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SUMMARY:Workshop "Engaged Social Studies of Modelling"
DESCRIPTION:Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation\, governance\, and public policy. Yet\, many modelers remain detached from the social\, ethical\, and political implications of their work\, often viewing these aspects as irrelevant to the success of the model. The flexibility\, variety\, and resistance to falsification\, coupled with their status as authoritative evidence-making technologies\, have also enabled models to distance themselves from public scrutiny and social critique. \nFor years\, historians and philosophers of science\, and researchers in Science and Technology Studies have studied climate\, health\, environment\, and economics models. However\, these insights have often been fragmented\, external to modeling communities\, and disconnected from their everyday concerns and practices\, perpetuating the “two cultures” divide\, famously described by C.P. Snow. \nIn the wake of global experience of modelling COVID-19\, however\, the social and political dimensions of modeling have come into sharper focus within modeling communities themselves\, and the call for more responsible modeling and computing is now gaining momentum. \nThis shift presents an opportunity to bridge these divides. This workshop aims to capitalize on this moment\, as the social critique of modeling is now beginning to catch the attention of the modelling community. We will begin by discussing what social studies of modelling is\, and how it can evolve from an external reflection into a transformative\, engaged research program that works within and alongside modelling communities. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de \n Program: \n09:00 – 9:30: Welcome & Coffee \n09:30 – 11:00: Opening Discussion: Ehsan Nabavi\, Andrea Saltelli\, Lieke Melsen\, Stefan Böschen\nBrief introductions + initial reflections on ‘social studies of modelling’ (framed by a short draft shared in advance) \n11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break \n11:15 – 12:45: Roundtable: ‘Engaged social studies of modelling?’ \n12:45 – 14:00: Lunch Break \n14:00 – 15:30: Collaboration and Reflection on Next Steps\nMapping intersections and possibilities for collaborations. Reflections\, next steps\, and possible ways to continue the conversation
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-engaged-social-studies-of-modelling/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Tagung "Digitale Aufklärung" der DGPhil
DESCRIPTION:You can find the program in this document. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/tagung-ag-digitalitatsforschung-der-dgphil/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
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SUMMARY:Workshop "After Networks: Reframing Scale\, Reimagining Connections"
DESCRIPTION:If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that it gathers different disciplines that eventually go back to their original research field – the workshop “After Networks: reframing scale\, reimagining connections” proposes a direct connection with the KHK c:o/re’s 2024 research theme. The interdisciplinary program\, combining art and internet studies\, also puts together different approaches on how science and technology are configured in other spheres beyond academia. Gathering scholars\, artists and activists who have been working on disruptive understanding of digital systems\, this two-day event will discuss alternative ways to reimagine connections in contrast to increasingly monopolistic and financially motivated social media platforms. \nIn the last few years\, we have witnessed an unprecedented crisis in the way social interactions have merged with the informational space. The current “space of the world”\, as the artificial space of social media platforms has been called (Couldry\, 2025)\, is designed and controlled by corporations with strictly business purposes\, putting at risk a sense of community in a devastating way. How can the future of the internet be imagined beyond social media platforms? What can we learn from other networks or other notions of space devised by artists? In which ways can digital communication be grounded on equity\, common ownership and sustainability? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the workshop. \nThe program includes an opening artist talk with Eduardo Kac\, a keynote speech with the media scholar Lori Emerson\, who is launching her new book “Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook” (Anthology Editions\, 2025) and a round table focused on a community-centered perspective of networks. