of VR art and AI art; histories of artistic-research practice; media archaeology; digital archaeology; new media conservation
(4) Ecologies:
Ecologies poses the ‘ecological’ question in the context of art-science-technology, providing a forum for discussion on how art-science-technology collaboration might respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene, as well as how it might itself be understood as an ‘ecology of practices’. Submissions may address any of the following: art-science-technology and climate science; art-science-technology and the circular economy; art-science-technology and the question of ‘contemporary nature’; digital and media ecologies; the problem of waste/technological obsolescence; human subjectivity; the question of non-human agency; organicism; cybernetics; cosmotechnics; new materialisms.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Abstracts 300 words
- Workshops 500 words
- Full papers 5-6.000 words
- Artist papers 3-5000 words
- Project Papers 4-6000 words
Submission deadlines:
- Abstract Deadline: March 15th 2020
- Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2020
- Delivery of final papers: May 15th 2020
List of Topics
- art-science-technology and industry; art-science-technology and policy; models of art-science-technology collaboration; anthropologies of art-science-technology/creative labour; hierarchies of knowledge production; interventions/residencies in the laboratory environment; the problem of inter/antidisciplinarity;
- language and art-science-technology; disseminating art-science-technology; curating art-science-technology; art and data visualisation; art and artificial intelligence;
- geneaologies of art-science-technology; exhibition histories of art-science-technology; global histories of art-science-technology; art and cybernetics; the computer and the arts; histories of VR art and AI art; histories of artistic-research practice; media archaeology; digital archaeology; new media conservation;
- art-science-technology and climate science; art-science-technology and the circular economy; art-science-technology and the question of ‘contemporary nature’; digital and media ecologies; the problem of waste/technological obsolescence; human subjectivity; the question of non-human agency; organicism; cybernetics; cosmotechnics; new materialisms.
Committees
Program Committee
- Dr Denise Doyle, Reader in Digital Media
- Dr Sebastian Groes, Professor of English Literature
- Dr Martin Khechara, Associate Professor Public Engagement in STEM
- Dr Richard Glover, Reader in Music
- Jacob Badcock, Research Assistant
- Charlotte Gould, Research Assistant
Organizing committee
- Dr Denise Doyle, Reader in Digital Media
- Dr Sebastian Groes, Professor of English Literature
- Dr Martin Khechara, Associate Professor Public Engagement in STEM
- Dr Richard Glover, Reader in Music
- Jacob Badcock, Research Assistant
- Charlotte Gould, Research Assistant
Invited Speakers
- Dr Camille Baker, Interdisciplianry Artist, Curator, Reader in Interface and Interaction, University of the Creative Arts, UK
- Nina Czegledy, Independent Media Artist, Curator, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto and Leonardo/ISAST.
Venue
The conference will be held in MK045, Wolverhampton School of Art, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Jacob Badcock: J.Badcock@wlv.ac.uk