{"id":43,"date":"2019-01-10T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/?p=43"},"modified":"2019-09-21T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T18:59:50","slug":"glitches-and-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/2019\/01\/10\/glitches-and-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Glitches and Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Announcing Glitches and Ghosts, an interdisciplinary conference at Lancaster University on 17th April and open to all. Please send a 300 word abstract and 50 word bionote to glitchconference@gmail.com by 17th February for consideration.<\/p>\n

@<\/s>GlitchGhosts<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

#<\/s>GlitchesandGhosts<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Find our call for papers here:<\/p>\n

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\"Glitches<\/p>\n

Glitches are moments of disruption; they represent the exposure of technical process, moving away from the binaries of input and output to consider what comes in-between. The growing ubiquity of interconnected systems prompts a desire to understand such intangible networks around the user, an attempt to try and engage with these digital phenomena as alternate forms of \u2018presence\u2019 that cannot help but recourse to anthropocentric terms \u2013 virus, cloud, render ghost. The frequent ethereality of such language attempts to visualise, embody, and comprehend the profusion of technical systems that we share the atmosphere with, their very terming gesturing to their spectral protrusion into, ostensibly, \u2018our\u2019 reality. The eruption of pixels, voxels, and glitches haunts our peripheral vision, a deceptive representation of a far more intangible sphere.<\/p>\n

\u2018Glitches and Ghosts\u2019 seeks to diagnose and analyse contemporary cultural fascinations with the emergence of these digital artefacts, and how their spectral presence has come to define our current technological moment. This symposium aims to bring together researchers who are enticed by the prospect of re-conceptualising definitions of digital-based ontologies as a paradigm to engage with an era of technophobic anxieties and technophilic domination.<\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce Dr. Will Slocombe as our keynote. Will\u2019s research ranges between various aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century literature, focusing primarily on Science Fiction (particularly representations of Artificial Intelligence), Postmodernism, and metafictions of experimental literature. His upcoming book Emergent Patterns: Artificial Intelligence and the Structural Imagination<\/em> is due out in 2019.<\/p>\n

We welcome abstracts for 20 minute papers which engage with the confluence of glitches and ghosts within any medium or form. Suggested topics include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Digital art \u2013 glitch aesthetics, pixels, voxels, drone shadows, distortion etc.
\n\u2022 D\u00e9tournement and system subversion \u2013 e.g. hacker \u2018heroes\u2019 and neoliberal dissent.
\n\u2022 Technophobia \u2013 network alienation and technological anxieties.
\n\u2022 Glitch and\/or ghosts in music \u2013 synthwave, sampling, remixes, etc.
\n\u2022 Cloud spectrality, unseen network presences and how we visualise them.
\n\u2022 Ghosts in the machine, electronic voice phenomenon, white noise etc.
\n\u2022 Render ghosts, digital advertising and the disruption of imagined ontologies.
\n\u2022 Doppelgangers, sample image databases and the \u2018ownership\u2019 of personal data.
\n\u2022 Unshackled virtual consciousness, e.g. A.I. and the breaking of constraints.
\n\u2022 Disruption of the virtual \u2013 glitches, bugs, cheats and other subversions.
\n\u2022 Digital spectres \u2013 eternal or lingering existence within the network.
\n\u2022 Viral anxieties and data transmission; conceptualisations of network \u2018presence\u2019.
\n\u2022 Secular digitalities, virtual \u2018gods\u2019 or spirits and ontological transcendence.
\n\u2022 Permanence and\/or ephemerality of data, system collapse and user anxiety.
\n\u2022 Creative practice and the deployment of glitches and\/or ghosts within media.
\n\u2022 Remixed ontologies, disruption of identity boundaries and bricolage forms.
\n\u2022 Omnipresent networks, \u2018invasive\u2019 devices (i.e. Alexa) and disconnection.
\n\u2022 Machine learning and emergent behaviour from algorithmic structures.<\/p>\n

Please submit a 300 word abstract to\u00a0glitchconference@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0with a 50 word bio-note by 17th February
\n#glitchesandghosts #glitchconference @GlitchGhosts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announcing Glitches and Ghosts, an interdisciplinary conference at Lancaster University on 17th April and open to all. Please send a 300 word abstract and 50 word bionote to glitchconference@gmail.com by 17th February for consideration. @GlitchGhosts #GlitchesandGhosts Find our call for papers here:<\/p>\nRead More Glitches and Ghosts<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBAby-H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}