Newsletter 01/2022
Dear friends of the SENSING research group,
to coincide with the start of our final year of funding, we present you with a new issue of our SENSING newsletter. After a longer intermission we will look back on the past year as well as announce some of the research group’s upcoming activities and output in 2022.
One of the highlights of 2021 for us was our conference Other(ing) Sensing. Practices, Politics and Ethics of Sensitive Media, which took place online on June 17th and 18th, and to which we invited international guests to discuss sensing’s relation to questions of alterity with us. We are grateful to Irina Raskin, who kindly wrote a comprehensive conference report, which reviews all the talks, discussions, listening sessions and panels that took place. You will find it published (in English) here, on the blog of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft.
Furthermore, we are happy to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website which offers information concerning our research group, it’s participants, activities, and output.
Would you like to share some news with our research group, our practice partners and the group’s associates and friends in the future? If so, we invite you to enrich our newsletter with relevant topics, dates and information. For contributions, feedback or questions, please contact us via info@sensing-media.de.
Warm wishes from the current editorial team,
Daniel Stoecker and Nicole Schimkus
Table of Contents
✻ Activities
Upcoming
May 4–6, 2022 | Alice Soiné & Daniel Stoecker
“Akustische Interfaces” – Co-organisation of a shared conference of the AG Interfaces, the AG Auditive Kultur und Sound Studies as well as the AG Medienwissenschaft und Dis/Ability Studies of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) at Humboldt University Berlin
Mai – Sept, 2022 | Birgit Schneider
“Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen” – a project funded by Haupstadtkulturfond in Berlin, Curatorial team: Daniela Silvestrin, Birgit Schneider, Shintaro Miyazaki
April 7–9, 2022 | Nicole Schimkus
Presentation at the conference “Mimesis & Composition” in Padova, Italy
March 31 – April 2, 2022 | Winfried Gerling
“Companion Technologies” – Beitrag auf der Helsinki Photomedia Conference, Aalto University
March 18, 2022 | Anja Breljak
“Vom Silent Monitor bis Hubstaff: Modi behavioreller Macht” – talk at the conference arbeits|um|feld. Medien, Organisationsformen und symbolische Praktiken zeitgenössischer Büroarbeit, 18.-19. March 2022 at ZeM, Potsdam
February 7–11, 2022 | Kate Donovan (with Brandon LaBelle)
“Listening and the more-than-human” – Workshop at the Dirty Ear Forum Errant Bodies, Berlin
January 6, 2022 | Kate Donovan
Presentation on Community Radio, Kollisionswoche, UdK, Berlin
Retrospect
December 17, 2021 | Marie-Luise Angerer
“Von der psychischen Ex-timität zur digitalen Intimität” – 3. internal workshop of the network Digitalisierungsforschung of IPU and SFI (Berlin, Frankfurt/M): Eigenlokigen sozialer Medien und ihre Folgen aus psychoanalytisch-sozialpsychologischer Sicht (online)
December 10, 2021 | Kate Donovan
Premier of the radio art work “Meteor Bodies”, Casa Galileo, Lucia Festival, Florenz.
December 6, 2021 | Alice Soiné und Daniel Stoecker
Election and appointment as spokespersons of the AG Interfaces (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft)
November 19, 2021 | Winfried Gerling
“Methoden der Bildforensik” – Talk at the Studientag Bildredaktionsforschung Zwischen Symbol und Information – Der bildredaktionelle Umgang mit der Fotografie im Journalismus, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
November 4, 2021 | Marie-Luise Angerer
“Wissen figurieren. Zum Verhältnis von Science und Fiction” – Talk at the conference Hat die Universität ein Geschlecht? at Leipzig University
October 7, 2021 | Winfried Gerling
“Environmental Selfies” – Talk at the conference Selfie-Forschung und ihre interdisziplinären Fragestellungen, Methoden und Ergebnisse at the Zentrum für Ethik der Medien und der digitalen Gesellschaft, Munich school of philosophy
October 4, 2021 | Anja Breljak
“Sense Sensitivity Laboratory” – presentation on the history of sensitivity in the context of western laboratory cultures at the OpenLab of CYTTER.datalab, a project by Christian Doeller
September 30, 2021 | Marie-Luise Angerer
“Non+humane Agency. Anmerkungen zu einer nichtbewussten Zone” – Contribution to the shared workshop Infrastrukturen der Autonomie by Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM)
September 23, 2021 | Bernd Bösel
Moderation and Short Presentation at the panel “Zur Ökologie affektiven Wissens” during the Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies, University of Innsbruck
September 17, 2021 | Marie-Luise Angerer
“Morphic Figurations” – Keynote at the symposion Intraactivity: the Posthuman, Fabulation and Matter of the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
September 15, 2021 | Marie-Luise Angerer
“From the affective dispositif to an affective nonconscious” – Keynote address at the Postgraduate Symposium, Brighton (UK) and online
June 19, 2021 | Kate Donovan and Birgit Schneider
“Becoming Human>Animal>Plant>Rocks & Air. Modes of perceiving nature” Performance-lecture, Werkleitz Festival, Halle
June 18, 2021 | Christian Schwinghammer
“Pr(e/o)positions Alongside Negativity” – together with Jasón Bustos, Henrike Kohpeiß, Matthew James Milbourne, Claas Oberstadt, Anthony Obst, presentation at the workshop Blackness and Affect – A Workshop with Tyrone S. Palmer (Columbia University, New York), Freie Universität Berlin, SFB Affective Societies.
