DATA {PUBLICS} INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FORUM, Goldsmiths University of London

with keynotes by LEV MANOVICH and RAVI SUNDARAM,
and contributions by LUCIANA PARISI, IGNACIO VALERO, STEPHEN GRAHAM, JENNIFER GABRYS, MATTHEW FULLER, PAOLO GERBAUDO, DANI ADMISS, CECILIA WEE, LISE AUTOGENA, JOSHUA PORTWAY, SIMON YUILL, and others.

Bringing together artists and scholars from different fields, the research forum has explored the following intersecting themes:

Cognitive Capitalism: Retheorising Calculative “Reason” within the Context of the Digital Infrastructure of Neoliberalism.
New Forms of Labour in the Creative Economy: Creative Economy as a Mode of Digital Labour Reform.
Digital Relations and Affective Capital: Breaching the Limits of Neoliberal Prosperity Theology.
New Vulnerabilities: the Precarious Life of Big Data as Performed through Social Practices.
Banking the Social: Shaping and Anticipating the Future through Social Data Mining.
Digital Self-Crafting: The Ethics of Individual Mediation through Self-tracking, Self-surveillance, Self-improvement Self-care and Self-governance.
Design Technology: the Interface between People, Architecture and the City.

26-27 January 2017
Goldsmiths
New Cross, London

28 January 2017
GasworksLondon