[spectre] ALMAT 2020 submissions extended to February 16

[Karen Lancel]

Karen Lancel 
Studio Lancel/Maat  

www.lancelmaat.nl
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PhD candidate 
Technical University of Delft | Participatory Systems Initiative

> On 23 Jan 2020, at 13:13, Hanns Holger Rutz <contact at sciss.de> wrote:
> 
> **ALMAT - Algorithms that Matter**
> **Symposium on Algorithmic Agency in Artistic Practice**
> 
> 6–7 July 2020, Graz Austria
> 
> **Extended submission deadline: 16 February 2020**
> 
> https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html
> 
> Please feel free to distribute this call to your networks.
> 
> Artists and scientists have worked with digital computers for over
> seventy years, and algorithmic practices exist for a lot longer. But in
> recent years, increased computing power and decreased costs and
> miniaturisation of machines have created a new quantity and quality of
> everyday exposure, economic and political criticality, and with it a
> wave of public attention and discourse. As artists-researchers, how do
> we incorporate this new situation into our practices, and more
> importantly, how does this changed situation retroact on our
> understanding of the role of digital art, sound art and artistic
> practice itself?
> 
> Rather than understanding algorithms as existing and transparent tools,
> the ALMAT Symposium is interested in their genealogical, processual
> aspects and their transformative potential. We seek critical approaches
> that avoid both mystification and commodification, that aim at opening
> the black box of "wonder" that is often presented to the public when
> utilising algorithms.
> 
> The foundation for the symposium is given by the eponymous project ALMAT
> – Algorithms that Matter. ALMAT is an artistic research project by
> Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò funded by the Austrian Science Fund
> (FWF AR 403-GBL) and hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and
> Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
> 
> ALMAT 2020 will take place (06–07 July) adjoining the 8th Conference on
> Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X – xCoAx (08–10 July). xCoAx
> is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and
> media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry
> on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that
> connects them all. xCoAx has issued a separate call for participation –
> http://www.xcoax.org – and reduced combi-tickets are
> available for xCoAx + ALMAT.
> 
> **Call for Contributions**
> 
> The ALMAT Symposium calls for artistic research contributions in the
> following two categories:
> 
> 1. Contributions exploring the symposium's theme and the questions
>   arising from it. This may include:
>   - What are the material qualities specific of algorithms and
>     algorithmic practices? How does the algorithmic become malleable
>     as material?
>   - Are there particular affordances of the algorithmic?
>   - How does algorithmic agency unfold, how can it be observed,
>     formulated, or communicated? Which alternatives to traditional
>     concepts such as control/controller could be formulated?
>   - How does the reconfigurative "intrinsic" or "speculative"
>     movement of algorithms extend to or retroact on the artist or
>     recipient, how does it shape their interactions?
>   - How can artistic experimentation with algorithms be communicated
>     to an audience, how may it help sensitise and empower people to
>     take ownership of the algorithmic?
>   - Which are the thresholds of heteronomy/autonomy, what makes an
>     algorithmic practice become generative?
>   - What are philosophical, technological, aesthetic or artistic
>     consequences of acknowledging the agency of algorithms?
> 
> 2. Contributions that explicitly refer to the research, the
>   experiences and the case studies of the ALMAT research
>   project. Contributions may be commentary, continuation, critique
>   or, more in general, a response to one or more aesthetic and
>   theoretic manifestations and artefacts reflected in the project's
>   documentation. The project's (ongoing) documentation is an online
>   hypertext starting at the Continuous Exposition:
>   https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/381566 . In
>   particular, we identified a number of works that are
>   good candidates for responses, as they will be visible or audible
>   during the symposium (see submission page).
> 
> For more information and details of contribution formats and
> application process, please refer to:
> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/381565/698006
> 
> Contact: For any questions, please write to <almat at iem.at>.
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