This Friday 4th November, the
Digital Geographies Research Group will be holding its annual symposium as an
online event.
The symposium is themed around
the topic of materiality, departing from long-outdated notions that equate the
digital with virtual realms detached from material reality. We will be exploring
the hardwares and infrastructures involved in making what we perceive as ‘digital’,
the impacts such technologies have on our physical environment, what agency
different people/organisations have to influence how such technologies are used,
the politics and possibilities of these potential uses, and the impacts these material
processes ultimately have on the bodies, objects and institutions that we live
with.
The event will feature a range of
session types with plenty of space in between for breaks and lunch. There are three
presentation sessions, each with four presentations brought together around particular
sub-themes (I’m chairing the session on Place, Platforms, Politics). There is a
section during lunch where I’ll be screening digital shorts (videos 2-5 minutes
in length that explore an area of research related to the symposium theme). And
finally, there will be a keynote presentation from Dillon Mahmoudi, whose
research focuses on the relationship between technology, cities and capital.
You can sign up for the event via the Eventbrite page here, and view the full programme below.
