[Air-L] Invitation // Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction // KCL-DDH online event

[Nicola Bozzi]

Hello everyone (& apologies for cross-posting),

I am happy to invite you to an online event organised at KCL-DDH. Hope you
can make it!


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*Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction*

Date: *20 June 2022*

Time: *16:00-18:30* (London time)

*Register with this Teams link
<https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVg,GmZ934gLO0i-L_TEhou70Q,qhZiP3fRSEeagC8lLsNNug,SAZElHKxlkWMDSg0iuiFJA,MBL11zzmYkiEOZ2LnI8oGA,TQl8ZLeOpEiDXGHpjIMH4w?mode=read&tenantId=8370cf14-16f3-4c16-b83c-724071654356>*


How do emerging cultural formats like dating profiles, Instagram face
filters, GAN imagery, or blockchain-enabled communities contribute to
spread out our increasingly distributed, digitally augmented identities?

This online event, which is part of the *Online Crowds* workshop series
organised by King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities,
features presentations by critics and artists who work on digital culture,
art, and identity in critical ways.


Taking her Instagram filters exhibition project “Art Layers” (2021) as a
starting point, Valentina Tanni <http://www.valentinatanni.com> will
analyze the different roles that AR filters can play in the context of
today's social media - from light, playful approaches to complex artistic
experimentations on the topic of self-identity and reality perception.

Midgray <https://midgray.org/> (Kris Blackmore and Simon Boas) will discuss
their layered work on internet dating platforms, privacy, and masculinity.
These projects involve algorithmically identifying misogyny in dating app
user profiles on OkCupid, ultimately leading to thoughtful and nuanced
conversations about consent and masculinity that aren't typically seen in
mainstream media.

Ksenia Fedorova
<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ksenia-fedorova> will
address the ways the social imaginary is affected by the capabilities of
digital technologies and the creative response to this state of affairs,
registered in practices ranging from political activism to interactive art
and mixed reality performance.

Max Dovey <https://maxdovey.com/> will discuss projects that involve
performance, improvisation and live action role play to confront emergent
techno-social configurations within live, embodied and situated contexts.


The presentations will be followed by an open discussion session moderated
by Nicola Bozzi <http://twitter.com/schizocities>, Lecturer at King's
College London, Department of Digital Humanities.


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Nicola Bozzi

Lecturer in Digital Innovation Management

Department of Digital Humanities

King’s College London



Recent Publications:

Bozzi, N. (2021), "Dramatization of the @GANGSTA: Instagram Cred in the Age
of Glocalized Gang Culture”, Wiest, J.B. (Ed.) *Theorizing Criminality and
Policing in the Digital Media Age* (*Studies in Media and Communications,
Vol. 20*), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 69-88.
https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020210000020010



Bozzi, N. (2020) #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A
Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. *Social Media
+ Society*. DOI:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120926644