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POM Fukuoka 2027 Announced: Culturing Transduction
The 6th edition of Politics of the Machines will take place in Fukuoka, Japan, in March 2027. Bringing together research, artistic practice, and critical discourse, the conference opens its Call for Track Topics under the theme Culturing Transduction.
POM Expands Its Boards and Editorial Structure
Politics of the Machines (POM) continues to grow as a distributed international platform for critical discourse and interdisciplinary collaboration across the sciences and the arts. As the POM conference expands to new geographies and editions, its organizing model is…
Call for Expressions of Interest: POM Boards
POM invites practitioners to join its distributed boards, contributing to future editions and shaping the platform’s collaborative research, artistic direction, and critical engagement with machines.
Call for Submissions: Artnodes | Synthetic Sentience
This call welcomes papers exploring synthetic sentience and its artistic, technological, and philosophical implications, inviting contributions that question how emerging forms of intelligence reshape our world.
POM Aachen 2024 Proceedings
We are delighted to announce the publication of the POM Conference Aachen 2024 – Lifelikeness & BeyondProceedings, Volumes 1 and 2.Both volumes are now available online, and mark the culmination of an extraordinary collaborative effort across institutions,…
The Life of Signals
The Life of Signals? A three-day networking meeting bringing together members of the POM network with researchers and artists from Japan and Europe. Conceived as a preparatory step toward a potential POM Japan edition.
POM Aachen 2024 – Publication Info and Dates
An overview of the POM Aachen 2024 publication timeline, detailing deadlines for both volumes, submission guidelines, and the forthcoming release of proceedings through the eWiC platform.






