The Smartification of Everything: Critical Perspectives in Sciences, Arts and Society is a new volume from the University of Toronto Press, edited by Mascha Gugganig, Kelly Bronson and Vincent Mirza. The book was published following a conference co-hosted by ETHOS Lab.
In March 2022, a Symposium and Exhibition took place partly online and partly in Ottawa, Canada. It aimed to bring scholars, art- and design-inclined researchers into converstion around smartification. The exhibition component (at a gallery at the Department of Visual Arts), showed (multi)media and art work comprising short films, visual essays or vignettes, podcasts and audio productions, websites, or other creative and collaborative formats, and interactive events like (smart) city walks, hands-on workshops, and similar participatory formats.
Fast forward a few years and the symposium’s resulting volume has just been published, organized around five sections that open up the myths and poitics of smartness for new readers, combining artistic chapters and interdisciplinary chapters, all of which critically interrogate smartification processes and systems. TiP Professor Rachel Douglas-Jones has contributed a Foreword.
A book launch will take place on January 26th in the ETHOS Lab, stay tuned for the program!