🌿 Digital X Climates network has officially launched at King's 🌎
Led by academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, it is dedicated to advancing research, dialogue and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social and political ecologies.
Find out more ⬇️
New piece: "ALGO-READ: The creative automation of the reading subject"
Open access.
Critical study of the production of ‘the reading subject’ as a media trend, unit of value and data point
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
in RELATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES (eds A. Lagerkvist, J. Smolicki
🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐
Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics
With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
My new article, Bio-AI: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Data Animism, is out from Culture Machine. Part of a special issue on The Aesthetics of Biomachines edited by Johan Lau Munkholm, Naja Grundtmann, Kristin Veel & Kathrin Maurer.
culturemachine.net/vol-24-aesth...
🏛️ What does the future of history look like in a digital age?
Join us on 15 October for The Digital Futures of History and explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we study, preserve and engage with the past ⬇️
@stuartdunn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social
Online symposium: discussion of Gary Hall's new book, Masked Media: What It Means to be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by @openhumanities.bsky.social
#openaccess: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Fri 12 Sept 2025, ZOOM (9.30am MX, 16.30 UK)
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!
📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#AcademicJobs
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).
📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
My amazing department at King's College London is organising a BIG conference on 'THE DIGITAL' In 2026. Do come! Call for papers: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
Delighted with this new groundbreaking book in my MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series for @openhumanities.bsky.social =>
* Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts *
edited by Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez
Open access: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Announcing the latest title in OHP's Technographies series:
Thinking with AI, edited by Hannes Bajohr.
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
With essays by Peli Grietzer, Leif Weatherby, Mercedes Bunz, Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich, Babette Babich, Markus Krajewski, Orit Halpern and others.
"Inspired by the work of Victorian botanist + photographer Anna Atkins – who made use of the cyanotype process to document botanical specimens in her pioneering 1843 📘... – Mandy painstakingly created “a replica of the original publication," this time documenting the waste of fast fashion
Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence - new #openaccess book by Gary Hall from @openhumanities.bsky.social
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
PHOTOGRAPHY THINKING: thought experiment in responding to the material conditions of the creation of thoughts, images and thoughts about images. Exploring the present-day condition enabled by images that reference, remaster, reframe and remediate photographs.
unthinking.photography/articles/pho...
This two-day event on AI and Identity at Aarhus University on 22-23 May 2025, which includes a one-day workshop for PhD students, might be of interest to the PhD community in arts / humanities / social sciences. Featuring a keynote from Olga Goriunova.
darc.au.dk/blog/nyhed/a...
What will our future look like? What role will biotech, screen media and AI play in it? Can we imagine better futures with digital tech? Can we design them in a collaborative way? Recording from @kingsdh.bsky.social symposium on IMAGINATIVE DIGITAL FUTURES now online:
youtu.be/nI0ADNfsQ_s?...
WHERE is the photographic image? Is it in the eye? In the brain? In our memory? In a database? Yanai Toister & I posed the questions for the Guest Room we curated for Der Greif magazine.
Results: dergreif.org/guest-room/j...
Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
Thu 1 May 2025 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, London (in-person event)
The 2025 King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College
www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
Interesting book by this Mexican anthropologist, going against both physicalism and panpsychism to read consciousness as situated between the mind and the world, the neural and the symbolic.
Open call submission for the fourth edition of Re:humanism Art Prize, dedicated to exploring the relationship between art and AI. Inviting a reflection on time, often experienced from Western perspective & oriented towards productivity. To be held in Rome, Italy. www.re-humanism.com/open-call-20...
Next week Stockholm: exhibition opening and keynote on Bio-AI fargfabriken.se/en/pa-gang/r...
As introverts, we're liking the idea of a silent book club.
howtobe247.com/silent-book-...
Anyone wants to start (a non-profit) one for Open Humanities Press, let us know.
I'm looking for philosophically-oriented articles and projects on the latent space. Any recommendations?
Photo of the cover of the book “The Perception Machine” by Joanna Zylinska
Post just brought a belated present! 🙌 📷 @joannazylinska.bsky.social
Conference poster
Looking forward to this tomorrow emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs
"troubling Al: call for screenshots"
screenshot reads: "How can screenshots trouble our understanding of Al?" Full text can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me/
How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me
That's the more interesting cfp for me, too. This one is more of a "why did your model produce garbage?" conference. But sign me up for the "what is AI garbage?" conference! (FWIW @joannazylinska.bsky.social makes related points in this paper!) journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...
"WHERE is the photographic image?" Let's move beyond the obsession with photography's identity and see where photography is happening instead!Submit to this open call for Der Greif magazine I'm co-curating. site.picter.com/der-greif-gu...
With @joannazylinska.bsky.social @medialab-scpo.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social, Tommy Shane, Axel Meunier & more!
View from the Window, de Joanna Zylinska (Zylinska contrató a gente de la plataforma MTurk para que tomaran una fotografía de su ventana; el libro activa la visualización de los precarios mercados laborales que sostienen estos sistemas)
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
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