[Commlist] cfp: Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition

AH-DT 2023 – ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN DIGITAL TRANSITION (July 6-7)
ICNOVA – Institute of Communication, Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal)

The submission of papers to the Conference Arts and Humanities in 
Digital Transition is open until March 6th.    + info 
[ah-digitaltransition.fcsh.unl.pt <http://ah-digitaltransition.fcsh.unl.pt>]

Keynote speakers
Yuk Hui (City University of Hong Kong)
Claire Bishop (City University of New York)

This call for papers aims to foster reflection on the cognitive and 
creative ecology of the humanities and the arts in the digital 
transition. The conference program welcomes proposals on epistemology, 
cognition and creativity in the age of AI and automation, literacies and 
cultural techniques, cognitive and creative industries, digital 
humanities, post-humanities and the post-digital, among other topics on 
culture, technology and the arts.

Transformations stemming from digital technologies are growing with 
every passing decade, even if the newness of new media is gradually 
fading. The idea of digital transition evokes a feeling of disruption 
but also of inevitability and becoming, mixing the voluntarism and 
design of the artificial with new evolutionary narratives. Between a 
lingering post-historical atmosphere and the spectre of an era of 
extinctions, the certainty of the digital transformation appears as the 
only truly foreseeable future - a future where not only capitalism but 
the co-evolution of nature, culture and technology seem to take the 
place of history itself.

The question concerning the digital, which has only begun, is crucial 
for understanding the anthropological, ecological and cosmological 
crisis of the present and resisting a one-way universalisation of 
technology. This crisis makes it urgent that we image alternative 
futures but also that we concern ourselves with the digital and explore 
this transient temporality, the transformative and transgressive 
possibilities opened up by this very being in transit.
The crossovers between cybernetics and environmental sciences, molecular 
biology and informatics, neurology and robotics expand our knowledge of 
the human being and lead, at the same time, to the questioning of the 
singularity and centrality of the Anthropos in all his/her dimensions – 
perception, cognition, agency and creativity. The scope of this 
conference is that of a broad epistemic, cultural, political and 
artistic reflection on the transformation of knowledge, creativity, 
design, literacies, cultural techniques and institutions in an era 
increasingly characterized by the distribution of capabilities and 
agencies between humans and technology.

Establishing a political cosmology and ecology for the digital 
transition emerges as a new task of critical theory in the XXI century. 
This call for proposals invites participation in this task through 
topics such as, and not restricted to, the ones below. In addition, we 
welcome the exploration of themes from the extensive work of Bernard 
Stiegler in homage to his intellectual legacy and his influential 
contribution to the understanding of the relationship between culture 
and technique and of the digital condition.

• Digitality, post-digital and digital transition
• Tecno-ecology, digital ecology and cognitive ecology
• Post-human and post-humanities
• Digital Humanities: theory, methodologies and practices
• Digital arts, design, post-media aesthetics and artivism
• Cognitive and creative economy and industries
• AI, Machine Learning and automation
• New literacies, cultural techniques and skills
• The university and the digital
·       Bernard Siegler’s philosophy of technology and contribution for 
digital studies (mnemotechnics and organology, pharmacology and care; 
disruption and bifurcation; etc.)


Deadline for submissions: 6th March
Notification of acceptance: 30th March
Early Bird Registration: until 15th April (120 €)
Deadline for Registration: 30th April (200 €)

Submission: Abstracts for individual papers should be written in English 
and have a maximum of 300 words, including a title and up to 5 keywords. 
The submission form allows the upload of a short biographical note (word 
file, max. 100 words). The conference is primarily in-person but admits 
some online participation, to be requested in the abstract.
Please submit your proposal to AH-DT 2023| Arts and Humanities in 
Digital Transition at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahdt2023 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahdt2023>

Publication: After the conference, authors will be invited to submit 
full papers to a special edition of a journal indexed in Scopus.

For further information, please send us an e-mail: 
(digitaltransition /at/ fcsh.unl.pt) <mailto:(digitaltransition /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)>
Conference website: ah-digitaltransition.fcsh.unl.pt 
<http://ah-digitaltransition.fcsh.unl.pt>

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