Upcoming Events

Mon. 11 December 2023 - Tue. 12 December 2023
PhD Defense Training (MGK)
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11 December 2023 - 12 December 2023, 09:00 - 15:00

Internal workshop for MGK members

Trainer: Dr. Christine Hrncal

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 22
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Tue. 12 December 2023 - Wed. 13 December 2023
Workshop “Digital Afterlife and the Posthuman”
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12 December 2023 - 13 December 2023

Workshop „Digital Afterlife and the Posthuman“

Siegen, 12th – 13th of December 2023
Organized by the Chair of Media Theory and the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”

 

Participants | Program 

 

1.

Rites of passage which contain dying and death or dissolve what Freud has called “the ambivalence of feelings toward the dead”, have been investigated by anthropologists for ages. However, it is only quite recently that we pay attention to the long farewell in the Internet – although the first virtual tomb stone was already set in 1993. Research on digital mourning quite often has to deal with the virtuality of survival, with accounts and footprints left in the Social Networks which can hardly be cancelled (Sisto 2018). The entire space of the Social networks seems to abound from ghosts and spirits, similar to the one which is increasingly occupied by Artificial Intelligence: by Chatbots for instance which are equipped with memoirs, argumentation strategies and even the voice of the person who in lifetime has decided to talk to us from beyond the grave (Mason-Robbie & Savin Baden 2020). It is at this very point that the questions of “virtual death” and of the Posthuman intersect (Stokes 2021).

2.

The intention of our workshop in Siegen is thus twofold: we want to know which are contemporary forms of mourning, how digital techniques (smartphone photography e.g.) change the way we see death, how the ‘Farewell’ and its ‘rite de passage’ in the www are organized, by which medias and devices, how the respective media artefacts do enter the virtual space, what is their effect in the offline-world, and which are the social groups one could consider as the avantgarde of “virtual mourning”?
Furthermore, we would like to go on asking what follows from these practices for the conception of the human itself. The extensions of the Self in space and time, its multiple ways to instantiate itself and the possibility of merging with (virtual) others could also open up spaces to re-think the divide made between Westerners and ‘indigenous’ people and could invite us to reconceptualize ideas of personhood ascribed to the cultural other in the past (analogous to Marcel Mauss’ classical reconstruction of “personhood”, 1938).

3.

The first section of the workshop shall be dedicated to projects in the realm of (secular) mourning and grieving, to practices of digital commemoration, the circulation of images etc. The second part should deal with the digital practices of Farewell, with funeral rituals and the Internet, or with digital heritage. The third section will rather raise treat conceptual questions as mentioned above.

Literature
Mason-Robbie V., & Savin-Baden M. (2020). Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age. CRC Press.
Sisto D. (2018). La morte si fa social. Bollati Boringhieri, Turin.
Stokes P. (2021). Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death. Bloomsbury.

 

Participants

Thiemo Breyer, philosopher, phenomenologist, Cologne
Anja Dreschke, Filmmaker, photographer and anthropologist, Siegen
Anu A. Harju, Social sciences, PI of the research group: “Digital Death”, Helsinki
Miranda Hutton, photographer and anthropologist
Ulrich van Loyen, Media Studies, Siegen
Maya Mablin, anthropologist with great expertise in the field of Global Christianity, Edinburgh
Thomas Macho, philosopher, Director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna
Johannes Schick, philosopher, with special expertise in the field of philosophy of technology
Maria Serafini, philosopher, Milano
Johanna M. Sumiala, media studies, principal investigator of the Research Group: “Digital Death: Transforming history, rituals, and afterlife” (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-death-transforming-history-rituals-and-afterlife/people) Helsinki

 

Program

The program will be published soon

 

Contact

Chair of Media Theory and the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”
Dr. Dr. Ulrich van Loyen
ulrich.vanloyen[æt]uni-siegen.de
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Tue. 12 December 2023, 18:15 - 19:45
Workshop Media Praxis Theory - "Screens Shot: Mediating the Interactive Interface" - Lecture by Jacob Gaboury (University of California Berkeley)
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12 December 2023, 18:15 - 19:45

The screenshot is arguably one of the most pervasive digital image forms today, a digital snapshot that documents the visual output of a computer and its operations both extraordinary and mundane. Screenshots are an important tool for the archiving of digital environments, and remain central to the visual methods of both film studies and art history. That said, the nature of the screenshot as a method for capture has transformed radically over the past fifty years. What began as an analog process of photographing a screen or display has become an entirely digital operation, produced by software and stored as files to be transferred, uploaded, shared, and archived. Yet across the many disciplines for which it is an essential tool, the screenshot as photo-object has gone largely unremarked, its complex genealogy collapsed into a single button: PrtScn. This talk will examine the history of the digital screenshot from its origins in computer graphics labs in the 1960s to contemporary methods for digital archiving and preservation, asking what this history tells us about the materiality of the digital and the ways in which visual artifacts efface the complexity of digital systems.

