Welcome to\u00a0a\u00a0K3 seminar\u00a0with Roel Roscam Abbing and Hugo Boothby, new PhD students at K3, Roel Roscam Abbing in Interaction Design and Hugo Boothby in Media and Communication Studies. At the seminar, they will talk about work done before starting the PhD education and about their forthcoming theses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Welcome to The Federation\u00a0<\/em>(Roel Roscam Abbing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen up!\u00a0<\/em>(Hugo Boothby)<\/p>\n\n\n\n They will take place on Wednesday, September 18 at 10.15-12.00 in The K3 Open Studio, NIC 0541, Niagara. Below you will find abstracts for the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome to The Federation<\/em> (Roel Ascam Abbing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\nthis seminar I will introduce my previous work as an artistic researcher on the\ncrossroads of networked computation, infrastructures, self-organization and DIY\napproaches. This previous work included a project Welcome To The Federation,\nwhich set the stage for my current PhD research direction at K3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This research is particularly focused on the Fediverse, a loose network of inter-operating social media platforms that has rapidly gained momentum in the wake of ongoing privacy violations and abuses on mainstream social media. The Fediverse itself is not a new phenomenon, since alternative social media implementations have existed for almost a decade.\nHowever, the novelty of the current Fediverse is the influx of new social\nconceptions into the ecosystem. This seems partly to be the case because\nMastodon (https:\/\/joinmastodon.org<\/a>), one\nof the newer implementations that through a focus on design and user experience\nbecame the most popular, had an early heavy presence of contributors from\nvarious minority backgrounds. These LGBTI and PoC developers brought\nwith them new concerns, discourses and techniques in to this part of Free\/Libre\nand Open Source culture. Considering that many of the innovations that have\nmade Mastodon popular have been social rather than technical in nature, the Fediverse\nhas become a laboratory in which questions of social organization and\ngovernance can no longer be\nartificially decoupled from the underlying software. As a case study for\nreflecting on how to design resilient community infrastructures and possible\nalternative trajectories to the Silicon Valley model of technical development,\nthe Fediverse presents a compelling case for engagement from the discipline of\ninteraction design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen up!<\/em> (Hugo Boothby)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This\nseminar is a presentation of the PhD research project that I started in\nSeptember 2019. The research is placed within Media and Communication Studies\nwith a specialisation in Sound Studies. My thesis will address the politics of\nlistening. The particular focus is technologies of listening and the listening\nexperiences they afford. I seek to explore how mediated sites of listening\ncreate opportunities, but also engender limitations, for political engagement.\nIn this presentation I hope to provide a brief overview of my field of study,\nand define the frame within which I propose to address a politics of listening.\nAt present my work is primarily concerned with technologies of listening at\ntheir granular level. My present site of research being algorithmic selection\nwithin digital audio processes. My initial case study explores the affordances\nand materialities of the MP3 data compression format and iPod digital media\nplayer. The research method that I propose for this work is a practice-based or\nartistic research approach. Taking as a point of departure my sound\ninstallation\/composition \u2018Music for Universities\u2019 (Boothby 2019a and 2019b).\nThis is work that uses the transversal media tool of \u201ceventualisation\u201d (Gansing\n2013). Eventualisation understood here as a process of appropriation and\nrecontextualisation that works to problematise technologies of listening and\nthe sites of mediated listening they enact. I will use the seminar to propose a\ntheoretical framework that draws on theories of affordance (Gibson 1977), media\necology (Fuller 2005) and affect (Gilbert 2004). For this work I take my\ndefinition of politics and conceptualisations of space from the philosopher\nJacques Ranci\u00e8re (2001; 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boothby,\nHugo (January 2019a) Transversal Media Practice as Tool for Radio Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper\npresentation at Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)\nConference, University of Stirling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boothby,\nHugo (April 2019b) Music for Universities. Paper presentation at\nAlgorithmic Music: Value, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence, one-day\nsymposium. King\u2019s College, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gansing,\nKristoffer (2013) Transversal Media Practices: Media Archaeology, Art and\nTechnological Development. Malm\u00f6: Malm\u00f6 University. Doctoral dissertation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gibson,\nJames (1977) The Theory of Affordance, in R. Shaw and J. Bransford\n(eds). Perceiving, Acting and Knowing: Toward and Ecological Psychology, (pp.\n62-82) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gilbert,\nJeremy (2004) Signifying Nothing: ‘Culture,’ ‘Discourse’ and the Sociality\nof Affect. Culture Machine, Vol 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ranci\u00e8re,\nJacques (2001). Ten Theses on Politics<\/strong>. Theory & Event 5(3), Johns\nHopkins University Press. Retrieved September 4, 2019, from Project MUSE\ndatabase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ranci\u00e8re,\nJacques (2011) The Thinking of Dissensus: Politics and Aesthetics. In\nBowman and Stamp (eds.) Reading Ranci\u00e8re. 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