We look forward to welcoming all registered participants to Signals and Noises from 9 – 11 July 2025.
- The programme
- What to know and bring
- Pre-reading
- Where to go
- Preparing for your presentation
- Satellite events and meet-ups
- Our sponsors
- Our committee
- Fees, membership and registration
- Contact and hashtag
The programme
The programme is online here.
What to know and bring
There will be a videographer present on the afternoon of Day 1, and photographers will be present throughout the conference. Please email Mardi Reardon-Smith at mardi.reardon-smith@monash.edu if this is of concern to you.
If you are joining us for Day 1, please sign up for your two preferred workshops in session 1 and 2 at this link, and note that some workshops include items to bring (eg. laptop, an image). If you are having trouble seeing the workshop tickets in Safari, please try another browser.
Pre-reading
On day 3 of the conference there is a paper workshopping session, with 3- 4 papers of 1000- 3000 words in each workshop. Please read 2- 4 papers for your selected session in advance of the day. They can be found in this folder.
Where to go
The two locations
Please be aware that this conference is taking place at two different venues
Day 1: (9 July) The National Communication Museum, Hawthorn
9:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Address: 375 Burwood Road, Hawthorn. View on Google maps
The venue is easily accessible via train to Glenferrie station. Trams 70/75 and 109 each intersect tram 16, which runs the length of Glenferrie road. There isn’t much free all-day parking nearby, but there are options to pay for parking in the area.
Day 2 and 3: (10 and 11 July) Deakin Downtown, Docklands
Address: Tower 2, level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3008
Deakin Downtown is on Collins street, which is a 5 minute walk from Southern Cross train Station, and on the 109, 11, 12 and 48 trams routes. Enter the Collins street tower 2, and go up the escalator to the sky lobby, where you can search for Deakin on the lift access pad. Scroll to the bottom of this page for detailed directions to the Deakin Downtown space, as well as mobility access information.
On arrival at Deakin Downtown, the relevant rooms will be listed on the display.
Getting to Narrm/ Melbourne
For international and regional visitors who are flying, we recommend landing at Melbourne Tullamarine airport. If you are staying in or near the city, the Skybus is the most easy and affordable way to get to the city. Like regional buses and trains, it terminates at Southern Cross station, a 10 minute walk from Deakin Downtown.
Public transport in Narrm is well-connected. To travel by train, tram or bus to the NCM you will need a Myki Card (about $6 per card), which can be purchased at Southern Cross and most train stations. Fares are $5.50 a trip, but are free within the free tram zone in the city.
Preparing for your presentation
Paper presentations: The paper presentations have been grouped into panels of 4 (and some cases, 5). Papers will be presented one after another, with discussion time after all of the presentations. Please prepare to speak for only 10 minutes. Please send your slides to your chair the day before your presentation to prevent wasting time between presentations. If this is not possible, bring them on a flash drive and arrive 10 – 15 minutes early for your session.
Workshopped pre-submitted papers: Thank you for pre-submitting your papers. As the aim of this session is to receive feedback and engage in conversation on your work, please do not prepare any slides. Instead, consider what kind of feedback you would like. You will be given three minutes to outline the stage, any hurdles, and context of your written work before engaging in conversation with the audience which has been allocated to read your work. If you submitted more than 3000 words, it is worth noting that the audience may not have read the full paper.
Making and Doing: Making and Doing is scheduled at 12:30 on Day 2 (10 July), and will kick off with the ‘tours’ that give the audience a preview of the work. It will take place in the same room as the keynote, along the walls. Please arrive between 8 and 8:15 to set up your presentation in the space and get in touch with Glen Berman Glen.Berman@anu.edu.au and Sophie Adams S.Adams@latrobe.edu.au for more information.
Satellite events and meet-ups
There are plenty of events happening in the week that will be of interest to the AusSTS community. These are listed below, and on this page in more detail.
For those who have signed up for meet-ups after the conference on Day 2 (10 July) the organisers will be in touch with you about specific plans.
QueerSTS Meetup: Suisui Wang (University of Massachusetts Boston) suisui.wang@umb.edu
HDR student meet up: Susan Barnes and Jennifer Wilson susan.barnes@hdr.mq.edu.au; jennifer.wilson@monash.edu
Water STS meet-up: Alexandra Crosby and Michaela Spencer Alexandra.crosby@uts.edu.au; michaela.spencer@cdu.edu.au
Network Anarchy and Unstable Diffusions
Thursday 3rd July sees the kick-off of Network Anarchy and Unstable Diffusions, with a Performance Night at Miscellania featuring JODI, Eryk Salvaggio and Debris Facility.
The program continues on Monday 7th July and Tuesday 8th July at the RMIT Media Portal:
Monday 7th July
12pm-2pm – Noisy Joints: Embodying the AI Glitch. Workshop with Eryk Salvaggio (USA) and Camilla Galaz.
2pm-4pm – Performance Workshop with JODI (Netherlands).
Tuesday 8th July
12pm-2pm – How to Train your (Mental) Model. Workshop with Fabian Offert (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (University of Basel).
Doing Interdisciplinarity: 6 years of the Science and Society Network (SSN)
8 July 13:00 – 17:00, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne
Register here, learn about what to expect here.
Join the Deakin Science and Society Network as they celebrate six years of the impactful interdisciplinary Incubator grant. With six presentations, two panels and a talk by Christine Twomey of the ARC, the in-person audience will learn about the joys, opportunities, and challenges of interdisciplinary research. Inspired by the Ted-X format, each presentation will share a message that draws from successful interdisciplinary experiences.
NAIDOC week
Signals and Noises is taking place during NAIDOC week. You can learn more here, and catch events at Fed Square, Gallery Unbound (Northcote) and across the city.
Please email Carina Truyts at c.truyts@deakin.edu.au to add events to this section.
Our sponsors
We would like to thank our generous sponsors.
Signals & Noises is sponsored by ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S); National Museum of Communication, Deakin Science and Society Network and Science, Technology, & Human Values. Deakin University is hosting us at Deakin Downtown.
Our committee
This conference comes about thanks to the hard work of our committee, led by Christopher O’Neill and Carina Truyts:
Emma Kowal, Glen Berman, Joel Stern, Mardi Reardon-Smith, Sophie Adams, Thao Phan, Timothy Neale and Tristan Duncan.
Fees, membership and registration
The organisers have worked hard to keep registration affordable across tiers, and free for Indigenous people. Registration includes tea and lunch on each day of the conference, but does not include transport. Entrance to the NCM and the Signal to Noise exhibition is included for Day 1.
A $10 AusSTS membership fee is included in each registration (barring day 1 only tickets). This grants membership to the newly formed AusSTS association from AusSTS 2025 until the AusSTS conference in 2026. Our first members meeting will be held on Day 3 of the conference.
Contact and hashtag
Our email address is ausstsgrad@gmail.com and Chris and Carina are at christopher.oneill@deakin.edu.au and c.truyts@deakin.edu.au. As we approach the conference, please give us a few days to get back to you.
Join us on Blue Sky (@AusSTS) where you’ll find our ever-growing starter pack ‘AusSTS & friends’.
Conference hashtags: #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises
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