Remote Control. Scales of Mediated Intervention
www.remote-control-conference.org
(Please RSVP online, participation is
free of charge)

The two-day conference assembles scholars from different disciplines to discuss the conditions and scales of remote control in contemporary media practice. It covers three perspectives on remotely controlled interventions:

• The practices of remote intervention as ways of operating »from a distance«, such as the transmission of commands in robotics.
• The infrastructures of remote intervention as ways of defining the possibilities of action, such as user interfaces, databases or control terminals.
• The politics of remote intervention as a transformation of the relation between humans and machines, such as the distribution of responsibility in remote warfare. Read the full concept at: www.remote-control-conference.org/about

Keynotes:
Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Timothy Lenoir (University of California, Davis)
Jutta Weber (University of Paderborn)

Talks:
Antoine Bousquet (Birbeck, University of London), Matthias
Bruhn (HfG Karlsruhe, Humboldt University of
Berlin), Katherine Chandler (Georgetown University),
Luci Eldridge (Royal College of Art, London), Nina Franz
(Humboldt University of Berlin), Carolin Höfler (Cologne
University of Applied Sciences), Matteo Pasquinelli (HfG
Karlsruhe), Moritz Queisner (Cluster of Excellence Image
Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin),
Isabell Schrickel (CGSC, University of Lüneburg), Lucy
Suchman (Lancaster University)

Conference chairs:

•  Nina Franz, PhD-scholar of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
• Kathrin Friedrich, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Moritz Queisner, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Lisa Weber, student associate, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin