DA # 9 Digital Anthropologies: A Call For Artistic Peace Makers

As artists, researchers, comrades and companions, what matters more than ever are the silent qualities of our practices, research processes, democratic choices. Silence is not emptiness, but the more-than sonic quality that shifts the mode of attention towards the potentiality of peace. Silence becomes the main passage towards a desirable future. Democratic values, art making and research endeavours are threatened: how does a more- than-human assembly feel, think, act silently? Opening a passage with the silent worlds needs to be invented, one allowing movement rather than restricting it, one making feel secure anybody who feels threatened to find and seek refuge rather than killing it. Digital Anthropologies #7 was an invitation to feel the urgencies, Digital Anthropologies #8 explored the analogue as regenerative setting, opening a space for a model of alternative pedagogy. Digital Anthropologies #9 is a start in the middle, with the urgencies, towards a desirable future where thinking, feeling, learning, playing are indiscernible. This year, Digital Anthropologies #9 takes place on the countryside near Berlin, DE, 22-26 August 2022. We invite you to introduce yourself by submitting materials of all kinds that will be transformed with silence, into collective gestures.