A&SM#5 International Conference and Sensorium Art Show
25-26th June 2020
University of East London, Stratford Venue USS Building.
Registration Now Open
Link to Registration: £20, Concessions £10, free for UEL staff and students:
Programme
Confirmed Keynotes
Carolyn Pedwell
Carolyn Pedwell is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on affect, habit, embodiment, digital culture and social transformation. Carolyn is the author of Transforming Habit: Affect, Assemblage and Social Change in a Minor Key (forthcoming, McGill-Queens UP), Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (2014, Palgrave) and Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice (2010, Routledge). Her new research project, ‘Digital Media and the Human: The Social Life of Software, AI and Algorithms’, examines the production of the human, non-human and more-than-human in the context of emergent media ecologies.
Tero Karppi
Tero Karppi is Assistant Professor at the ICCIT & Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. A Finnish-born new media scholar, his book Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds was published by the University of Minnesota Press in October 2018. In it Karppi contends that platforms like Facebook see disconnection as an existential threat — and have undertaken wide-ranging efforts to eliminate it— Karppi’s focus on the difficulty of disconnection, rather than the ease of connection, reveals how social media has come to dominate human relations.
Keynote Panels
In addition to a full programme of presentations and sensorium performances (tbc), there will be a keynote panel, including responses and discussion with Amit S Rai (Queen Mary), Rebecca Coleman (Goldsmiths), Ian Tucker and Darren Ellis (UEL). Chaired by Tony Sampson.
FULL PROGRAMME
Coming Soon!
PANELS INCLUDE
MORE-THAN INTIMACY 1
MORE-THAN SUBJECT
MORE-THAN INTIMACY 2
MORE-THAN DATA
MORE-THAN CONTENT
MORE-THAN NEWS
MORE-THAN EMOTION
MORE-THAN CAPITAL
MORE-THAN EXPERIENCE
WORKSHOPS
SENSORIUM ART SHOW
BOOK LAUNCH
VIRALITY 