Kommende Veranstaltungen

Fri. 11. April 2025 - Sun. 13. April 2025
Spring School "Media Climate Justice: Research, Skillsharing, Hacking"
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Wie wir die Klimakatastrophe und die damit verknüpften ökologischen Krisen wahrnehmen, hängt maßgeblich von deren medialer Verhandlung ab. Es ist also auch eine Frage der Medien, ob und wie sich Menschen für Klimagerechtigkeit politisieren oder mobilisieren lassen. Dies haben wir schon bei unserer ersten Spring School im Frühjahr 2024 zu Klima, Medien und Antifaschismus herausgearbeitet. Nun wollen wir unsere Bemühungen, Aktivismus, Journalismus, Kunst und Wissenschaft zu vernetzen, fortsetzen ­– und über die Analyse hinaus aktiv werden: Dieses Mal stehen besonders digitale Recherchepraktiken, Klimajournalismus und Klimaaktivismus auf Tiktok im Fokus: Wir lernen ein paar Skills zum Teilen! Für unser Programm haben wir u.a. die Klimaredaktion von Correctiv und das Recherchekollektiv Tactical Tech eingeladen. Wir beschäftigen uns mit Klimanarrativen, mit Migration und der rechtsextremen Vereinnahmung des Klimadiskurses. Außerdem gibt es einen Workshop zu Klimagerechtigkeitsfragen in der Lehre an der Uni. Neben Inputs und Workshops findet Samstagabend eine Performance statt. Danach hoffen wir, mit euch anzustoßen.

Alle Interessierten aus Uni, Aktivismus, Journalismus, Kunst und Zivilgesellschaft sind herzlich eingeladen! Journalist:innen, Rechercheinteressierte, Engagierte – spread the word & kommt gerne vorbei.

Bitte meldet euch bis zum 31.3. unter mail[æt]mediaclimatejustice.org an.
 
Wir helfen mit Anreise und Unterbringung.
 
Programm folgt bald unter:
https://mediaclimatejustice.org

Veranstaltungsort

Ruhr University Bochum
Department of Media Studies
Universitätsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Tue. 15. April 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
MGK Masterclass mit Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)
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15. April 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr — Permalink

To register for the masterclass please send an email to the coordination.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Scientific Coordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[at]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 16. April 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
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16. April 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Z — Permalink
Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (Dr. Dominik Schrey) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. 
Weitere Hinweise entnehmen Sie bitten den folgenden Vorlagen:

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 16. April 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #1 Gavin Mueller: Luddite Futures
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16. April 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

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The term „Luddite“ is a pejorative that marks one as an opponent of emergent technology, and, by extension, the future that these new technologies bring to bear. This designation derives from the experience of the historical Luddites, who, according to popular myth, put up a doomed resistance to the Industrial Revolution in favor of remaining in a pre-industrial, pre-mechanical craft past through the technique of machine breaking. Recent historical treatments have sought to put the Luddite struggles in a more sympathetic light, rationalizing the destruction of machines as a component of labor struggle. But can analysis go further than a retroactive justification of Luddite praxis? Can we understand Luddite struggles, both historical and contemporary, not as attempts either to maintain an existing state of affairs or to retreat to an idyllic technological past, but as offering a positive vision of the future? This talk will sketch out these Luddite futures in the interest of developing a concept of Luddism that can act as a political challenge to dominant hypercapitalist technofutures as well as romanticized primitivist ones.

 

Gavin Mueller is an Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a tutor in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Instituut. He is the author of Breaking Things at Work (Verso 2021) and Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy (Routledge 2019).

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 30. April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr
Forschungsforum: Science Communication & Public Engagement Part #1: "Introduction"
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lead by Dr. Annette Klinkert (city2science)

Part #1: Start the Dialogue, Open Up Science! – Introduction to Science Communication and Public Engagement

  • Current developments in science communication and public engagement

  • Key concepts in science communication

  • Identification of potential target groups and stakeholder

  • Reflecting roles and responsibilities of researchers in science communication

  • Clarification of individual needs in science communication

Part #1 will take place only online on Webex. There will no hybrid set-up.

 

About the Science Communication & Public Engagement Series #1-4

Openness, transparency and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences inside and outside academia are key competences in 21st century research and innovation. Transferrable skills in the areas of science communication and public engagement are increasingly relevant for academic and non-academic career paths, as well as for the acquisition of national and international funding. The interdisciplinary and interactive training series invites researchers to gain practical skills in science communication and public engagement. The course will empower researchers via a mix of input, reflections and practical sessions. A major goal of the training will be to enable participants to develop a communication plan related to (their individual) research topics and to communicate their key messages to diverse audiences in a clear and effective way.

All parts will be lead by city2science.

Part #1: Start the Dialogue, Open Up Science! – Introduction to Science Communication and Public Engagement

Part #2: Open Science and Open Innovation in Science Communication

Part #3: Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact

Part #4: Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats

Part #1-3 will take place only online on Webex (there will no hybrid set-up), whereas the last part #4 will take place on-site in Siegen in AH-A 217/18.

Workshop language is English.

 

About city2science

city2science supports strategic alliances between city and campus and develops innovative formats of science communication.

city2science offers individual consulting services for universities and research institutions as well as cities, municipalities and regions, including consulting and application development, especially in European funding programs.

city2science has internationally recognized expertise in the theory and practice of science communication and public engagement. Based on many years of experience in theoretical reflection as well as in the practical implementation of innovative strategies and formats of science communication, city2science offers a comprehensive range of services in this permanently evolving future field.

→ website of city2science

 

About Dr. Annette Klinkert

Dr. Annette Klinkert received her PHD in American literature at Albert Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. Before starting city2science in 2012 Annette Klinkert worked within the city marketing company Bielefeld Marketing GmbH as project manager and head of the departments City Management, Event Management, and the Science Office. She initiated and coordinated a large number of innovative international science communication formats and is the director of the European Science Engagement Association (EUSEA). She is regularly invited as lecturer and workshop-leader at national and international Science Communication conferences.

Veranstaltungsort

online only (Webex)

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Karina Kirsten
karina.kirsten[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 07. May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #2 Jenny Sundén: Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
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07. May 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

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Building on and expanding discussions of the value of anonymity and pseudonymity in digital cultures in general, and in queer digital cultures in particular, this presentation explores notions of opacity as modes of resistance to dominating regimes of visibility on and beyond social media platforms. Across queer, postcolonial and digital media theorizing, opacity provides a way of thinking through the tension between the visible and the invisible, challenging the idea of public visibility and identification as that which drives data cultures and legitimizes marginalized sexual practices and expressions. Suggestive of discussions on tactical, queer uses of social media in terms of disconnection and reluctance, opacity affords yet another way of thinking resistance to platform power and user control.

Based on an ethnographic study of the Swedish digital BDSM, fetish and kink platform Darkside, this presentation discusses opacity in two ways: first, as a way of considering tactical uses of Darkside between modes of revealing and concealing, and second, as a way of conceptualizing the platform as a borderland between intelligibility and unintelligibility. The platform provides an opening for shared vulnerabilities and collective forms of secrecy reminiscent of what Clare Birchall (2021) calls “radical secrecy,” which in the context of Darkside grants both privacy and degrees of public kink visibility to its members. Birchall imagines radical secrecy – or “postsecrecy” – as a mode of collective resistance to both neoliberal transparency and secret state surveillance in datafied societies.

Opacity implies a lack of clarity; something opaque may be both difficult to see clearly as well as to understand. Drawing on Édouard Glissant (1997) and his idea of “the right to opacity” as a form of resistance to surveillance and imperial domination, a digital sexual politics of opacity could help provide recognition without a demand to fully understand sexual otherness, opening up for new modes of obscure and pleasurable sexual expressions and transgressions on social media platforms.

