[Commlist] Call for Papers - Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline for abstracts (300 words) 1st April

CONFERENCE: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age

Joint Conference by the ‘Re-‘ Interdisciplinary Network (CRASSH) and the 
AI & Society Journal

A concept that has been at the fore of discussions around the sociology 
of scientific knowledge, the limits of AI, and most recently the design 
of ‘collective intelligence’, is ‘tacit knowledge’. First coming to 
prominence in the 1960’s, with Polanyi’s The Tacit Dimension (1966), it 
is a concept that continues to be addressed by scholars and 
practitioners from a wide range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary 
perspectives, and applied fields of practice. This conference explores 
the place of the tacit in the 21st Century, where our lives are 
increasingly augmented by AI algorithms.

Engagement with and through social media networks and mobile apps are 
re-shaping the notion of community and family, and affecting wellbeing, 
as well as the cultures of the workplace and institutions. The 
exponential rise of big data flows in networked communications causes 
vast gaps in translation, confusion about what is true and false, and 
mistrust of ‘experts’. In the shadows of machine thinking we are unable 
to engage with difference.

This challenges us to come up with technological futures rooted in us as 
persons, not as numbers, parts, sensory mechanisms, genes, and 
individual bodies.

What alternative models might allow humans to better engage with technology?
How can we reconsider the relation between a person and a collective 
intelligence?
How can we reconceive the self as interaction in a digital age?

Ideas of performance and re-performance help us reposition seemingly 
singular subjects and objects as collective phenomena, and help 
reconnect art and science after their separation in the 19th Century; 
but the arts in general can play a key role in questioning and reframing 
our understandings by directing attention to the tacit assumptions, 
norms, and expectations embedded in all cultural processes.

There is a supposed neutrality around technology, evidenced in the idea 
that human ‘intelligence’ can, in the absence of ‘person’, be 
artificially re-presented, re-constructed and re-produced through 
computation (AI). The conference explores in what ways the interplay of 
the arts and sciences is reconceiving augmentation, and questions what 
an ‘intelligence’ that is ‘artificial’ might be.

We invite contributions from across the disciplines and practices of the 
arts, performance arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, 
engineering, neuroscience, technology, and healthcare to engage in 
reflections on these and other issues around tacit engagement in the 
digital age, in line with the four central themes of the conference:

1.	Performance as a Paradigm of Knowledge
2.	Self as Interaction in the Digital Age
3.	Trust in the Shadows of Machine Thinking
4.	Future Possibilities in intersections of Art, Science, Technology, 
and Society.

Abstracts (300 words + references) should be submitted in pdf format to 
Satinder Gill ((spg12 /at/ cam.ac.uk))

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28385



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