About us

The second Bodies in Digital Transition (BDT) edition traverses the materiality of the mechanical body, dissecting the machine’s anatomy across several strata that form a speculative topology of the machinic body. It invites trans-disciplinary, experimental, and speculative inquiry into the machinic as event, intra-action, and formation of being, exploring how digital bodies condition human expression and are conditioned by cultural inflections.

Important Dates

Sat, Jun 27, 2026
Abstract registration deadline
Sat, Jun 27, 2026
Submission deadline

Call For Paper

Digital humanities
Posthumanism
Philosophy of technology
Psychoanalysis
The machine as image, projection, and fetish-skin
Digital surfaces, filters, and the aesthetics of machinic allure
The body as interface and the machine as prosthetic facade
AI-generated corporeality and the visual re-coding of flesh
A poetic choreography of gears, code, and mechanical gestures
The technological interiority as narrative
The black box as the algorithmic unconscious
The machinic as an epistemic and existential threshold
Possibility of the machine’s transcendental or cosmic cause

We invite trans-disciplinary experimental and highly speculative inquiry and action into the machinic as event, intra-action, and formation of being. We welcome abstract submissions for full papers (20-minute presentation) and posters, as well as proposals for three-person panels.

Committee

Program Committee

DiSCo (Digital Studies Collective)

Organizing committee

Alessandro Caruana

April Wei-West

Isaac Parkinson

Jenny Jih

Lily Bichard-Collins

Liv Owens

Mae Walsh

Ophir Amitay

Speakers

Dr Alfie Bown

Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology

King’s College London

Proferssor Ali Hossaini

Professor in Digital Media and Culture, Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Engineering

SOAS University of London, King's College London (Creative Practice Workshop leader)