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Stockholm University of the Arts is pleased to announce that the Call for proposals for Alliances and Commonalities conference 2024 is open.

Call for proposals

Open 15 September–31 October, 2023

This year, 2024, we invite artists and researchers to share embodied, sensorial, experiential, poetic and experimental ways in which friction and coexistence permeate their artistic practice and research.

Friction is what allows us to live, dance, walk and act in a physical and material world. As bodies touch against each other they connect and interfere. Through unexpected alliances friction, this “sticky materiality of practical encounters” (Tsing, 2004), creates both movement and interruption; it is an intricate part of all systems and ecological webs, it constructs places connecting them to other sites, interacting and impacting worlds differently, sometimes with detrimental consequences.

Can generative friction teach us about interconnection and solidarity across difference? Can it nurture dialogue, convergences and mutual recognition through which a plurality of worlds can coexist? Can attention to friction, resistance and tension help us revision coexistence and interdependency on a damaged planet?

Stockholm University of the Arts has four Artistic Research Profile Areas, we invite you to direct your proposal to the area which resonates most with your research at this moment.

Concept and Composition explores the myriad web of influences, inspirations and methods that artists use in their artistic and creative processes.

Bodily and Vocal Practices explores the methods and systems used in the articulation, interpretation and communication of creative ideas and visions through the use of body and voice.

Site, Event, Encounter explores the interplay between art and society, considering the protean nature of participation in contemporary art practices/processes/events and the many and various contexts and conditions in which artists work.

Art, Technology, Materiality addresses the technical, material and social conditions and networks occurring in, and engaged through, artistic practice.

The focus and format of the conference will emerge directly from the subjects, ideas, and topics present in the research of those selected to present. Alliances and Commonalities is a place, a group of people, and a possibility for Artistic Research to challenge and inspire us as both individuals and community.

Welcome to become part of the Alliances and Commonalities 2024! Submit your proposal via the application button by 31 October.

Questions?: ac2024.skh@uniarts.se

Photo: Ellen J Røed

The More-Than-Human Humanities focus series

By Tetiana Priadkina

On July 3, 2023

In Call for applications, News, posthumanist performativity

The More-Than-Human Humanities focus series aims to attend to human differences entangled with environmental justice, information technologies, AI, synthetic biology, surveillance systems, species extinction, and drastic ecological change. It draws attention not only to the creativity and potentiality of this reinvention of arts and humanities, but also to that which limits or wounds conditions of life on earth. It addresses the question of how we may learn to live with those wounds and limitations in everyday practice. The titles in the series provide insight into the state-of-the art humanities research in a changing world.

If you have an exciting idea for a book proposal for this book series, please contact the book series editors:

Cecilia Åsberg, Prof Dr Gender, nature, culture at Linköping University, Sweden. Director The Posthumanities Hub – cecilia.asberg@liu.se

Marietta Radomska, Dr Assistant Professor Gender and Environmental Humanities, at Linköping University, Director the Eco- and Bio Art Lab – marietta.radomska@liu.se

Apply for Summer School: The Intersectional Posthumanities w/ Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht)

By Jesse Peterson

On March 20, 2023

In Call for applications, Courses, summer school

As longstanding collaborators of Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Summer School, we have with The Posthumanities Hub the pleasure to advertise this summer’s upcoming version of “The Intersectional Posthumanities,” Utrecht Summer School Course by Prof. Rosi Braidotti, from August 21 to 25, 2023.

Competition for registration is high so you are advised to apply early, as places are allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Deadline for applications: June 1, 2023

Course fee for students: €750 Course fee for non-students: €1000

For full details about the course and how to apply, please see below:

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The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2023: “Artificial Music Traditions”

By Jesse Peterson

On March 15, 2023

In Call for applications, KTH, posthumanist performativity

Associate Professor, Bob Sturm from KTH is putting on The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2023, which focuses on “Artificial Music Traditions”: https://github.com/boblsturm/aimusicgenerationchallenge2023

Unlike the previous three editions (2020, 2021, 2022), the 2023 challenge is focused on generating an artificial music tradition rather than generating a particular form of existing traditional music.

What is the challenge?

Use any kind of artificial intelligence (one system or many different systems) in any way to generate an artificial music tradition. This could entail symbolic music, audio recordings, lyrics, dances, imagery, costumes, myths, instruments, ephemera, websites, ethnomusicological or anthropological studies, and so on. To make this more concrete some possibilities could be:

Instrumental music from an imaginary country
Teetotaler songs of a Nordic community
Music to accompany royal visits to medieval garderobes
Alien music practices resulting from the discovery and “decoding” of the record on Voyager 1

Particular inspirations for the 2023 challenge include:

How?

By SEPTEMBER 4, register your intent to participate by notifying the organizer.
Start generating documentary evidence of your artificial music tradition.
Write a document describing your team and technical process, as well as reflecting on issues surrounding cultural appropriation in the submitted work, and clarity regarding its use of data and its intentions.
By DECEMBER 8, email the organizer:

a link to download the documentary evidence of your artificial music tradition.
your document (pdf).

Evaluation

One can see this challenge as a call for work to be considered for a future festival. The judges are “curators”, who are looking to create a compelling program of “music traditions” generated entirely by, or with the assistance of, artificial intelligence. This future festival aims to delve deep into theoretical and practical questions of the application of artificial intelligence to culture, raising awareness of the many issues and dilemmas involved, from the economic and political to the technological and (post)humanistic. The curators seek to programme works showcasing a diversity of approaches and outcomes, and are especially interested in multi-layered work crossing material boundaries, all the while using artificial intelligence in some way or another. The curators are not necessarily looking for finished or complete work, but instead work that has a clear connection to the theme of the festival, showing evidence of deep reflection on the associated issues, and that can contribute to engaging and productive discussion.

The curators retain the right to not programme submitted work for a variety of reasons, including a lack of transparency, a lack of consideration of the use of data from existing cultures, and so on.

Postdoc Position in Interactive AI for Interdisciplinary Artistic Practices

By Jesse Peterson

On March 13, 2023

In Call for applications, JOBS

Assistant Professor, Kıvanç Tatar (Chalmers), and colleagues are looking for candidates for the position, Postdoc in Interactive AI for Interdisciplinary Artistic Practices at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. The deadline for applications is May 1st, 2023.

Description for the Position (provided by Dr. Tatar)

We are excited to share this position as a part of a new research group that I am initiating within my WASP-HS project. The focus of this Post-doctoral Fellowship is researching and understanding interactivity in the applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in interdisciplinary art and technology practices. The position responsibilities include research and development of novel interactive systems using machine learning and artificial intelligence for artistic applications such as live performances, artwork installations, tools for artistic practices etc. The research methodologies cover exciting approaches such as research through design, soma design, and post-phenomenology. The research perspective takes a multidisciplinary position to pursue discussions in aesthetics, ethics, and societal aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The candidate is expected to work closely with the current research group members while actively engaging with the development and establishment of the new research group.

We encourage candidates with a background in interdisciplinary Art and Technology topics, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, computational creativity, co-creativity and augmented creativity with machines, embodied performance with technology, robotics, bio-art, music technology, sound synthesis, live coding, new interfaces for musical expression, musical performance, musical improvisation, virtual reality, augmented/extended reality, music-dance practices, cognitive science, cognitive and psychological computational models, human-computer interaction, soma-design, somaesthetics, etc.

This postdoc position is a full-time temporary employment for three years, and the expected start date is September 1st, 2023.

We are looking forward to receiving your applications. The full details of this position and the link to the application portal can be found at the official call.