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http:\/\/isea2020.isea-international.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montreal, September 24, 2019<\/strong> \u2015 <\/strong>Montreal Digital Spring (Printemps num\u00e9rique) is launching a call for participation as part of ISEA2020<\/a> \/ MTL connect<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>to be held from May 19 to 24, 2020 <\/strong>in Montreal, Canada.
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Founded in 1990, ISEA is one of the world\u2019s most prominent international arts and technology events<\/strong>, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in art, interactivity, and electronic and digital media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISEA2020 will be the Creativity Pavilion of MTL connect under the theme sentience<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. To be sentient is thus to be \u201ccapable of feeling,\u201d from the Latin sentientem<\/em> (nominative sentiens<\/em>) while \u201cfeeling,\u201d the present participle of sentire<\/em> \u201cto feel,\u201d refers to \u201cbeing conscious\u201d of something. To feel or perceive something at first seems to suggest that sentience is a uniquely human trait. Yet, sentience implies sensing the world and acting on it across all entities<\/em>\u2014animal, plant, mineral, environment or machine\u2014rather than cutting things into binaries: human\/non-human, animate\/inanimate, alive\/dead, human\/machine, nature\/technology.

ISEA2020<\/a> will be fully dedicated to examining the resurgence of sentience\u2014feeling-sensing-making sense\u2014in recent art and design, media studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, anthropology, history of science and the natural scientific realm\u2014notably biology, neuroscience and computing. We ask: why<\/em> sentience<\/strong>? Why and how does sentience matter? Why have artists and scholars become interested in sensing and feeling beyond, with and around our strictly human bodies and selves? Why has this notion been brought to the fore in an array of disciplines in the 21st<\/sup> century?

ISEA2020<\/a> invites artists, designers, scholars, researchers, innovators and creators<\/strong> to contribute to this growing discussion about our sentient world and to address the following questions: 
– Why sentience now? Why has this ability to feel (or perhaps, inability or underused ability to feel) become crucial to \u201cour\u201d historical present (indeed, whose historical present)? 
– What are the histories and geographies, places and non-places, temporalities, processes, specificities and intimacies, residual colonialisms of sentience, as explored in media arts and technological aesthetics? 
– Should sentience be a genuine part of a climate or environmental aesthetics and politics? 
– Is sentience queer? Is it an alternative to and a deep questioning of human\/nonhuman binarism, identity categories and heteronormativity? Does the investigation of sentience redefine queerness? Is sentience an emerging queerness?
– How is sentience investigated in Indigenous media arts, aesthetics, philosophy, humanities and social sciences?
– Is there such a thing as a politics of sentience? Is this politics necessarily progressive? Could it be deceptive? What is sentience\u2019s relationship to power and knowledge?
– How does sentience intersect with ideologies of ability and disability? Who counts as worthy of rights and in what way? What would constitute a neuro-diverse politics and aesthetics of sentience?
– What is the role of sentience in a post-factual world? In the age of neoliberalism and globalization? 
-Where are the sites that sentience takes place? In the laboratory, the street, the gallery, the museum, the forest, inside bodies, the planet? 
– How does sentience reframe contemporary understandings of artificial intelligence, perception, cognition, and consciousness?
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With these questions, contributors are asked to identify their submissions with one or more of the following seven subthemes:
1. Animality <\/strong>\u2014 beyond human sense, liveness, panpsychism and hylozoism in species other than us.
2. The Ecosophic World<\/strong> \u2014 sentience across scientific, environmental, climate and mental ecologies and their current crises.
3. Machinic Sense and Sensibility<\/strong> \u2014 autonomy, emergence, artificial life, machine intentionality, learning, perception and agency.
4. Sentient Difference<\/strong> \u2014 sentience beyond or against norms: \u201crace,\u201d gender, queer, trans, ability\/disability, LGBTQ+.
5. Matter\u2019s Mattering<\/strong> \u2014 bodies, circuits, infrastructures, any matter and how they come to be.
6. The Politics of Sentience<\/strong> \u2014 post-truth, post-sense, sensorization, surveillance, racism, weaponization, control, inequality and discipline, quantification, globalization, capitalism, neo-liberalism and intense re-bordering. 
7. The Planetary<\/strong> \u2014 the sentient rethinking of the global into a possible reaffirmation of the right to move; the \u201csharing\u201d of the planet across differences in the context of the migrant crisis.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: WHY SENTIENCE?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

ISEA2020<\/a> invites artists, designers, scholars, researchers, innovators and creators to participate<\/strong> in the various activities deployed from May 19 to 24, 2020. To complete an application, please fill in the forms and follow the instructions<\/a>. The final submissions deadline is extended to DECEMBER 16, 2019<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n