糖心TV

Assistant Professor (102864-0320)

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of 糖心TV is looking to appoint a permanent Assistant Professor with a record of internationally recognised research, and a strong track record in the design and delivery of teaching. We are interested in applications from scholars positioned anywhere on the interdisciplinary spectrum, ranging from arts and humanities, to social sciences, computer science, information, environmental and natural sciences.

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Application deadline: 5 April 2020

If you have any queries, please email prof. Noortje Marres (CIM Director) at N.Marres@warwick.ac.uk

CIM researcher Michael Dieter will co-present a keynote with David Gauthier titled 'Recounting Media Art and Net Criticism Mailinglists (1995-2019)' at the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University on 19th March as part of the Data Visualisation Workshop for Critical Computational Discourse. The presentation will draw primarily from material on computational methods and media art mailinglists recently published in the journal Internet Histories - .

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Just like in every futuristic movie ever made, engineers wonder how to decide who a self driving car might kill in an accident, robots are automating our industries, we are experiencing the climate crisis first hand and there is a potential global health crisis looming. As policy makers, industries and governments scramble to solve these real-world problems from the top down, we want to challenge the very mechanisms used for predicting the future.

This panel of academic futures thinkers will hold a conversation focussed on disrupting predictable contemporary thinking in the policy, government and industry and innovation sectors for a future that is more ethical, equitable and inclusive.

Speakers

•  - Director of Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University will chair the panel, and reflect on her futures anthropology research into self-driving cars, future intelligent mobilities, and energy futures.
• Professor Noortje Marres - Director of Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, (糖心TV University). Noortje is a digital sociologist, and will speak about the tests and experiments that engineers use today to create the future: living labs, online personality tests, and smart traffic systems do not just predict what is to come, but change the present, and this makes it more urgent to figure out how art, design and social research can make possible different kinds of experiments with the future.
• Dr Nerea Calvillo - Associate Professor ,Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, (糖心TV University). An architect by training, Nerea will present In the Air, a visualization project currently on display in the Royal Academy (London), which makes visible the microscopic agents of Madrid麓s air. This and other projects by Nerea create embodied, material, and affective ways of sensing our environmental futures.
•  - Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Juan will speak about creative practices, poetics of tomorrowing and speculative approaches to futuring Antarctica and Outer Space. 

Discussants

• - Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab
•  - Assistant Professor, Aarhus University

For more details : https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/un-predicting-the-future-round-table-discussion-book-launch-tickets-96057076301

Monday 17 February, 6:30pm, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

CIM, in partnership with the Royal Academy, has organised the panel 鈥淎ir pollution in Cities鈥�, as part of the exhibition .

The panel, curated and chaired by Nerea Calvillo, will showcase air pollution visualisations produced by interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners, reflect on how to make data and environmental issues public to improve engagement, and explore how more creative and visual approaches can increase the reach and accessibility of discussions around air pollution in our cities.

Participants:

 Vasilisa Forbes is a photographer and film-maker.

Andrew Grieve is a senior air quality analyst at King鈥檚 College London.

Hanna Husberg is a Stockholm based artist.

Noga Levy-Rapoport is a youth climate justice.

Dr Diana Varaden is a research associate in the environmental research group at King鈥檚 College London.

Full time, fixed term contract until 30 September 2021.

Applications are invited for a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and the University of 糖心TV Q-Step Centre. You will be an outstanding early career or PhD scholar with expertise in computational social science and digital research methodology. You will be expected to contribute to the Q-Step Centre Postgraduate and Undergraduate degrees, and (if required) other existing degree programmes, by teaching on existing modules. You will also be required to develop your own option module in collaboration with other members of the Q-Step Centre. You will be based in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies.

You will have the ability and willingness to teach modules with a focus on big data analysis (QS906) and machine learning (IM931). You will undertake module development, lecturing, seminar and workshop teaching, essay tutorials, dissertation supervision, office hours, marking of postgraduate work, and monitoring of student attendance in accordance with the Centre鈥檚 quality assurance practices and, where appropriate, provide pastoral support and guidance during the academic year.

You should have completed a PhD in a relevant subject or have your viva in hand.

All applications must be accompanied by a CV and covering letter and names of three referees. If you have not had the viva for your PhD, at least one of your referees should be a current supervisor.

Please direct informal inquiries to Professor Noortje Marres, n.marres@warwick.ac.uk

Potential candidates are also welcome to contact the Director of 糖心TV Q-Step Centre, Prof Ulf Liebe (Ulf.Liebe@warwick.ac.uk).

