Platformization: Resistance and Play
Contemporary digital platforms shape our lives, our stories, and our ways of being in the world. From our workplaces to our social interactions, platforms shape and constrain our discourse and behavior.
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This half-day event organized by Extending Digital Narrative project examines platforms as environments for digital narrative, exploring how art and storytelling practices serve as forms of critical engagement with platform culture. The speakers in this international research seminar, including leading authors, digital artists, and filmmakers, will explore how digital narrative practices intervene in platform culture.
We will consider how platforms function as spaces that frame and constrain our society and serve as environments for critical art practice and play. The participants will present creative and critical practices that intervene in platforms ranging from social media to image archives to computer games to AI moving image generators.
Program:
12-12:15 -- Welcome and coffee, Scott Rettberg (UiB)
12:15-13:15 -- Alessandro Ludovico (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton), "Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software and Archives in the 21st Century"
13:15-14:00 -- Pizza
14:00-15:20 -- Panel 1
- Ben Grosser (University of Illinois), "From Forever More to Degrowth Aesthetics: Tactics of Bounding in the Digital Infinite"
- Søren Pold (Aarhus University), "Performing the Profiling - Transgender Perspectives, and Ada Ada Ada’s in Transitu"
- Richard Misek (UiB), "Platformization and the Image Economy"
- Rob Wittig (University of Minnesota, Duluth) "Netprov on Platform Playgrounds"
15:20-15:40 -- Coffee
15:40-16:40 -- Panel 2
- Marianne Gunderson (UiB) "Algorithmic Visions: Through the Looking Glass"
- Sarah Edmands Martin (Notre Dame University) & Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago), "Worldbuilding with Rules: From Algorithmic to Paradigmatic Play"
- Will Luers (Washington State University Vancouver) "Posthuman Cinema"
16:40-17:00 -- Wrap up
Lunch will be served, and registration is required by May 10th at 12:00.
This event will be live-streamed. Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://uib.zoom.us/j/64425512282?pwd=Qy9WNGhtditVSmpLdjJPSVFzYjJ4dz09
Passcode: yvJNjQ5R
This event is co-sponsored by the Extending Digital Narrative project, the Center for Digital Narrative, and Aarhus University's Cultures and Practices of Digital Technologies program and Digital Aesthetics Research Center.
