[Air-L] CFP: Re-Shaping AI, May 2023 in Montreal Canada. Due in 2 weeks

[Fenwick Mckelvey]

Please share widely – Due 18 January 2023



On behalf of our international Shaping AI team, please consider applying to
our symposium on Re-Shaping AI in Montreal. Details below, apply here:
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*Call for Submissions*

21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled,
and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of
actors: from technologists, startup founders and global companies to policy
makers, journalists, and civil society. For some, AI is being positioned as
a fix to our social problems, which in turn will change how we live,
communicate, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these
developments might reinforce inequality, exacerbate the opacity of
decision-making processes, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are
thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our
everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already
elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies
about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible, we can already
perceive elements of closure and institutionalization.



Our symposium invites contributions from an international audience to
interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration
between research teams from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Canada
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we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s media
representations, policy framings, and scientific debates. Crucially, we
also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI, including
practice-based research or research-creation.



The symposium runs from May 23-24 at the Milieux Institute
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 at Concordia University
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in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Presentations in person are encourage. Remote
participation will be available.

We encourage submissions along these following themes:

   1. Global, Local, and Frictions of AI governance
   2. AI Cultures
   3. Media representations of AI
   4. Ethics, a Techno-Solution to AI Controversies?
   5. Reflexivity and Positionality in AI Labs / Scenes / Collaborations
   6. Research Methods after AI
   7. Mapping AI Publics
   8. Skill Sharing on AI Engagements
   9. AI in and through Artistic Practice

Admissions will be guided by our desire to broaden our critical cases
around shaping AI, encouraging submissions outside EU and Anglocentric
contexts. Student submissions are welcome.



The symposium’s format encourages discussion with presentations capped at
10 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion.



Submissions due 18 January 2023. Abstracts 500 words or less.