New Materialist Informatics:
Computing and Worldmaking
22-25 March 2021, online
www.uni-kassel.de/go/NMI2021
11th international new materialismsconference invites participants to
investigate the possible intersectionsbetween and beyond new materialism and
informatics. As a transversal field ofinquiry, new materialism opens hybrid
spaces between the social sciences &the humanities and the natural & technical
sciences & engineering.Increasing computing power and technological
advancements highlight the need toaccount for the material basis as well as
material consequences of informaticsand to ask how techno-politics and
techno-epistemologies can be reconfiguredfor these complex times. This
conference provides space to investigate thesequestions and bring together
interdisciplinary research spanning informationsciences and the
(post)humanities to highlight the inter- andintra-connectedness of computing
and worldmaking.
As the first conference dedicatedto the specific intersection of new
materialist research and informatics, thisconference centres around questions
such as: How can new materialism andinformatics be brought together in ways
that help build liveable andsustainable techno-lifeworlds? What new
perspectives on contemporary crisesmight emerge at such an intersection and
beyond? What kind of conceptual andmethodological tools are needed for new
materialist informatics design andresearch? The conference includes and goes
beyond the new materialistreadings of computing and computational artefacts
and generates innovativeperspectives on how techno-worldmaking can be
performed from a new materialistperspective.
Programme
Participants will have achance to attend hands-on workshops on March 22, 2021,
paperpresentations and keynotes on23-25 March 2021 and demonstrations
throughout the event.
KeynoteLectures
“VibrantSubjects: Posthuman Perspectives on Nourishing Design”
Shaowen Bardzell, Professorof Information Sciences and Technology at Penn
State University's College ofInformation Sciences and Technology, USA
“NewPlayers on the World-Stage: A New Materialist Approach to Robotics and
HRI”
Maaike Bleeker, Professor in Theatre Studies in the Department ofMedia &
Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands
“Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the NewPolitics of Recognition”
Wendy H.K. Chun, Canada150 Research Chair in New Media at the School of
Communication, Simon FraserUniversity, Canada
“Notes on the Three Stages of the Algorithmic Condition;The Ethe of Mimesis,
Feminicity, and Bioinformatics”
Felicity Colman, Professor of Media Arts and Associate Dean ofResearch for the
London College of Fashion at University of the Arts, UK
“Knowing-MakingAccessibility: Crip and Unfinished Technosciences in Physical
and VirtualWorlds”
Aimi Hamraie, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, andSociety and American
Studies at the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society,Vanderbilt University,
USA
Onmaterial conditions and effects of the entanglements between race
andtechnology (Exact title TBC)
Safiya Umoja Noble, Associate Professor, Departmentof Information Studies and
Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical InternetInquiry (C2i2), University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Roundtablediscussion “SpeculativeMaterialities, Indigenous Worldings and
Decolonial Futures in Computing &Design”
With contributions by Outi Laiti, University of
Lapland,Finland; Luiza Prado de O. Martins, artist, writer and researcher,
Germany; Femke Snelting,Constant, Belgium; and CarolineJ. Ward, JUST AI (LSE &
AdaLovelace Institute), UK
ConferenceRegistration
Conference registrationis now open! Conference registrations include access to
all NMI2021events. The conference has moderateall-inclusive participant
fees. The income from fees will be used towardshonoraria for keynotes and
respondents and, depending on availability, tosupport artists, designers and
presenters in need of support. Visit our websitewww.uni-kassel.de/go/NMI2021
for more information.
Conference Themes
The conveners of New Materialist Informatics inviteto approach these questions
from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives,including the humanities and
social sciences, design, engineering and computerscience. Around 80
contributions, including workshops and demonstrations, areto be presented on
themes that include new materialist informatics theories,concepts and
methodologies, design interventions and praxes, contemporary issuesregarding
material effects and conditions of informatics and futureperspectives for
research and design.
Organisers and Contact
The conference is organised by the Gender/ Diversity inInformatics Systems
Research Group (GeDIS) and the Research Center forInformation System Design
(ITeG), University of Kassel, Germany. If you haveany questions, please email
us at NMI2021@uni-kassel.de.
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