Call for Participation: CCSWG ‘24
8th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group
Feb 2 - Feb 29, 2024
To apply: Fill out this form
Apply by January 31, 2024
CCSWG is the major online think tank for Critical Code Studies, a hub of dialogue and collaborative inquiry that generates major thrust in the reading of code. Discussion and code critiques from previous working groups have appeared in electronic book review and have contributed to conference panels, essays, books, and more, including multiple book projects with The MIT Press and special issues of Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Planned topics for this year include:
Queer(ing) Code
CCS and AI
The DHQ Special issues
Teaching Code and Code Studies
Discussion leaders will include:
Edmond Chang, Jarah Moesch, Marylyn Tan, Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino
Edmond Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. His areas of research include technoculture, race, gender, and sexuality, queer game studies, feminist media studies, popular culture, and 20/21C American literature. Recent publications include “Gaming While Asian” in Made in Asia/America, “Imagining Asian American (Environmental) Games” in AMSJ, “Queergaming” in Queer Game Studies, and “Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities. He is the creator of Tellings, a high fantasy tabletop RPG, and Archaea, a live-action role-playing game. He is also an Assistant Editor for Analog Game Studies and a Contributing Editor for Gamers with Glasses.
Jarah Moesch (MFA, PhD) is an artist-designer-scholar whose work explores issues of justice through the design, production, and acquisition of embodied knowledges. Jarah’s research incorporates queer crip theory, cultural studies, art, and design practices to develop new models for justice and to imagine new worlds. Jarah’s artwork has been shown across the United States as well as internationally in festivals and exhibitions. Jarah holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, and a PhD in American Studies from University of Maryland.
Marylyn Tan. Queer, female, and Chinese, MARYLYN TAN is a linguistics graduate, poet, and artist who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. Her work trades in the conventionally vulgar, radically pleasurable, and unsanctioned, striving to emancipate and restore the alienated, endangered body. Tan is the poetry reader for Singapore Unbound, founder of multidisciplinary arts collective DIS/CONTENT (hellodiscontent.carrd.com), and can be found in her habitat at instagram/marylyn.orificial or facebook.com/mrylyn. She lives in Singapore.
DHQ Hosts:
David M. Berry
Kevin Brock
Jason Boyd
Evan Buswell
John Cayley
Lai-Tze Fan
Zach Mann
Daniel Temkin
Zach Whalen
Annette Vee
David M. Berry is Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. David writes widely on philosophy and technology, particularly in terms of computation, software and algorithms. He is the author of The Philosophy of Software and Copy, Rip, Burn. His most recent book is Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age. His recent work has looked at explainability, human understanding and the history of the university.
Lai-Tze Fan is the Canada Research Chair in Technology and Social Change and Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, as well as an Associate Professor II at the University of Bergen, Norway. She leads The U&AI Lab, which intervenes in biased technological design by creating alternative resources and methods for AI, with a focus on enhanced outcomes in equity, diversity, and inclusion. Fan is an Editor and the Director of Communications of the open-access journals electronic book review and the digital review.
John Cayley has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, and all these activities have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. Links to his internationally recognized language art in networked and programmable media are at programmatology.com. There are two full-length printed books of poetic work, Ink Bamboo: poems, translations and adaptations (London: Agenda & Belew, 1996), and Image Generation: augmented and reconfigured (Counterpath, 2023). A book of selected essays with new material, Grammalepsy, was published in 2018. Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization’s inaugural award for poetry 2001. He taught at a number of universities in the United Kingdom, and held visiting positions in the United States before coming to Brown in 2007.
To apply:
Fill out this form
You will need to include:
Name
Institutional Affiliation (if any)
One-sentence bio
Past work or study in code or Critical Code Studies
(Recommended) Proposed Code Critique thread or related discussion
A “code critique” is a segment of code (or entire program) you wish to offer for discussion by the working group. You can see examples of code critiques in these previous Code Critiques.
Notice of acceptance will be given by FEB 1. Participants may be asked to be designated respondents.
CCSWG is sponsored by the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab at the University of Southern California. http://haccslab.com (@haccs) and Digital Arts & Humanities Commons at UC Santa Barbara. http://dahc.ucsb.edu/
Coordinated by Lyr Colin (USC), Andrea Kim (USC), Elea Zhong (USC), Zachary Mann (USC), Jeremy Douglass (UCSB), and Mark C. Marino (USC).