<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-9e213140-7fff-a40a-021d-c57996099669">Dear all,</span><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_-1857536115512227190gmail-docs-internal-guid-a2a50198-7fff-2366-7b8f-0469724e98db"><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are writing to invite proposals for presentation to our combined format open panel at the next 4S conference on the topic of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">{Techno} magic and crafting digital artifacts</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Magic is a material and bodily practice deeply intertwined with labor, resistance and social reproduction. In the context of historical exploitative economic and political structures, magic was not merely symbolic, but a form of embodied knowledge and practice that directly resisted the rationalizing forces of early capitalism. {Techno}magic is framed as an emergent field where ritualistic practices, talismans, sigils, and other magical materia intersect with technologic artifacts, fostering more-than-Western views and histories to enact knowledge construction and relations of care through local networks and federated circles. This panel explores how magic can guide the crafting of artifacts, tools and systems that reconnect us to invisible realms—spiritual, emotional and communal–– through personal mythologies and speculative world-building.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite artists, designers, STS scholars, researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for workshops, performances, and experimental practices that expand on these ideas. How can digital technologies harness the enchantment and transformative potential of magic? How can rituals rooted in bodily practice shape new forms of technological interaction? Submissions should aim to explore these questions through embodied, participatory experiences, contributing to a growing discourse on technology as a medium for the sacred.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We envision a combined open panel format which will include, but is not limited to, academic paper presentations, hands-on activities such as workshoping avatars as talismans, crafting hyper-local genAI as oracles, playing with mystical alphabets or  ideating techno-mythical creatures.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for applications is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">January 31, 2025</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Avenir,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:norm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