Everything is a matter of distance

Introduction

We are looking forward to the research workshop "Everything is a matter of distance", organised by Digital Aesthetics Research Center and the SHAPE Digital Citizenship at Aarhus University, in collaboration with transmediale festival for digital art & culture, Berlin.

Resonating closely with transmediale 2025 theme (near) near but — far that focuses on "how algorithms place us in weird proximities and new intimacies with one another and the qualities of closeness we lose by way of their machine-driven actions." Our workshop on ”everything is a matter of distance" engages with historical and contemporary tropes of distance as they pertain to digital culture, while collectively developing a sense of what methods, which critical tools, and what kind of conceptual traditions help to reframe the nuances in proximity and distance.

The workshop features projects that discuss questions of distance and/or proximity, and how they relate to how we consume – and are consumed by – platforms, interfaces, and late-capitalist politics.

Timeline

 10 jan: upload texts to the wiki
 10 jan - 25 jan: commenting on each other
 29 jan: introduction, presentations & feedback + McLuhan lecture 19.00
 30 jan: re-writing and preparing presentations, preparing format for proceedings
 31 jan: panel at transmediale

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Shared literature

We will use the Semi library. This is another services hosted by our ctp-server, which hosts literature and allows for communal note-taking.

To access the library:

1. Go to https://ctp.cc.au.dk/semi click on guest (upper-right corner) and log-in (you will receive this credentials in our online meeting or through an email).
2. Once logged in: on the left column, under "SHELVES", click on "EMD transmediale 25"
3. Select a book and click on the "spawn pad" button.

Note that you have to be logged in into the library to see the shelf, files, and associated etherpads.

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Contributions

Christoffer - Liminal Data Lives: Aestheticising Trans (In)visibility as Algorithmic Distance

Daria - Choreographic tools of body capturing

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Katya Sivers - Image Laundering. Warfare As Backdrop

Kola - Luxury Under Construction

Maja Funke - Dead Glitch

Matiss - Architecture’s Deep Pictures

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Maya - Fused Horizons: Narrating Pain, Toxicity and Unavoidable Intimacy in the Anthropocene

Megan Phipps - Folded Distances, Techno-Rhythm, and Networked Aesthetics

Nico - Induction of Sonic Distance

Paul - Planetary Messengers

Ruben - Perplexity. Surveilling Through Indifference

Sami Itävuori - The Virtual Viewer: image aesthetic assessment and digitized museum art collections

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