[spectre] Save the Date: Conference "Every Step You Take" – Art and Society in the Data Age, 12–15 November 2015, Dortmund, Germany (medienwerk.nrw)

[Inke Arns]

Dear Spectres,

here’s some information about our upcoming conference in Dortmund (Ruhr area, Germany) - perhaps some of you might be interested in joining us! Dortmund is easy to reach from most European cities ...

All the best,
Inke 


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Conference 
›EVERY STEP YOU TAKE‹ – ART AND SOCIETY IN THE DATA AGE
12–15 November 2015, Dortmund, Germany

A project by medienwerk.nrw, office located at HMKV

– Lectures / Panel Discussions / Film Screenings / Performances / Workshops –

12/13 November, 2015: Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity (U-Cinema & Foyer)
14/15 November, 2015: Schauspiel Dortmund / Municipal Theatre of Dortmund (Theatre bar "Institut" & Studio)

The international conference ›Every Step You Take‹ – Art and Society in the Data Age deals with the utopias and dystopias interconnected with new technologies of automated collection, storage and analysis of vast amounts of data. A feeling of uneasiness is being articulated in numerous scientific and artistic positions in view of current developments in our digital and networked media reality. The public debate on ›Big Data‹, surveillance, transparency and data protection, as well as individual user behaviour in social networks are deeply ambivalent: the promises and temptations of technological progress — safety, predictability, optimisation, convenience — come with societal and personal consequences. In all their complexity, these consequences often remain intangible and abstract.

The conference ›Every Step You Take‹ presents positions of media art, theory and digital culture reacting to these current technological and societal developments. A central question is how current artistic strategies are able to visualise invisible, immaterial and highly complex processes, thereby describing the present technological changes and making their consequences comprehensible. A second focus will be the societal, economic and political ideas that have inscribed themselves in the way new media functions: How do these ideas and rationale reproduce in everyday use? And how much space is there for a critical analysis and emancipation in the digital realm?

The conference programme includes lectures, panel discussions, a film programme curated by Florian Wüst, a performance of the live film „Minority Report“ at Schauspiel Dortmund (14 November, 19:30 h), a literary reading by German novelist Leif Randt (15 November, Schauspiel Dortmund), and a Maker Lounge with workshops e.g. on e-mail encryption in the Dortmunder U foyer.

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) presents in parallel with the conference the exhibition ›(Artificial Intelligence) Digitale Demenz‹, curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, at Dortmunder U.

Confirmed conference speakers: Inke Arns, Dirk Baecker, Alain Bieber, Mercedes Bunz, Cécile B. Evans, Paul Feigelfeld, Matthew Fuller, Louis Henderson, Constanze Kurz, Boaz Levin, Joanne McNeil, Jennifer Lyn Morone, Luciana Parisi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Peng! Collective, Maral Pourkazemi, Leif Randt, Hans Ulrich Reck, Manfred Schneider, Jennifer Whitson, Florian Wüst, Pinar Yoldas, and others

Film programme with contributions by: Nadav Assor, Jürgen Brügger & Jörg Haaßengier, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Emma Charles, Hellmuth Costard & Jürgen Ebert, Norman Cowie, Stéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon, Omer Fast, Harun Farocki, Walter Koch, Steffen Köhn, Jen Liu, Christian Niccoli, Ridley Scott

Film programme curated by Florian Wüst.

Conference Topics:

Why Look at Algorithms? Agency in the Data Stack
„Evil Media?“ (Keynote)
The Quantified Self and the Future of Labour
The Materiality of the Cloud and Planetary Computation
Transparency
Sensitive Machines and Affective Computing
Nobody knows you're a dog. The future of the digital identity
Digital Border Control
Liquid Surveillance

FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILED PROGRAMME soon at:
http://www.medienwerk-nrw.de/en/event/everystepyoutake

FREE ADMISSION to the conference (lectures, panel discussions, film programme).

EXCEPTION: Theatre production "Minority Report" at Schauspiel Dortmund (November 14). Further information & tickets: www.theaterdo.de

OPENING RECEPTION on Thursday, November 12, 2015, 18:00 h, Dortmunder U (Cinema/ground floor):

Welcoming address
Keynote lecture by Hans Ulrich Reck (Rector Academy of Media Arts Cologne)
Film programme I: Living Data, introduction by Florian Wüst

The opening lecture will be held in German. All other conference events are in English language.

ADDRESSES:

Dortmunder U
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
44137 Dortmund

Schauspiel Dortmund
Hiltropwall 15
44137 Dortmund

DIRECTIONS:

www.dortmunder-u.de/anfahrt
www.theaterdo.de/service/anfahrt

TEAM:

Concept & Programme Curator: Fabian Saavedra-Lara
Concept & Programme: Judith Funke
Project management: Annette Bohn

FUNDED BY:

Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
German Federal Agency for Civic Education
Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund

IN COOPERATION WITH:

Hartware Medienkunstverein (HMKV)
Schauspiel Dortmund
Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity
Kino im U e.V.
Heimatdesign
Fraunhofer UMSICHT

The following institutions are currently part of the medienwerk.nrw network:

Bielefelder Kunstverein, Die Kunstproduzenten (Cologne), Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund), imai – inter media art institute (Düsseldorf), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Kultur-Initiative Emscher-Lippe (Gelsenkirchen), Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg), mex – intermediale und experimentelle Musikprojekte e.V. (Dortmund), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), PACT Zollverein (Essen), SK Stiftung Kultur (Cologne), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Universität Siegen, Lehrstuhl für Mediengeschichte, Videonale (Bonn), and Zeitkunst e.V. (Cologne).

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Dr. Inke Arns
Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) at the Dortmunder U
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund 
Office: Hoher Wall 15, 44137 Dortmund, Germany
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