[Commlist] New Materialist Informatics 2021 conference

https://www.uni-kassel.de/eecs/fachgebiete/gedis/research/new-materialist-informatics-2021.html

We are pleased to announce that the next new materialist conference will 
be taking place on 22 - 25 March 2021 here at the University of Kassel, 
organised by Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems research group. The 
conference will be dedicated to exploring new materialist informatics.

Increasing technological advancements locate computing as a driving 
force of the 4th industrial revolution and as contributor to the 6th 
extinction.  New materialist informatics highlights the inter- and 
intra-connectedness of computing, engineering and worldmaking, taking 
into account the material basis as well as the material consequences of 
informatics and emphasizing responsibilities of technological production.

We invite participants to investigate possible intersections between new 
materialism and informatics and ask how technopolitics and 
technoepistemologies can be reconfigured for these complex times. How 
can feminist new materialism and informatics be brought together in a 
way that helps build livable and sustainable technolifeworlds? What new 
perspectives with regards to contemporary crises might emerge at such 
intersection? What kind of conceptual and methodological tools are 
needed for new materialist informatics design and research?

New Materialist Informatics 2021 wishes to include and go beyond the new 
materialist readings of computing and computational artefacts, and 
generate innovative perspectives on how techno-worldings can be 
performed from a new materialist perspective.

We invite to approach these questions from the multiplicity of 
disciplinary perspectives, including humanities and social sciences, but 
also, and importantly so, design, engineering and computer science. We 
hope that Kassel, a home to the famous art show "documenta" and to the 
First Cyberfeminist International conference in 1997, will provide a 
venue to bring new materialist perspectives on informatics together in 
an invigorating and fruitful way.

More information will be available in due time.

If you have questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Claude Draude and Goda 
Klumbyte by email: (NMI2021 /at/ uni-kassel.de).



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