Drawing from both scholarly and creative modes of knowledge production, I/O
will feature panel discussions, workshops, performances, an exhibition and
a keynote lecture by Anders Carlsson aka Goto80, a scholar and practitioner
from Sweden, who explains how to make money with NFTs.
The mandate of the Symposium is to facilitate a critical and accessible
dialogue between emerging scholars, practitioners and larger publics with a
deep interest in the myriad iterations of computational subcultures.
The I/O Symposium is set to occur on November 24 and 25, 2016 at Concordia
University, on the 11thFloor of the EV building, and is supported by the TAG
Research Centre, the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology and
the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation.
Our call for proposals (Papers/ Panels / Artworks) is live, with a deadline
of October 15th, and can be found at http://iosymposium.tumblr.
hope that you will join us!
The history of computation is rich with narratives of hackers, tinkerers
and enthusiasts. Myriad computational subcultures have emerged that both
orbit and impinge upon larger computing, gaming, sonic and visual cultures.
From micro-computing platforms to gaming hardware and beyond, practitioners
within these niches re-frame and re-task off-the-shelf computational
hardware and software, create new devices and interfaces, and challenge our
assumptions of computational technologies. By directly engaging with the
various elements of any given digital machine, these subcultures alter our
relationships with technology, rendering acts of computational creativity,
modification, and reverse engineering as modes of critical knowledge
production.
As a way of engaging with the social, cultural and technological fabrics of
these groups and their relations to adjacent DIY technology practices from
both scholarly and practice-based modes of knowledge production, the two
day I/O [Input/Output] Symposium will set it attention upon computational
subcultures and their communal, political economic and material conditions.
Drawing from both scholarly and creative modes of knowledge production, I/O
will feature panel discussions, workshops, performances, an exhibition and
a keynote lecture by Anders Carlsson aka Goto80, a scholar and practitioner
from Sweden, with roots in the European chipmusic and demoscenes.
The mandate of the Symposium is to facilitate a critical and accessible
dialogue between emerging scholars, practitioners and larger publics with a
deep interest in the myriad iterations of computational subcultures.
The I/O Symposium is set to occur on November 24 and 25, 2016 at Concordia
University, on the 11thFloor of the EV building, and is supported by the TAG
Research Centre, the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology and
the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation.
Our call for proposals (Papers/ Panels / Artworks) is live, with a deadline
of October 15th, and can be found at http://iosymposium.tumblr.
hope that you will join us!
