[Commlist] CFP - HASTAC 2020 - Hindsight • Foresight • Insight

*HASTAC 2020: **Hindsight • Foresight • Insight*

The 2020 international conference of HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, 
Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, or “haystack”) will 
be hosted by the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication 
at The University of Texas at Dallas (ATEC@UTD) on October 15-18, 2020. 
The theme of HASTAC 2020 is Hindsight • Foresight • Insight.

HASTAC 2020: Hindsight • Foresight • Insight will center practices of 
intentional, accessible, and inclusive future-making that take culture 
seriously as a catalyst, context, and, sometimes, a conundrum for 
technological innovation. Of particular importance is the commitment to 
innovative endeavors that take up matters of access and inclusion in 
generative ways.


Deadline for proposals is Friday, 14 February 2020, 11:59pm CST.


Submit a proposal: http://conftool.pro/hastac2020


    Conference Theme

Imagining the year 2020 as an abstraction of 20/20, and embracing, by 
extension, this metaphor for visual acuity, the 2020 HASTAC conference 
will focus on Hindsight • Foresight • Insight. In the 18 years since the 
founding of HASTAC, much has changed in the academy; we’ve watched 
technology fads come and go, seen cross-disciplinary programs launch and 
shut down, and witnessed the adoption of the term “digital humanities” 
as a respected domain of expertise. HASTAC—a virtual organization of 
more than 17,300 dedicated and diverse individuals and dozens of 
resourceful institutions—provided the inspiration for many people and 
projects to take risks, to experiment, and to explore un-disciplined 
questions, questions that open onto conversations with a wide range of 
voices. The range of efforts is impressive: from the creation of new 
digital archives and the development of new authoring platforms, to the 
broader cultural challenges of reimagining learning in the 21st century. 
HASTAC participants have been critically and creatively engaged in 
/doing things differently/ in their technology development, research, 
teaching, and art.


The 2020 conference will provide opportunities to share insights from 
dead ends as well as projects that made a difference. As we take time to 
reflect, we also confront new threats and troubles. Hindsight is 
important, but limited in helping us understand what to do now that will 
make a difference tomorrow. Foresight understands that the future is 
already with us, present in the present. Taking stock of what we now 
understand, how do we anticipate what will need to be done? What 
possibilities and problems are emerging that require our attention and 
action in order  that we make a difference for tomorrow? Insight will 
arise out of these questions and engagements. What insights might we 
glean regarding the practices and projects that will support the futures 
we want to inhabit? What do we need to commit to the effort? What forms 
might commitment take? This conference will make time to reassess, to 
recalibrate, and to recommit to doing things differently.


    Presentation Formats

HASTAC 2020: Hindsight • Foresight • Insight welcomes submissions from 
critical and creative practitioners at all stages of their careers; from 
all disciplines, occupations, and fields; from the public, non-profit, 
and private sectors; and from groups as well as individuals, including 
independent scholar-practitioners and artists.

In light of the aforementioned investments, HASTAC 2020: Hindsight • 
Foresight • Insight invites submissions of:

  * Individual Talks, Papers, and Demos (12 – 15 minutes)
  * Pre-constituted Sessions (75 minutes)
  * Workshops
  * Art and Media Installations
  * Screenings
  * Performances

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  * Successful projects or successful failures that explored the
    possibilities of cross-domain collaboration among humanists,
    artists, scientists, and technologists.
  * Creative projects that take up emerging technological and social
    problems and possibilities.
  * The messy entanglements of technology and culture that strain our
    critical methods and overwhelm our efforts to do things differently.
  * Recent cultural shifts in thinking about the relationship of “the
    humanities and technologies,” together and in contradiction.
  * Creative media art and technology projects that take up emerging
    problems and creative possibilities.
  * Demonstrations and speculative design briefs about what is to be done.

All proposals will be peer-reviewed by HASTAC and the programming 
committee. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by HASTAC in May 2020.

The conference will begin on the evening of Thursday, 15 October 2020 
with welcoming remarks and the opening of the arts exhibition. All paper 
presentations and workshops will be scheduled on either 16 or 17 October 
2020, with closing activities in the morning on Sunday, 18 October 2020. 
Installation for the arts exhibition is scheduled for Wednesday, 14 
October 2020.


There is no membership fee to participate in HASTAC. However, 
participants at the conference are required to register. You need not be 
affiliated with a university to present at or attend the conference. 
Registration fees will be determined by Friday, 1 May 2020, when online 
registration will also open. Rates for students, adjuncts, part-time 
employees, as well as people who are not presenting at the conference 
will be available.


HASTAC 2020 will do everything possible to ensure a safe and accessible 
conference for all participants. The proposal submission form and 
registration forms will include space to note accessibility and 
participant needs.


Childcare services will also be available during the conference. Costs 
and hours of availability for these services will be determined by 
Wednesday, 15 July 2020. Thank you for your patience.


    Plenary Speakers

Plenary panels and workshops occur at multiple points throughout the 
conference to gather participants together for a communal focus on the 
conference theme. We are finalizing plans to pair multiple speakers with 
a seasoned HASTAC moderator in discussion panels and workshop formats. 
We will announce full plenary panels as they are confirmed.


A complete program will be available in July 2020.


    Proposal Submission

Proposals for presentations require the following information:

  * Your name, brief bio (<50 words), and contact information, including
    email address; you may also provide an affiliation (academic or
    not), if you wish;
  * Abstract (250-500 words) describing your presentation and its
    relationship to the conference theme of Hindsight • Foresight •
    Insight; and,
  * A technical rider for workshops, demonstrations, art installations,
    and performances. Please create two lists: materials you will bring
    and materials or technologies you would like us to have available
    for you. Include needs such as power, Wi-Fi, and space
    considerations; and let us know if your project will emit noise or
    require specific lighting conditions. If your proposal is accepted,
    we will do our best to make equipment or other special conditions
    available to you during the conference.

Presenters may be first author on only one submission; however, they may 
appear as second author or facilitator on one other submission.


Deadline for proposals is Friday, 14 February 2020, 11:59pm CST


Submit a proposal: http://conftool.pro/hastac2020


    Partners and Sponsors

HASTAC 2020 is supported by the following partners:

  * HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and
    Collaboratory) http://hastac.org
  * The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT
    Dallas http://atec.utdallas.edu


    Questions?

Please email info at hastac2020 dot org with any questions you have 
about the conference.


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