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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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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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<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">‘The Postdigital City for
Post-Pandemic Times’</span></p>
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line-height:115%"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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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, 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></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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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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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">The conference includes panels on:
</span></p>
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line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:115%"><span
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
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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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line-height:115%"><span
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"Arial",sans-serif">The conference webpage is here:</span></p>
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line-height:115%"><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"><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>
Latest:
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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