It is an event that is part of the conference of the Nordic Summer University (NSU), accommodation on site, shared meals and a good arrangement for children that accompany their parents.
Date: 20th July – 28th July,
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Deadline for abstracts: 1th of may (for grants 14th of April)
Organization: "Cybioses – life in the future imperfect".
Please click the link for more information and the long abstract: https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/
We welcome proposals that engage with, and discuss, the following areas:
Topics that relate strongly to the key works of the symposium are encouraged, such as:
- surveillance technologies
- surveillance societies
- surveillance and art
- surveillance capitalism
- surveillance and AI
- surveillance and the mind
- surveillance and time (future, present, history)
- the ethics and law of surveillance
- creative responses to surveillance
- surveillance as a crisis of creativity
Other related topics are welcome, with the fit referring to the diversity of contributors that we explicitly aim for – scholars, artists, students, technologists, other professionals and engaged participants. Experimental approaches to presenting and collaborating are encouraged. There will be space for installations and performances.
Feel free to contact us if you are wondering how you would fit in and please send a short motivation letter and bio to eric.deibel@nsuweb.org and palle@chalmers. For information about abstract submission and the background writing that details the topics of the conference as well as prices, please visit our web-page: www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/. For the website of the NSU: www.nsuweb.org
Finally, we have existed for many years and aim to continue. It's been 8 years in this format, and with roots going back to the 1950s for the topic of technology (and cybernetics). Our previous topics have included: Creative Machines and Minds without Lives (Winter 2025, Copenhagen), Speculative Technologies and Future Frictions (Summer 2024, Denmark), Information crisis (Winter 2024, Vilnius, What a waste (summer 2023, Lithuania), and Slow futures (winter 2023, Brussels). Earlier ' themes have included Human-Technology Futures, and Improvisation and Technology.
Palle Dahlstedt, Professor of Interaction Design, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University of Technology
Eric Deibel, PhD, researcher with the ADAPT research centre on AI, and the UCD school of Information and Communication Studies, both in Dublin, Ireland.
Talya Deibel, PhD, senior postdoc at University College Cork on "Law and the Inner Self".