[Commlist] Violence & Visibility in Computational Regimes conference

Violence & Visibility in Computational Regimes

24- 25 March John Cabot University Via dellaLungara233 Rome


organized by the Department of Communications and Media Studies, John 
Cabot University

in collaboration with Duke University and The Institute of Network Cultures


/What does it mean to study the interplay between violence and visuality 
in its networked form? What kind of new visual and political 
arrangements, and modalities of violence, are coming into being by 
virtue of the new distribution of the sensible in computational regimes? 
How does the relationship between violence and visuality change, and who 
are the subjects shaping it, consciously and unconsciously, and with 
what consequences? How do we understand and redefine this relationship 
given the neocolonial and inherently predatory nature of data capitalism 
that extracts value from everyone and everything, mostly silently and 
invisibly, at the infrastructural level of metadata? //How do we 
conceptualize this imperceptible (infrastructural) violence?/


Attendance is free of charge. Students, scholars in their early career, 
artists, activists, etc. , are all welcome.

For more info, RSVP & livestreaming pls contact

(lucia.conte22 /at/ johncabot.edu) <mailto:(lucia.conte22 /at/ johncabot.edu)>


Draft program


24 March

9-9.15 Welcome & intro– Donatella Della Ratta , Department of 
Communications and Media Studies, John Cabot University Rome

9.15-10.45 Violence, Terror:

'I’m going to kill a terrorist, mum: The intimacies, intensities, and 
invitations of networked violence' Jonathan Luke Austin  (University of 
Copenhagen)

"Israeli colonial dreams in the age of AI"Rebecca L. Stein  (Duke 
University)

“Spectresof the Image: From Disinformation to Terror” Svitlana 
Matviyenko  (Simon Fraser University)

10.45-11.15 coffee break

11.15-11.45 Interlude I:

'Operations other than war'- Jussi Parikka  (Aarhus University)

11.45-13.15 Opacity, Silence:

'Witnessing and Curation in Times of Networked Violence'Daniela 
Agostinho (Aarhus University)

'“Still living/living stills”: datasets as topographies of silence in 
machine learning systems' Nanna Bonde Thylstrup  (Copenhagen Business 
School)

'Vulgar Vibes: The Private, Prude and Prophetic Violence of Commercial 
Content Moderation in Brazil and Beyond' Anna Leander  (Geneva Graduate 
Institute)

13.15-14.45 lunch break

14.45-15.15 Interlude II:

'An atmospheric belt of turbulent shadows' Abelardo Gil-Fournier 
 (artist and researcher)

15.15-17.15 Machine Vision:

“Epistemic Violence: Algorithmic Apparatuses & Neocolonial Visions” 
Anthony Downey  (Birmingham City University)

'Recognizing algorithmic violence'Gabriel Pereira  (London School of 
Economics)

'Viewing with Care: Digital Afterlives of Extremist Violence' Kevin B 
Lee  (Università della Svizzera Italiana)

  'Screenshot on the boundary' Dunja Nesovic (Institute of Network 
Cultures)

17.15-17.30 coffee break

17.30-18 Interlude III:

'Cute Violence:TheKawayokuInception' NouraTafeche (visual artist  and 
independent scholar)

18-19 Weapons, Injections:

'Shot Theory' Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University)

'Only I Get to Hurt Me or Contemplations on Pain in the Age of the White 
Holy Wars' Dahlia Damoiselle (trans-femme poetesse and educatrix)

19.15-19-45 Epilogue:

'Internet Extinction'Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures)

live sound Peter Sarram (John Cabot University)

25 March

10.45-12.45 Discussion focusing on issues emergedthe previous day, 
moderated by Donatella Della Ratta & Geert Lovink

13-15 Lunch

15A conversation with filmmaker Helin Celik: 'Filming invisible violence'

16 Screening of Mapping Lessons(2020) followed by aQ&A with filmmaker 
Philip Rizk




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