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DVC II — Publics

St. John’s College auditorium, January 7 & 8, 2019

The two day gathering on 7 and 8 January will be hosted at St. John’s College, Oxford. Here we will assemble a group of scholars and practitioners to discuss the ways in which digital visualising technologies are convening different types of publics across cities and heritage organisations.

Structured around the themes of digital urban publics and the imagined pasts of urban heritage, each of the two days will foster dialogue between media theorists and digital humanities professionals, digital designers, cultural geographers and urban campaigners. Anchored by keynotes and fleshed out by dynamic panels and discussants, we’re thrilled to host such an impressive congress of digital media scholars and professionals.

‘Publics’ and Smart Cities—Jan 7th

Our first day will take four cuts through the digital, visual and cultural in urban settings. Examining environmental data, urban screens both large and small, storytelling about urban change, and engagements with future urban technologies, we will draw academics and practitioners into conversation to consider the various ways in which publics — both actual and projected — intersect and gather around digital/visual media and technologies. The academics and practitioners will each be invited to speak for 20 minutes, followed by a 20 minute session of discussant facilitated dialogue and open time for questions. The speakers are:

—Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths University of London) in conversation with Kayla Schulte (Friends of the Earth) and Tony Bush (Apertum)

—Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck College, University of London) with Clare Walton (Community Action Milton Keynes)

—Adam Greenfield (Author, Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies) with Allison Powell (London School of Economics).

—Zlatan Krajina (University of Zagreb) with Susa Pop (Public Art Lab, Berlin)

‘Publics’ and Heritage —Jan 8th

In contrast with our first day of programming, the second is built around a pair of keynote addresses from Ayona Datta (King’s College, London) and Monica Degen (Brunel University). Where Dr. Datta’s research concerns the digital turn and post-colonial urban futures, Dr. Degen’s takes up questions of urban temporalities with a current focus on the Museum of London’s planned move to a new site. Both

consider the various ways in which the future of urban spaces are alternately bound up in complicated histories and imagined futures projected as being distinctly visual.

Accompanying these talks will be a panel taking up questions of digital heritage as they’re finding articulation both online and in contemporary museum spaces. Here, heritage academics will be placed in conversation with heritage and digital design professionals. Confirmed participants are as follows:

—Padmini Ray Murray (Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology)

—Kathryn Eccles (University of Oxford, CABINET project)

—Damien Smith (ISO Design, Glasgow)

—John Wylie (University of Exeter)

As with the ‘Smart’ cities programme, facilitated discussion will follow. Panel members TBA: