[artinfo] Fwd: Newsletter // Vilém Flusser Archive // February 2022

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> Subject: Newsletter // Vilém Flusser Archive // February 2022
> Date: 14 February 2022 at 16:29:43 GMT+1
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> Dear Flusserians, 
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> this time we would like to share two calls for papers with you. 
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> 1. Flusser Summer School organized by the Flusser Club 
> The Flusser Summer School was initiated as part of our planned celebrations for the 100th birthday of the internationally renowned media philosopher Vilém Flusser on May 12, 2020. This plan needed to be moved online, but this year in 2022 it will take finally place as originally planned in Robion (South of France) where he last lived and wrote his most important works. The sessions will be taught at Flusser's former residence, in the spaces of the municipality and in a small ancient amphitheater, where lectures, discussions, film viewings and presentations will be held in his honor. 
> The summer school aims to irreverently acknowledge the significance of Vilém Flusser's work for the development of media philosophy and media culture history. His reflections on the future of digital culture were prophetic and far ahead of his time. On the occasion of his 102nd birthday, we will explore the relevance of Flusser's thinking to our understanding of digital culture. The summer school program will interface with a small festival and symposium culminating on his birthday on May 12th. 
> We will raise questions such as: How can his positions be critically understood today? What premises shaped his thinking? And in which form and medium can critical thinking about and with media be expressed?
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> Open for BA, MA, and PhD students. Submission deadline is 6th March 2022.
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> More information in the attached document and here <http://flusser.club/flusser-summer-school>.
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> 2. Conference "Practicing Sovereignty" organized by the Weizenbaum Institute
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> The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society is organizing its 2022 annual conference on the subject of "Practicing Sovereignty. Interventions for open digital futures". The conference will take place at the venue „Alte Münze" in Berlin on Thursday, 9 June and Friday, 10 June 2022.
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> The international conference and exhibition will investigate new opportunities for digital participation and policymaking and discuss alternative technological and social practices from various fields and disciplines. We frame digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation.
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> The conference will provide a transdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists, activists, and human rights advocates who develop transformative practices spaces to foster digital involvement. Grassroots initiatives, community projects, and participatory practices in design, art and activism appear as collective counter strategies and bottom-up interventions that challenge the normalization of inequalities and insecurities and push back against threats to an open society. They lay the groundwork for new forms of agency, paving novel ways of practicing sovereignty – both in the sense of collective activities as well as in terms of public education and experimentation.
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> To investigate the notion of digital sovereignty while respecting the plurality of its notion and approaches, the conference and exhibition offer four different tracks with shifting focuses:
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> • Digital sovereignty: terms, concepts, limitations
> • Datafication and democracy
> • Digital literacies and inequalities
> • Digital sovereignty and scientific autonomy
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> Important Dates
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> • Deadline for submission – extended: 28 February 2022
> • Notification for acceptance: 15 March 2022
> • Conference: 9/10 June 2022
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> For more information:
> https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de/ <https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de/>
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> All the best,
> Team of the Vilém Fliusser Archive