@joannazylinska.bsky.social
Media philosopher, artist, writer Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities www.joannazylinska.net AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
🏛️ What does the future of history look like in a digital age?
Join us on 15 October for The Digital Futures of History and explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we study, preserve and engage with the past ⬇️
@stuartdunn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social
Online symposium: discussion of Gary Hall's new book, Masked Media: What It Means to be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by @openhumanities.bsky.social
#openaccess: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Fri 12 Sept 2025, ZOOM (9.30am MX, 16.30 UK)
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!
📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#AcademicJobs
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).
📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
My amazing department at King's College London is organising a BIG conference on 'THE DIGITAL' In 2026. Do come! Call for papers: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
01.08.2025 09:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted with this new groundbreaking book in my MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series for @openhumanities.bsky.social =>
* Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts *
edited by Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez
Open access: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Announcing the latest title in OHP's Technographies series:
Thinking with AI, edited by Hannes Bajohr.
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
With essays by Peli Grietzer, Leif Weatherby, Mercedes Bunz, Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich, Babette Babich, Markus Krajewski, Orit Halpern and others.
"Inspired by the work of Victorian botanist + photographer Anna Atkins – who made use of the cyanotype process to document botanical specimens in her pioneering 1843 📘... – Mandy painstakingly created “a replica of the original publication," this time documenting the waste of fast fashion
28.03.2025 14:01 — 👍 45 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 0
Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence - new #openaccess book by Gary Hall from @openhumanities.bsky.social
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
PHOTOGRAPHY THINKING: thought experiment in responding to the material conditions of the creation of thoughts, images and thoughts about images. Exploring the present-day condition enabled by images that reference, remaster, reframe and remediate photographs.
unthinking.photography/articles/pho...
This two-day event on AI and Identity at Aarhus University on 22-23 May 2025, which includes a one-day workshop for PhD students, might be of interest to the PhD community in arts / humanities / social sciences. Featuring a keynote from Olga Goriunova.
darc.au.dk/blog/nyhed/a...
What will our future look like? What role will biotech, screen media and AI play in it? Can we imagine better futures with digital tech? Can we design them in a collaborative way? Recording from @kingsdh.bsky.social symposium on IMAGINATIVE DIGITAL FUTURES now online:
youtu.be/nI0ADNfsQ_s?...
WHERE is the photographic image? Is it in the eye? In the brain? In our memory? In a database? Yanai Toister & I posed the questions for the Guest Room we curated for Der Greif magazine.
Results: dergreif.org/guest-room/j...
Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
Thu 1 May 2025 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, London (in-person event)
The 2025 King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College
www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
Interesting book by this Mexican anthropologist, going against both physicalism and panpsychism to read consciousness as situated between the mind and the world, the neural and the symbolic.
04.02.2025 17:32 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Open call submission for the fourth edition of Re:humanism Art Prize, dedicated to exploring the relationship between art and AI. Inviting a reflection on time, often experienced from Western perspective & oriented towards productivity. To be held in Rome, Italy. www.re-humanism.com/open-call-20...
03.02.2025 10:33 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Next week Stockholm: exhibition opening and keynote on Bio-AI fargfabriken.se/en/pa-gang/r...
01.02.2025 13:14 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As introverts, we're liking the idea of a silent book club.
howtobe247.com/silent-book-...
Anyone wants to start (a non-profit) one for Open Humanities Press, let us know.
I'm looking for philosophically-oriented articles and projects on the latent space. Any recommendations?
10.01.2025 12:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the cover of the book “The Perception Machine” by Joanna Zylinska
Post just brought a belated present! 🙌 📷 @joannazylinska.bsky.social
02.01.2025 10:02 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Conference poster
Looking forward to this tomorrow emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs
11.12.2024 20:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"troubling Al: call for screenshots"
screenshot reads: "How can screenshots trouble our understanding of Al?" Full text can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me/
How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me
23.10.2024 08:49 — 👍 53 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 3That's the more interesting cfp for me, too. This one is more of a "why did your model produce garbage?" conference. But sign me up for the "what is AI garbage?" conference! (FWIW @joannazylinska.bsky.social makes related points in this paper!) journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...
05.12.2024 17:24 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"WHERE is the photographic image?" Let's move beyond the obsession with photography's identity and see where photography is happening instead!Submit to this open call for Der Greif magazine I'm co-curating. site.picter.com/der-greif-gu...
05.12.2024 11:50 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0With @joannazylinska.bsky.social @medialab-scpo.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social, Tommy Shane, Axel Meunier & more!
02.12.2024 15:50 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
View from the Window, de Joanna Zylinska (Zylinska contrató a gente de la plataforma MTurk para que tomaran una fotografía de su ventana; el libro activa la visualización de los precarios mercados laborales que sostienen estos sistemas)
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
archive.org/details/view...
Join us tonight at 8pm at Abney Books, 213 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 0LH, for the launch of FUNGI MEDIA by philosopher/performance artist Piotr Bockowski.
Recently published by @openhumanities.bsky.social
#openaccess
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
FR 😭
28.11.2024 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great new show at Tate Modern
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
www.iuav.it/it/avviso?ft...
Keynotes:
- Neta Alexander, Yale
- Francesco D’Isa, writer & artist, L’indiscreto magazine
- Lev Manovich, City University, New York
- Matteo Pasquinelli, Ca' Foscari, Venice
- Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
- Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, London