 

Jenny Sundén is Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University and a Guest Professor in Gender Studies, Uppsala University in Sweden. She has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California at Berkeley; University of Surrey; Peking University, Beijing; Hunter College (CUNY), New York City; and University of Turku. She currently focuses on digital sexual cultures, sextech, audio erotica, and the politics of pleasure. She is the PI of the research projects “Digital sexual health: Designing for safety, pleasure and wellbeing in LGBTQ+ communities” funded by Forte: Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (with Kath Albury and Zahra Stardust) and “Listening pleasures: Sexual health and audio fiction in a time of digital intimacy” funded by The Swedish Research Council (with Anna Hultman, Sara Tanderup Linkis and Linn Sandberg). She is the author of Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment (Peter Lang, 2003), Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play (with Malin Sveningsson, Routledge 2012,) Who’s Laughing Now? Feminist Tactics in Social Media (with Susanna Paasonen, MIT Press 2020) and Hot connections: Why sexual platforms matter (with Susanna Paasonen and Katrin Tiidenberg, MIT Press forthcoming 2026).

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 14. May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #3 Rosa Menkman: De/Tangling Resolution
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Rosa Menkman TBA

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 21. May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
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21. May 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Z — Permalink
Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (Dr. Dominik Schrey) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. 
Weitere Hinweise entnehmen Sie bitten den folgenden Vorlagen:

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 21. May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #4 David Gauthier: Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
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21. May 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

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Experimental media artists are always entangled with the medium-specific materials they work with. They typically have to traverse and synthesise multiple mediated scales at once to repurpose or defamiliarise objects in order to make them speak, whether these scales be from voltages to music, bits to words, or pixels to perspectives. In this sense, media artists are engaged in capturing a material that in turn captures them, and ultimately captures the subjects the constructed artwork aims to address. An artwork is thus a site of ‘reciprocal capture’, to use a term from Isabelle Stengers, in that it undoes strict subject/object dichotomies. This is how artworks can be said to defamiliarise objects and give them a ‘voice.’ And it is not just objects that are defamiliarised but the ‘familiar subjects’ as well. So beyond being simply a savoir-faire, artwork making is a creative act that problematises and dramatises the familiar by shifting the attention and focus of our familiar questions/answers (e.g. Who/ what/ when/ where/ why/ how is our infrastructure? Who/ what/ when/ where/ why/ how are our mediated identities?, etc.).  

In this lecture, I will unstitch this way of dramatising ‘problems’ from how such dramatisation is articulated in certain spheres of academia: with empirical methods. In the field of (digital) Media and Cultural studies, there are many connections that could be drawn with the way I qualified what experimental media artists do and what methods supposedly do as well. Making an object speak is also a concern of method. That being said, the fragile and brittle ways in which ‘reciprocal capture’ is sustained in artistic practices are seamlessly re-captured by the (inter)disciplinary narratives that methods help articulate. Within these (inter)disciplinary narratives, methods harbour questions of legitimacy, which is to say they give these narratives abilities to disqualify works that do not fall within certain boundaries. Therefore, rather than collapsing the familiar distance between subject and object, methods’ mode of dramatisation reify a certain subject position that reinstates distances. 

One is thus entitled to ask: Who are the (distant) subjects methods create? Who decides when a method is a method? Taking stock of my own trajectory as an artist and academic, I will address these questions with some of my work and question the ‘methodological turn’ in my field, one that, I will argue, produces what Jean-François Lyotard calls ‘differends.’ Bio Dr. 

 

David Gauthier is Assistant Professor of Computational Media and Arts in the Media and Culture Studies department at Utrecht University. With a background in Mathematics, Media Arts and Sciences, and Cultural Analysis, Gauthier’s work fosters original means of studying objects and phenomena by making transdisciplinary connections between different modes of inquiry stemming from these cultural and scientific traditions. Influential to his scholarly work, Gauthier is also a practicing media artist. Through the production of artworks which have been commissioned by art institutions across Europe and North America, his engagement with computation spans cultural production and active participation in various cultural networks.  https://www.uu.nl/sta/dgauthier/ https://davidgauthier.info/

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 28. May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #5 Ulises A. Mejias: Data Grab. The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
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28. May 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

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In their new book, Data Grab, Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new form of ‘data colonialism’ gives shape to a social order based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data. Resisting it will require strategies that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for decades.

Ulises A. Mejias is Professor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York at Oswego, recipient of the 2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. He is the author of Off the Network (University of Minnesota Press 2013) and, with Nick Couldry, of The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism (Stanford University Press 2019). He serves on the boards of Humanities New York (a National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate) and of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law.

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 11. June 2025, 12:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr
Forschungsforum: Science Communication & Public Engagement Part #2: "Open Science and Open Innovation"
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11. June 2025 , 12:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr Organisiert von Ö — Permalink

lead by Dr. Annette Klinkert (city2science)

Part #2: Open Science and Open Innovation in Science Communication

  • Open Science and Open Innovation as a collaborative approach to research and development

  • Development of external collaborations and broader networks of stakeholders, including other researchers, industry experts, customers, and multiple publics outside academia

  • Integration of open innovation practices into own research processes

  • How to approach new and relevant stakeholders and how to engage in open innovation processes

  • Discussing benefits and challenges associated with Open Science and Open Innovation

  • Discovering the innovation potential of your own research

Part #2 will take place only online on Webex. There will no hybrid set-up.

 

About the Science Communication & Public Engagement Series #1-4

Openness, transparency and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences inside and outside academia are key competences in 21st century research and innovation. Transferrable skills in the areas of science communication and public engagement are increasingly relevant for academic and non-academic career paths, as well as for the acquisition of national and international funding. The interdisciplinary and interactive training series invites researchers to gain practical skills in science communication and public engagement. The course will empower researchers via a mix of input, reflections and practical sessions. A major goal of the training will be to enable participants to develop a communication plan related to (their individual) research topics and to communicate their key messages to diverse audiences in a clear and effective way.

All parts will be lead by city2science.

Part #1: Start the Dialogue, Open Up Science! – Introduction to Science Communication and Public Engagement

Part #2: Open Science and Open Innovation in Science Communication

Part #3: Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact

Part #4: Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats

Part #1-3 will take place only online on Webex (there will no hybrid set-up), whereas the last part #4 will take place on-site in Siegen in AH-A 217/18.

Workshop Language is English.

 

About city2science

city2science supports strategic alliances between city and campus and develops innovative formats of science communication.

city2science offers individual consulting services for universities and research institutions as well as cities, municipalities and regions, including consulting and application development, especially in European funding programs.

city2science has internationally recognized expertise in the theory and practice of science communication and public engagement. Based on many years of experience in theoretical reflection as well as in the practical implementation of innovative strategies and formats of science communication, city2science offers a comprehensive range of services in this permanently evolving future field.

→ website of city2science

 

About Dr. Annette Klinkert

Dr. Annette Klinkert received her PHD in American literature at Albert Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. Before starting city2science in 2012 Annette Klinkert worked within the city marketing company Bielefeld Marketing GmbH as project manager and head of the departments City Management, Event Management, and the Science Office. She initiated and coordinated a large number of innovative international science communication formats and is the director of the European Science Engagement Association (EUSEA). She is regularly invited as lecturer and workshop-leader at national and international Science Communication conferences.

Veranstaltungsort

online only (Webex)

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Karina Kirsten
karina.kirsten[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 11. June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
Mehr erfahren
11. June 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Z — Permalink
Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (Dr. Dominik Schrey) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. 
Weitere Hinweise entnehmen Sie bitten den folgenden Vorlagen:

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 18. June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00 Uhr
Diversity Lunch: Dr. Judith Rommel: "Neurodiversität"
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18. June 2025 , 10:30 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Chancengleichheit — Permalink

Dr. Judith Rommel beschäftigt sich seit mehre­ren Jahren aktiv mit dem Thema Neuro­diver­sität. Aktuell ist sie an der Dualen Hoch­schule Baden-Württem­berg (DHBW) in Stutt­gart tätig. Sie ist zudem Grün­derin und 1. Vorsitzende des BZND Zentrum für Neurodiversität e. V.. Im Rahmen ihres Vor­trages wird sie über unter­schied­liche Neuro­diver­genzen und die damit verbun­denen kommuni­kativen Heraus­forde­rungen sowie die posi­tiven Aspekte ins­beson­dere im Hoch­schul­kontext infor­mieren und Gelegen­heit zum Aus­tausch und der Diskus­sion anhand von Fall­bei­spielen geben. Zudem wird sie einen Ein­blick in das Social Innovation Projekt Lilevi geben, das vom BZND e. V. getragen wird.

