The 2019 Making & Doing gallery is now online.
We invite STS practitioners, interdisciplinary and decolonial artists-scholars, indigenous and queer participants, and assemblage thinkers-activists to submit proposals for the 2019 Making & Doing program. In 2015, 2017, and 2018, Making & Doing brought together critical bodies of work that enact how STS makes do beyond traditional modes of print and publication. In 2019, Making & Doing aims to build on these and present mobilizations, expressions, and ecologies that call attention to the multiple ways through which STS travels.
We would love to see proposals that enrich and complicate what it means to make and do in times of massive environmental degradation and anthropogenic climate change. Expanding on Making & Doing itself, what might it mean to make do—that is, to challenge the modernist belief in a Technoscientific Fix and the neoliberal fallacy that more is always better? What might it mean to make do in New Orleans, a site that grounds us all in both vibrant and brutal histories and futurities?
To address these questions, we invite 4S members to present experimental works in any medium that engage speculative, empirical, reflexive and/or aesthetic approaches to the study of science and technology, broadly defined. Works might take the form of sonic ethnographies, experimental videos, diagrams, interactive games, durational performances (by humans or other species), virtual/augmented reality applications, immersive projections, cooking demos, or other interventions, mundane patches, and critical apparatuses that exceed the printed page.
Building on the successes of previous years and opening up to new possibilities, we encourage 4S members to consider expanded modes of inquiry, participation, and creative engagement. We are particularly interested in proposals that move away from representation or the illustration of research, and instead, actively explore sensorial, experiential, collaborative, and spatiotemporal media as part of the research process.
The ‘SUBMIT HERE’ button below leads to the 4S online submission site. Here you will be able to propose a new project for Making & Doing. In addition to a title and a general description of the project (200 words), we will ask you to indicate what methods are associated with your project (200 words) and how it relates to STS and the conference theme (100 words). You will be able to select which thematic cluster your project belongs to and what the technical requirements are. (Please keep in mind that 4S can provide a 6-foot table, but cannot guarantee Internet access and provides no assistance with supplies, set-up and maintenance during the conference period.) As part of the submission, you’ll also be able to add a link to your project and upload an image – both are optional.
If you have questions, please email the Organizing Committee at md@4sonline.org.
We look forward to your proposals and provocations!
Endre Dányi, Elaine Gan, Jen Henderson
Organizing Committee for Making & Doing