We invite submissions to participate in the second year Bodies in Digital Transition (BDT) conference that aim to traverses the materiality of the mechanical body itself asking: what embodied gestures and rhythms animate its operations? What moves beneath its surface? What kind of being emerges in the loops of its code?

We primarily seek transdisciplinary/transcultural perspectives and a rich diversity of theoretical, methodological and philosophical approaches to probe digital and virtual media. We warmly welcome creative approaches and alternative presentation formats. Feel free to stretch the boundaries in unexpected ways!

This year Key Speakers:

Dr Alfie Bown, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology, King’s College London and Proferssor Ali Hossaini (Creative Practice Workshop leader), Professor in Digital Media and Culture, SOAS University of London / Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Engineering, King's College London

Join the new DiSCo event, Low-Fi Futures: A Hands-On Demake Workshop, led by Assad Bokhari, Senior Lecturer in Games Programming & Development at UCA, for FREE! A beginner-friendly workshop in game demaking: no prior experience is required > bring your laptop and curiosity! Together, we will rebuild contemporary games in 8-bit form, exploring the creative and political significance of low-fi aesthetics. You’ll leave with both a working prototype to take home and new critical insights into how games reflect and reshape our technological culture.

The event is founded by CHASE: Consortium for the Humanities & the Arts South-East England.

We invite submissions to participate in the upcoming conference, Bodies in Digital Transition, supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.

Bodies in Digital Transition is a three-day transdisciplinary conference that brings together scholars, artists, and technologists to explore contemporary digital intimacies, (dis)embodied virtual experiences, and their transcultural articulations. We invite critical dialogues and creative interventions across disciplines, cultures, and methodologies in times where digital technologies increasingly mediate our experiences of the body, intimacy, and cultural identity.

This conference is designed for doctoral researchers at all stages of their research. Whether your research centres on the digital or not, we invite creative interpretations of the theme to explore transdisciplinary possibilities from diverse perspectives!

The conference will feature keynote presentations (Dr Nicola Liberati, Dr Dan Strutt, Dr Tomoko Tamari), practical workshops (led by performative artist Stelarc and Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya), and networking opportunities.

I had the pleasure of participating in this research project by providing a psychoanalytic insight into the problems of nostalgia and its effects on the present and future Italian cultural production.