Data Ache, the Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference 2017 

DRHA has become one of the foremost conferences in the world in facilitating dialogue between academics and practitioners from:

·         Digital arts, design and performance

·         Digital humanities

·         Digital libraries and archives

·         Creative and cultural industries

·         Digital cities and urban commons.

CONFERENCE THEME

This major international conference, hosted by the Arts Institute at Plymouth University, explores the broad cross-disciplinary theme of data in the digital arts and humanities: in particular, the material, practical and theoretical challenges imposed by data and the digital turn; the tensions, difficulties and creative potentials that data provokes. In an era of big data, ubiquitous computing and a marked naturalisation of digital technologies, we are increasingly living with, and through, data. Indeed, data—often synonymous with digital information or understood as an abstraction of knowledge—has become personal and professional; interwoven into the fabric of our lives, contemporary culture and research practices.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The 2017 DRHA Data Ache conference welcomes proposals for research presentations that explore the effect and affect, implication and application of data. These may include papers, performances, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, installations, panels/roundtables, and 5-minute “living posters”, in any of the following areas (but not limited to):

·         Big data, aesthetics and cultural analytics;

·         Materiality of data and media archaeology;

·         The digital dark age and conservation;

·         Data visualisation and sonification;

·         Post-truth: fatigue and saturation of data;

·         Collection and harvesting of data;

·         Sign versus signal versus noise: ethics and aesthetics of data cleaning;

·         Digital anthropology, creative cartography, ethnography and mapping;

·         Open Data/Big Data: culture, rights and freedoms;

·         The archival politics of search engines (e.g. gender and race blindness), and preserving the past;

·         Issues in framing practice-as-research as/with/through data;

·         The interaction of spaces and data spaces/sets;

·         Virtual, augmented, and physical artistic and creative practices

·         Smart cities, resilient cities and The Internet of Things;

·         Immaterial curation, museum, exhibition and heritage practices;

·         Digital archives: sustainability and searchability (compatibility, interoperability);

·         Collective prosopography and visualisation tools;

·         Digital texts, images and objects: manuscripts, the print page, artefacts and the problems of immateriality;

·         Data leaks, surveillance, and hacking.

It is anticipated that a range of themed edited collections and/or special journal issues will arise from this conference. There will be no conference proceedings.

View the call for proposals: http://drha2017.com/call-for-proposals