[Air-L] Registration - Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data

[Scott Wark]

*Registration is now open for 'Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data,'* an
interdisciplinary conference on the empirical, conceptual, and
methodological concept of the 'figure' for thinking the person today. Though
interdisciplinary in focus, this conference includes several panels that
will be of interest to AoiR members.


*Date and location*: 9.30am – 6pm, Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 December,
2019 Professor
Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way SE14
6NW


*Keynotes:*

Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University

Professor Jane Elliot, University of Exeter

Professor John Frow, The University of Sydney

Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, The University of Sheffield


We’re drowning in an ocean of data, or so the saying goes. Data’s “big”:
there’s not only lots of it, but its volume has allowed for the development
of new, large-scale processing techniques. Our relationship with
governments, medical organisations, technology companies, the education
sector, and so on are increasingly informed by the data we overtly or
inadvertently provide when we use particular services. The proverbial data
deluge is large-scale—but it’s also personal. Data promises to personalise
services to better meet our individual needs. Data is often construed as a
threat to our person(s). Not every person predicated by data is predicted
the same. The intersection between data and person isn’t fixed: it has to be
 *figured*.

What methodological, conceptual, and/or empirical potential do
'figurations' offer to researchers working at the intersection of the
person and data today? Over two days, more than 50 presenters and 4 keynote
speakers will address how the 'figure' and its variants—figuration,
figuring, to figure, and so on—is being developed and used in disciplines
including the medical humanities, the social sciences, media studies, art
history, literary studies, philosophy, science and technology studies,
urban studies, and geography.


Registration is *free*. *For more information and to register, please
follow this link <https://peoplelikeyou.ac.uk/activities/figurations/>. *


Figurations is organised as part of the 'People Like You: Contemporary
Figures of Personalisation' Project, which is funded by a Wellcome Trust
Collaborative Award (205456/Z/16/Z). It is organised by Prof. Celia Lury
and Dr. Scott Wark from the University of Warwick's Centre for
Interdisciplinary Methodologies <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/>,
in collaboration with PLY researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London
and Imperial College.


The full programme will be available shortly - if you have any questions in
the meantime, please email Scott Wark at S.Wark at warwick.ac.uk