Application for Pre-conference & Autumn School | Synthetic Imaginaries 2025

Synthetic Imaginaries: The Cultural Politics of Generative AI

šŸ“ University of Siegen | šŸ“… 8ā€“12 September 2025

Synthetic Imaginaries: The Cultural Politics of Generative AI is an international event that will explore the cultural, political, and methodological dimensions of generative AI and synthetic media through a combination of conference talks, hands-on workshops, and collaborative projects. Topics include deepfakes, avatars, cultural biases in training data, feminist and postcolonial critiques, and the aesthetics of AI-generated content.

Highlights of the program 

  • Opening keynote with Jill Walker Rettberg
  • Workshops by Gabriele De Seta, Ćngeles Briones, and DensityDesign Lab
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration across theory and practice
  • Special focus on early-career researchers and PhD students

Call for Submissions
Participants are invited to submit a short abstract (maximum 500 words) outlining how their work relates to the eventā€™s theme. Presentations should raise questions or provocations rather than present finished research. Accepted abstracts will be grouped into thematic sessions and discussed in a collaborative, dialogue-focused format.

Submit your proposal by 20 June 2025.
Notification of acceptance by July 15 2025.
Registration by August 1 2025.

Participation is free of charge. Limited travel support awarded by the NFDI4Culture consortium is available for early-career researchers and PhD students (see details below).

Organised by: the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers Media of Cooperation and Transformations of the Popular together with the Center of Digital Narratives in Bergen, the Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA and the German National Research Data Infrastructure Consortium NFDI4Culture.

Find the complete CFP and more information at the CRC "Media of Cooperation" website 

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Please enter your abstract (up to 500 words)  *
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Are you also applying for a travel stipend? *
Limited travel support is available (two to three stipends ranging from ā‚¬500 to ā‚¬700).
Early-career researchers and PhD students are invited to apply; stipends will be awarded by the NFDI4Culture consortium based on the strength of the justification, particularly concerning critical ethical engagement with AI research data, as well as the distance and cost of travel. Short summaries of the presented work will be published on the NFDI4Culture website. 

Notification of acceptance for the travel stipend will also be communicated by July 15 2025.
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