[spectre] CFP Flesh and Circuits: Rethinking Performance and Technology

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Dear All, 

A CFP for a CAA panel I'm co-chairing that may be of interest for
those of you planning to be at CAA 2020. Pleas get in touch with
either of us if you've any questions, emails below
best

Conor

FLESH AND CIRCUIT: RETHINKING PERFORMANCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The relationship between performance and technology has received
increased attention since the end of the 20th century. The live,
embodied, material, and interactive qualities of performance have made
it a notable means of exploring the creative potential of
technological engagement acting as a critical vector for revealing and
resisting the technological colonization of everyday life. The
innovative collaborations of Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT)
during the 1960’s with artists such as Yvonne Ranier and Robert
Rauschenberg, Sterlac’s extreme body modifications, Guillermo
Gomez-Pena’s poetic technology, and Blast Theory’s critical
interactive productions, have mapped the advances in technology and
opened new creative fields to explore. However, there are still some
significant oversights in regard to the pervasive and intimate nature
of technological tracking, surveillance, and behavioral modification
of algorithmic governmentality. Currently, technological embodiment
assumes new forms tied to data assemblages of unprecedented scope and
granularity. The body is commodified as data to be exchanged,
surveilled, and controlled in algorithmic regimes of governance and as
raw material for machine learning and AI. New normative assumptions
are being hard-coded into data-driven algorithmic systems that amplify
and consolidate bias, which include disability, nonbinary gender,
queer identity, and race. Artists working with performance and
technology are engaging with these exclusions, re-defining embodiment
for the 21st century.This panel invites submissions from artists and
scholars that rethink the relationship between performance and
technology. Potential technologies to consider include: mobile tech,
augmented and virtual reality, sensors, open source hardware and
software, customized interactive platforms, robotics, and
biotechnology.

Chairs: EL Putnam,National University Ireland, Galway -
el.putnam[AT]nuigalway.ie and Conor McGarrigle, Technological
University Dublin - conor.mcgarrigle[AT]dit.ie
Submissions due by July 23 

Session details
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session5062.html
[1]
Submission Information
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html [2]

Links:
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[1]
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session5062.html
[2] https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html

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