Über die Veranstaltungsreihe
Die Reihe „Diversity Lunch“ ist eine Kooperation der SFBs „Medien der Kooperation“ und „Trans­forma­tionen des Popu­lären“ und lädt alle Mit­glieder und Interes­sierten zu einem Austausch zu aktuellen Themen und Frage­stellungen rund um Diver­sität in der Wissen­schaft ein.

Eine Teilnahme ist online als auch in Präsenz im Herren­garten möglich. Im Anschluss an die Ver­anstal­tung laden wir herz­lich zu einem kleinen Imbiss/Lunch im Herren­garten (AH.A 208/209) ein!

Kontakt & Anmeldung: Dr. Raphaela Knipp

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 (hybrid)
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

wissenschaftliche Koordination SFB 1472 "Transformationen des Populären"
Dr. Raphaela Knipp
knipp[æt]sfb1472.uni-siegen.de
Wed. 18. June 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #6 Alina Gombert: Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
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18. June 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

Lecture Series Unstitching Datafication Banner

“…then there are of course times when there are problems that can be resolved simply by turning something off and on again, or problems that suddenly resolve themselves within the next two days, for which no one really knows the reason, and then you hear nothing about it anymore.” [Interview 11:425]

This trained agricultural mechanic and precision agriculture specialist describes his experience in the repair of digital agricultural machinery. He describes a glitch, a shaky moment of malfunction, of self-questioning, that is quickly followed by business-as-usual. Taking such elusive and mundane experiences of glitch further,  glitch art, glitch feminism and even glitch epistemologies have mobilized the glitch to point at other issues. Glitch art is “about relaying the membrane of the normal, to create a new protocol after shattering an earlier one.” (Menkman 2011, 341). The curator and writer Legacy Russel coined the term glitch feminism, calling for interventions that challenge gender binaries (Russell 2020). Glitches have been understood as signals of discriminatory orderings and mobilized to “illuminate the ways that race and technology intersect in pernicious ways” (Broussard 2024, 4). Therefore, glitch epistemologies have been proposed as ways of knowing computational cities (Leszczynski and Elwood 2022).

But what can thinking with and through the glitch offer to research on digital agriculture?  What are the potentials and limits? What can be seen through the glitch and what not? Can glitches be a starting point to identify further questions for digital agriculture? Building on ethnographic work on practices of repair in digital agriculture, this talk will explore glitchy vignettes from agricultural repair shops.

 

Alina Gombert studied Sustainable Agriculture (B.Sc.) and Crop Sciences (M.Sc.) in Kleve, Bonn and Lyon. As an agricultural scientist, she worked from 2018 to 2023 at the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (Julius Kühn-Institut) and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). In her current work she is looking for bridges between the arts and the rural, between the agricultural sciences and the social sciences and between agriculture and feminism. As a part of the //KOMPOST ensemble, she explores emancipatory ruralities in northern Hesse. She is excited by the transdisciplinary perspectives opened up by Science and Technology Studies.

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 25. June 2025, 12:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr
Forschungsforum: Science Communication & Public Engagement Part #3: "Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact"
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25. June 2025 , 12:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr Organisiert von Ö — Permalink

lead by Dr. Annika Kreikenbohm (city2science)

Part #3: Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact

  • How to plan strategic communication and engagement activities related to (individual) research topics

  • Develop skills and get to know concrete tools for clearly communicating research to target audiences and potential stakeholders

  • Introduction to “Challenge- and Impact-Driven” research and communication

  • Measures to maximize impact: Communication, dissemination and exploitation strategies

  • Using different communication tools with a focus on Social Media, e.g. how to create a research(er’s) profile on Social Media

Part #3 will take place only online on Webex. There will no hybrid set-up.

 

About the Science Communication & Public Engagement Series #1-4

Openness, transparency and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences inside and outside academia are key competences in 21st century research and innovation. Transferrable skills in the areas of science communication and public engagement are increasingly relevant for academic and non-academic career paths, as well as for the acquisition of national and international funding. The interdisciplinary and interactive training series invites researchers to gain practical skills in science communication and public engagement. The course will empower researchers via a mix of input, reflections and practical sessions. A major goal of the training will be to enable participants to develop a communication plan related to (their individual) research topics and to communicate their key messages to diverse audiences in a clear and effective way.

All parts will be lead by city2science.

Part #1: Start the Dialogue, Open Up Science! – Introduction to Science Communication and Public Engagement

Part #2: Open Science and Open Innovation in Science Communication

Part #3: Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact

Part #4: Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats

Part #1-3 will take place only online on Webex (there will no hybrid set-up), whereas the last part #4 will take place on-site in Siegen in AH-A 217/18.

Workshop Language is English.

 

About city2science

city2science supports strategic alliances between city and campus and develops innovative formats of science communication.

city2science offers individual consulting services for universities and research institutions as well as cities, municipalities and regions, including consulting and application development, especially in European funding programs.

city2science has internationally recognized expertise in the theory and practice of science communication and public engagement. Based on many years of experience in theoretical reflection as well as in the practical implementation of innovative strategies and formats of science communication, city2science offers a comprehensive range of services in this permanently evolving future field.

→ website of city2science

 

About Dr. Annika Kreikenbohm

Dr. Annika Kreikenbohm has been a project manager at city2science since 2024, combining a background in astrophysics and communication design. With a focus on interactive and innovative formats, Annika Kreikenbohm fosters dialogue between research and the public. With extensive experience in science communication, interactive media, and participatory formats, Annika Kreikenbohm designs and facilitates targeted workshops and training sessions for researchers and institutions. Conceptual thinking, expertise in design, and experience in nonviolent communication and inclusion contribute to the development of effective and accessible science communication formats. As a freelance science communicator and designer, Annika Kreikenbohm also creates visualizations and immersive experiences that make complex scientific topics accessible and engaging.

Veranstaltungsort

online only (Webex)

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Karina Kirsten
karina.kirsten[æt]uni-siegen.de
Thu. 26. June 2025, 09:30 - 19:00 Uhr
Konferenz "Disabilities and Assistive Sensor Technologies" (P01)
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26. June 2025 , 09:30 - 19:00 Uhr Organisiert von P01 — Permalink

more information coming soon

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Clemens Eisenmann / Philippe Sormani (P01)
clemens.eisenmann[æt]uni-siegen.de
philippe.sormani[æt]uni-siegen.de
Fri. 27. June 2025, 10:00 - 16:00 Uhr
B05: Blicklabor
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27. June 2025 , 10:00 - 16:00 Uhr — Permalink

Anmeldung bei Maria Espinosa Treiber unter: maria.etreiber[at]student.uni-siegen.de

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3

Kontakt

Maria Espinosa Treiber
maria.etreiber@student.uni-siegen.de
Sat. 28. June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Workshop - B05: "Kamera-ethnographische Beobachtungen treffen Merleau-Ponty"
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28. June 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr — Permalink

Das Teilprojekt B05 „(Frühe) Kindheit und Smartphone“ lädt zu einem neuen Format ein, bei dem aktuelle Filme aus der laufenden Forschung des Projekts mit Textfragmenten aus Merleau-Pontys Klassiker „Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung“ zusammen betrachtet werden. Gemeinsam mit dem Mercator Fellow Jürgen Streeck werden die gezeigten Filmausschnitte und die phänomenologische Perspektive aufeinander bezogen.

Bitte melden Sie sich für die betreffende Veranstaltung an. Links zu den Filmen und Textauszügen werden eine Woche vor der Veranstaltung verschickt. Anmeldung bei Maria Espinosa Treiber unter: maria.etreiber[at]student.uni-siegen.de

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
Siegen

Kontakt

Wed. 02. July 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #7 Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss: Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
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02. July 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

Lecture Series Unstitching Datafication Banner

Much like technological assemblages before it, what is commonly understood as AI is embedded in what Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim call ’sociotechnical imaginaries‘ – a material and social construction of desirable futures and common sense. As such, AI is put in place in the broadest way possible, to signal progress, futurity, security, and so on. Meanwhile, our shared technological realities seem to be more about anxiety watching and doom scrolling, marking a gap in the common held public belief and private affects. While it is true and necessary to – as Timnit Gebru and others have done – demystify certain paradigms of AI in their historical problematics, their underlying colonial legacies and problematic forms of capitalist extraction, the talk argues that within AI environments, there is no fundamental ‚truth‘ to be uncovered. Instead, AI coexists alongside and not despite its material realities of extraction, enslavement, and ecocide, while it also continues to create affective disjuncts and self-alienation. Resignifying AI as Ancestral Immediacies, my work delves into the promises of AI to unpack what they may entail, and to argue that now, more than ever, art and speculation are critical tools to respond to AI’s seeming dialectics.

