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Die Ausstellung zu Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten wird am 13. Mai 23 um 16 Uhr eröffnet
Was wird aus dem Berühren beim Zusammensein in digitalen Räumen? Geht das Berühren verloren, verändert es sich oder begibt sich auf Wanderschaft zwischen den Sinnen? Wird derzeit Berührung neu erfunden – in der frühen Kindheit und darüber hinaus? Um diese Fragen kreisen die audiovisuellen Exponate der Ausstellung, in denen Kinder Protagonist*innen ihres digitalen Alltags sind. Wir laden zur Teilnahme an einem kamera-ethnographischen Blicklabor ein, in dem Hände, Köpfe, Arme, Füße, Gesichter, Stimmen, Erde und Glas als Medien der Berührung in Displaywelten interagieren. Daran können Grenzverschiebungen dessen, was als Berührung zu bezeichnen wäre, beobachtet und erprobt werden.
Es handelt sich um eine Ausstellung des kamera-ethnographischen Film- und Forschungsteams Bina E. Mohn, Pip Hare und Astrid Vogelpohl, zusammen mit Jutta Wiesemann, Projektleiterin des Teilprojekts B05 “Frühe Kindheit und Smartphone” beim Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”.
Öffnungszeiten: Donnerstag bis Samstag: 14 – 18 Uhr
sowie am Familientag (15. Mai 23) und am Digitaltag (16. Juni 2023)
Vernissage: Siegener Tag der offenen Uni, am 13.5.2023 ab 16:00
Ort: Haus der Wissenschaft der Universität Siegen, Obergraben 23 (Villa Sauer), 57072 Siegen
This winter term, we have two lecture series at the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation” dealing both with the political dimensions of research.
The first lecture series addresses “Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy”. Our invited guests will discuss concepts that critically address the ongoing crises of the digital age (e.g. information, climate, resources, discrimination), e.g. Aesthetics & Evidence, Critique and Imagineries, (Data) Governance and Activism, (Interactive/value-sensitive) Design and Decolonialism. Even though all of these concepts deserve a lecture series on their own, we chose to have for each of these topics one lecture in order to create a kaleidoscopic and interdisciplinary perspective on what critical practices and future “Politics of Data and Semi-Autonomy” can look like.
The lecture series “Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy” takes place as a hybrid event Wednesday from 2 to 4 pm c.t.. You can join online by registering here. Lectures:
23|11|22 – Investigative Aesthetics with Matthew Fuller
7|12|22 – Sensing Machines with Chris Salter
18|1|23 – Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy with Orit Halpern
31|1|23 – Hacking into Aesthetics and Politics of (AI-)Avatarization and algorithmic facialitiy with
In view of the current political situation, especially the war in Ukraine and the protest movement in Iran, the second lecture series “Research at Risk!” is an invitation to discuss the challenges of research in media, theater and cultural studies in crises and war regions beyond national and cultural boundaries. How can research, education and studies be carried out under hostile conditions and what influence do war, political oppression, diaspora and other crisis-related impacts have on the production of knowledge? We invited experts from various disciplinary and geo-political situations/positions to discuss research practices in war and crises as well as on scientific/activist work on war and crises.
This lecture series is a continuation of an initiative from within German Media Studies to support scholars at risk affected by the ongoing Russian invasion on Ukraine and a cooperation between the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, the CRC 1472 “Transformationen des Populären“ and the Media Studies department at the University of Siegen, the Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische” and the Faculty for Philology at Ruhr University Bochum, and the European Media Studies at the University Flensburg. The lecture series is an online event. Guests are welcome to register via Mail ‘Send an E-mail’
Networking, workshops and coaching sessions: As part of equal opportunities service in the CRC we host and offer a variety of formats ranging from networking events, coaching sessions and workshops to a comeback of our “Gender & Diversity Lunch”.
In the past winter, we invited Dr. Claudia Neusüß with a thought-provoking workshop on “Career Development and Negotiation Techniques”, which was the result of a valuable cooperation with the Equal Opportunities Office. Our PhD candidates became part of the supportive “Online Coworking Community” initiated by Dr. Anna Maria Beck and benefitted from an inspiring writing workshop conducted by [schreibzentrum.berlin]. Furthermore, we provided our female members individual coaching sessions on career development.
