[MaFLa] Call for Papers: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age

[Mihály Héder]

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Részletek:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28385
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*Call for Papers Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2019*

*26 and 27 June: *Conference Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, CRASSH
*28 June: *Recital Room, Faculty of Music

*A joint conference by the 'Re-' Interdisciplinary Network (CRASSH) and the
AI & Society Journal*


A concept that has been at the fore of discussions around the sociology of
scientific knowledge, the limits of AI, and most recently the design of
‘collective intelligence’, is ‘tacit knowledge’. First coming to prominence
in the 1960’s, with Polanyi’s The Tacit Dimension (1966), it is a concept
that continues to be addressed by scholars and practitioners from a wide
range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives, and applied
fields of practice. This conference explores the place of the tacit in the
21st Century, where our lives are increasingly augmented by AI algorithms.

Engagement with and through social media networks and mobile apps are
re-shaping the notion of community and family, and affecting wellbeing, as
well as the cultures of the workplace and institutions. The exponential
rise of big data flows in networked communications causes vast gaps in
translation, confusion about what is true and false, and mistrust of
‘experts’. In the shadows of machine thinking we are unable to engage with
difference.

This challenges us to come up with technological futures rooted in us as
persons, not as numbers, parts, sensory mechanisms, genes, and individual
bodies.

            What alternative models might allow humans to better engage
with technology?
            How can we reconsider the relation between a person and a
collective intelligence?
            How can we reconceive the self as interaction in a digital age?

Ideas of performance and reperformance help us reposition seemingly
singular subjects and objects as collective phenomena, and help reconnect
art and science after their separation in the 19th Century; but the arts in
general can play a key role in questioning and reframing our understandings
by directing attention to the *tacit* assumptions, norms, and expectations
embedded in all cultural processes.

There is a supposed neutrality around technology, evidenced in the idea
that human ‘intelligence’ can, in the absence of ‘person’, be artificially
re-presented, re-constructed and re-produced through computation (AI). The
conference explores in what ways the interplay of the arts and sciences is
reconceiving augmentation, and questions what an ‘intelligence’ that is
‘artificial’ might be.


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Mihály Héder, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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