 

Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss is a culture and media researcher and curator, as well as a board member of diffrakt. Center for Theoretical Periphery in Berlin. She works at the intersections of feminist and anti-colonial art, political practices, digital technologies and narratives of (human and non-human) subjectivity. Recently published: “Queere KI. Virtuality and myths of un/uniqueness”, in: digital:gender – de:mapping affect. A speculative cartography, edited by Julia Bee, Irina Gradinari, Katrin Köppert. Spector: 2025

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Mon. 07. July 2025 - Fri. 11. July 2025
MGK Writing Retreat
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07. July 2025 - 11. July 2025 Organisiert von MGK — Permalink

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 09. July 2025, 12:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr
Forschungsforum: Science Communication & Public Engagement Part #4: "Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats"
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09. July 2025 , 12:00 - 16:00 (s.t.!) Uhr Organisiert von Ö — Permalink

lead by Dr. Verena Molitor (city2science)

Part #4: Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats

  • Basic understandings of research with and for society

  • From information to collaboration: Ways to engage multiple publics with research

  • Develop concepts and initial strategies for research projects

  • Learn how to plan strategic communication and engagement activities related to research

  • Concrete tools to clearly communicate research results to the respective target groups and potential stakeholders

  • Innovative approaches and formats for science communication including ideas for creative event formats

Part #4 will take place on-site in Siegen. There will no hybrid set-up.

 

About the Science Communication & Public Engagement Series #1-4

Openness, transparency and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences inside and outside academia are key competences in 21st century research and innovation. Transferrable skills in the areas of science communication and public engagement are increasingly relevant for academic and non-academic career paths, as well as for the acquisition of national and international funding. The interdisciplinary and interactive training series invites researchers to gain practical skills in science communication and public engagement. The course will empower researchers via a mix of input, reflections and practical sessions. A major goal of the training will be to enable participants to develop a communication plan related to (their individual) research topics and to communicate their key messages to diverse audiences in a clear and effective way.

All parts will be lead by city2science.

Part #1: Start the Dialogue, Open Up Science! – Introduction to Science Communication and Public Engagement

Part #2: Open Science and Open Innovation in Science Communication

Part #3: Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact

Part #4: Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats

Part #1-3 will take place only online on Webex (there will no hybrid set-up), whereas the last part #4 will take place on-site in Siegen in AH-A 217/18.

Workshop Language is English.

 

About city2science

city2science supports strategic alliances between city and campus and develops innovative formats of science communication.

city2science offers individual consulting services for universities and research institutions as well as cities, municipalities and regions, including consulting and application development, especially in European funding programs.

city2science has internationally recognized expertise in the theory and practice of science communication and public engagement. Based on many years of experience in theoretical reflection as well as in the practical implementation of innovative strategies and formats of science communication, city2science offers a comprehensive range of services in this permanently evolving future field.

→ website of city2science

 

About Dr. Verena Molitor

Dr. Verena Molitor has been part of the city2science team as a project manager since October 2023. She holds a doctorate in sociology, a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in interdisciplinary media studies. Before joining city2science, she worked for many years at Bielefeld University in an international project, where she worked with various target groups in interdisciplinary programs in teaching, research, exchange and public engagement. At city2science, she is responsible for the development of workshops and trainings on topics such as science communication, public engagement and open innovation, as well as for large funding applications.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Karina Kirsten
karina.kirsten[æt]uni-siegen.de
Tue. 15. July 2025
Workshop "Chronologistics: Eastern European Media Histories"
Mehr erfahren
15. July 2025 Organisiert von A01 — Permalink

more information coming soon

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
Herrengarten 3
AH-A 217/18
57072 Siegen
Wed. 16. July 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
Mehr erfahren
16. July 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Z — Permalink
Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (Dr. Dominik Schrey) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. 
Weitere Hinweise entnehmen Sie bitten den folgenden Vorlagen:

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 16. July 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung “Unstitching Datafication” #8 Dan McQuillan: Decomputing as Resistance
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16. July 2025 , 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr Organisiert von A03, P04, Z — Permalink

Lecture Series Unstitching Datafication Banner

This talk will advocate for decomputing as a means to unstitch the shroud of AI which is being draped over our collective futures. It will identify scale as the core logic of contemporary datafication, and the total mobilisation of human and natural resources as its authoritarian consequence. The seams of AI are already visible in its shoddy emulations and violent preemptions, and what peers back through the gaps are forms of eugenic solutionism.

Decomputing acknowledges that even the tokenistic restraints of the liberal rules-based order and its regulatory frameworks have little traction in the current moment. It draws instead on concepts from degrowth and systemic transformation to challenge the inevitability of AI’s accelerationism. Decomputing seeks to apply the intentional seamfulness of conviviality through mechanisms such as the matrix of convivial technology, while recognising that this will require the counter-power of collectively organised resistance. 

Decomputing is an assembly point for all those drawn into conflict with AI’s technopolitics, such as environmental, feminist and decolonical social movements. In particular, it seeks to develop situated forms of social decision-making that disable future attempts at a computationally-assisted coup d’etat.

 

Dan McQuillan is a Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing. He has a degree in Physics from Oxford and a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from Imperial College, London. After his PhD he was a support worker for people with learning disabilities and volunteered as a mental health advocate, informing people in psychiatric detention about their rights. In the early days of the world wide web, he started a pioneering website to provide translated information for asylum seekers and refugees. When open source hardware sensors started appearing he co-founded a citizen science project in Kosovo, supporting politically excluded young people to measure pollution levels and get the issue of air quality onto their national agenda. After a stint working in the NHS he joined Amnesty International and created their first digital directorate. Dan has been involved in many grassroots social movements such as the campaign against the Poll Tax in the UK, and in environmental activism. He was part of the international movement in Genoa in 2001 which was protesting against the G8 and calling for an alternative globalisation that included justice for both people and planet. During the first wave of Covid-19 he helped to start a local mutual aid group where he lives in North London. Dan recently authored Resisting AI—An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.

 

Lecture Series
“Unstitching Datafication”

Summer 2025

#1 Luddite Futures
Wed, 16.04.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam)

#2 Queer Tactics of Opacity: Resisting Public Visibility and Identification on Sexual Social Media Platforms
Wed, 07.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University Stockholm)

#3 De/Tangling Resolution
Wed, 14.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Rosa Menkman (HEAD Genève)

#4 Against ‘Method’ or How to Assume a ‘Differend’
Wed, 21.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
David Gauthier (Utrecht University)

#5 Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
Wed, 28.05.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY Oswego)

#6 Glitchy Vignettes From Agricultural Repair Shops
Wed, 18.06.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Alina Gombert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)

#7 Affects Beyond Our Technological Desires
Wed, 02.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (HKW Berlin)

#8 Decomputing as Resistance
Wed, 16.07.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

 

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hackingqueeringcountering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 16. July 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 Uhr
Forschungsforum (Sondersitzung): "Sensing Clandestine Publics" (Götz Bachmann/Nina Wakeford)
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16. July 2025 , 16:00 - 17:30 Uhr — Permalink

More information coming soon.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
AH-A 217/18

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Mon. 21. July 2025 - Tue. 22. July 2025
MGK Kolloquium SoSe 2025
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21. July 2025 - 22. July 2025 Organisiert von MGK — Permalink

More information coming soon.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Scientific Coordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Mon. 08. September 2025 - Fri. 12. September 2025
Konferenz / Autumn School "Synthetic Imaginaries: The Politics of (In)Visibility in GenAI"
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08. September 2025 - 12. September 2025 Organisiert von SFB1187; SFB1472; ECREA (Digital Culture and Communication Section); Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen — Permalink

The Collaborative Research Centers “Media of Cooperation” and “Transformations of the Popular” in Siegen together with the Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA and the Center for Digital Narrative (University of Bergen) call for participation in the five-day event Synthetic Imaginaries: The Politics of (In)Visibility in GenAI“. 

