SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2019
10:00 - 16:00 “Data-Walks” Locative Media Walk Workshop
Day 2 of the two-day workshop (pre-registration required) led by Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean, Akoo-o) and Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
11.00 - 11.45
Coffee/ Breakfast [DATA-CAFE]
12.00 - 13.45:
Panel #2 - USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND THE CURATION OF SELF [MUSEUM]
What are the emerging aesthetics, senses of subjectivity and perceptions of labor associated with platforms that harness micro-work and micro-content production? What new modes of curation are being applied by users themselves and other agencies to these massive data assemblages and transfers?
Moderator: Yannis Skarpelos (Panteion University)
Datafying and Visualizing Digital Community Imaginaries: An Experimental Approach
Mariana Ziku (KU Leuven)
My Office as a Database: Labor in Microwork Platforms
Iraklis Vogiatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Do stories have Emotions?
Vasiliki Lalioti & Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Circa (Istanbul, 2018, 12’)
Film screening and Q&A session with the director Buse Yildirim
14.00 - 15.45
Panel #3 - DATA-BODIES AND THE VIRTUAL SENSORIUM [MUSEUM]
What novel sensory experiences, forms of sociality, desires and aesthetic expressions are emerging from the modes of interaction, consumption, profiling, legibility and regulation associated with the social media platforms and database hegemonies of neoliberal society? What kind of agency is available to the late capitalist data-bodies of everyday austerity?
Moderator: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University)
On the Network Culture of Electronic Dance Music in Austerity Athens
Leandros Kyriakopoulos (Panteion University)
Mapping the Senses: Introducing the Digital ASMR Phenomenon within the Sensory Field of Modernity
Aikaterini Kasimi (Panteion University)
’What Do I Like? Digging Deep into the Data’ – Individual and Social Bodies’ Construction Through ‘Digital’ Porn Experience
Giorgos-Ilias Sakkas (Panteion University)
15.45 - 17.00
Data-Feed break
Conversation will continue over lunch, a beer and/or coffee at the Aithrion restaurant [DATA-CAFE].
17.30 - 19.00
Keynote Roundtable [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants: Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin) | Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, Maine) | Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths University of London) (online) | Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens)
#3 NETWORKED IMAGES AND PARTICIPANT ETHNOGRAPHIES
Contemporary digital culture is predominated by image- and video-centered genres - from memes and GIFs to Instagram stories and machinima. At the same time, network connectivity and database modularity have enabled the emergence of new modes of interactive and participatory storytelling. What are the implications of these transformations for anthropological knowledge production and our own storytelling? This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners who are experimenting within (and beyond) paradigms such as visual anthropology, multimodal anthropology and participatory ethnography to share their thoughts on new modes of (re)presenting, producing and disseminating cultural knowledge.
19.15 - 21.00:
Panel #4 THE POSTHUMAN INTERFACE [MUSEUM]
Can we identify the interface as a key analytical figure to speak of the entanglements and relationalities of the emergent posthuman, post-apocalyptic, post-representational, post-analog world, beyond habituated dichotomies of the humanist tradition such as human/nonhuman, body/machine, reality/digitality, fact/fiction, original/derivative? Can analysis of popular cultural production and ethnographic experimentations on and with the interface cross-fertilize our understanding of the politics and poetics of contemporary digital culture?
Moderator: Constantinos Diamantis (Freie University Berlin)
Window, Threshold, Frame - Towards an Anthropology of Interfaces
Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin)
Navigating the Wasteland: Narrating the Post-apocalypse in Fallout 4 and Psycho: A Fallout Machinima
Maria Pantsidou (University of Lancaster)
The Construction of Humanoid Robot Identity in HBO’s Westworld Series
Eleni Tsatsaroni (University of Thessaly)
360° Cameras + Algorithmic Interpolation: Digital Tools for a Relational Ethnography
Ezekiel Morgan (Freie University Berlin)
“.” (Berlin, 2018, 13’)
Film screening related to the presentation
Ezekiel Morgan
21.15 - 22.15
Screenings #1 - MACHINIMA & DESKTOP DOCUMENTARIES [MUSEUM]
Short Introduction to Machinimas: Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly)
Influencer (Berlin, 2018, 16’)
Discussion/ Q&A session with the director at the end of the film panel
Lillian Dam Bracia
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary (Online, 2017, 15’)
Leandro Goddinho
Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (Iceland, 2018, 17’)
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
22.20 - 23.50
Screening #2 - INTERACTIVE - PARTICIPATORY DOCUMENTARY [MUSEUM]
The Maribor Uprisings – An Interactive - Participatory Documentary (Maribor, 2017, 90’)
Presentation and Q&A session with the director Maple J. Razsa
Maple J. Razsa & Milton Guillén
Day 2 of the two-day workshop (pre-registration required) led by Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean, Akoo-o) and Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
11.00 - 11.45
Coffee/ Breakfast [DATA-CAFE]
12.00 - 13.45:
Panel #2 - USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND THE CURATION OF SELF [MUSEUM]
What are the emerging aesthetics, senses of subjectivity and perceptions of labor associated with platforms that harness micro-work and micro-content production? What new modes of curation are being applied by users themselves and other agencies to these massive data assemblages and transfers?
