Call for participation, research workshop 2025: “Everything is a matter of distance”

We are happy to announce that our long-term collaboration with transmediale art and digital culture festival continues. Resonating closely with their 2025 theme (near) near but — far that focuses on "how algorithms place us in weird proximities and new intimacies with one another and the qualities of closeness we lose by way of their machine-driven actions." Our workshop on ”everything is a matter of distance" will engage with historical and contemporary tropes of distance as they pertain to digital culture, while collectively developing a sense of what methods, which critical tools, and what kind of conceptual traditions help to reframe the nuances in proximity and distance.

The workshop invites proposals that discuss questions of distance and/or proximity, and how they relate to how we consume – and are consumed by – platforms, interfaces, and late-capitalist politics. The workshop is specifically targeted toward PhD/early career researchers, and welcomes submission from researchers inside/outside the academy, including artists, designers, and curators.

The call for projects and participation, alongside further information about the theme of the workshop, can be found here.

For more info, contact Dr Pablo Velasco (pvelasco@cc.au.dk)