Month: June 2019

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Restorative Justice & AI paper presentation @MEA conference

Adnan presented the paper on restorative justice and AI during the MEA conference in Toronto.

MEDIA ETHICS. Human Ecology in a Connected World was the 20th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA), a four-day international conference hosted by the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.

THE CONFERENCE drew attention to the ways that contemporary communication practices and emerging technologies are marked by ethical issues and decisive political, societal and cultural questions.

WITH THIS AGENDA, conference participants shared research that engages with the nature of contemporary media, communication, and technological struggle, and the potential that communication, media, and digital technologies hold for enacting positive social change.

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ELIA Artistic Research Platform Meeting

University of Malta joins ELIA on the artistic research patform.

The Artistic Research Platform is a virtual and, occasionally, a physical forum for institutional, programme and project leaders; heads of departments; researchers; PhD students and supervisors of ELIA member institutions who are professionally involved in and want to contribute to, the development of artistic research.

You can join the VIRTUAL PLATFORM to receive specific updates on the topic of artistic research by registering below. Registration to the platform is free, however, it is restricted to professionals affiliated with ELIA member institutions.

The first Artistic Research Platform Meeting, which took place from 13-14 June 2019 in Vienna, dealt with the question of how higher arts education institutions can provide a substantial and sustainable framework for artistic research. Particularly, the discussion focused on what artistic research projects and artistic research doctoral programmes need in terms of:

  • Infrastructure and Spaces;
  • Critical Mass, Community and Feedback process;
  • Multidisciplinarity vs Discipline Specifics;
  • Dissemination, Open Access, Open Research Data;
  • Handling Stereotypes and Institutional Challenges;
  • Internal and External Funding schemes.
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Interdisciplinary Conference “Does Nature Think?/La nature pense-t-elle ?”

Globally, our environment is no longer in a state about which we can be optimistic. Anthropocene compels us to fundamentally reconsider the modern conception of nature as a mere object. Augustin Berque, a French advocate of mesology (Uexkül‘s Umweltlehre, Watsuji’s fūogaku, i.e. the study of milieu) suggested the strange question “does nature think?” as the theme of this international conference. The aim of the conference is to re–examine the modern view of nature, whereby human beings are seen as holding atranscendental position. We will invite 25 to 30 researchers from different fields (anthropology, geography, philosophy, Buddhism, human environmental studies, primatology, agricultural science, oceanography, law, history of Western art, etc. ), as well as practitioners who directly face and work within nature, to discuss together, in an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach, a series of questions centering on the problem of what may or may not distinguish human thinking from the diverse types of self–awareness and communication, discovered by ethology and biosemiotics, to exist among other living beings.

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ONE in SIX

Our MFA students put on the exhibition ONE in SIX at Spazju Kreattiv. ONE in SIX is the manifestation of a two-year Master of Fine Art program in Digital Arts, undertaken by six students at the University of Malta. As a graduate show, the body of work is the culmination of practice directed research in areas as diverse as memory, the archive, dystopian realities and ethnography.

The MFA Digital Arts programme is a practice-oriented, postgraduate award in digital art practice and theory. It is an umbrella programme that seeks to develop a learning environment in which historical traditions and new practices confront and influence each other within a contextual, cultural and theoretical framework. This year each MFA student makes use of a variety of technologies combined with multiple materials and processes such as photography, 3D printing, videography, sculpture and mixed media installations in order to communicate the meaning of their artwork.

The exhibition ONE in SIX reflects life in a world increasingly controlled by digital environments. Every day, each of us generates an almost inconceivable amount of interactions in those digital environments. Every action in those environments leaves digital traces. Artistic positions of the ONE in SIX exhibition critically question the ambivalence of such life in a digital world. Such thematic diversity is followed by a transformation in our ways of understanding the art works, moving away from the traditional approach of visual and digital arts, paying more attention to the pretexts, paratexts and contexts that constitute it as such. Therefore, one attains renewed access to increasingly urgent environmental and ontological questions