June 04, 2021 | Nicole Schimkus
“Interactions for everybody!? On creating inclusive technologies and the generative potential of disability” – presentation at RISE IMET 2021 (International Conference on Emerging Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Museums and Heritage Sites)
June 4, 2021 | Winfried Gerling
“A Sense of Co-Presence” – Talk at the conference After Post Photography 6, St.Petersburg (online)
May 31, 2021 | Vanessa Oberin
“Medien und Medialität der Berührung” – presentation at the online workshop Online-Blicklabors Berührung ohne berühren, hosted by the research project „Early childhood and smartphone“ at the University of Siegen’s SFB Media of Cooperation
May 11 & 13, 2021 | Kate Donovan
“Tuning to the Bird Body” by Kate Donovan (including poems by Jan Verberkmoes) was commissioned by Soundart Radio for their Tomorrow’s Transmissions series and was aired together with an interview
April 23, 2021 | Christian Schwinghammer
“Onto-Flux? Groundings of an ever-flowing world and the question of context” – presentation at the international workshop Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization, Leuphana University Lüneburg (online)
March 31, 2021 | Christian Schwinghammer
“Holding Otherwise? On modes of relating” – presentation at the workshop Technologies of Containment: Ontologies of Porosity, Leakiness and Holding (online)
March 30, 2021 | Vanessa Oberin
“Encapsulated Bodies – Ecosystems for One” – presentation at the workshop Technologies of Containment: Ontologies of Porosity, Leakiness and Holding (online)
March 29–31, 2021 | Marie-Luise Angerer and Christian Schwinghammer
Organization of the international workshop Technologies of Containment: Ontologies of Porosity, Leakiness and Holding, together with Ingrid Richardson, Hannah Schmedes, Zoe Sofoulis (online)
March 25/26, 2021 | Bernd Bösel
Organization of a reading workshop of the AG “Affective Media Technologies”, discussion of Andrew McStay: “Emotional AI. The Rise of Empathic Media” (Zoom)
March 25, 2021 | Nicole Schimkus
“Designing configurations that matter. (Re-)imagining HCI through dis/ability” – presentation at the international conference New Materialist Informatics
March, 2021 | Nicole Schimkus
Completion of the yearlong certification program Junior Teaching Professionals
✻ Output
Upcoming
Marie-Luise Angerer: Nichtbewusst. Affektive Kurzschlüsse zwischen Psyche und Maschine, Turia & Kant (Wien) (February 2022)
Marie-Luise Angerer: “Über The Trouble with Being Born”, in: Film Picturing Austria (May 2022)
Kate Donovan (with Shortwave Collective): “Building an Open Wave-Receiver. Experiment with self-powered radio receivers using found materials and your local environment.” Make Magazine (Print: Spring 2022. Online: Summer 2022)
Winfried Gerling: “Bildforensik im Journalismus – Kontexte und Methoden”, in: Elke Grittmann und Felix Koltermann (Ed.), Hybrid, multimedial, prekär: Fotojournalismus im Um- und Aufbruch, Köln: Halem Verlag (February 2022)
Winfried Gerling: “Das Bild als Wahrscheinlichkeit”, in: Olga Moskatova und Laura Katharina Mücke (Ed.), Bild | Kanäle. Zur Theorie und Ästhetik vernetzter Medienkultur, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (Spring 2022)
Winfried Gerling: “zoomen”, in: Heiko Christians, Matthias Bickenbach, Nikolaus Wegmann (Ed.), Historisches Wörterbuch des Mediengebrauchs Band 3, Weimar: Böhlau/UTB (first half of 2022)
Birgit Schneider: “Kommunizieren, signalisieren”, in: Isabel Kranz und Joela Jacobs (Ed.), Pflanzen: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag (2022)