Wed. 13 December 2023, 14:15 - 16:15
Research Forum: tba & Yijun Sun (MGK)
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13 December 2023, 14:15 - 16:15

14:15 – 15:15 Uhr

tba

 

15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

Yijun Sun (MGK) (Universität Siegen)

The Invention of Electronic Visuality: From Vacuum Tube to Computer Screen  (online)

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Wed. 10 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Frances Pope (Birmingham): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science I: Air of the Anthropocene
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10 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

Frances Pope (Birmingham): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science I: Air of the Anthropocene

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

Tue. 16 January 2024, 18:15 - 19:45
Workshop Media Praxis Theory - “Interface Critique at Large” - Lecture by Michael Dieter (University of Warwick)
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16 January 2024, 18:15 - 19:45

This talk will discuss how to understand the role of critique in relation to the increasing proliferation of interfaces across everyday life from apps to sensors. While theorizations of interface critique can be readily be found in HCI proposals such as reflexive design or humanistic HCI, or broadly within the interdisciplinary field of media art, these cases are not always considered within broader ecologies of practice or ‘critical technical cultures’ from industry practitioners to vernacular subcultures that also grapple with the asymmetries and exploitative aspects of interaction design.

Drawing from software studies and media theoretical accounts of the interface as a techno-fluid milieu, I offer a navigational matrix to contextualize modes of interface critique at large, namely specifying traps and enclosures, surfacing asymmetries and augmenting alternatives. I argue that these orientations provide an invitation to develop new metacritical theories and common capacities, particularly through the possibilities of grappling with systems of domination otherwise built to prefigure our experiences of them.

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Venue

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

Contact

SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”
Dr. Johannes Schick
johannes.schick[æt]uni-siegen.de
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Wed. 17 January 2024, 10:15 - 11:45
Workshop Media Praxis Theory - “From Apps to AI: Mapping Ecologies of Interface Proliferation” - Workshop by Michael Dieter (University of Warwick)
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17 January 2024, 10:15 - 11:45

Workshop Media Praxis Theory 

„From Apps to AI: Mapping Ecologies of Interface Proliferation“

Workshop with Michael Dieter (University of Warwick)

In my presentation based on recent theoretical work, I offer a navigational matrix for interface critique based on three orientations: identifying traps and enclosures, surfacing asymmetries and augmenting alternatives. Aiming to bridge a range of practices and conceptual contributions from HCI, media art, vernacular critique and practitioner-based design, this framework nevertheless is elaborated mainly in terms of experiments with the specific design-abilities of apps, social media platform infrastructures and the web.

This workshop invites participants to consider how this conceptual matrix, along with related work in the interdisciplinary field of interface critique, can be extended and refined through exploration of other forms of interface relation, including, for example, idioms of voice interfaces, capture of gestures, conversational design of chatbots, immersion of virtual and augmented reality consumer devices, and onto-epistemologies of environmental sensors, among others. What are the changing stakes for testing user-experience design as it proliferates into settings of urban design, healthcare, automobiles, money or the cognitive assemblages of machine-learning systems? How have forms of criticism and critique been elaborated in such contexts? What (extra)disciplinary forms of expertise are mobilized, and what kinds of collective critical knowledge, concepts and methods might be established in support of new common literacies, technologies and infrastructures?

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*As the workshop is an internal event, external guests please contact Dr. Johannes Schick by email for registration, indicating their academic title, full name, their institution, their official email address and the title of the event they wish to attend.

Venue

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

Contact

SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”
Dr. Johannes Schick
johannes.schick[æt]uni-siegen.de
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Wed. 17 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Erella Grassiani (Amsterdam): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science II The Tree as Weapon: (non) state securitization of trees in the Negev/Naqab
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17 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

Erella Grassiani (Amsterdam): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science II The Tree as Weapon: (non) state securitization of trees in the Negev/Naqab

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

Wed. 17 January 2024, 15:15 - 16:15
Research Forum
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17 January 2024, 15:15 - 16:15

15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

tba

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Wed. 31 January 2024, 14:00 -15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Christelle Gramaglia (Montpellier): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science III: Collaborative Sensing of Industrial Pollution in the Gulf of Fos (Marseille) - A Return to Common Sense?
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31 January 2024, 14:00 -15:00

Christelle Gramaglia (Montpellier): Anthropology and/as Citizen Science III: Collaborative Sensing of Industrial Pollution in the Gulf of Fos (Marseille) – A Return to Common Sense?

