We study ethical, social, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies - particularly focusing on digital media & race, disability, gender, and power.
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ALT Promotional flyer for the 2025 DISCO Affiliate Program with details on application requirements and deadlines.
ALT Book cover for Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal featuring abstract dark shapes against a light blue background.
ALT We're hiring a DISCO Communications Coordinator and an Administrative Assistant for the Digital Afterworlds Lab. Each position is 0.5 FTE. Applicants who are seeking 1.0 FTE are encouraged to apply to both positions. Positions will be based at the University of Michigan Digital Studies Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Applications close on October 2, 2024.
ALT DISCO SUMMIT 2024 June 14 — 15th, 2024 Zoom + Weiser Hall, University of Michigan An interdisciplinary symposium about the past, present, and future of the intersection between digital technology, culture, race, disability, gender, sexuality, and liberation.
ALT DISCO SUMMIT 2024 June 14 — 15th, 2024 Zoom + Weiser Hall, University of Michigan An interdisciplinary symposium about the past, present, and future of the intersection between digital technology, culture, race, disability, gender, sexuality, and liberation.
ALT From 3D-printed replicas of sculptures destroyed by ISIS, to interactive installations and hypertext fables that infuse medieval fable with contemporary gender politics, to purpose-built generative AI aimed at recovering lost queer traditions in Persian art, Morehshin Allahyari’s work leverages storytelling, archival research, and new technology as tools to push back against Western colonialism. Join us on May 16th for a conversation with Morehshin led by Pedram Baldari, an interdisciplinary artist and scholar in UM’s Stamps School of Art & Design, and Oğuz Kayır, doctoral student in Film, Television, and Media and Graduate Curator of Search Engines.
ALT Disco Network Live: Living Between Digital Optimism and Technoskepticism 04/04/2024 5:00 - 6:15 pm ET The DISCO Network is a collaborative, intergenerational research group of scholars dedicated to analyzing digital technology, race, disability, sexuality, and gender. This panel will be a conversation with the Principal Investigators (PIs) of the DISCO Network, André Brock, Catherine Knight Steele, Lisa Nakamura, Rayvon Fouché, Remi Yergeau, and Stephanie Dinkins. What can an equitable digital future look like? In our contemporary moment, is it possible to create transformative movements, rooted within humanistic inquiry, to address inequities, histories of exclusion, disability injustice, techno-ableism, and digital racial politics? Over the past few years, the DISCO Network began a portion of this work. The collective will reflect on its collaborative effort and explore the tensions between digital optimism and technoskepticism.