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A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
July 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
And finally, Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social on abandoning Foucault and considering noise as spectre and hauntology, generating static rather than signification, interrupting seemingly meaningless repetitions #AusSTS26 #signalandnoises
July 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Next up @karilancaster.bsky.social on "the promissory potential and risks of shit" through a story of the trouble of drugs in human wastewater #AusSTS26 #signalsandnoise
July 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
First up is Christopher O'Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social speaking on Foucault's essay "message or noise" and how the phenomenon of health and the body can be filtered through information theory #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises
July 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises
July 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Finishing off the day with back to back panel sessions! A full day of #signalsandnoises
July 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Underway with over a dozen making & doing stalls spanning weaving practices, satellite imagery, water infrastructure, upcycling and more #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises
July 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
With discussant comments from Jaya Keaney #signalsandnoises
July 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We're at Deakin Downtown for day 2 of #AusSTS25 and it's a full house for our keynote on "Noisy Experiments: the strange history of incubator baby shows" from Elizabeth Stephens #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And now the absolutely iconic JODI with the final performance of the day, interviewing the figure of Nam June Paik about his infamous 1998 Bill Clinton pants drop moment and his legacy on their work #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Now for our afternoon of #signalsandnoises themed artist talks and performances. First up, Rowan Savage performing "Carrion Sentience" featuring voice clones of himself and a murder of crows #AusSTS2025
July 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Some of the fantastic workshops from day 1! Exploring intaglio printing, decolonizing authorship, STS publishing tips and more ✨ #AusSTS2025 #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
And now it's discussion time with our exceptional panellists 🗨️ #AusSTS2025 #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
And our final speaker Fabian Offert with his provocation that 🤘NOISE IS DEAD🤘
July 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
And now @katemannell.bsky.social on the endlessly noisy landscape of parenting advice as symptomatic of the dovetailing between contemporary recommender algorithms and the professionalization of the side-hustle #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Our second speaker @digitaldang.bsky.social with a genealogy of the loud speakers, from the colonial hauntology of the gramophone, to the intimate interior life of the radio, to the speakers that lined the Bến Hải river during the Vietnam war to broadcast communist propaganda #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Our first speaker is @ranjodhdhaliwal.com with a series of vignettes on computation and heat, from the air conditioning of the ENIAC, to Steve Jobs hatred of the noise of the GPU fan, and the introduction of perlin noise into CGI images #signalsandnoises
July 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
And now for our first keynote panel on "Infrastructures of Noise" 🎛️ chaired by Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social helping us to wade through the current information ecosystem moment where misinformation is mistaken for signal and meaningful relation is increasingly filtered out as noise
July 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
And our AMAZING co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social talking us through the next few days ahead
July 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Kicking off #AusSTS2025 is Wurendjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcoming us to country and NCM Artistic Director Emily Siddons welcoming us to the National Communication Museum☎️📶

You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises
July 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
March 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡

9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm

Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social

Ful CFP coming soon!
January 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM