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Postdigital Cultures, Coventry
University, UK.</span></p>
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Post-Pandemic Times’ will take
place online over the course of two days: </span></p>
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6:20pm BST) </span></p>
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href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coventry.ac.uk%2Fresearch%2Fareas-of-research%2Fpostdigital-cultures%2Fcpc-2021-conference%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caa4180%40coventry.ac.uk%7Ca3bf5ba7e79c4c326b7a08d929b0c359%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C637586661575333693%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=hHlV5ZnVBFbsGe6joY1kkOyuLLogwh57SDpwerkAXzs%3D&reserved=0">https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/cpc-2021-conference/</a>
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"Arial",sans-serif">Keynote speakers: </span></p>
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line-height:115%"><span
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"Arial",sans-serif">Binna Choi - director of Casco Art
Institute: Working for
the Commons</span></p>
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">Leslie Kern - Mount Allison
University, author of <i>The
Feminist City</i> (Verso, 2020)</span></p>
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"Arial",sans-serif">‘The Postdigital City for
Post-Pandemic Times’</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All
cities can now
be said to be postdigital since digital information processing
has permeated
nearly every aspect of their existence: communication,
entertainment,
education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing,
food, water
supply. Yet cities today also </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">face numerous <i>predigital</i> problems: </span><span
style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">poverty,</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> population</span><span
style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
density,
unemployment, racist state violence, segregation, social
inequality, violence
against women, climate breakdown and threats to public health
posed by novel
viruses. Given the funding cuts imposed by governments in the
name of
‘austerity’, a lot of cash-strapped cities have been forced to
reduce their
public infrastructure budgets</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">. </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Britain has closed 800
of its public libraries</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> since 2010, for example </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">–
that’s almost one fifth of the total. The coronavirus pandemic
has only made the </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">situation
worse,</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US"> and not just in the UK. A</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
survey of </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">760 museum directors</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
by the American Alliance of Museums found that one third of
their
institutions may not reopen after the <span
style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">outbreak</span>.
As a result, the path has been left clear for private providers
</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">to
enter spaces long considered the domain of the <span
style="color:black">public
sector. </span></span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">That many cities are
planning for </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">their
post-Covid future by </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">looking to </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">for-profit
businesses</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> for
<span style="color:black">investment
and infrastructure, often partnering with multinational data
surveillance
companies such as Amazon, Google and Uber, is all the more
surprising given the
virus has clearly exposed the danger of </span></span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">relying on the private sector. Doing so
led to vaccines for diseases with pandemic potential not being
developed in
advance as businesses perceived them as having insufficient
potential to
generate profits </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">for their
owners, shareholders and
investors</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">. The fight
against a pandemic only works if <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">everyone</i>
<i>everywhere</i> is vaccinated, not just those who can afford
to pay for the
privilege. The same can be said of other aspects of municipal
health and
welfare. Cities are only really fit to live in if they provide <i>all</i>
of
their human and nonhuman inhabitants –– people, animals, plants
– with a decent
quality of life. The climate and environmental crises have made
this
clear.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">How
can we
reimagine our cities for post-pandemic times? And what role can
postdigital
media, from AI and FemTech to augmented reality and 360 video
play in such
public placemaking? This conference will examine how <span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">artists, activists, designers, theorists, practitioners,
publishers and
writers </span>can work together (albeit not necessarily
without disagreement
and dissensus) to intervene in and transform cities for the 21<sup>st</sup>
century world after austerity, the Covid outbreak and the recent
Extinction
Rebellion, Black Lives Matter and violence against women
protests. It will
explore how postdigital cities, and the cultural institutions
within them, can
be reshaped, including through the provision of a diverse range
of co-created
and </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">co-curated
<span style="color:black">alternatives to those currently being
offered by the
state and corporate realms. It will show how urban citizens
and communities can
use the infrastructural tools and resources generated by
advocates of open
access, free and open-source software, p2p filesharing,
copyfarleft, ‘piracy’
and the anti-privatized knowledge commons; and how they can
build their own
anticapitalist,<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
antiracist </span>or<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
antiheteropatriarchal</span> versions of
galleries, libraries, archives and museums. By cultivating </span></span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#10100F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">conditions
for a </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">wide
range of situated ideas, initiatives and projects, <span
style="color:black">the
conference will look to generate a nonharmonious pluriverse of
more </span>socially
just and environmentally sustainable ways of living and working
in the
postdigital city.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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conference includes panels
on: </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Being
Public: placemaking with
the whistle-blower, the heckler, the killjoy and the protestor /
'She Was Just
Walking Home': on violence against women / Publishing and Place:
situated
knowledges in art and academia / The Immersive City: co-creating
with 360
video, augmented and virtual reality / AI and Algorithmic
Cultures: from
predictive policing to intelligent assistants on phones and in
homes. </span></p>
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">Participants include:</span></p>
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">Adrienne Evans, Debra Ferreday,
Devi Kolli, Gary Hall, Ian
Bruff, Ian Forrester, Jacqueline Cawston, Janneke Adema, Kevin
Walker, Lena
Wånggren, Lindsay Balfour, Maria Economou, Matt Davies, Mel
Jordan, Nathan
O'Donnell, Priya Rajasekar, Ravin Raori, Sylvester Arnab,
Vidushi Marda<i> </i></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">Find out more and sign up here: </span><a
href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coventry.ac.uk%2Fresearch%2Fabout-us%2Fresearch-events%2F2021%2Fthe-postdigital-city%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caa4180%40coventry.ac.uk%7C2240c39c72ae4cd6417908d925aab903%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C637582237447979634%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=bkPIzdce2Y0%2FNg9rsE7zPbQGXOgVTymJDKziQ2Il1ZE%3D&reserved=0"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#954F72">https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2021/the-postdigital-city/</span></a><span
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line-height:115%"><span
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif"><a
href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coventry.ac.uk%2Fresearch%2Fareas-of-research%2Fpostdigital-cultures%2Fcpc-2021-conference%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caa4180%40coventry.ac.uk%7Ca3bf5ba7e79c4c326b7a08d929b0c359%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C637586661575333693%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=hHlV5ZnVBFbsGe6joY1kkOyuLLogwh57SDpwerkAXzs%3D&reserved=0">https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/cpc-2021-conference/</a>
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line-height:115%"><i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">#PostdigitalCity </span></i></p>
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line-height:115%"><i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">#CovResearch</span></i><span
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
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Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</a>
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU</a>
Blog post: 'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1">https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1</a>
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