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de \nYou can find an overview of the speakers here. \nProgram: \nApril 16:  \n16:30 – 18:30: Artist talk\nEduardo Kac: Dialogical Art on Earth and in Space\nModerated by Nathalia Lavigne \nRecognized for his pioneering work in the fields of telepresence\, bioart\, holographic poetry and space art\, Eduardo Kac has been developing artworks since the early 1980s that explore the idea of what he calls “dialogical art”. His work articulates processes of communication between different spheres and agents\, and between both humans and non-humans\, such as animals\, plants and robots. In this talk\, Kac will focus on his recent works developed in outer space\, showing their connection with earlier works from the 1980s and 1990s in which he expanded communication in art to include the non-human. The lecture is followed by a screening of the documentary Inner Telescope\, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac (2017\, 35 min)\, directed by Virgile Novarina. \nApril 17:  \n9:30: Introduction of the project “After Memory” (more info here)\nNathalia Lavigne and Lisa Deml \n10:00 – 12:00: Keynote\nLori Emerson: The Future of the Internet is a Future of Networks\nModerated by Ana María Guzmán \nIn the occasion of the launch of “Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook” (Anthology Editions\, 2025)\, Lori Emerson will present some case studies gathered in the book: networks that existed before or outside of the internet\, digital as well as analog\, IRL as well as imagined\, state-sponsored systems of control as well as homebrew communities in the footnotes of hacker culture. She is the Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Intermedia Arts\, Writing\, and Performance Program at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. She is also co-author of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021)\, author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press June\, 2014)\, and editor of numerous collections. \n12:00 – 14:00: Lunch and coffee \n14:30 – 16:30: Roundtable\nTatiana Bazzichelli\, Geert Lovink\, João C. Magalhães\, Alex Wermer-Colan\, and Bruna Zanolli: Local networks: reframing scale\nModerated by Nathalia Lavigne \nIn times when the ‘extinction internet’ notion has been claimed from a “platform-in-the-age-climate-collapse perspective” (Lovink\, 2024)\, which other telecommunication infrastructures could be developed in this current configuration? How can a more nourishing sense of community be recreated beyond the social disintegration naturalized on social media? Gathering five researchers who have been working on disruptive understanding of digital systems\, this roundtable will focus on a community-centered perspective of networks and their importance in the current context. Geert Lovink and Tatiana Bazzichelli will talk about the organization format of the Institute of Network Cultures and the Disruption Network Lab – founded by each of them in 2004 and 2014\, respectively. Focusing on the challenges around inequalities affecting particularly the Global South\, Bruna Zanolli will present recent projects developed by indigenous communities in Brazil\, while João C. Magalhães will discuss the potential use of deliberative democracy\, and in particular of online citizens’s councils\, to address platform speech governance issue. Lastly\, Alex Wermer-Colan will talk about the coalition Philly Community Wireless\, co-created by him in the outskirts of Philadelphia in 2020. \nHave a look at the event poster here. \nHeader Image:\n© Illustration of SSTV event “Still Life Alive” (by Carlos Fadon Vicente) which also included “Intercities São Paulo / Pittsburgh” from 1988\, organized by the Digital Art Exchange (headed by artist Bruce Breland) [from DAX archives\, Carnegie Mellon University\, “Intercities Sao Paul-Pittsburgh” Jan. 25\, 1988 Letter of May 31 to Breland/Kocher from Matuck FF44]
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/after-networks-reframing-scale-reimagining-connections/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Science-Art Installation Experiment "Melodic Pigments: Exploring New Synesthesia"
DESCRIPTION:Science-Art Installation Experiment by Yasmin Vega (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Masahiko Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Institute of Science Tokyo) \nSynesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in another sensory or cognitive pathway. An example of synesthesia is experiencing “colors” in response to sensory information. This phenomenon can manifest as perceiving and feeling “colors” when hearing certain sounds\, reading letters\, or even tasting or smelling something. \nIn this installation\, we aim to train a machine using machine learning based on databases that map the correlation between emotions and colors in response to certain sounds. The machine will then demonstrate the colors it imagines and feels when it hears a sound\, thereby expressing its own form of new synesthesia in machines. \nThrough these explorations\, we seek to deepen our understanding of synesthesia in machines and its emergent functions\, moving beyond mere sympathy or empathy between humans and machines. Additionally\, we aim to explore methodologies for visualizing the internal cognitive processes of machines. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. \n— \nCredits header photo: Masahiko Hara
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/melodic-pigments-exploring-new-synesthesia/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art
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