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

Wed. 31 January 2024, 14:15 - 16:15
Research Forum: tba and Johannes Schick
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31 January 2024, 14:15 - 16:15

14:15 – 15:15 Uhr

tba

 

15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

Johannes Schick (Universität Siegen)

The Category Project of the Durkheim School

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18

Past Events

Wed. 06 December 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Sensing, Sense Making and the Arts
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06 December 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

Sensing, Sense Making and the Arts

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

 

Thu. 30 November 2023 - Fri. 01 December 2023
Conference "Materialität – Affekt – Mobilität. Perspektiven auf eine Relation" (A04)
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30 November 2023 - 01 December 2023

Programm | Anmeldung | Veranstaltungsort

PROGRAMM

Donnerstag, 30. November 2023

bis 13:00 Ankommen
13:00 – 13:15 Begrüßung
13:15 – 14:45 Keynote LARISSA SCHINDLER (Uni Bayreuth): Mobilität und ihre Affekte
14:45 – 15:15 Kaffeepause
15:15 – 16:00 JAN SLABY (FU Berlin): Das Ungefühlte der Gesellschaft. Skizze einer kritischen Theorie der ökologischen Krise
16:00 – 16.45 CHRISTIANE ARNDT (Queen’s University): Gärtnern – Mobilisierung zum politischen Widerstand durch materielle Praktik
16:45 – 17:15 Kaffeepause
17:15 – 18:00 ROBERT SEYFERT (Uni Kiel): Affektive Temporalitäten. Eine Soziologie sozialer Raumprozesse
18:00 – 18:45 THERESIA LEUENBERGER (FH Nordwestschweiz): Affekt-Materialität-Relationen der mobil-flexiblen Arbeit. Eine Konzeption verschachtelter Atmosphären und sich überlappender Raumpraktiken am Beispiel von tätgkeitsbasierten Arbeitsumgebungen
Ab 19:30 Gemeinsames Abendessen

 

Freitag, 1. Dezember 2023

9:00 – 9:45 FRANK HILLEBRANDT (FernUni Hagen): Körper in Bewegung. Affekte und Effekte von Praxisformen des Protests
9:45 – 10:30 DANIEL ELLWANGER (Uni Leipzig): Empfänglich werden. Über die Kultivierung eines religiösen Sensoriums
10:30 – 10:45 Kaffeepause
10:45 – 11:30 ANNA DORN (Uni Mainz): Von Körpern, Substanzen und serologischem Fühlen. Bemerkungen zur Relation zwischen wirkmächtigen Materialitäten und körperlichen Empfindungen
11:30 – 13:00 Mittagspause
13:00 – 13:45 JULIA BEE (Uni Siegen): Fahrradutopien – Affekte im Feministischen Fahrradvlog
13:45 – 14:30 KATHARINA MANDERSCHEID (Uni Hamburg): Fahrzeuge, Wege und Affekte. Beobachtungen aus der Pandemie
14:30 – 14.45 Kaffeepause
14:45 – 15:30 ALEXANDER HARMS (Uni Marburg): Der Schlaf als Therapieobjekt. Technische Innovationen für die Schlafapnoetherapie und deren Einfluss auf Koschläfer:innen
15:30 –16:00  Abschluss der Tagung

 

ORGANISATORISCHE HINWEISE
Wir bitten um Anmeldung zur Tagung bis zum 20. November 2023 an Philipp Meinert (philipp.meinert[æt]student.uni-siegen.de).

 

Venue

University of Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
Siegen
Lageplan
Wed. 29 November 2023, 14:15 - 16:15
Research Forum: ZfM 29 “Test”
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29 November 2023, 14:15 - 16:15

Presentation of the current
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 29 „Test“

Research Forum of the
CRC1187 Media of Cooperation

As part of the research forum of the CRC 1187 Media of Cooperation, we will present the current ZfM 29 “Test” on November 29. Our guests are contributors to the thematic focus: Oliver Heise, David Bucheli, Gabriele Schabacher, Sophie Spallinger, Daniela Holzer and Philippe Sormani. The editors Sebastian Gießmann and Carolin Gerlitz will introduce the focus topic before individual contributions and their development process are discussed and presented by the authors. We invite all interested parties to a lively exchange about media testing practices, habits and histories, especially under the conditions of artificial intelligence.

This issue asks how media and tests are mutually constituted, paying special attention to the politics of testing. We propose to understand tests as open situations in which socio-technical evaluations and decisions are accomplished either along established standards, or along emerging evaluative criteria. We propose an account of testing that is informed by media and cultural studies: Within the micro-decisions of distributed and distributive testing, the Social itself is put to the test. The contributions gathered in this issue emphasise that there is no test without media – and no medium without a test.

 

ZfM 29 „Test“: https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/29-22023-test

 

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Wed. 29 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi): Sensing and Sensemaking in– Lebanon: A landscape of War
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29 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi): Sensing and Sensemaking in– Lebanon: A landscape of War

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

Fri. 17 November 2023 - Sat. 18 November 2023
Master Class Media Ethnography - Part 2
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17 November 2023 - 18 November 2023

Köln-Siegener Meisterklasse Medienethnographie

Die Nutzung audiovisueller Medien hat in der Geschichte ethnographischer Forschungsansätze eine immer stärker aufgefächerte methodische Diskussion nach sich gezogen. Daraus haben sich innovative Impulse für die wechselseitigen Kooperationsverhältnisse ergeben, die zwischen den ethnographisch Forschenden, den an der Forschung Teilnehmenden und dem Publikum ethnographischer Forschungsergebnisse, sowie den unterschiedlich involvierten Medien entstehen. In der Köln-Siegener Meisterklasse für Medienethnographie werden führende Vertreter:innen der visuellen Ethnologie ihre Arbeiten und Forschungsansätze vorstellen und mit den Teilnehmer:innen das je eigene Forschungsmaterial diskutieren.

In Bildern dokumentarisch erzählen
Für alle, die Bildern und beobachtenden Szenen mehr Gewicht in ihren Dokumentarfilmen geben wollen. Ein praktischer Workshop.

Teil 1:
Freitag (03.11.) – von 14:00 bis 19:15 im Gebäude 106, Raum S26
Samstag (04.11.)  – von 09:00 bis 15:30 im Gebäude 103, Raum S69

Teil 2:
Freitag (17.11.) – von 14:00 bis 19.15 Uhr im Gebäude 106, Raum S26
Samstag (18.11.) – von 09:00 bis 15.30 Uhr im Gebäude 103, Raum S69

Voraussetzungen: Teilnahme an allen Terminen; keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich, eigener Laptop erforderlich, eigene Kamera (z.B. Smartphone/Kompaktkamera) von Vorteil, eigene  Filmidee möglich aber nicht notwendig (bitte bei der Anmeldung angeben)

Teilnahme: 15 Personen max.

Inhalt
Was sind Bilder? Und wie nehme ich Videos/Sequenzen auf, die mit Bildern erzählen? In diesem Workshop geht es um das Sehen, das genaue Hinschauen, das Wahrnehmen von Stimmungen und das bildliche Aufnehmen dieser mit der Videokamera. Praktische Übungen und theoretische Überlegungen werden sich abwechseln. Wir sprechen über filmische Haltungen, über mögliches Material jenseits von talking heads und Interviews, und über Storytelling. Wie verorte ich mich im Film? Wie funktionieren Reportagen? Wie arbeiten künstlerische Dokumentarfilme? Zusammen werden wir kurze Szenen aufnehmen: Wie werden Handlungen bildlich aufgelöst? Worauf muss ich achten? Was sind die besonderen Herausforderungen des “beobachtenden Drehens” (fly-on-the-wall-Ansatz)?Zum Abschluss wollen wir verschiedene Erzählstrukturen anschauen: Wie unterscheiden sie sich? Was transportieren sie? Und was bedeutet es für die Bilder/Sequenzen, die ich aufnehme?

Wenn Teilnehmende eine eigene Filmidee haben, die sie umsetzen möchten, können sie die sehr gerne einbringen. Im Laufe des Workshops werde ich dann versuchen, praktische Tipps und Tricks zu geben.

Zur Person
Sebastian Eschenbach hat visuelle Anthropologie studiert und arbeitet seit 25 Jahren als freiberuflicher Dokumentarfilmer. Seine Arbeiten reichen von experimentellen Dokumentarfilmen über konventionelle TV Dokumentationen bis hin zu künstlerischen Dokumentarfilmen. Sein letzter Film “Von Wurzeln, Gärten und anderen Früchten. Mit Migrant*innen durch das Gartenjahr” ist 2022 erschienen (DE, 70’).

Venue

Universität zu Köln

Links

Poster
Wed. 15 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena (Sevilla): Sensing and Sensemaking across Borders – Spain/Morocco: Borderscapes & humanitarian detention: Conflict & cooperation between securitarian and humanitarian actors.
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15 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena (Sevilla): Sensing and Sensemaking across Borders – Spain/Morocco: Borderscapes & humanitarian detention: Conflict & cooperation between securitarian and humanitarian actors.

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

Tue. 14 November 2023, 19:3
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena (Sevilla): Film Screening and Discussion “Solidarity Crime"
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14 November 2023, 19:3

Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena (Sevilla): Film Screening and Discussion “Solidarity Crime”

Filmscreening of the Documentary “Solidarity Crime” followed by an audience discussion.
More information here: https://rausgegangen.de/en/events/solidarity-crime-0/

 


 

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

 

Venue

Kino in der Brücke
Hahnenstr. 6
50667 Köln
Thu. 09 November 2023 - Fri. 10 November 2023
Conference "Diverse Körperlichkeit(en) von Sensormedien? Situierung, Differenzierung, Standardisierung"
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09 November 2023 - 10 November 2023

Herbsttagung der DGS Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports in Kooperation mit dem SFB-1187 „Medien der Kooperation“

Join via Webex: 
https://uni-siegen.webex.com/uni-siegen/j.php?MTID=mc2c6918abfcc204f734d16ad39778f4b

Programm

Donnerstag, 09.11.2023


Get together mit veganem Snack

Begrüßung und thematische Einführung durch den Sektionsvorstand und den SFB-1187 Ajit Singh (Bielefeld), Hanna Göbel (Hamburg), Lisa Wiedemann (Hamburg) und Clemens Eisenmann (Siegen/Konstanz)


15 Minuten Pause 

Körper | Korpus: (Nicht-)Fühlende Wesen in der Robotik.
Marie Großmann (Mainz) und Herbert Kalthoff (Mainz)

Standardisierung(en) von Körperlichkeit(en) in Produktentwicklungsprozessen: Analyse impliziter Stereotype und Identifikation erzeugter Diskriminierungen
Niklas Hermann Henke (Toulouse/Düsseldorf)


30 Minuten Kaffeepause

Körpersoziologische Überlegungen zur leiblichen Dislokation des Selbst mittels Somatechnologien
Ilona Straub (Konstanz)

Methoden des Metaversums: Ad hoc, ad nauseam, cui bono, et cetera, hic et nunc, in medias res, in situ*
Philippe Sormani (Siegen/Zürich)


15 Minuten Pause
17:30–18:30 Uhr: Mitgliederversammlung der DGS Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports



Brasserie Ristorante e Piazza, Unteres Schloß 1, 57072 Siegen

 

Freitag, 10.11.2023

09:00 – 09:30 Uhr: Get together

Überwachen und Schlafen. Differenzierungspraktiken der Schlafmedizin
Svenja Reinhardt (Marburg)

Temporalisierte Körper: Ethnographische Erkundungen in der klinischen Schlafforschung
Sebastian Weste (Marburg)


15 Minuten Kaffeepause 

Diskutant-innen: Jutta Wiesemann (Siegen) und Marcus Burkhardt (Siegen)


Gemeinsames Mittagessen in der Mensa Unteres Schloss, Obergraben 18


 


Call for Papers

Diverse Körperlichkeit(en) von Sensormedien?
Situierung, Differenzierung, Standardisierung

Herbsttagung
der DGS Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports
(in Kooperation mit dem SFB-1187 „Medien der Kooperation“)
Universität Siegen, 09. – 10.11.2023

Körperliche Wahrnehmungen, Praktiken und Handlungen werden zunehmend durch Technologien und digitale Medien vermittelt und in besonderer Weise durch diese (mit-) hervorgebracht. Viele Untersuchungen, die im Zuge der Digitalisierungs- und Mediatisierungsschübe der vergangenen Jahrzehnte und Jahre (pandemiebedingte Formen der digitalen Kommunikation, KI-Systeme als Teil von Entscheidungsprozessen, Chat GPT, neue Sensormedien, datenintensive Umwelten und digitale Infrastrukturen im urbanen oder architektonisch gestalteten Raum, etc.) entstanden sind, zeigten auf, wie Medien, Applikationen oder Hoch-Technologien auf verschiedene Sinne(smodalitäten) einwirken und infolgedessen Körperlichkeit(en) verändern, neujustieren oder auch irritieren. Dabei wird vielfach deutlich, dass bereits ohnehin marginalisierte Personengruppen und ihre Interaktions- und Wissensformen im Alltag durch die Produktion und Handhabung von neuen Digitaltechnologien nicht nur gestärkt, sondern in der Tendenz weiterhin – und z.T. auf neue Weise – ausgehend von ihrer Körperlichkeit ausgegrenzt, stigmatisiert und diskriminiert werden. „Diverse Körperlichkeit(en)“ soll(en) in diesem Zusammenhang auf der Herbsttagung als eine gemeinsame, möglichst weite Heuristik für körpersoziologische Perspektiven dienen, die die mithin digitale und technisch induzierte Konstruktion von körperlichen Differenzen und Diversität im Zusammenhang mit historischen und neu entstehenden sozialen Ungleichheiten, Vulnerabilitäten und Exklusionsmechanismen fassen können.

Ein aufschlussreicher Gegenstand für die Erforschung der gegenwärtigen Wechselwirkungen von diversen Körperlichkeiten und digitalen Medien bildet die Schnittstelle verkörperter Sensormedien. Darunter lassen sich zunächst all jene Medien und Technologien fassen, die körperliche Sinne in ihrer Wirk- und Wahrnehmungsqualität erweitern, vermitteln oder konstituieren. Dabei stellt sich die übergreifende Frage, wie Sensormedien diverse Körperlichkeiten herausfordern, wenn Körper z.T. ermächtigt, aber auch mit neuen – häufig nicht-intendierten – Vulnerabilitäten, Effekten, Reibungen, Problemen und Folgen konfrontiert oder gänzlich exkludiert werden. Klärungsbedürftig ist in dem Zusammenhang nicht nur, wie sich Sensormedien in Körper einschreiben und wie sie alltäglich verkörpert werden, sondern bereits vorgeschaltet, welche z.T. standardisierten Körpervorstellungen und Körpertechniken, bzw. Praktiken und spezifische Wissensformen in Sensormedien inskribiert sind. Im situierten und multisensorischen Zusammenspiel von dem, was gesehen, getastet, geschmeckt, gehört oder in der Bewegung erfahren werden kann, stellen sich somit die Fragen, wie sowohl Körper als auch Sensormedien in Praktiken, Handlungen und Interaktionen hervorgebracht werden und wie Wahrnehmungen durch Technologien, Erfahrung und Wissen vermittelt und sozial konstituiert werden.

