[Commlist] Digital Ecologies in Practice 2022 conference

*Digital Ecologies in Practice 2022*
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When: 28-29 July 2022

Where: hybrid – online and in-person: University of Bonn, Germany

Online Registration: http://www.digicologies.com/ 
<http://www.digicologies.com/>

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Digital Ecologies in Practice brings together scholars, researchers, 
designers, artists, and other practitioners from several disciplines and 
backgrounds to exhibit and explore practical and conceptual work 
concerning the digitisation of more-than-human worlds. Our aim is to 
collectively address the promises and pitfalls of digitisation for 
fostering multispecies conviviality from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines are 
increasingly experimenting with the affordances of digital technologies 
for producing novel human-nonhuman relations, inaugurating new modes of 
environmental governance, and being attentive to nonhuman perspectives. 
Digitisation offers novel opportunities for generating knowledges 
concerning the nonhuman world, enabling previously inaccessible 
ecological encounters, and fostering communities with shared eco-centric 
goals. However, digital technologies, and the data-driven approaches 
they enable, are not without their problems. They give rise to new 
avenues for exploitation and marginalisation, and can entrench relations 
of power embedded in market-based and technocratic responses to 
environmental issues.

With these concerns in mind, a series of questions has emerged. What 
kinds of methodological crossovers are possible between scholars, 
practitioners, and artists? How do digital technologies allow scholars, 
practitioners, and artists to experiment with novel modes of 
representation and participation, and creatively cross disciplinary and 
species boundaries? Which problems are solved, created, or exacerbated 
by the use of digital technologies in such research?

You can check out the conference schedule here: 
http://www.digicologies.com/conferences/2022-workshop/schedule/ 
<http://www.digicologies.com/conferences/2022-workshop/schedule/>

On Day 1 (28th July – in person only), we are pleased to welcome a panel 
of artists and design practitioners who are exploring the potentials of 
digital technologies for producing sensitive and sensual encounters 
between humans and nonhumans. Mari Bastashevski’s Pending Xenophora is 
our keynote exhibit, and we look forward to welcoming Mari as our day 1 
keynote speaker. Participants will experience a range of digital 
technologies, including immersive VR, livestreamed wildlife cams, and 
experimental films.

Day 2 (29th July – in person and online) is dedicated to an 
interdisciplinary conference with several thematic sessions. Professor 
Ron Wakkary will deliver our day 2 keynote, and all talks will be 
simultaneously streamed online.


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