[ecrea] digital subject symposium

*Digital Subjects*

one day symposium


/12 May 2016, Senate House, London/

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/Organiser:/**Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway University of London

Digital subjects can be many things: a nested set of abstractions 
assembled by algorithms; a dynamic data aggregate feeding upon the 
movement of bodies in space and time; an experiential, sensuous presence 
and performance online. Digital subjects are the subjects of profiles, 
video channels, search query histories, inboxes, logs of GPS 
coordinates, traded data of financial transactions or travel card usage.

The reason why it's worth calling them subjects are the new ontological 
and epistemological demands placed by the rapid development of 
computational infrastructures and our cyborgian lives. The question of 
the digital subject is a political question wielded by the disciplinary 
lines of differentiation. These lines are cut in the thick distance that 
joins together human, posthuman, nonhuman and the digital (Goriunova). 
Some humanities regard digital subjects from the point of view of the 
operation of representational data surveillance (data gathered forms a 
shadow of the human (Raley)) and a political/legal question (Rouvroy); 
some data sciences ignore the distance and claim that data gives direct 
access to, in this case, humans (people are equal to their tweets). Many 
contemporary art practices, especially feminist performances online, 
explore the distance as a thick field of production that is not fully 
determined (Scourti).

The aim of the event is to rethink the subject and think the digital 
subject from the point of view of different genealogies, reasons, 
expressions and logics. What we aim to work towards is not a return to 
any previous form of unity, but a way to construct an understanding of 
computational kinds of subjects and their ways of generation, 
production, and sustenance.

*This is a Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre event in 
cooperation with the Department of Media Arts*

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*PROGRAMME*

/12 May, //Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU/

/ROOM BSQ-SH264/

9.30 Registration

9.45 Introduction

Chair: *Silvia Mollicchi*
10.00 – 10.50 *Lisa Blackman,*Data are Us? The challenges of 
computational cultures for theorising the subject(s) of digital mediation
10.50 - 11.40 *Luciana Parisi,*The Alien Subject of AI

*Coffee break*11.40 – 11.50

Chair: *Nathan Jones*

11.50 - 12.40 *Katerina Kolozova*, Subjectivity without physicality

*Lunch break*(lunch not provided) 12.40-13.30

Chair: *Scott Wark*

13.30 - 14.20 *Andreas Bernard, *The Knowledge of the Profile. 
Conceptions of the Self in Digital Cultures

14.20 - 15.10 *Christoph Engemann,*Declarative & Procedural Identity - 
Governmediality after Snowden

*Coffee break*15.10-15.30

Chair: *Giles Askham*

15.30 - 16.20 *Rózsa Zita Farkas, *Feminist Performance on the Web

16.20 - 17.10 *Erica Scourti, *Evasive Actions: on the Limits of 
Intelligibility

/Attendance: free. Please register by emailing Olga Goriunova at 
(olga.goriunova /at/ rhul.ac.uk) <mailto:(olga.goriunova /at/ rhul.ac.uk)>/

Full description, abstracts and bios can be found at:

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/events/eventsarticles/digital-subjects1.aspx
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