[Commlist] Creativity under surveillance: art, critique and technology (Cybioses/NSU summer event)

please consider submitting an abstract or an artistic submission to our 
symposium called;

"Creativity under surveillance: art, critique and technology"

It is an event that is part of the conference of the Nordic Summer 
University (NSU), accommodation on site, shared meals and a good 
arrangement for children that accompany their parents.

Date: 20th July – 28th July,

Location: Jyväskylä, Finland

Deadline for abstracts: 1th of may (for grants 14th of April)

Organization: "Cybioses – life in the future imperfect".


Please click the link for more information and the long abstract: 
https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/

We welcome proposals that engage with, and discuss, the following areas:

Topics that relate strongly to the key works of the symposium are 
encouraged, such as:

surveillance technologies

surveillance societies

surveillance and art

surveillance capitalism

surveillance and AI

surveillance and the mind

surveillance and time (future, present, history)

the ethics and law of surveillance

creative responses to surveillance

surveillance as a crisis of creativity

Other related topics are welcome, with the fit referring to the 
diversity of contributors that we explicitly aim for – scholars, 
artists, students, technologists, other professionals and engaged 
participants. Experimental approaches to presenting and collaborating 
are encouraged. There will be space for installations and performances.

Feel free to contact us if you are wondering how you would fit in and 
please send a short motivation letter and bio to (eric.deibel /at/ nsuweb.org) 
and palle@chalmers. For information about abstract submission and the 
background writing that details the topics of the conference as well as 
prices, please visit our web-page: 
www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/. 
For the website of the NSU: www.nsuweb.org

Finally, we have existed for many years and aim to continue. It's been 8 
years in this format, and with roots going back to the 1950s for the 
topic of technology (and cybernetics). Our previous topics have 
included: Creative Machines and Minds without Lives (Winter 2025, 
Copenhagen), Speculative Technologies and Future Frictions (Summer 2024, 
Denmark), Information crisis (Winter 2024, Vilnius, What a waste (summer 
2023, Lithuania), and Slow futures (winter 2023, Brussels). Earlier ' 
themes have included Human-Technology Futures, and Improvisation and 
Technology.

Palle Dahlstedt, Professor of Interaction Design, Dept. of Computer 
Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University 
of Technology

Eric Deibel, PhD, researcher with the ADAPT research centre on AI, and 
the UCD school of Information and Communication Studies, both in Dublin, 
Ireland.

Talya Deibel, PhD, senior postdoc at University College Cork on "Law and 
the Inner Self".

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