<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid552" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="author-a-lrh2unyz85zz90zwsnbhz70zt">The 5th </span><span>Politics of the Machines</span><span class="author-a-lrh2unyz85zz90zwsnbhz70zt"> Conference</span><span class="author-a-lrh2unyz85zz90zwsnbhz70zt">: Synthetic Sentience</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid505" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>Call for Abstract </span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid555" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>Extended Deadline 29</span><span class="author-a-lrh2unyz85zz90zwsnbhz70zt">th </span><span>March 2025 </span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid455" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>_______________</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid565" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid457" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>The Institute of Advanced Studies</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid458" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>The University Of Western Australia</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid459" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>Perth, Australia</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid582" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>July 16-18, 2025</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid583" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid463" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>This edition of the POM-conference will explore the evolving politics of sentience across a wide array of fields, including, but not limited to, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cultural studies, creative arts, philosophy, bioart, music, psychology, food, and the intersection of art & science.</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid133" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid464" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>Applicants are invited to submit a 500-word abstract under one of the conference tracks by March, 29th 2025. </span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid465" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>If no track is selected, the conference organizers will assign the submission to the most appropriate track.</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid136" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid466" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="i"><i>We welcome submissions in a variety of formats, including papers, lecture-performances, artistic interventions, and workshops.</i></span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid138" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid467" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>More info there on the conference and tracks:</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid140" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid468" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="url"><a href="https://www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-2025/" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-2025/</a></span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid142" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid469" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>I co-organize and recommend the track 04 </span><span class="i"><i>The materiality of sentience: an experimental approach</i></span><span>:</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid144" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid470" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="b"><b>Track 04</b></span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid471" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="b"><b>Track Chairs: </b></span><span class="b i"><b><i>RAT Research Group</i></b></span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid147" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid472" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>We invite submissions that critically re-examine the concept of sentience, moving beyond traditional binary frameworks that classify entities as either sentient or non-sentient. Such dichotomies fail to account for the complex interplay between organic and inorganic, living and non-living agencies, and are often shaped by dominant knowledge systems that prioritize order, logic, and anthropocentric hierarchies. We encourage submissions challenging dominant frameworks and proposing new perspectives on sentience, fostering deeper understandings of relationships between humans and other-than-human entities.</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid149" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid473" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>We welcome unconventional approaches to the boundaries of sentience, agency, and materiality—whether through artistic research, case studies, essays, or theoretical explorations—with a particular emphasis on critical and speculative methodologies to the sensory, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions of sentience.</span></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid151" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div aria-live="assertive" id="magicdomid474" class="ace-line" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>Most welcome to submit your proposal!</span></div><div>
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