[Commlist] AusSTS 'Signals and Noises' reminder and keynote announcements - CFP

The Call for Proposals for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and 
doing installations, and pre-submitted papers for the Australasian 
Science and Technology Studies (AusSTS) 2025 conference is closing soon, 
on *Friday the 14th March 11:59pm AEDT*. Please submit here 
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?prevorigin=shell&origin=NeoPortalPage&subpage=design&id=7Hgj0IgW1UaFQBwotfRw9qAINXVXg4RLoPbYgoC38XVUNU5MVDFIWFdLUTRSTDFNUldKWlNaMEFTWC4u>. 
For more information about this year's theme and our keynotes, please 
check out the AusSTS website <https://aussts.org/aussts-2025-cfp/>, or 
read more below. We look forward to welcoming you in July!

Theme: Signals and Noises
When: 9-11 July 2025
Submissions due: 14 March 2025, 11:59 PM AEDT 
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?prevorigin=shell&origin=NeoPortalPage&subpage=design&id=7Hgj0IgW1UaFQBwotfRw9qAINXVXg4RLoPbYgoC38XVUNU5MVDFIWFdLUTRSTDFNUldKWlNaMEFTWC4u>.
Where: Naarm/Melbourne: National Communication Museum (Hawthorn) and 
Deakin Downtown (Docklands)

*Confirmed keynotes and collaborations *
This year we are excited to announce a collaboration with the ‘Signal to 
Noise’ exhibition at the fantastic new National Communication Museum 
<https://ncm.org.au/> (NCM) in Hawthorn, Naarm, for day 1 of the 
conference. The day 1 activities will draw on the creative archives, 
exhibitions and interactive spaces in the NCM and have been made 
possible thanks to generous support from the ARC Centre of Excellence 
for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).

Day 1 will include a keynote panel on infrastructures of noise with Dang 
Nguyen <https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/n/dang-nguyen>, (RMIT), Ranjodh 
Dhaliwal <https://ranjodhdhaliwal.com/>, (University of Basel), Kate 
Mannell <https://experts.deakin.edu.au/57134-kate-mannell> (Deakin) and 
Fabian Offert <https://zentralwerkstatt.org/> (University of California, 
Santa Barbara), as well as a series of workshops and a public event in 
the evening with Eryk Salvaggio 
<https://www.cyberneticforests.com/about> and further international and 
national artists (to be announced soon!).

Days 2 and 3 will take place at Deakin Downtown in the Docklands. On day 
2 we look forward to a keynote on technologies of reproduction from 
Elizabeth Stephens <https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/1204> (University of 
Queensland), in discussion with Jaya Keaney 
<https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/955699-jaya-keaney> (University 
of Melbourne). The keynote will kick off a day of presentations, 
pre-submitted paper workshops, and ‘Making and Doing’ sessions, which 
will include a poster format and short tours where presenters will be 
able to introduce their installations.

The keynote for day 3 on noise within health includes Warwick Anderson 
<https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/warwick-anderson.html> (University 
of Sydney), Kari Lancaster 
<https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/kari-lancaster> (University 
of Bath), and Christopher O’Neill 
<https://experts.deakin.edu.au/66849-christopher-o%27neill> (Deakin).

For more information and details about the conference theme, ‘Signals 
and Noises’ please check out the AusSTS website 
<https://aussts.org/aussts-2025-cfp/>.

*‘SIGNALS AND NOISES’*

AusSTS 2025 seeks to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, 
practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of 
information theory - the problem of noise.
Noise (as distortion, as error) is a problem for communication - it 
corrupts and contaminates communication signals (as they fly along wires 
or along undersea cables for example). But to eliminate noise entirely 
is to shut signals down, to sever communication. To perfectly silence 
noise would also mean perfectly silencing the signal to which it 
belongs. Signal and noise are intimately, iteratively bonded in their 
material production, reception and translation. What questions then 
might signals and noises ask of STS? Is it simply a case, as it was for 
Shannon and Weaver (1949) of eliminating noise as far as possible in the 
service of signal? Or can we listen to ‘noise’ differently? Can the 
difference between what we seek to understand or convey on the one hand, 
and the ‘unintended things’ that trouble our efforts on the other, be 
illustrative? How might we work creatively with the flotsam and jetsam 
of research, or trace the twisting journeys of signals?

We encourage submissions that grapple with the entwined nature of 
signals and noises in our efforts to understand the world and listen to 
noise differently. We invite generous readings of the theme. For more 
information and suggestions on engagements with the theme, see 
<https://aussts.org/> or get in touch at <(ausstsgrad /at/ gmail.com)>.

Sponsored by: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & 
Society (ADM+S), Deakin Science and Society Network, Science, 
Technology, & Human Values, and the National Communication Museum.


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