Dr Tony Sampson

2016

• Keynote at the Rietveld Studium in Amsterdam at an event called What is Happening to Our Brain? Art and Life in Times of Cognitive Automation on Tues 8 Feb 2017.

• This event is open to the public and includes Franco "Bifo" Berardi.

• An Assemblage Brain collaboration with two UEL artists, Mikey Georgeson and Dean Todd, as part of Georgeson's The Deadends exhibit at the Studio One Gallery in South West London on Thurs 23 Feb.

• Introductory talk and MC for the CCT Essex Futures Conference, Civic Centre, Southend, Sept 15-16 2017.

• Chairing Club Critical Theory special at Strange, Mad Celebration on David Bowie, Southend, 19 June.

• "Monadology and the Megamind." Guest speaker at roundtable symposium on the theme of Cybernetic Subjectivities and the Mediation of Trust and Empathy, an inaugural founding event marking the establishment of the Centre for Entangled Media Research, hosted by the School of Film and Media, University Lincoln, UK, 24-25 May.

• "Gramsci does HCI." A plenary talk at Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices conference at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University, 21 and 22 April 2016.

• Organiser and host for the Affect and Social Media 2016 symposium#2 at UEL March 23.

• "The Man with Two Brains, but no Umbrella." Talk at a Club Critical Theory special at the Conway Actants exhibit at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London 3 March.

2015 - On sabbatical in term one

• "Start Spreading the News: Crowds, Publics and Social Media Contagion." Paper given at From Multitude to Crowds in Social Movements - publics, gatherings, networks and media in the 21st century. An international conference hosted by the Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 26 and 27 January 2015.
• Organiser and chair at the first Affect and Social Media Research Symposium at UEL, Docklands campus, Friday 27 February.
• "On Crowds, Publics and Desire: How to Theorize a Problem like UKIP." An introductory talk at a pre-election Club Critical Theory special event Where is the Common Ground: Making Local Activism Work In Southend, upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea, Sunday 3 May 2015.
• "From the Horror of Digital Autotoxicus to the Auto-Toxicity of the Social."
• Invited talk at the Vital Mobilizations: Care and Surveillance in the Age of Global Connectivity conference at the Collège d'études mondiales, Paris, 1-2 June 2015.
• "Waking the Somnambulist: The Capture of Affect, Attention and Memory (and why we need new weapons to stop it)." Invited talk at The Image of Network symposium, Winchester School of Art (Southampton) organised by Yigit Soncul and Jussi Parikka, Tuesday June 16 2015.
• "Joyful Encounters with Affective Capitalism" Paper for the Affective Capitalism panel at the Affect Theory Conference, Millersville University's Ware Center, Lancaster PA , USA 14 -17 October.
• Co-organizer for Club Critical Theory event on Politics and the Media in Southend, Fri 4 December 2014.
• "Deleuze, Contagion, Southend." Talk and discussion at Club Critical Theory, upstairs at the Railway Hotel, 17 April.
• "HCI and Neurolabour." Guest talk at City University, London, 23 April.
• "Joyful Encounters." Keynote speaker at the "Affective Capitalism" symposium scheduled for June 5-6 at University of Turku, Finland.
• Chairing Club Critical Theory discussion on "Kursaal as Heterotopic Space" with Angie Voela (UEL) and Jane Millar (artist and curator), upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea, Friday 20 June.
• Keynote speaker at the "Cultural im/materialities: Contagion, affective rhythms and mobilization" PhD summer school at Aarhus University, Denmark, 25 June.
• "The Rhythmic Brain: Attention Deficit and the Care of Youth" Invited talk at Concerning Relations: Sociologies of Conduct, Care and Affect Symposium, Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, 28 - 29 November 2014