Application Deadline: 28 February 2020

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New paper by Michael Dieter and Nathaniel Tkacz published in the journal Computational Culture, 鈥淭he Patterning of Finance/Security: A Designerly Walkthrough of Challenger Banking Apps.鈥�

Abstract: Culture is being 鈥榓ppified鈥�. Diverse, pre-existing everyday activities are being redesigned so they happen with and through apps. While apps are often encountered as equivalent icons in apps stores or digital devices, the processes of appification – that is, the actions required to turn something into an app – vary significantly. In this article, we offer a comparative analysis of a number of 鈥榗hallenger鈥� banking apps in the United Kingdom. As a retail service, banking is highly regulated and banks must take steps to identify and verify their customers before entering a retail relationship. Once established, this 鈥榮ecured鈥� financial identity underpins a lot of everyday economic activity. Adopting the method of the walkthrough analysis, we study the specific ways these processes of identifying and verifying the identity of the customer (now the user) occur through user onboarding. We argue that banking apps provide a unique way of binding the user to an identity, one that combines the affordances of smart phones with the techniques, knowledge and patterns of user experience design. With the appification of banking, we see new processes of security folded into the everyday experience of apps. Our analysis shows how these binding identities are achieved through what we refer to as the patterning of finance/security. This patterning is significant, moreover, given its availability for wider circulation beyond the context of retail banking apps.

Link to the paper:

Citation: Michael Dieter and Nathaniel Tkacz. 鈥淭he Patterning of Finance/Security: A Designerly Walkthrough of Challenger Banking Apps.鈥� Computational Culture 7 (20th January 2020). .

This paper examines recent street tests of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the UK and makes the case for an experimental approach in the sociology of intelligent technology. In recent years intelligent vehicle testing has moved from the laboratory to the street, raising the question of whether technology trials equally constitute tests of society. To adequately address this question, I argue, we need to move beyond analytic frameworks developed in 1990s Science and Technology Studies, which stipulated 鈥渁 social deficit鈥� of both intelligent technology and technology testing. This diagnosis no longer provides an effective starting point for sociological analysis, as real鈥恮orld tests of intelligent technology explicitly seek to bring social phenomena within the remit of technology testing. I propose that we examine instead whether and how the introduction of intelligent vehicles into the street involves the qualification and re鈥恞ualification of relations and dynamics between social actors. I develop this proposal through a discussion of a field study of AV street trials in three cities in the UK—London, Milton Keynes, and Coventry. These urban trials were accompanied by the claim that automotive testing on the open road will enable cars to operate in tune with the social environment, and I show how iterations of street testing undo this proposition and compel its reformulation. Current test designs are limited by their narrow conception of sociality in terms of interaction between cars and other road users. They exclude from consideration the relational capacities of vehicles and human road users alike—their ability to co鈥恊xist on the open road. I conclude by making the case for methodological innovation in social studies of intelligent technology: by combining social research and design methods, we can re鈥恜urpose real鈥恮orld test environments in order to elucidate social issues and dynamics raised by intelligent vehicles in society by experimental means, and, possibly, test society.

Written with McKenzie Wark, this chapter uses the circulation of internet memes and the fraught concept of 鈥榤eme magic鈥� to examine the incommensurabilities – labour and technics – that structure contemporary online culture. It appears in a new edited collection on internet memes, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, which is open access and available for download from the punctum books website.

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Applications are invited for a Teaching Fellow in Computational Social Science in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM).

Exhibition dates: 23 November - 23 February 2020.

In The Air, an air pollution visualisation project led by Nerea Calvillo is exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts as part of the international exhibition 鈥淓co-Visionaries: Confronting a planet in a state of emergency鈥�, opening to the public this Saturday 23 November. Two pieces will be on display: The video In The Air 24h (2019), commissioned by the Royal Academy and produced with the support of CIM and the Spanish Embassy, has been developed in collaboration with code designer and artist Martin Nadal (Berlin), sound designer and musician Javier Lara (Mexico City), and photographers Imagen Subliminal (New York-Madrid). The second piece is Histories of Pollution (2010), three models developed in collaboration with Martin Nadal.

Curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Pedro Gadanho and Mariana Pestana, Eco-Visionaries was originally organised by the MAAT (Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnolog铆a) in Lisbon (Portugal), Bildmuseet de Ume氓 (Sweden), House of Electronic Arts (HeK) in Basel (Switzerland) and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci贸n Industrial in Gij贸n.

A CIM visit will take place on 17 February, to accompany a public seminar on air pollution visualisations. More information soon, stay tuned!

The Royal Academy of Arts webpage for this exhibition is .