Moderator: Yannis Skarpelos (Panteion University)
Datafying and Visualizing Digital Community Imaginaries: An Experimental Approach
Mariana Ziku (KU Leuven)
My Office as a Database: Labor in Microwork Platforms
Iraklis Vogiatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Do stories have Emotions?
Vasiliki Lalioti & Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Circa (Istanbul, 2018, 12’)
Film screening and Q&A session with the director Buse Yildirim
14.00 - 15.45
Panel #3 - DATA-BODIES AND THE VIRTUAL SENSORIUM [MUSEUM]
What novel sensory experiences, forms of sociality, desires and aesthetic expressions are emerging from the modes of interaction, consumption, profiling, legibility and regulation associated with the social media platforms and database hegemonies of neoliberal society? What kind of agency is available to the late capitalist data-bodies of everyday austerity?
Moderator: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University)
On the Network Culture of Electronic Dance Music in Austerity Athens
Leandros Kyriakopoulos (Panteion University)
Mapping the Senses: Introducing the Digital ASMR Phenomenon within the Sensory Field of Modernity
Aikaterini Kasimi (Panteion University)
’What Do I Like? Digging Deep into the Data’ – Individual and Social Bodies’ Construction Through ‘Digital’ Porn Experience
Giorgos-Ilias Sakkas (Panteion University)
15.45 - 17.00
Data-Feed break
Conversation will continue over lunch, a beer and/or coffee at the Aithrion restaurant [DATA-CAFE].
17.30 - 19.00
Keynote Roundtable [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants: Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin) | Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, Maine) | Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths University of London) (online) | Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens)
#3 NETWORKED IMAGES AND PARTICIPANT ETHNOGRAPHIES
Contemporary digital culture is predominated by image- and video-centered genres - from memes and GIFs to Instagram stories and machinima. At the same time, network connectivity and database modularity have enabled the emergence of new modes of interactive and participatory storytelling. What are the implications of these transformations for anthropological knowledge production and our own storytelling? This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners who are experimenting within (and beyond) paradigms such as visual anthropology, multimodal anthropology and participatory ethnography to share their thoughts on new modes of (re)presenting, producing and disseminating cultural knowledge.
19.15 - 21.00:
Panel #4 THE POSTHUMAN INTERFACE [MUSEUM]
Can we identify the interface as a key analytical figure to speak of the entanglements and relationalities of the emergent posthuman, post-apocalyptic, post-representational, post-analog world, beyond habituated dichotomies of the humanist tradition such as human/nonhuman, body/machine, reality/digitality, fact/fiction, original/derivative? Can analysis of popular cultural production and ethnographic experimentations on and with the interface cross-fertilize our understanding of the politics and poetics of contemporary digital culture?
Moderator: Constantinos Diamantis (Freie University Berlin)
Window, Threshold, Frame - Towards an Anthropology of Interfaces
Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin)
Navigating the Wasteland: Narrating the Post-apocalypse in Fallout 4 and Psycho: A Fallout Machinima
Maria Pantsidou (University of Lancaster)
The Construction of Humanoid Robot Identity in HBO’s Westworld Series
Eleni Tsatsaroni (University of Thessaly)
360° Cameras + Algorithmic Interpolation: Digital Tools for a Relational Ethnography
Ezekiel Morgan (Freie University Berlin)
“.” (Berlin, 2018, 13’)
Film screening related to the presentation
Ezekiel Morgan
21.15 - 22.15
Screenings #1 - MACHINIMA & DESKTOP DOCUMENTARIES [MUSEUM]
Short Introduction to Machinimas: Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly)
Influencer (Berlin, 2018, 16’)
Discussion/ Q&A session with the director at the end of the film panel
Lillian Dam Bracia
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary (Online, 2017, 15’)
Leandro Goddinho
Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (Iceland, 2018, 17’)
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
22.20 - 23.50
Screening #2 - INTERACTIVE - PARTICIPATORY DOCUMENTARY [MUSEUM]
The Maribor Uprisings – An Interactive - Participatory Documentary (Maribor, 2017, 90’)
Presentation and Q&A session with the director Maple J. Razsa
Maple J. Razsa & Milton Guillén