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*Digital Subjects* one day symposium *12 May 2016, Senate House, London* *Organiser:* Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway University of London Digital subjects can be many things: a nested set of abstractions assembled by algorithms; a dynamic data aggregate feeding upon the movement of bodies in space and time; an experiential, sensuous presence and performance online. Digital subjects are the subjects of profiles, video channels, search query histories, inboxes, logs of GPS coordinates, traded data of financial transactions or travel card usage. The reason why it's worth calling them subjects are the new ontological and epistemological demands placed by the rapid development of computational infrastructures and our cyborgian lives. The question of the digital subject is a political question wielded by the disciplinary lines of differentiation. These lines are cut in the thick distance that joins together human, posthuman, nonhuman and the digital (Goriunova). Some humanities regard digital subjects from the point of view of the operation of representational data surveillance (data gathered forms a shadow of the human (Raley)) and a political/legal question (Rouvroy); some data sciences ignore the distance and claim that data gives direct access to, in this case, humans (people are equal to their tweets). Many contemporary art practices, especially feminist performances online, explore the distance as a thick field of production that is not fully determined (Scourti). The aim of the event is to rethink the subject and think the digital subject from the point of view of different genealogies, reasons, expressions and logics. What we aim to work towards is not a return to any previous form of unity, but a way to construct an understanding of computational kinds of subjects and their ways of generation, production, and sustenance. *This is a Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre event in cooperation with the Department of Media Arts* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *PROGRAMME* *12 May, **Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU* *ROOM BSQ-SH264* 9.30 Registration 9.45 Introduction Chair: *Silvia Mollicchi* 10.00 – 10.50 *Lisa Blackman,* Data are Us? The challenges of computational cultures for theorising the subject(s) of digital mediation 10.50 - 11.40 *Luciana Parisi,* The Alien Subject of AI *Coffee break* 11.40 – 11.50 Chair: *Nathan Jones* 11.50 - 12.40 *Katerina Kolozova*, Subjectivity without physicality *Lunch break* (lunch not provided) 12.40-13.30 Chair: *Scott Wark* 13.30 - 14.20 *Andreas Bernard, *The Knowledge of the Profile. Conceptions of the Self in Digital Cultures 14.20 - 15.10 *Christoph Engemann,* Declarative & Procedural Identity - Governmediality after Snowden *Coffee break* 15.10-15.30 Chair: *Giles Askham* 15.30 - 16.20 *Rózsa Zita Farkas, *Feminist Performance on the Web 16.20 - 17.10 *Erica Scourti, *Evasive Actions: on the Limits of Intelligibility *Attendance: free. Please register by emailing Olga Goriunova at [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* Full description, abstracts and bios can be found at: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/events/eventsarticles/digital-subjects1.aspx -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------