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Mon. 06. October 2025 - Tue. 07. October 2025
Klausurtagung / Retreat
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06. October 2025 - 07. October 2025 — Permalink

more information coming soon

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 12. November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30 Uhr
Professorin im Gespräch: Beatrice Schuchardt (Universität Regensburg)
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12. November 2025 , 14:00 - 15:30 Uhr Organisiert von Chancengleichheit — Permalink

Wie wird man Professorin und meistert den Spagat zwischen Beruf & Familie?

Bei diesem Vortrag mit anschließender Q&A haben Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen die Möglichkeit, Professorin Beatrice Schuchardt von der Universität Regensburg Fragen rund um das Thema „Wissenschaftliche Karriere“ und „Wissenschaftliche Karriere mit Kind(ern)“ zu stellen.

Beatrice Schuchardt wurde letztes Jahr auf eine W3-Professur für Spanische und Französische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Regensburg berufen. Zuvor war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Romanischen Seminar der Universität Siegen.

Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen aller Karrierephase und ist ein Angebot von FraMeS – Frauenspezifisches Mentoring Siegen in Kooperation mit dem SFB 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“ und dem SFB 1472 „Transformationen des Populären“.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Thu. 27. March 2025, 09:00 - 16:30 Uhr
Workshop "Berufsvorbereitung und Bewerbungsstrategien für Studierende"
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27. March 2025 , 09:00 - 16:30 Uhr Organisiert von Chancengleichheit — Permalink

Der Workshop widmet sich

  • Reflexion der eigenen Stärken, Interessen und Werte
  • Strukturierung von Bewerbungsunterlagen
  • Praktische Tipps für den Bewerbungsprozess

 

Zielgruppe: Studentinnen und weibliche Hilfskräfte des SFB, die kurz vor dem Studienabschluss stehen

Teilnehmendengrenze: 8 Teilnehmende

Dauer: 7,5 Stunden inkl. Pausen (9:00 – 16:30 Uhr)

Format: Online via Zoom & digitale Zusammenarbeit auf Miro

Workshopsprache: Deutsch

 

Anmeldung bis Mittwoch, 12.3. per Mail an Selina Seibt

 

Der Workshop wird geleitet von Julia Sommer → juliasommer.net

 

Veranstaltungsort

online

Kontakt

SFB 1187 | Chancengleichheit
Selina Seibt
selina.seibt[æt]student.uni-siegen.de
Wed. 19. March 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
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19. March 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Z — Permalink
Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (Dr. Dominik Schrey) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. 
Weitere Hinweise entnehmen Sie bitten den folgenden Vorlagen:

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 05. March 2025, 13:00 - 16:30 Uhr
Co-Design Workshop on “Social Interaction in Semi-Automated Traffic” (P05)
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05. March 2025 , 13:00 - 16:30 Uhr Organisiert von P05 — Permalink

We are inviting participants to take part in a co-design workshop exploring interactions among road users in semi-automated traffic environments. This engaging session will provide an opportunity to share your experiences, ideas, and perspectives on how road users can communicate and collaborate effectively in evolving traffic systems.

 

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

We welcome everyone to apply! Whether you are a pedestrian, cyclist, driver, or simply interested in how people interact in traffic, your thoughts and experiences matter. 

No prior knowledge or expertise is needed—just a willingness to share your perspectives and ideas.

 

HOW TO APPLY

Interested participants must apply through the registration link. Selected participants will be contacted with further details.

Spots are limited, so apply soon!

 

For any queries, Please contact: Akib Shahhriar Kha

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
Kohlbettstr. 15
57072 Siegen

Links

Flyer

Kontakt

Akib Shahhriar Kha
md.khan[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 19. February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
Mehr erfahren
19. February 2025 , 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr Organisiert von Z — Permalink
Themen können über die Statusvertretungen in die Vorstandssitzungen bis zu zwei Wochen vor der Sitzung eingebracht werden. Einladungen mit TOPs werden zwei Wochen vorher verschickt. Förderanträge müssen mind. 2 Wochen vorher über die Koordination (Dr. Dominik Schrey) inkl. Begründung, Kostenvoranschlag bzw. detailierte Kostenaufstellung und Programm eingereicht werden. 
Weitere Hinweise entnehmen Sie bitten den folgenden Vorlagen:

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Tue. 18. February 2025, 09:00 - 16:30 Uhr
MGK Forschungskolloquium
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18. February 2025 , 09:00 - 16:30 Uhr Organisiert von MGK — Permalink

Program:

09:00 – 10:00 Hoa Mai Trần

10:00 – 11:00 Yarden Skop

11:00 – 12:00 Daniela van Geenen

12:00 – 13:00 Tatjana Seitz

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch at the Food Court

14:00 – 15:00 Vesna Schierbaum

15:00 – 16:00 Discussions on the writing retreat in July and potential topics for the CRC retreat in October

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
Siegen
Tue. 04. February 2025 - Fri. 07. February 2025
Mixed Methods Winter School “AI Methods: From Probing to Prompting”
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04. February 2025 - 07. February 2025 — Permalink

About | Program Highlights | Registration | Venue | Program | Contact

 

The Collaborative Research Center 1187 “Media of Cooperation” organizes the one-week winter school at the University of Siegen and invites graduate students, postdoc researchers, and media studies scholars interested in the intersections of AI methods, digital visual methodologies, visual social media, and platforms. The Winter School aims to explore questions centering on the implications of AI methods for new forms of sense-making and human-machine co-creation.

About the Winter School

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly evolve, the ways in which we perceive and process information are fundamentally changing. The shift from computational vision, recognition, and classification to generative AI lies at the core of today’s technological landscape, fueling societal debates across different areas—from open-source intelligence and election security to propaganda, art, activism, and storytelling. 

Computer vision, a sophisticated agent of pattern recognition, emerged with the rise of machine learning, sparking critical debates around the fairness of image labelling and the deep-seated biases in training data. Today, models like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and more recently, Grok are not just recognizing—they are generating patterns, synthesizing multimodal data from websites, social media, and other online sources to produce oddly familiar and yet captivating results. This shift introduces significant ethical questions: How can we critically repurpose the outputs of AI models that are always rooted in platform infrastructures? Which methodological challenges and creative possibilities arise when the boundaries between context and scale become indistinct? Are patterns and biases all there is? And how about scaling down

The one-week winter school at the University of Siegen organized by the Collaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation” invites participants to explore these questions centering on the implications of AI methods for new forms of sense-making and human-machine co-creation. The winter school is practice-based and brings together conceptual inputs, workshops, and sprinted group projects around two collaborative methods: probing and prompting. 

Probing involves repurposing AI systems to explore their underlying mechanisms. It is a method of critical interrogation—for example, using specific collections of images as inputs to reveal how contemporary computer vision models process these inputs and generate descriptions. Probing not only serves to problematize the hidden architectures of AI but also allows us to critically assess their different ‘ways of knowing’—how can alternative computer vision features such as web detection or text-in-image recognition help us contextualize and interpret visual data? 

On the other hand, prompting refers to the practice of engaging GenAI models through input commands to generate multimodal content. Prompting emphasizes the participatory aspect of AI, framing it as a tool for human-machine co-creation, but it also shows the models’ limitations and inherent tensions. AI-generated creations captivate us, yet they also pose the risk of hallucination or what philosopher Harry Frankfurt might call “bullshit”— statements the models confidently present as facts, regardless of their detachment from reality.

The first day of the Winter School will be hybrid. Project group work will be taking place on site.

 

Program highlights

Participants will have the opportunity to explore and attune these methods to different research scenarios including tracing the spread of propaganda memes/deepfakes, analyzing AI-generated images, and ‘jailbreaking’ or prompting against platforms’ content policy restrictions. A blend of research practice and critical reflection, the winter school features

a keynote by Jill Walker Rettberg (University of Bergen) on “Qualitiative methods for analysing generative AI: Experiences with machine vision and AI storytelling”

two hands-on workshops on mixed techniques for probing and prompting facilitated by Carlo de Gaetano (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), Andrea Benedetti (Density Design, Politecnico di Milano), Elena Pilipets (University of Siegen), Marloes Geboers (University of Amsterdam) and Riccardo Ventura (Politecnico di Milano). 

two project tracks intended to combine AI methods with qualitative approaches and ethical data storytelling.