Retrospect
Marie-Luise Angerer: “Theoretische und politische Elemente eines affektiven Gefüges”, in: Susanne Witzgall, Marietta Kesting (Ed.), Politik der Emotionen/Macht der Affekte, Zürich: diaphanes 2021, S. 99-109
Marie-Luise Angerer: Was vom Jahr bleibt, https://www.cargo-film.de/anderes-kino/was-vom-jahr-bleibt/was-vom-jahr-bleibt-2021/
Marie-Luise Angerer: “Im Rhythmus des Metalls. Zu Titane von Julia Doccurnau”, in: Kolik Film, Sonderheft 56/2021: Weibliche Subjektivität (Wien)
Bernd Bösel: Die Plastizität der Gefühle. Das affektive Leben zwischen Psychotechnik und Ereignis, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2021
Anja Breljak / To Doan: “The Trouble with Institutions: Un_Doing Diversity?”, Tagungsbericht zur Jahreskonferenz “Diversity Affects | Troubling Institutions” des SFB Affective Societies vom 28.-29. Mai 2021.
Anja Breljak: “Puls Maschine Labor Empfindlichkeit”, in: Christian Doeller (Ed.), CYTTER.log., Begleitbuch zum CYTTER datalab
Jan Distelmeyer / Sophie Ehrmanntraut / Boris Müller (Ed.): Algorithmen & Zeichen. Beiträge von Frieder Nake zur Gegenwart des Computers, Berlin: Kadmos, 2021
Jan Distelmeyer: “Fahren und Kontrollieren Automatisierte Mobilität als programmatischer Kreislauf”, in: Florian Sprenger (Ed.), Autonome Autos. Medien- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Zukunft der Mobilität, Bielefeld: transcript, 2021, S. 259-282 (open access)
Jan Distelmeyer: “Interfaces leiten – zur Computerisierung dies- und jenseits des Beobachtbaren”, in: Jonas Etten / Julian Jochmaring (Ed.): Nach der ikonischen Wende Aktualität und Geschichte eines Paradigmas, Berlin: Kadmos, 2021
Jan Distelmeyer: “Programmatische Verhältnisse. Wer oder was lebt in Zoom? Fragen an die neue Normalität von Videokonferenzen”, in: CARGO Film/Medien/Kultur, Nr. 49, 2021, S. 28-34 (open access)
Jan Distelmeyer: “IT sees: Speculations on the Technologization of the View and its Distribution”, in: Winfried Gerling, Florian Krautkrämer (Ed.): Versatile Camcorders. Looking at the GoPro-Movement, Berlin: Kadmos, 2021, S. 163-174
Jan Distelmeyer: “What holds everything together. Experiences with programmatic relationships (Zoom and co.)” / “Was zusammenhält. Erfahrungen mit programmatischen Beziehungen (Zoom und Co.)” in: Spy on Me, Vol. 3 (New Communities), 2021 (open access)
Kate Donovan: “Nightcall Radio. Radio–anthropocene entanglements”, Fusion Journal, Nr. 19, 2021, S. 132-144
Winfried Gerling: “Bilder einfrieren, oder: Wie das Bewegtbild in den Eisschrank kommt”, in: Matthias Bruhn (Ed.), Bildwelten des Wissens, 2021, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021
Winfried Gerling: “Virtuelles Licht – Bildschirmbilder als dokumentarische Bilder des Digitalen”, in: Stephanie Catani und Jasmin Pfeiffer (Ed.), MIT ALLEN SINNEN. Künstliche Welten zwischen Multisensorik und Multimedialität, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021
Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang, Alice Soiné (Ed.): Interface Critique Ausgabe 3 | Depth of Field, Herbst 2021, Open Access: https://interfacecritique.net
Birgit Schneider: “Google-Gaia. Feedback Loops for Action with Global Forest Watch. Together with Lynda Olman”, in: Gabriele Dürbeck / Philip Hüpkes (Ed.): Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene. Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity, Routledge 2021, S. 193-211, DOI: 10.4324/9781003136989-11
Alice Soiné / Daniel Stoecker: imachinary, Forschungs- und Publikationsprojekt