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Life in the Age of Automation: Cultural and Creative Perspectives

26 September 2022 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm AEST

Automation is widely recognised as one of the most central and powerful organising systems of everyday life, yet key questions about its historical, cultural and epistemological specificity remain unanswered.

Following the lead of Siegfried Giedion’s ground-breaking Mechanisation Takes Command (1948), this one-day event is designed to trace the impact of automation on the practices and technologies of everyday life.

The symposium brings together researchers and representatives from key centres and projects focused on the study of automation, including:

This symposium, held in collaboration with the DCS Hub at UQ, is organised as part of the ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour.” Where many studies of automation are focused on its technological aspects, this project foregrounds the importance of cultural perspectives on and creative engagements with automation. It asks: how does automation look different when considered from these perspectives?

Confirmed Speakers

  • Mark Andrejevic
    Professor, Communications and Media Studies; CI ADM+S Centre (Monash)
  • Jean Burgess
    Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) (QUT)
  • Nic Carah
    Director, DCS Hub (UQ); CI ADM+S Centre; CI ARC DP “Using Machine Vision to Explore Instagram’s Everyday Promotional Cultures”
  • Oron Catts
    Director, SymbioticA (Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, UWA); CI, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA)
  • Sarah Collins
    Lead CI, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA)
  • Ned Rossiter
    Professor of Communication, lead CI, ARC DP “The Geopolitics of Automation” (WSU)
  • Elizabeth Stephens
    Associate Professor in Cultural Studies; CI, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UQ)
  • Ionat Zurr
    Head of the Fine Arts School of Design, and SymbioticA; CI, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA)

Details

Date:
26 September 2022
Time:
9:30 am - 5:00 pm AEST
Website:
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Venue

ModWest Building, (11A, UQ)
The University of Queensland
St Lucia,QLD4074