日期﹕2016年11月14日-11月16日
主辦：中國美院跨媒體學院 網絡社會研究所
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在過去的幾十載，數碼網絡改變了我們社會的很多層面，包括社會組織、美學以及藝術實踐，以及社會科學的研究定向。早在十八世紀的歐洲，聖西門以及他的追隨者夢想通過在國內建設各種網絡來更有效也分佈資源，從而實現一種社會主義。聖西門的社會主義並沒有成功，如馬克思之後指出他的謬誤在於看不到階級鬥爭。然而聖西門關對網絡可以徹底改變社會的信念，不單有效而且還越來越顯著。在上世紀中葉我們見證了計算機數碼網絡的出現以及之後社會學家Manuel Castells所理論化的「網絡社會」的崛起。在過去的十年裏，因爲萬維網技術的成熟，數據生產大幅增加，而物聯網、智能物件、社交網絡、大數據分析等進一步將創造了不同形式的網絡化，同時無處不在地滲進了都市生活。網絡社會研究所的第一個國際週年研究會將定題爲「網絡化的力量」（Forces of Reticulation），從四個主要方面來批判性地探討這些問題以及對未來的挑戰:
1) 美學﹕數碼的網絡化技術摧生了一種新的「世界影像」（Weltbild），我們直覺地視世界上的所有東西爲網絡形式﹕任何東西都與其他東西連結在一起。這種美學，表現在來數據視覺化上，同時在媒體理論家Lev Manovich的研究裏成爲一種分析的工具 –文化分析。這種美學如何成爲一種批判的工具而不只是肯定這個世界影像呢？我們還可以想像其它的網絡化影像嗎？
2）生態﹕網絡的核心問題也是生態學的問題。它容許我們理解資訊是如何流通，同時意義如何在網絡上由各種器具生產以及組織（Fuller; Hörl）。這種生態學超越了我們以自然環境爲對象的生態學，同時形成了一種媒體﹣技術生態學，我們應該如何理解概念化這種新的生態學？
3） 物質﹕另外一個問題是構成網絡的物質。我們可以從兩個層次理解物質性，首先是網絡的基建，例如通訊線路、伺服器等；另一方面是資訊以及數據的物質性。這種物質性常被錯誤地視爲非物質（Hui)。相反地，這是哲學家如李歐塔斯所說的「非物質」﹣一種新的物質，甚至是斯蒂格勒最近提出的超物質，而這樣去理解網絡的物質性可以讓我們看到些什麼新的東西？
4）算法﹕與鐵路、電路相比，數據網絡比更容易由算法來調控。算法是自動化地組織這些網絡的新力量，無論是推特還是微博，是面書還是微信息。根據比利時法律以及媒體理論家Antoinette Rouvroy的分析，基於網絡的算法引進的是一種她稱之爲消費主義社會的「算法治理術」的新管治模式。我們如何理解一個變得越來越自動化，同時由算法決定的社會？
同時，我們廣泛向華人年輕學者與藝術家開放，徵求華人世界新的網絡研究、藝術創作與實踐報告，以 圓桌論壇 形式，接合國際理論與在地研究的力量。
The First Annual Conference of Network Society “Forces of Reticulation”
Date﹕2016 11/14~16
Organizer: The Institute of Network Society (INS), School of Inter- Media Art (SIMA) of China Academy of Art (CAA)
In the past decades, digital networks have transformed many aspects of our society, including social organisation, aesthetic and artistic practices, and research orientation in the social sciences. In the 18th century in Europe, Saint Simon and his followers have dreamed of realising a Socialism through the building of different networks, so that resources can be effectively redistributed. Saint Simon’s Socialism has never been realized, as said Karl Marx, that he was blind to class struggles. However Saint Simon’s believe in the force of reticulation that can impose fundamental changes to our society is still valid, and becomes even more important today. We have witnessed the emergence of computer network since the mid of the last century, and the rise of network societies according to the analysis of the sociologist Manuel Castells. In the past decade, the rapid growth in data production due to the maturity of web technologies, the rise of the internet of things, smart objects have created various forms of articulation, that have effectively pervaded our everyday life. The Graduate Institute of Network Society will dedicate the first annual international conference the question of network, with the title “Forces of Reticulation”, with four main focuses
1) Aesthetics : the digital reticulation technology has produced a new world image [Weltbild], in which the network form becomes the intuitive form of the world: everything is connected with each other. This aesthetics is expressed in data visualisation and further conceptualised as analytical tool in the work of the media theorist Lev Manovich – cultural analytics. How can then this aesthetics become a critical tool, instead of just reinforcing this world picture? Or in what other critical forms of reticulation can be imagined?
2) Ecology : central to network is the question of media ecology. This allows us to understand not only how information is circulated, but also how senses are produced and organized on the networks, through different apparatus （Fuller; Hörl）. This concept of ecology exceeds what has been understood in related to the natural environment, but also points to a media-technological ecology. How then can this new ecology be conceptualized?
3) Materiality: the other question concerns the materiality of the networks. We can understand the materiality in two ways, firstly the material infrastructure of networks, e.g. cables, servers, etc., but also the materiality of data and information, which has been so far misunderstood as immaterial (Hui). Instead it is what the philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard calls the new material or what Bernard Stiegler calls the hypermaterial, what does it imply to understand data networks in this way?
4) Algorithm: in comparison with the networks such as railway, electrics, data networks are more flexible towards algorithmic modulation. Algorithm becomes the new force that automatically organize these networks, either it is Twitter or Weibo, Facebook or Wechat. Algorithms when used for consumerism, according to the legal and media theorist Antoinette Rouvroy, implies a “algorithmic governmentality” in the sense of the word from Michel Foucault. How shall we understand the stake of such a society becoming more and more automatized and subject to algorithms?
At the meantime, we sincerely invite young artists, hackers, activists of Chinese speaking world to formulate our round table forum, in order to articulate theory and practices.
本體論維度 / Ontological Dimensions