Diskutieren möchten wir folglich Fragestellungen nach der (sozialen) Wahrnehmung und alltäglichen praktischen Verkörperung von in Körpern, Alltagsgegenständen, Technologien und urbanen Infrastrukturen oder Architekturen verbauten Sensoren. Ein Zugang zu Sensormedien lässt sich aus einer körpersoziologischen Perspektive – auch im Anschluss an Phänomenologie, (Feminist) STS, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Human Computer Design oder Critical Data Studies – fruchtbar an die immer noch aktuellen Diskussionen um die Bedeutung der sozialen, kulturellen und materiellen Dimension von Sinnlichkeit anschließen. Diskussionen, die mit Perspektiven auf Einzel-Sinne und deren Hierarchisierung brechen und mit Multisensorialität das komplexe, historische und soziale Zusammenspiel zum Gegenstand machen. Einen weiteren Zugang bilden aktuelle Debatten um soziale Diskriminierung – wie sie bspw. auch in sozialen Bewegungen, wie LGBTIQ+, PoC oder Crip-Movement virulent werden – sowie situierte und intersektionale Perspektiven, die u. a. darauf abzielen, körperliche Differenzen und damit einhergehende Differenzierungsprozesse theoretisch wie empirisch fassen zu können. Entsprechend laden wir besonders dazu ein an diverse, queere, anti-rassistische oder crip-genealogische sowie klassistische Perspektiven und Ansätze anzuschließen und diese mit Blick auf Sensormedien im körpersoziologischen Kontext weiterzudenken.

Die Tagung widmet sich dem Alltag von und mit Sensormedien und deren sinnlichen und körperlichen Intimität unter den Vorzeichen sozialer Differenz und Diversität und fragt danach, wie digital gestützte Multisensorialitäten das Soziale formen. Mit dem Untertitel „Situierung, Differenzierung, Standardisierung“, schlagen wir drei heuristische bzw. analytische Perspektiven vor, die sich z. T. überschneiden und in den folgenden Fragen exemplarisch widerspiegeln:

  • Situierung. Inwiefern können Sensormedien die sinnliche Wahrnehmung rekonfiguieren? Wie ist das Zusammenspiel von menschlichem Sensorium und technologischen Sensoren in sozialen Situationen, d.h. in Praktiken, Interaktions- und Wissensformen situiert? Welche alltäglichen Situierungen fordern diverse Körperlichkeiten angesichts zunehmender sozialer Ungleichheiten, Exklusionsmechanismen und marginalisierter Wissensformen heraus? Und inwiefern werden diese auch im Forschungsprozess relevant und reflektiert?
  • Differenzierung. Welche Körperlichkeiten geraten über soziale Differenzen und Differenzierungsprozesse in den Blick? Wie sind diese ausschlaggebend für die Konstruktion von (marginalisiertem) Wissen, bzw. Praxis- und Interaktionsformen, die z.T. außerhalb des Radius von Sensormedien liegen? Welche neuen Vulnerabilitäten, Diskriminierungen und Verantwortlichkeiten entstehen durch sinnliche Sensorbeziehungen?
  • Standardisierung. Wie und inwiefern inskribieren sich standardisiertes Körperwissen, Körpertechniken und Praktiken im Design und in gebauten Infrastrukturen von Sensormedien? Welche Körper werden exkludiert? Welche Standardisierungen zeigen sich in der Interaktion/Intraaktion mit Sensormedien und deren Umwelten? Wie wird marginalisiertes Wissen in die Standardisierung von Abläufen und Routinen, die durch Sensormedien gestützt werden, übersetzt? Wie ist der Zusammenhang zwischen sozialen Praktiken der Gestaltung, Nutzung und Formen der Standardisierung neu zu denken?

Call for Papers PDF

Venue

University of Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 110
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Contact

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Wed. 08 November 2023, 14:15 - 16:15
Research Forum: Elena Pilipets und Philippe Sormani
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08 November 2023, 14:15 - 16:15

14:15 – 15:15 Uhr

Elena Pilipets (P03) (Universität Siegen)

Programmability: Porn Bots, Authenticity, and Social Automation on Instagram

 

15:15 – 16:15 Uhr

Philippe Sormani (Universität Siegen)

Unframing ‘AI’: Of Machines, Media, and Montage?

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Wed. 08 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series : "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Massimiliano Mollona (Universität Bologna): Between Art, Activism and Anthropology. An exploration of artistic practices as militant research
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08 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

Massimiliano Mollona (Universität Bologna):
Between Art, Activism and Anthropology. An exploration of artistic practices as militant research

The talk discusses ethnographic fieldwork as a process of sense making in the broader acception, that is of making sense of an increasingly complex and contested world, in which the practice of research and that of activism tend to overlap with unforeseeable consequences.  I discuss particularly the relevance of art practices for an ethnographic engagement at the threshold between pedagogy and activism.

Massimiliano Mollona’s main research focus is on labour, class, and post-capitalism. His work experiments at the intersection between anthropology and socially engaged art, both through scholarly contributions, and through practical engagement with the art world, such as collaborative film projects; directorship of the Athens Biennale and the Bergen Assembly and the founding of the Institute of Radical Imagination, a collective of social centres, curators, museums, and artists operating at the intersection of art and social activism. Mollona is leading the project Cinema as Assembly, a collaboration with major European museums and international scholars on cinema as tool of political gathering across indigenous locales in the global south; with anthropologist James Clifford he is working on Impossible Realism, and with artist Dora Garcia, on the ‘unartist’ as part of his project on communist art.

Zoom info:

Topic: 60 Minutes in Anthropology WS 2023/24 in co-op. with SFB 1187
Time: Nov 8, 2023 02:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/j/94597966553?pwd=T2xQWTFsZjBVUVJNWERXajZxcXlndz09
Meeting ID: 945 9796 6553
Password: 012805

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

 


 

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

 
Fri. 03 November 2023 - Sat. 04 November 2023
Master Class Media Ethnography - Part 1
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03 November 2023 - 04 November 2023

Köln-Siegener Meisterklasse Medienethnographie

Die Nutzung audiovisueller Medien hat in der Geschichte ethnographischer Forschungsansätze eine immer stärker aufgefächerte methodische Diskussion nach sich gezogen. Daraus haben sich innovative Impulse für die wechselseitigen Kooperationsverhältnisse ergeben, die zwischen den ethnographisch Forschenden, den an der Forschung Teilnehmenden und dem Publikum ethnographischer Forschungsergebnisse, sowie den unterschiedlich involvierten Medien entstehen. In der Köln-Siegener Meisterklasse für Medienethnographie werden führende Vertreter:innen der visuellen Ethnologie ihre Arbeiten und Forschungsansätze vorstellen und mit den Teilnehmer:innen das je eigene Forschungsmaterial diskutieren.

In Bildern dokumentarisch erzählen
Für alle, die Bildern und beobachtenden Szenen mehr Gewicht in ihren Dokumentarfilmen geben wollen. Ein praktischer Workshop.

Teil 1:
Freitag (03.11.) – von 14:00 bis 19:15 im Gebäude 106, Raum S26
Samstag (04.11.)  – von 09:00 bis 15:30 im Gebäude 103, Raum S69

Teil 2:
Freitag (17.11.) – von 14:00 bis 19.15 Uhr im Gebäude 106, Raum S26
Samstag (18.11.) – von 09:00 bis 15.30 Uhr im Gebäude 103, Raum S69

Voraussetzungen: Teilnahme an allen Terminen; keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich, eigener Laptop erforderlich, eigene Kamera (z.B. Smartphone/Kompaktkamera) von Vorteil, eigene  Filmidee möglich aber nicht notwendig (bitte bei der Anmeldung angeben)

Teilnahme: 15 Personen max.

Inhalt
Was sind Bilder? Und wie nehme ich Videos/Sequenzen auf, die mit Bildern erzählen? In diesem Workshop geht es um das Sehen, das genaue Hinschauen, das Wahrnehmen von Stimmungen und das bildliche Aufnehmen dieser mit der Videokamera. Praktische Übungen und theoretische Überlegungen werden sich abwechseln. Wir sprechen über filmische Haltungen, über mögliches Material jenseits von talking heads und Interviews, und über Storytelling. Wie verorte ich mich im Film? Wie funktionieren Reportagen? Wie arbeiten künstlerische Dokumentarfilme? Zusammen werden wir kurze Szenen aufnehmen: Wie werden Handlungen bildlich aufgelöst? Worauf muss ich achten? Was sind die besonderen Herausforderungen des “beobachtenden Drehens” (fly-on-the-wall-Ansatz)?Zum Abschluss wollen wir verschiedene Erzählstrukturen anschauen: Wie unterscheiden sie sich? Was transportieren sie? Und was bedeutet es für die Bilder/Sequenzen, die ich aufnehme?

Wenn Teilnehmende eine eigene Filmidee haben, die sie umsetzen möchten, können sie die sehr gerne einbringen. Im Laufe des Workshops werde ich dann versuchen, praktische Tipps und Tricks zu geben.

Zur Person
Sebastian Eschenbach hat visuelle Anthropologie studiert und arbeitet seit 25 Jahren als freiberuflicher Dokumentarfilmer. Seine Arbeiten reichen von experimentellen Dokumentarfilmen über konventionelle TV Dokumentationen bis hin zu künstlerischen Dokumentarfilmen. Sein letzter Film “Von Wurzeln, Gärten und anderen Früchten. Mit Migrant*innen durch das Gartenjahr” ist 2022 erschienen (DE, 70’).

Venue

Universität zu Köln

Links

Poster
Wed. 18 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series "Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking“: Johara Beriane (München) : Sensing and Sensemaking: Migration
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18 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

Johara Beriane (München) : Sensing and Sensemaking: Migration

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne

Tue. 17 October 2023, 10:00 - 12:00
Online Workshop "Introduction to Financial Strategies and Retirement Provision" - Claudia Müller
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17 October 2023, 10:00 - 12:00
The presentation will introduce main aspects and reasons on why and how we should care about our financial situations and future plans, e.g. 
  • first steps and easy ways, 
  • saving and investing for beginners, 
  • general gap in retirement provisions and finances for (future) families
  • our academic situation and the financial challenges that come with it
There will be short inputs and time for questions and discussion. No prior knowledge is required. 
 
The presentation will be hold Claudia Müller from Female Finance Forum (www.femalefinanceforum.de) who has a background in international economics and political science and is an expert on sustainable investment.
 
We can offer 5 additional individual coaching slots afterwards for our female members. If you are interested contact selina.seibt@student.uni-siegen.de.
 
The event will be in English and take place online.

Venue

Online event
Wed. 11 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:00
Lecture Series “Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking”: Khalid Mouna (Meknes): Sensing and Sensemaking: North Morocco: When the margins produce their sound. Drug users in Tangier, Morocco.
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11 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

Khalid Mouna (Meknes): Sensing and Sensemaking: North Morocco: When the margins produce their sound. Drug users in Tangier, Morocco.

All lectures take place in Cologne and also online.

This Lecture Series explores dynamics of sensing and sense making, and thus takes up a topic that is at the center of interdisciplinary work at the CRC “Media of Cooperation” (Siegen/Cologne). At the same time, it introduces the research of the CRC to researchers at the University of Cologne and various international working groups in and on the Mediterranean by using the well-established “60 Minutes” in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology as a forum.

The increasing spread of sensor technologies and the equipping of smart devices with sensors restructures forms of perception, sensing and knowledge making. Sensors measure movements in the city, record air quality, temperatures and energy consumption, control production and logistics processes in interaction with algorithms and learning systems, track the behavior and well-being of people, recognize people in images and video recordings or re-organize (digital) terrains. Sensor data, their collection, analysis, and integration with other data formats, and their interaction with various forms of practice are constitutive not only of sensing, but also of sense making.

In this series of talks, we are interested in forms of sensing and sense making vis-à-vis major dynamics of socio-political and environmental crises in and beyond the Mediterranean, in particular (1) mobility and related border regimes, (2) growing environmental crises and their (non)management, and (3) forms of social mobilization (activism) and their control. All three areas are characterized by specific forms of socio-technical sensing and the engagement with it – sense making, both distributed among multiple actors, including humans, machines, and the environment itself. Sensor media are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and come with a number of ethical and political challenges – such as the erosion of privacy, new forms of surveillance, and socio-technical proliferation of prejudices and various forms of bias. Often they are perceived as both – as drivers of, but also as possible solutions for different forms of social, political, technical and environmental crises.

In this lecture series, Sensing and Sense Making will be explored praxeologically – and thus in its various forms and formats. Part I will investigate forms of sense making in the context of deadly borders regimes, in hazardous environments and as part of social activism. Part II will look at the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic research and public interventions to engage with situations of crises and collaborative knowledge production.

Organized by Nina ter Laan, Carla Tiefenbacher and Martin Zillinger for the CRC “Media of Cooperation” Siegen/Cologne and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DoSCA), University of Cologne.

Wed. 27 September 2023 - Fri. 29 September 2023
Exhibition: Reinventing Touch. Sensory practices in digital childhoods
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27 September 2023 - 29 September 2023

Ausstellung Berührung Neu Erfinden

 

Special opening times:

27th September 2023: 12 – 8 p.m.

28th September 2023: 12 – 8 p.m.

29th September 2023: 12 – 4 p.m.

27th September 2023: 6 – 8 p.m. „Meet the camera ethnographers“

 

There’s an extra chance to visit the exhibition – as part of the 31st annual conference of the German Educational Research Association (GERA)’s subdivision Primary Education Research.

 


What happens to touch when we come together digitally? Does it get lost, or altered, or is it set loose to wander between and among the senses? Where humans interact with digital devices, the limits of what can be understood as touch appear to be shifting. Those unstable limits can be studied, probed, und experienced in the exhibition “Reinventing touch”: a camera ethnographic Blicklabor (laboratory of gazes) in which hands, heads, arms, faces, voices, earth, and glass interact as media of touch. The exhibited video installations provoke reflection on and reconsideration of touch, the senses, and digital media. Their protagonists are children for whom the digital is an integral part of everyday life – a generation that never experienced the analogue “old days”, and never will. Perhaps now is the time to ask whether touch is currently undergoing reinvention – in early childhood and beyond.

An exhibition by the camera ethnographic research team Bina E. Mohn, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl together with Jutta Wiesemann, PI of the research project “Early Childhood and Smartphone“ within the collaborative research centre 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, Germany. Realised in collaboration with greinerdesign and hosted by the Haus der Wissenschaft, Siegen.

Venue

Haus der Wissenschaft
Villa Sauer
Obergraben 23
57072 Siegen

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