<nettime> Telematics to Teletrust

[d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk]

Telepresence to Teletrust
Call for Expressions of Interest to Participate in Day 2 of an Online 
Symposium 2021

The Telepresence to Teletrust Symposium is a two-day event focusing on 
the
‘third space’ between tangible and mediated presence’. The event takes 
place on-line
on 8-9 July 2021 and is organised by EMERGE a research centre based at
Bournemouth University

Day 1 is open to the public to enjoy presentations from a rich list of 
expert speakers
below.

Day 2 is reserved for a limited number of participants interested in 
participating in
workshops that take a ‘deep dive’ into the subject and designed to 
expand and intensify
research opportunities in this field.

Please take a look at the outline of the symposium’s principal aims 
below. If you care to
participate then send an expression of interest with a brief summary 
(200-500 words) of how
your research or practice relates to the themes.

Please send your expressions of interest to: 
telepresence2teletrust@gmail.com
Password: 2Teletrust!

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Telepresence to Teletrust

Live telepresence through new platforms such as Zoom, Teams, Facetime, 
Jitsi etc have become fully embedded in our lives. Like it or not this 
way of being together is here to stay. In the post-Covid push for a 
zero-carbon economy, international travel will be radically curtailed 
and remote working will become if not the norm then far more common. 
Welcome to a world of virtual assemblies and blended communications.

This seminar aims to recuperate the rich resource of spatial and 
temporal experimentation that artists and creative researchers have 
developed over many years. Our conviction is that these experiments will 
help us move towards richer and more embodied forms of virtual 
encounter. In addition we aim to use the event to crystalise these 
ambitions in the form of proposals for exhibitions and/or publishable 
texts, critical primers, a phenomenology of Telematics.

The talks and presentations are encouraged in but not limited to of the 
themes of embodiment, society, aesthetics and politics, refracted 
through the lens of the following questions:

•	How is the proliferation telepresence changing what it means to be 
reflexively ‘present’ to one another?
•	what scope might there be to shape new directions for these platforms 
that go beyond the ghostly dance of endless ‘talking-heads’?
•	How we are to avoid the emergence new forms of alienation?
•	Given that billions of live feeds can be seen as just one more stage 
in a process of endless fragmentation what are the possibilities for 
creating a third space between tangible and mediated presence, stepping 
outside the usual binaries of the real and the virtual?
•	How do we provoke creative responses that break the frame and go 
beyond the limitations of existing platforms?


 Practical Information
 Description of the Symposium

Day 1 in which principal speakers and presentations will be followed by 
panels and Q&A.
Day 2 in which intensive workshops will aim to generate chapter 
proposals for a critical primer on Telepresence. There will also be a 
facilitated workshop asking participants to use the one of the existing 
teleconferencing platforms in imaginative, anarchic, chaotic, 
collaborative, and unexpected ways modelling new modes of talking and 
thinking about Telepresence."

 Confirmed speakers:

* Prof. Caroline Nevejan, Chief Science Officer City of Amsterdam
 www.nevejan.org
http://openresearch.amsterdam/
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/n/e/c.i.m.nevejan/c.i.m.nevejan.html?cb

* Prof Paul Sermon, University of Brighton, PI on a UKRI/AHRC project 
working on the very thing…
UKRI/AHRC COVID-19 Response Project: ‘Collaborative Solutions for the 
Performing Arts: A Telepresence Stage’  
http://paulsermon.org/pandemic-encounters/   
https://thirdspacenetwork.com/pandemic-encounters/

* Ghislaine Boddington is a Reader in Digital Imersion Reader, Digital 
Immersion - University of  Greenwich -  Creative Director, 
body>data>space  and Women Shift Digital- The Internet of Bodies -  
Keynote Speaker and Studio Expert, BBC Digital Planet - BBC World 
Service

* Dr Atau Tanaka, Professor of Media Computing Goldsmiths, University of 
London
PI for AHRC project Hybrid Live 
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV009567%2F1

* Ali Hossaini, Co-director of National Gallery X, online gallery . 
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/national-gallery-x

* Professor Maria Chatzichristodoulou Associate Dean Research, Business 
& Innovation
    Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital 
Media (IJPADM)


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