[Commlist] CFP Transformations issue 37: Orbiting Otherwise

*Orbiting otherwise: alternative approaches to satellites*

Since the first experiments with satellite technologies in the 1950s and 
‘60s, the use of satellites for telecommunications, global positioning 
and remote sensing has grown into a vast multinational enterprise. 
Rooted in military applications, satellite data is now a fact of the 
everyday, incorporated into GPS and mobile devices, displayed on weather 
maps and apps, and accessible online in many forms. Through active and 
passive remote sensing, and radar, lidar and multispectral imaging, 
satellite data also underpins a very large portion of global climate 
research today.

But this apparent ease of access and the quotidian nature of satellite 
data today begs the question of alternative uses and inquiries we can 
make of and through satellite data and infrastructure. How can creative 
engagements with satellite technologies critique their function in 
scientific or military operations? How can art and creative fabrication 
escape or reconfigure the enframing of the human organon by the 
all-pervasive seeing-eye of satellite technology? This enormous 
technical apparatus is a tangible reminder that in the age of the 
Anthropocene our impact on Earth extends many thousands of kilometres 
into space; how might humanities and social science scholars respond to 
the existence of this orbital infrastructure? What new ways of sensing 
and thinking do satellites provide?

This issue of /Transformations/ invites scholars in the arts, humanities 
and social sciences to reflect on new ways of understanding and using 
satellite infrastructure. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  * New artistic uses of satellite data
  * Hacking Google Earth for critical purposes
  * Use of satellite data by Traditional Owners
  * Multispectral imaging and its implications
  * Privacy, secrecy and the “other night sky”
  * Reconfigurations of space and territory
  * Transnational, regulatory and cultural contexts
  * Liveness and immediacy
  * Space Junk, debris and the Anthropocene in space
  * Algorithmic governmentality and biopolitics in orbit
*>>> Abstracts* (200-400 words) are due 15^th November 2021, with a view 
to submit articles by 1^st March 2022.

*>>> Abstracts* should be forwarded to: 
(editor /at/ transformationsjournal.org) <mailto:(editor /at/ transformationsjournal.org)>

*>>> View* /Transformations/ online: 
http://www.transformationsjournal.org 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/>

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