We started into the summer with a talk and discussion round with Dr. Iuditha Balint, director of the “Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur und Kultur der Arbeitswelt”, which became the kick-off event for this summer’s “Gender & Diversity Lunch” series, formely known as “Gender Lunch”. In the following month we welcomed Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cécile Stehrenberger and are looking forward to our next guests, Prof. Dr. Julia Bee and Dr. Simone Pfeifer, who will share their experiences around the topics of gender equality, diversity as well as reconciling academia and family. The “Gender & Diversity Lunch” is a collaborative format with the CRC 1472 “Transformations of the Popular”. Joining forces, we seek to facilitate networking between CRC members and individuals from variuous fields with different biographical backgrounds.
In June, we were very happy to host the workshop “Critical Whitness – Perspectives and Positioning for Everyday University Life” facilitated by KARFI – Black Collective for Empowerment and Racism-Critical Education. The educational collective is an association of three Black women, offering workshops, lectures, and support on working critically on racism.
We are very much looking forward to learning and growing with, through and from one another.
You find more about our Equal Opportunities Services here.
“Memory under Fire” focuses on data and archiving practices in times of war and conflict. With Ukraine as a focal point, we explore the dynamics of information disorder in our platform saturated media sphere. Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine has brought innumerable deaths and destruction in the physical sphere, and Russia’s aggression also continues in the digital space, where countless pieces of disinformation, hate speech and propaganda are spread. Additionally, the digital media dynamics of this war have been put front and centre: some call it ‘the first TikTok war’, others argue that Volodimir Zelenskiy and his country invented new ways to fight on the digital battlefield. Russia’s invasion and the ensuing ongoing war highlights both digital warfare and the many data practices that participate in, critique, document, and archive this war.
This current situation sheds light on the need to document and archive war experiences and war crimes for future researchers and generations. This is particularly relevant for both countering disinformation practices and preserving data and access to it digitally, when physical archival infrastructures are being destroyed.
For our event series, we host speakers from the fields of academia and praxis (e.g. Center for Urban History in Lviv, Bellingcat, Mnemonic, University of Amsterdam, Simon Fraser University, Underdog the Unlawyers and other institutions and fields of praxis) to discuss how this war is influenced by and changing our digital media sphere.
The first event “Archiving in Times of Crisis: Academic Perspectives” on May 23th explored data archiving and creative resistance practices in Ukraine and its diaspora featuring Taras Nazaruk from the Center for Urban History in Lviv and Kateryna Iakovlenko from the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.
The second event “Archiving in Times of Crisis: Practitioners’ Perspectives” on June 13th focuses on archiving war and human rights violations from the critical data practice perspectives in the fields of journalism and NGOs. We will host Charlotte Godart, investigator and lead of the Global Authentication Project at Bellingcat, Dia Kayyali, Associate Director of Advocacy at Mnemonic, and Olga Lubiv, Analyst at Underdog the Unlawyers, Kyiv, Ukraine.
The third event „Russian Disinformation“ on June 27th will present research perspectives from Ukrainian scholars and practitioners on Russian disinformation practices and their implications. We will welcome as guests: Karyna Lazaruk, Visual Communication Specialist and Media Activist, Institute of Mass Information, Ukraine, and Marc Tuters, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, Svitlana Matviyenko, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University and Oleksiy Radynski, Filmmaker and Writer.
We invite the public to participate in the series of events by registering via migle.bareikyte[æt]uni-siegen.de or yarden.skop[æt]uni-siegen.de for a Zoom link.
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50 Jahre Universität Siegen, 50 Jahre Forschung. Begleitet von Live-Musik konnten sich Besucher*innen des Fests der „Offene Uni“ am letzten Samstag die Sonderforschungsbereiche 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“ und 1472 „Transformationen des Populären“ der Universität Siegen kennenlernen. Unter dem gemeinsamen Thema „Unsere digitale Gegenwart: neue Formen des Populären und der Kooperation“ gaben vier unserer Teilprojekte im sonnenbeschienenen Hof des Unteren Schlosses Einblick in die Vielfalt der Medien der Kooperation.
Neben dem Gespräch mit unseren Forschenden konnten Besucher*innen mit vergangenen und aktuellen Chatbots interagieren und mehr über die Forschung zu synthetischen Akteuren erfahren, die in unserem Teilprojekts B08 „Agentic Media: Formen der Semi-Autonomie“ erfolgt. Wie viel Alexa mithört und versteht, konnten Besucher*innen wiederum vom Teilprojekt B06 „Un/erbetene Beobachtung in Interaktion: „Intelligente Persönliche Assistenten“ (IPA)“ erfahren. Früh übte es sich beim Stand von Projekt B05, welches die Interaktion von Babys und Kindern zusammen mit den Eltern erforscht. Über kleine Filme und Fotos zeigte das Projekt B05 „Frühe Kindheit und Smartphone. Familiäre Interaktionsordnung, Lernprozesse und Kooperation“, wie Kleinkinder mit digitalen Geräten umgehen. Digitale Medien spielen auch in der Medizin eine wichtige Rolle. Unser Projekt A06 „Visuell integrierte klinische Kooperation“ präsentierte den selbstentwickelten Prototypen, der die Symptome von Bandscheibenproblemen zeigt.
Wir hoffen, dass wir allen Besucher*innen einen Eindruck davon vermitteln konnten, auf welcher breiten Front sich digitale Medien als kooperative Werkzeuge, Plattformen und Infrastrukturen zeigen und danken für das Interesse und die anregenden Gespräche.
Our lecture series on “Testing Infrastructures” starts tomorrow.
From QR codes used to verify COVID-19 vaccination status’ to cloud software used to train machine learning models, infrastructures of testing are proliferating. Whilst the infrastructures themselves come in different forms – from ‘off the shelf’ systems to tailor-made technologies – they all have a capacity to generate specific ‘test situations’ involving an array of different actors from ‘ghost’ workers to python scripts. An increasing reliance on digital platforms, protocols, tools, and procedures has led to a redistribution of testing itself: not just where testing takes place, and who performs the testing, but who has access to, and control over, mechanisms for testing, test protocols and of course, test results. In this lecture series, we focus on the practices making up the test infrastructures and explore different perspectives to make sense of the realities enacted by testing.
Our exploration of test practices is interwoven with the search for test media that bind actors together or create barriers; that enable cooperation or declare it impossible. Thus, our guest lecturers will reflect on a wide range of questions regarding ‘testing infrastructures’: How do testing infrastructures engender the construction of specific testing routines and practices? What kinds of affective experiences, reactions, and responses are generated through testing? How do testing infrastructures fade into the background, pointing to a tapestry of maintenance and repair practices? Lastly, what are the ways in which we can evaluate the role of digital infrastructures more broadly?
What novel test methods can be developed and actually ‘tested’ to gain a better understanding of how infrastructures work?
The lecture series is organized by the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) “Media of Cooperation”.
Contact: Dr. Johannes Schick (johannes.schick[æt]uni-siegen.de)
What do images from the web and social media connected to Covid-19 testing tell us about issues, big and small, in the world? And how can they be repurposed for the study of testing situations?
In the hands-on workshop “Test Society/Covid-19” international partakers will explore how images on Twitter can be used to account for the unfolding of issues across various scales, ranging from everyday moments to media outrage provoking events. The workshop is hosted by Media of Cooperation and will take place on 16th and 17th of December 2021.
As it builds on previous workshops at the Universities of Warwick, Amsterdam and St. Gallen, the workshop will offer researchers in STS, media studies and associated fields an opportunity to engage in and reflect on interpretative analysis of visual data in an interdisciplinary set-up crossing social, design and data-intensive methods. This event is organised by Noortje Marres (University of Warwick), Liliana Bounegru (King’s College London), Gabriele Colombo (Politecnico di Milano), Carolin Gerlitz (University of Siegen), Jonathan Gray (King’s College London).
More information can be found here.
How and why did people come to deny the materiality of the digital? What can we learn by recovering it? What if we rethink digital materialities as ongoing cooperative accomplishments?
From December 1–3 2021 historians, media theorists and information scholars come together for the online conference “Digital Matters” to examine socio-material constituents of digital systems and artifacts. Tackling the presupposition of digital immateriality as a misconception but at the same time as a productive site for interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry into media and data practices, the conference counters the idea of disembodied algorithms floating rhetorically in an ethereal cloud of big data. With a keynote lecture by Jonathan Sterne (McGill University) titled “Some Species of Materiality”, six moderated sessions and twelve international speakers, the conference promises a deep dive into digital matters and (im)materialities.
Conceptualized as an online conference with hybrid elements, most speakers will partake online with the organizers and several others coming together onsite in Siegen.
The conference is organized by Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Siegen University), Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg), Axel Volmar (Siegen University) and Sebastian Giessmann (Siegen University). The event is part of the CRC projects A01 and A02.
For more information see:
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/conference-digital-matters-a01/
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