[sudo-discuss] Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Arse Elektronika 2013 / Call for Submissions: 'ID/ENTITY'

[Jenny Ryan]

via johannes of monochrom (author of Hacking the
Spaces<http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/>,
a must-read for those interested in hackerspace culture and inclusivity):

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Date: Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:05 AM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Arse Elektronika 2013 / Call for
Submissions: 'ID/ENTITY'
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Arse Elektronika 2013 / Call for Submissions

ID/ENTITY

monochrom's festival on sex and tech and id/entities.
October 3-6, 2013 in San Francisco.

Call for talks, performances, workshops, games, machines.
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2013

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Sex, technology, identity... big-ass sweeping themes for Arse Elektronika
2013.

Identity, but also identification. Technologies for the exploration of
identities. Technologies for the articulation and performance of
identities. Technologies for the enforcement of hegemonic identities.
Technologies for the verification of identities. For example: What about
the vast fencing-off of the old wild internet; the #nym-wars and the push
for "real names"?

We typically assume there is 'something' that takes and/or performs an
identity. What is this entity? Are awareness and consciousness strictly
limited to and made sense of in human experience alone? How is identity
understood and made sense of in terms of artificial intelligence? What
might transhuman, android, or cyborg identities consist of? What does
sexual desire mean to a dolphin?

We have technology-based identities. If we are to agree that agency is a
key factor in identity AND position technology as extension/manipulation of
agency, then is technology an identity in and of itself?

The Bay Area, famous as a place to "find yourself," also hosts vast
projects to organize and catalog the world's identities, whether they want
that or not. So, how does the Californian Ideology drive identity politics
and techno-sexuality?

Will apps like Bang With Friends and gadgets like Google Glass provide us
with the ultimate gonzo pornoverse? And why are services like LinkedIn
explicitly banning escorts from using the site to get clients?

What have been the social ramifications of Web 2.0, ten years on? By what
means have queer users of dating sites and social networks reframed or
otherwise hacked the systems surrounding them? What is the design history
of the drop-down gender menu- and its alternatives? How did Facebook's
inclusion of "in an open relationship" as a standard option for one's
relationship status affect youth mores? What has been the effect of
location-based hookup apps on the architecture of cruising? What are the
economics of niche dating sites, and how are they policed? What are the
ethical obligations surrounding the ability to algorithmically identify
those who are in the closet?

What technologies could ensure more flexible, fluid identities? What would
TSA protocols look like if they were designed from a queer perspective?
What does counter-surveillant fashion look like? How might we ensure the
right not to be found? (Should we?) Are there technologies for anonymity
that do not also afford stalking and harassment? Are there technologies for
transparency that do not also afford stalking and harassment?

If an identity requires recognition (either by the self or through the
Other), then is it ever possible to be "truly" or "identifiably" queer? Is
'queer identity' an oxymoron?

Former Tory chairman Lord Tebbit warns that legalizing gay marriage in the
UK "opens up the possibility of a lesbian queen giving birth to a future
monarch by artificial insemination." Interesting times for sex tech? Indeed!

What about a historic dimension? What were techno-sexual systems of
identity like in the past? What were the technologies of masked rituals?
What technologies drove the invention of privacy? How did the adoption of
fingerprinting change the regulation of prostitution in the early 20th
century? Besides hanky-flagging, what techniques/technologies were used to
signal 'deviant' interests? How was handwriting judged in the evaluation of
potential lovers? What is the techno-social history of the "secret admirer?"

How will technological progress change the way we see ourselves? What are
we without our iPhone and our beloved designer vibrator? Is the Marxian
commodity fetish actually entering the sphere of (what a wordplay!)
customization fetishism?

If orgasm patterns are unique and impossible to duplicate, could one's
sexual response be the ultimate biometric identifier? So, how worried
should we be about the spectre of sphincter-printing?

What about Big Data in a sexual context? Does size matter?

What about a decent ontological debate with your buttplug's AI?

Well... dear entities out there, with your proud Egos, Super-Egos and
Hyper-Egos! Never forget that there is an Id lurking round the corner! The
real Voight-Kampff test is not minding that it hurts!

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Please submit through our form: http://bit.ly/18eOWEP
Deadline for submissions: July, 15 2013

For questions, please email: office AT monochrom.at

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