Track 1 “Fabricating the People: Probing AI Detection for Audio-Visual Content in Turkish TikTok” led by Lena Teigeler,  Duygu Karatas and Sara Messelar-Hammerschmidt (University of Siegen)

Track 2 “Jail(break)ing: Synthetic Imaginaries of ‘sensitive’ AI” led by Elena Pilipets (University of Siegen) and Marloes Geboers (University of Amsterdam)

 

Track I: Fabricating the People: Probing AI Detection for Audio-Visual Content in Turkish TikTok

Lena Teigeler, Duygu Karatas & Sara Messelar-Hammerschmidt

Several brutal femicides in Türkiye in 2024 led to a wave of outrage, showing in protests both on the streets and on social media. The protesters demand the protection of women against male violence, measures against offenders and criticize the government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for not standing up for women’s rights, as demonstrated, for example, by Türkiye’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention in 2021. One of the cases leading to the protest was allegedly connected to the Turkish “manosphere” and online “incel” community. The manosphere is an informal online network of blogs, forums, and social media communities focused on men’s issues, often promoting views on masculinity, gender roles, and relationships. At the core of these groups often lie misogynistic, and anti-feminist views. Many groups foster toxic attitudes toward women and marginalized groups. Incels, short for „involuntary celibates,“ are one subgroup belonging to the broader manosphere, formed by men who feel unable to form romantic or sexual relationships despite wanting them, often blaming society or women for their frustrations.

The project investigates how the cases of femicide are discussed and negotiated in Turkish TikTok by protesters and within the manosphere and explores how these videos make use of generative AI. The use of AI in video creation can range from entire scene generation, over the creation of sounds or deepfaking, to editing and stylisation. The project takes a sample of TikToks associated with the recent wave of femicides as the starting point and makes use of AI methods for two purposes: 1) To detect the usage of generative AI within a sample of TikToks with the help of image labeling. This can range from fully-generated images, videos or sound, to the usage of tools and techniques used within the creation and editing process. We compare different models for detection purposes. 2) With the help of Web Detection, we trace the spread of videos and images across platform borders and content elements that are assembled or synthesized within TikToks.

The aim of the project is to create a cartography of AI based methods for the investigation of audio-visual content. It is part of the DFG-funded research project “Fabricating the People – negotiation of claims to representation in Turkish social media in the context of generative AI”.

Track II: Track 2 Jail(break)ing: Synthetic Imaginaries of ’sensitive‘ AI 

Elena Pilipets & Marloes Geboers 

The rapid evolution of AI technology is pushing the boundaries of ethical AI use. Newer models like Grok-2 diverge from traditional, more restrained approaches, raising concerns about biases, moderation, and societal impact. This track explores how three generative AI models—X’s Grok-2, Open AI’s GPT4o, and Microsoft’s Copilot—reimagine controversial content according to—or pushing against—the platforms‘ content policy restrictions. To better understand each model’s response to sensitive prompts, we use a derivative approach: starting with images as inputs, we generate stories around them that guide the creation of new, story-based image outputs. In the process, we employ iterative prompting that blends “jailbreaking”—eliciting responses the model would typically avoid—with “jailing,” or reinforcing platform-imposed constraints. Jail(break)ing, then, exposes the skewed imaginaries inscribed in the models‘ capacity to synthesize compliant outputs: The more iterations it takes to generate a new image the stronger the latent spaces of generative models come to the fore that lay bare the platforms‘ data-informed structures of reasoning.

Addressing the performative nature of automated perception, the track, facilitated by Elena Pilipets and Marloes Geboers, examines six image formations collected from social media, which then were used as prompts to explore six issues: war, memes, art, protest, porn, synthetics. In line with feminist approaches, we attend specifically to the hierarchies of power and (in)visibility perpetuated by GenAI, asking: Which synthetic imaginaries emerge from various issue contexts and what do these imaginaries reveal about the model’s ways of seeing? To which extent can we repurpose generative AI as a storytelling and tagging device? How do different models classify sensitive and ambiguous images (along the trajectories of content, aesthetics, and stance)? 

Facilitators will combine situated digital methods with experimental data visualization techniques tapping into the generative capacities of different AI models. The fabrication and collective interpretation of data with particular attention to the transitions between inputs and outputs will guide our exploration throughout. Participants will learn how to: 

  • Conduct “keyword-in-context” analysis of AI-generated stories to identify patterns or “formulas” within issue-specific imaginaries (where, who/what, and how).
  • Perform network analysis of AI-generated tags, where input keywords are tags for the original images and output keywords are tags for AI-regenerated images.
  • Design prompts to generate canvases that synthesize vernaculars of different transformer models. 

The project builds on our earlier work, developing ethnographic approaches to explore cross-model assemblages of algorithmic processes, training datasets, and latent spaces.

 

Registration

Registration closed.

 

Veranstaltungsort

University of Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 125 and AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Program

Tuesday, 4 February

Day 1 | Hybrid

09.30-10.00
Welcome
10.00-11.30
Keynote “Qualitiative methods for analysing generative AI: Experiences with machine vision and AI storytelling”,
Jill Walker Rettberg
11.30-13.00
Lunch
13.00-13.45
Introduction of Thematic Tracks & Group Building
  • AI Detection Methods (Track I)
  • Jail(break)ing (Track II)
13.45-14.00
Coffee Break
14.00-15.30
Workshop “Exploring TikTok collections with Generative AI: Experiments in using ChatGPT as a visual research assistant”,
Carlo de Gaetano and Andrea Benedetti
15.30-16.00
Coffee Break
16.00-17.30
Workshop “Web Detection of Generative AI Content: From Semantic Spaces to Aesthetic Neighborhoods”,
Elena Pilipets and Marloes Geboer

Wednesday, 5 February

Day 2 | On-site

9.00-12.00
Project activities
Selecting research questions/Discussing visualization techniques/Dividing tasks
  • AI Detection Methods
    (Track I)    AH-A 217/218
  • Jail(break)ing
    (Track II)    AH-A 125
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-18.00
Project activities
Testing visualization techniques/Adjusting research questions
  • AI Detection Methods
    (Track I)    AH-A 217/218
  • Jail(break)ing
    (Track II)    AH-A 125
17.00-18.00
Get together Reflection and Discussion  AH-A 217/218
18.00-open end
Dinner & Schellack

Thursday, 6 February

Day 3 On-site

9.00-12.00
Project activities
Making sense and annotation/Collaborative documentation/Deciding upon a story
  • AI Detection Methods
    (Track I)    AH-A 217/218
  • Jail(break)ing
    (Track II)    AH-A 125
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-17.00
Project activities
Preparing for presentation

Friday, 7 February

Day 4 | Hybrid

09.00-11.00
Project activities
Finising presentations    AH-A 217/218
11.00-12.00
Lunch
12.15-14.00

Final Presentations Hybrid

14.00-14.15
Closing address

Kontakt

Wed. 29. January 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum / Research Forum
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14:15 – 15:00 B09: Julia Bee on working with activists

15:00 – 15:45 P04: Kathrin Friedrich on operational analysis

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 22. January 2025, 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr
Lecture Series Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance with Samia Henni (ETH Zurich): “Toxic Environments: Possible Media”
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22. January 2025 , 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr — Permalink

Between 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs, and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara, whose natural resources were being extracted in the process. This secret nuclear weapons program, whose archives are still classified, occurred during and after the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). This lecture introduces three media through which these histories and stories have been exposed: a series of translations, a traveling exhibtion and a book. Titled Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara, this printed manuscript brings together nearly six hundred pages of materials documenting this violent history of France’s nuclear bomb programme in the Algerian desert. Meticulously culled together from across available, offered, contraband, and leaked sources, the book is a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices.

About the lecturer

Samia Henni is a historian of the built, destroyed and imagined environments. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag 2017, 2022, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR) and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (If I Can’t Dance, Framer Framed, edition fink, 2024). She is the editor of Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022) and War Zones (gta Verlag, 2018). She is also the maker of exhibitions, such as Performing Colonial Toxicity (Framer Framed, If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam; gta Exhibitions, Zurich; The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2023–04), Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–22), Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), and Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020). Currently, she teaches at McGill University’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture in Montreal and co-chairs the University Seminar “Beyond France” at Columbia University.

 

Lecture Series
“Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance”

Wintersemester 2024/2025

Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective
Thu, 08.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Matthew Crain (Miami University)

Sreda Theory: Environments, Media, and the Soviet Prehistory to Artificial Intelligence
Wed, 23.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa)

Finding A Smart Homeplace Or: How to Slip the Grip of Digitality in the Smart Home Age
Wed, 06.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Heather Woods (Kansas State University)

In Digital Platforms We Trust: Data Capture and Pre-Emptive Governance in Tech Companies’ Environmental Policies and Initiatives
20.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Emily West (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Opening Up Opaque Infrastructures
04.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)

Architecture of Surveillance, Methods of Resistance
18.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Forensic Architecture

Hidden Advertising as a Systemic Risk in European Platform Regulation
08.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Catalina Goanta (Utretch University)

Toxic Environments: Possible Media
22.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Samia Henni (ETH Zurich)

 

All events take place in hybrid form (on site and via Webex). If you would like to attend on site, no registration is required. To attend the lecture online via Webex, please register here.

 


 

About the lecture series

How and at what price did media environments become data-intensive sensing machines? Both the historical and current equipping and upgrading of devices, bodies and environments with sensors is accompanied by new practices of data processing and surveillance. Media and data practices of sensing, monitoring, registering/identifying, and classifying abound in largely opaque digital infrastructures. In addition to new capture logics based on the grammatization of user actions (and the capture of the whole Web by AI tools) there are also procedures and practices of sensory measurement, recording and observation. What new environments have emerged from practices of (everyday, and often banal) surveillance? How do co-operation and regulation as well as forms of resistance unfold in surveilled publics and data economies? What kind of aesthetics characterizes these organized environments? We envision this lecture series as a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize. Thus we specifically welcome critical grounded approaches which follow capture and surveillance step by step to analyze their constitutive role for environments and their data-based sensory mediation.
 
The Lecture Series “Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance” is a joint Lecture Series from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). 

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Thu. 16. January 2025, 09:15 - 18:00 Uhr
Workshop "Clandestine Publics and Artistic Research"
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Clandestine Publics emerge in the mutual entanglements and disturbances of two seemingly contradictory practices and/or goals: making things public and keeping things secret, or clandestine. Clandestine publics can take a variety of forms: They can be demarcated and separated, they can be anonymous by excluding identifying information, or they can hide in plain sight in multilayered realities, and often they are part of „graduated“ (Zillinger) arrangements. In this workshop, we will explore, on the one hand, how artistic research can help to research and understand clandestine publics, and, on the other hand, how artistic research can help to place scientific knowledge and practices in such publics, with the goal of making the address of, and collaboration with, publics more granular, effective and safe for all that are participating in it. Part of the focus of the workshop will put a focus on historical and contemporary LGBTQ+ publics in Siegen.
 
The workshop will be in English. It is open to the public. If you are interested in participating, please contact Götz Bachmann.
 
Participants
Nina Wakeford, London-based artist and Professor of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London
Richard John Jones, Amsterdam-based artist, curator and co-founder of Auto Italia South East, London
Simon Farid, London-based „sometimes artist“ and invigilator; 
The Clandestine Publics Research Group, a collective that explores the political implications of Clandestine publics; 
Götz Bachmann, Professor for Media Anthropology and Method Innovation at the University of Siegen
 
The workshop is a cooperation with the CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Seminar für Medienwissenschaften, Universität Siegen
Götz Bachmann
goetz.bachmann[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 15. January 2025, 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr
Lecture Series Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance mit Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh): “Opening Up Opaque Infrastructures” -Nachholtermin-
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Achieving direct observational/interviewing access to big, data-intensive digital platforms is notoriously difficult, so this paper will follow a materially disruptive episode that renders platform practices more visible. That episode is Apple’s 2021 App Tracking Transparency changes to iPhones. The paper will begin by discussing the material practices of data accumulation involving mobile phones that are highlighted by the disruption, and Apple’s efforts to block those practices. It will then turn to the “messy,” implicit, largely subterranean, conflict that has replaced 2020-21’s fierce, overt controversy. At stake in that conflict are two very different ways of materially organising the data flows crucial to the $500 billion app economy. The paper draws upon 111 interviews with 88 practitioners of digital advertising and related technical specialists, along with extensive participation in sector meetings, and, e.g., a training course on the advertising of games and other apps.

About the lecturer

Donald Mackenzie is a sociologist of science and technology, and his research aims to throw new light on their role in shaping the modern world. He works on topics such as how financial-market participants use mathematical models, how nuclear weapons systems are designed, and how those involved try to produce high-confidence knowledge of the safety and security of computer systems. He is the author of several books: „Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets“, on HFT was published by Princeton University Press in May 2021; „Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance“ (MIT Press, 1990) and „An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets“ (MIT Press, 2006).

Lecture Series
“Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance”

Wintersemester 2024/2025

Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective
Thu, 08.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Matthew Crain (Miami University)

Sreda Theory: Environments, Media, and the Soviet Prehistory to Artificial Intelligence
Wed, 23.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa)

Finding A Smart Homeplace Or: How to Slip the Grip of Digitality in the Smart Home Age
Wed, 06.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Heather Woods (Kansas State University)

In Digital Platforms We Trust: Data Capture and Pre-Emptive Governance in Tech Companies’ Environmental Policies and Initiatives
20.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Emily West (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Architecture of Surveillance, Methods of Resistance
18.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Forensic Architecture

Hidden Advertising as a Systemic Risk in European Platform Regulation
08.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Catalina Goanta (Utretch University)

Opening Up Opaque Infrastructures
15.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)

Toxic Environments: Possible Media
22.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Samia Henni (ETH Zurich)

 

All events take place in hybrid form (on site and via Webex). If you would like to attend on site, no registration is required. To attend the lecture online via Webex, please register here.

 


 

About the lecture series

How and at what price did media environments become data-intensive sensing machines? Both the historical and current equipping and upgrading of devices, bodies and environments with sensors is accompanied by new practices of data processing and surveillance. Media and data practices of sensing, monitoring, registering/identifying, and classifying abound in largely opaque digital infrastructures. In addition to new capture logics based on the grammatization of user actions (and the capture of the whole Web by AI tools) there are also procedures and practices of sensory measurement, recording and observation. What new environments have emerged from practices of (everyday, and often banal) surveillance? How do co-operation and regulation as well as forms of resistance unfold in surveilled publics and data economies? What kind of aesthetics characterizes these organized environments? We envision this lecture series as a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize. Thus we specifically welcome critical grounded approaches which follow capture and surveillance step by step to analyze their constitutive role for environments and their data-based sensory mediation.
 
The Lecture Series “Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance” is a joint Lecture Series from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). 

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Wed. 15. January 2025, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Vorstandssitzung
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Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

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Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 08. January 2025, 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr
Lecture Series Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance mit Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University): “Hidden advertising as a systemic risk in European platform regulation”
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08. January 2025 , 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr — Permalink

 

Social media platforms have been thriving for the past decade. Their main business models have been relying on advertising in the form of getting paid by companies – and any other interested party – to display ads in the feeds of their users. Traditionally, such ads have been mimicking the clear demarcation of advertising from the content of radio and television programmes. Decades of media regulation led to a status quo where advertising needs to be very clearly disclosed, in order to preserve the consumer’s agency and freedom of decision-making, and avoid manipulation. Yet with the rise of user-generated advertising in the form of influencer marketing, this demarcation has been not only increasingly lost, but also very much challenged. Viral videos of creators engaging in enticing story-telling can feature product placements, promote own brands of goods or services, or offer discounts through affiliate marketing. The general perception by creators is that disclosing their sponsored content can be detrimental for their reach, and thus even when they may be aware of their legal obligations, they generally choose to not comply with the law. The Digital Services Act introduced a new set of obligations for platforms that are deemed to have such a high impact on consumers that they received their own extra liabilities (Very Large Online Platforms – VLOPs). According to Art. 34 DSA, VLOPs must identify systemic risks and take mitigation strategies against them. The DSA does not define systemic risks, but it includes the dissemination of illegal content in this category. Hidden advertising is a form of illegal content, as it violates disclosure obligations under EU and national advertising rules pertaining to consumer protection. This contribution makes the argument that hidden advertising can be considered a systemic risk, first by reporting on the empirical evidence from computer science literature on the meager volume of influencer disclosures on social media, and second by addressing the impact of such non-disclosures under the DSA. In doing so, the contribution also asks whether disclosures are still relevant for social media advertising given the changing preferences and information literacy of new generations of consumers such as gen z.

About the lecturer

Dr. Catalina Goanta is Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, focused on understanding the impact of content monetization on social media and on reinterpreting private law fairness in the context of platform governance.

Between 2016-2021 she was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, and during February 2018 – February 2019, she was granted a Niels Stensen fellowship and visited the University of St. Gallen (The Institute of Work and Employment) and Harvard University (The Berkman Center for Internet and Society). Dr. Goanta is also an expert trainer in the European Commission’s E-Enforcement Academy, where she gives trainings on computational investigations of European consumer protection violations on digital markets. In this context, she also co-developed the first European influencer education resource on consumer protection and social media advertising, the Influencer Legal Hub.

 

Lecture Series
“Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance”

Wintersemester 2024/2025

Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective
Thu, 08.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Matthew Crain (Miami University)

Sreda Theory: Environments, Media, and the Soviet Prehistory to Artificial Intelligence
Wed, 23.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa)

Finding A Smart Homeplace Or: How to Slip the Grip of Digitality in the Smart Home Age
Wed, 06.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Heather Woods (Kansas State University)

In Digital Platforms We Trust: Data Capture and Pre-Emptive Governance in Tech Companies’ Environmental Policies and Initiatives
20.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Emily West (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Opening Up Opaque Infrastructures
04.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)

Architecture of Surveillance, Methods of Resistance
18.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Forensic Architecture

Hidden Advertising as a Systemic Risk in European Platform Regulation
08.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Catalina Goanta (Utretch University)

Toxic Environments: Possible Media
22.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Samia Henni (ETH Zurich)

 

All events take place in hybrid form (on site and via Webex). If you would like to attend on site, no registration is required. To attend the lecture online via Webex, please register here.

 


 

About the lecture series

How and at what price did media environments become data-intensive sensing machines? Both the historical and current equipping and upgrading of devices, bodies and environments with sensors is accompanied by new practices of data processing and surveillance. Media and data practices of sensing, monitoring, registering/identifying, and classifying abound in largely opaque digital infrastructures. In addition to new capture logics based on the grammatization of user actions (and the capture of the whole Web by AI tools) there are also procedures and practices of sensory measurement, recording and observation. What new environments have emerged from practices of (everyday, and often banal) surveillance? How do co-operation and regulation as well as forms of resistance unfold in surveilled publics and data economies? What kind of aesthetics characterizes these organized environments? We envision this lecture series as a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize. Thus we specifically welcome critical grounded approaches which follow capture and surveillance step by step to analyze their constitutive role for environments and their data-based sensory mediation.
 
The Lecture Series “Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance” is a joint Lecture Series from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). 

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Wed. 18. December 2024, 20:00 Uhr
SFB Weihnachtsfeier
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Veranstaltungsort

Musikclub Meyer
Europastraße 7a
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 18. December 2024, 16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Werkstatt Medienpraxistheorie mit Forensic Architecture
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Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Kontakt

Wissenschaftliche Koordination
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Wed. 18. December 2024, 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr
Lecture Series Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance with Forensic Architecture: “Architecture of Surveillance, Methods of Resistance”
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18. December 2024 , 14:15 – 15:45 Uhr — Permalink

Surveillance technologies have grown increasingly into the very fabric of urban landscape across the globe. Sometimes these go unnoticed, sometimes they are veiled under the pretence of smart city developments that render the deep embedding of sensory technology into our immediate surroundings a false declared beacon of progress and interconnected life. Forensis and Forensic Architecture develop methods to critically scrutinise the violence of state, corporate and environmental actors. Using a wide array of digital tools and spatial reconstruction techniques we have turned our investigations towards surveillance technologies, documenting their abuse and embedding in regimes of occupational, colonial and state violence. The lecture and workshop will show both case specific examples of counter-surveillance work as well as illustrate the ways through which open-source investigative techniques, testimonial work, and spatial research methods can intersect to document, counter and resist ever more present surveillance.

About the lecturer

Tobechukwu Onwukeme. In May 2022, Tobechukwu Onwukeme received his Bachelor of Science(B.Sc) from the University of Utah’s Multi-Disciplinary Design School, where his undergraduate thesis proposed the confluence of computational, architectural, and material design tools in response to environmental violence against migratory wildlife in the Americas, Eastern Europe, and West Africa. The project won the program’s thesis prize. Prior to joining Forensis he worked at various labs and agencies as a design technologist where he designed and developed applications for computer vision, sensors, ML, data sonification, and material fabrication.

Jasper Julius Humpert is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist. At FA and Forensis, Jasper works in the editorial and investigative teams across various topics. Focusing on the interpretation of the overlap of the written and the seen, his research revolves around the investigation of state brutality, extrajudicial violence and regimes of environmental destruction. Jasper received an MSc at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and completed his studies in Philosophy, Journalism and Visual Anthropology in universities of Maastricht, Netherlands, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and London, United Kingdom. Prior to his work at FA, Jasper worked as a researcher and political organiser and activist in The Hague, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.

About Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Our mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. Our team includes architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers.

We are an interdisciplinary agency operating across human rights, journalism, architecture, art and aesthetics, academia and the law. In 2022, the Peabody Awards programme wrote that we had co-created ‘an entire new academic field and emergent media practice’; in 2024, the European Research Council assessed Forensic Architecture as ‘a scientific breakthrough (defined as a revolutionary work that led to deep change in existing paradigms or new methods opening a new stream of research)’.

Since 2020, FA has supported the growth of agencies worldwide that practice and apply our methods. The Investigative Commons is both a global network of practitioners, and a physical space in Berlin, within the offices of our sister agency Forensis.

 

Lecture Series
“Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance”

Wintersemester 2024/2025

Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective
Thu, 08.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Matthew Crain (Miami University)

Sreda Theory: Environments, Media, and the Soviet Prehistory to Artificial Intelligence
Wed, 23.10.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa)

Finding A Smart Homeplace Or: How to Slip the Grip of Digitality in the Smart Home Age
Wed, 06.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Heather Woods (Kansas State University)

In Digital Platforms We Trust: Data Capture and Pre-Emptive Governance in Tech Companies’ Environmental Policies and Initiatives
20.11.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Emily West (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Opening Up Opaque Infrastructures
04.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)

Architecture of Surveillance, Methods of Resistance
18.12.24 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Forensic Architecture

Hidden Advertising as a Systemic Risk in European Platform Regulation
08.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Catalina Goanta (Utretch University)

Toxic Environments: Possible Media
22.01.25 | 2.15-3.45 PM | Hybrid
Samia Henni (ETH Zurich)

 

All events take place in hybrid form (on site and via Webex). If you would like to attend on site, no registration is required. To attend the lecture online via Webex, please register here.

 


 

About the lecture series

How and at what price did media environments become data-intensive sensing machines? Both the historical and current equipping and upgrading of devices, bodies and environments with sensors is accompanied by new practices of data processing and surveillance. Media and data practices of sensing, monitoring, registering/identifying, and classifying abound in largely opaque digital infrastructures. In addition to new capture logics based on the grammatization of user actions (and the capture of the whole Web by AI tools) there are also procedures and practices of sensory measurement, recording and observation. What new environments have emerged from practices of (everyday, and often banal) surveillance? How do co-operation and regulation as well as forms of resistance unfold in surveilled publics and data economies? What kind of aesthetics characterizes these organized environments? We envision this lecture series as a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize. Thus we specifically welcome critical grounded approaches which follow capture and surveillance step by step to analyze their constitutive role for environments and their data-based sensory mediation.
 
The Lecture Series “Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance” is a joint Lecture Series from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). 

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

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