2013

• "The Immunologic Stratagem: How to Spread Fear by Not Specifying Whom Your Enemy Is." Part of a CCSR Seminar: Security, Community & Democracy, 6 February 2013, 14:00 to 16:30 Room EB.G.10 Docklands Campus, UEL
• "Viral Love and the Underground Man." Invited talk at the "Love Slam" event. 14 Feb 2013 6-9pm at the University of East London.
• "Anomalies, Archaeology and Contagion." Discussion and launch event with Jussi Parikka and Tony D Sampson. 20 March 2013 (tbc) at King's College, London.
• "The Human Freedom Virus." Collaboration with artist Dean Todd. Bookworks exhibit April 8-19 2013 at the University of East London.
• "Putting the Neuron Doctrine to Work." Invited talk at public lecture series called Public Sphere, Crowd Sentiments and the Brain. April 11 2013 at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
• "From Virality to Neuroculture at the Contagion." Invited talk for the Geography Dept's transforming social analysis and method workshop at Exeter University. 14 May.
• "Too Much Connectivity." Invited talk at the New Media and The Internet: Digital Democracy or Complex Chaos? Part of a series of workshops at Brunel University on May 24 2013.
• An invited talk on Virality as part of the "I am Algorithm" show by the artist Charlie Tweed. 6pm on Wednesday 19 June at the Aspex Gallery in Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth.
• "Virality, Chaos and the Brain." A series of workshop talks on virality and neuroculture organized by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research based in Bucharest - 22-23 June.
• "Leaking Affects and Mediated Spaces." Paper at the Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, July 1-3 2013.
• Invited talk on Virality and Neuroculture at Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, 15 Oct 2013.
• Workshop on viral networks at the Royal College of Art, 10am on Weds 30 Oct 2013.
• Guest panel member at the Meme Control event, the Future Human salon, 7-9.30pm, Nov 20 at The Book Club, Shoreditch, London.
• "Noncognitive Capitalism." Invited talk at the Bochum Colloquium for Media Studies (bkm) hosted by the Institute of Media Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 3 December 2012
• Launch Event for Virality, Evil Media (MIT) and Computational Cultures Journal. Oct 22 2012 at Goldsmiths' College.
• "Viral Utopias." Mute launch party for Virality, Open Utopia, Contract and Contagion, and Mute Magazine, including performance with Tim Vogt (Bass Guitar), Francesco Tacchini (VJ) and Nik Vaughn (turntables). 16 Nov 2012 7pm-1am at Limehouse Town Hall, London.
• "Putting the Neuron to Work." Invited speaker at a seminar series on 'Public Sphere, Crowd Sentiments and the Brain' at the Copenhagen Business School, 27 November 2012.
• "Following the Glint in the Eye of the Consumer." Centre for Cultural Studies Research symposium Pushing the Limits of the Affective Workspace: Revolts, Absorption, and Ecologies of Waste at the University of East London, 21 March 2012.

Various 2001-11

• "Tarde's Phantom Takes a Deadly Line of Flight." Invited speaker at The Operations of the Global – Explorations of Dis/Connectivity Conference, Warburg-Haus, University of Hamburg, Germany, 6-8 October 2011.
• "Press Delete: The Politics and Performance of Spamculture." The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Dortmund, Germany, 23 to 27 August 2010.
• "Viral Love." Invited talk for the Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process Conference, ARU, Cambridge, UK, 25 & 26 March 2010.
• "New Media Hypnosis." Research on relevance of Tardean sociology. Presentations for both Innovation Studies Research Seminar at UEL (Making Connexions: Access, Interaction and Innovation) and the Centre for Cultural Studies Research Seminar at UEL (Studies in Evil Media) Winter 2009.
• "Error-Contagion." Research presentation for ATACD Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change, University of Barcelona, Spain, December 10-12, 2009.
• "Rethinking Producer/Consumer Relations in the Age of Networks or the Politics of User Experience Design." Panel session at MeCCSA Conference at the National Media Museum, Bradford, UK, Jan 2009.
• Co-organizer and speaker on the Network Anomalies Panel at the New Network Theory International Conference in Amsterdam, 28-30 June 2007. Proceedings Published online in The New Network Theory Reader.
• "E-informality in Venezuela: The 'Other Path' of Technology." Paper written with Lugo presented at the SLAS Annual Conference 2006: The University of Nottingham, 31 March-2 April 2006.
• "Viral Code as Rhizomatic Computing." Paper presented at the School of Cultural and Innovation Research Symposium, UEL, 2004.
• "The Open Network and Its Enemies." Paper presented at the School of Cultural and Innovation Convergence Emergence Divergence Seminars, UEL, 2004.
• "Public Broadcasting in the Information Battlefield." Paper at the RIPE Conference: Copenhagen and Aarhus Denmark, 2004.
• "Theorising the Computer Virus." Guest Speaker at Graduate Conference, University of Essex, 2003.
• "Rethinking Hypernews Theory outside the Metaphors of New Media and the Classroom." Paper with Lugo at ECCR Mass Media Communications in the e-Society of the 21st Century: Access and Participation Moscow State University, Russia, 2002.
• "The Myth of the Post Capitalist Transition: Old concepts can still explain the 'new economy’.” Paper with Lugo at The Communication and Capitalism Conference, University of Westminster, London, 2002.
• "Technological or Ideological Convergence? How the Concepts of Market and Technological Convergence are Displacing Public Service Commitment in the New Communications and Broadcast Public Policy of the UK." Paper with Lugo at the http://www.yle.fi/ripe/2002/ Conference: Broadcasting and Convergence: Articulating a New Remit YLE in Helsinki & the University of Tampere, Finland, 2002.
• Guest Speaker at John Moores University Liverpool: Digital Democracy Seminar, 2002.
• "A Prospective Analysis of the Video Games Industry in Latin America: From Banana Republic to Donkey Kong." Co-author with Lugo for paper at the Game Cultures Conference University of the West of England, Bristol, 2001.