[ecrea] cfp - What is Technology? Value • Velocity • Vortex

*WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?**
*Value • Velocity • Vortex
*UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IN PORTLAND
*April 11-13, 2019

*/What is Technology?/**(2019)*will examine the vortices of interaction 
among practical arts and tools, techniques and processes, moral 
knowledge and imagination to navigate our everchanging 
media/life/universe. In a broad sense, technology can be understood as 
methods of intelligent inquiry and problem-solving in all domains of 
human life. The conference-experience will enact a collaborative network 
of transdisciplinary research by cultivating /communication/ as the 
heart of science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics, and 
environments.

The ninth annual /What is…?/ will bring together natural and social 
scientists, scholars, government officials, industry professionals, 
artists and designers, as well as alumni, students, community 
organizations, and the public. We invite proposals for scholarly papers, 
panels, and installations on a wide variety of issues and topics. Please 
see /whatis.uoregon.edu <http://whatis.uoregon.edu>/ for additional details.

*Proposals may address the following questions (as well as others):
*• How are technologies and values related? What are velocities of 
technology (e.g., acceleration studies)?
• What are the forces of technology? Is there only one form of 
technology or different kinds?
• What are current approaches to the study of technologies? How is 
technology interpreted through various lenses (e.g. critical theory, 
cultural studies, eco-phenomenology, feminism, globalization, 
intersectionality, journalism, media studies, metamodernism, new 
materialism, political economy, posthumanism, rhetoric, semiotics, etc.)?
• What are philosophies of technology? Where do technology and ethics 
interface/interact?
• What is Science and Technology Studies (STS)? What are the Digital 
Humanities (DH)? What is the relationship between Science, Technology, 
Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), and communication/media/film studies, 
or other disciplines in the humanities (e.g. anthropology, archaeology, 
comparative literature, curatorial studies, library studies, psychology, 
sociology)? What is STEM+C (Computing), E-STEM (Environmental), or STEMM 
(Medicine)?
• How does technology relate to—or converge—music, art, design, 
architecture, and/or craft, e.g. STEAM (Arts)?
• How do technologies’ scale, pace, and pattern transform/limit their 
impact? What are techné and/or technics?
• What are immersive technologies (e.g. apps, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed 
Realities, IoT, gamification, etc.)?
• What are the implications of emerging technologies (e.g. AGI, creative 
coding, holography, information literacy, nano-bio-info-cogno, 
predictive analytics, regenerative medicine, risk analysis, robotics, 3D 
bio-printing, etc.)?
• How are the natural sciences and technology coming together (e.g. 
artificial biology, bioinspired design, biomimicry, data science, 
ecological system analysis, environmental analysis, etc.)? Is biology 
itself technology?
• How do technologies obscure and/or highlight issues of gender, race, 
class, and/or indigeneity? What are indigenous knowledge and 
technologies? What is emerging research on equity, access, and learning?
• What are the positive/negative consequences of media technologies for 
the public interest?
• What relationships are there between technology and warfare, 
innovation and defense, etc.? What are emerging discourses of 
cyberinfrastructure, cyberlearning, cybertraining, or cybersecurity, etc.?
• How is technology related to disability studies, 
accessibility/alter-abled education, accessible/assistive technologies, 
and mobility? How does technology relate to birth/life/aging/death, 
and/or contemplation/well-being?
• What are technological determinism, technological realism, and 
technological humanism? technophilia versus technophobia, technological 
utopianism versus dystopianism, and/or technological singularity versus 
multiplicity?
• How is collective intelligence, and/or collective wisdom, engaging 
and/or changing our lives?
• How might technologies contribute to socio-technical community 
resilience and/or thriving communities?

Send 150–200 word abstracts for papers, panels, or installations by 
*DECEMBER 21, 2018*, to:
Janet Wasko • (jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu) <mailto:(jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu)>
University of Oregon • Eugene, Oregon • 97403-1275 • USA

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