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Fri 4.9.
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

10:30 – 10:45 AM
Welcome by Gerfried Stocker

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
Friedrich Kittler

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Hiroshi Ishiguro

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Talk: Friedrich Kittler, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Derrick de Kerckhove

Friedrich Kittler (DE) Doctorate in 1976 with Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. 1976-1986 research assistant in the German Department, University of Freiburg. 1984 post-doctoral qualification in Modern German Literature, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg/Breisgau. 1987 Chair of Department of Modern German Literature I, Ruhr University Bochum. 1993 Chair of Department of Aesthetics and Media History, Humboldt University Berlin.

Derrick de Kerckhove (CA). Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto; Ordinary Professor at the University of Naples Federico II; holder of the Papamarkou Chair at the Library of Congress in Washington. Among his major publications: The Skin of Culture (Somerville Press, 1995); Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997); Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (Bosch & Keuning, 1991); La civilizzazione video-cristiana (Feltrinelli, 1997); The Architecture of Intelligence (Testo & Immagine, 2001).

Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP). Dr. Eng. Visiting Group Leader of Dept. of Communication Robots, Professor of Osaka University, Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems.

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Fri 4.9.
1:30 PM– 3:00 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Eduardo Kac

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Josef Penninger

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Round Table: Eduardo Kac, Josef Penninger, Jens Hauser

This Human Nature Lecture is part of the Prix Ars Electronica Forum Hybrid Art.

Josef Penninger (AT). Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Eduardo Kac (BR) is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. Kac’s work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art of Valencia, Spain, the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others, and has received many awards.
http://www.ekac.org

Jens Hauser (FR / DE) is a Paris-based art curator, writer, cultural journalist and video maker focusing on the interactions between art and technology, and on transgenre and contextual aesthetics. Hauser has organized “L’Art Biotech” (2003), a show on biotechnological art, and “Still, Living” (2007) at the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, and “Sk-Interfaces” (2008) at FACT. He’s also co-curating the Article Biennale in Stavanger (European Cultural Capital 2008 with Liverpool), and stages sk-interfaces at Casino, the Contemporary Arts Center Luxembourg, in 2009. He is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and has been a guest lecturer internationally.

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Sun 6.9.
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Michael Schmidt-Salomon

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Maja Petrovic-Steger

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Derrick de Kerckhove

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Round Table: Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Maja Petrovic-Steger, Derrick de Kerckhove

Michael Schmidt-Salomon (DE), Dr. phil., freelance philosopher and writer, musician and social scientist, co-founder and spokesman of the board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, which counts many renowned scientists, philosophers and artists among its members. His numerous publications include the novel “Stollbergs Inferno” (“a philosophical dime novel on hell, revolts and the absurd,” 2003), a manifesto of philosophical principles “Manifest des evolutionären Humanismus. Plädoyer für eine zeitgemäße Leitkultur” (2006), the satirical lexicon “Die Kirche im Kopf – Von Ach Herrje! bis Zum Teufel” (2007) and the children’s book “Wo bitte geht’s zu Gott? fragte das kleine Ferkel” (2007).

He is familiar to the wider public among other things through his publicity actions, including the project he initiated for the Catholic “World Youth Day” in Cologne (2005), called “Religionsfreie Zone: Heidenspaß statt Höllenqual!” (“Religious-Free Zone: Pagan Fun, not Hellish Agony!”) as well as through the campaign he spearheaded for the Council of Ex-Muslims (2007): “Wir haben abgeschworen!” (“We have renounced religion!”). Schmidt-Salomon has received many honors (including the Topitsch Award of the Kellmann Foundation for Humanism and Enlightenment). As a naturalistically thinking philosopher, he is often featured in the press, radio and television.

Maja Petrovic-Steger (UK). Dr Maja Petrović-Šteger is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse. She teaches for the Department of Social Anthropology, and directs studies in Archaeology and Anthropology for Peterhouse students at the University of Cambridge (UK). Her research explores various contexts where bodies – whether living; dead, or in the form of medically usable remains – become the sites of economic, legal, political, scientific and artistic attention. In 2007 she started working with etoy. Ever since she acts as an etoy ethnographer and etoy agent.

Derrick de Kerckhove (CA). Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto; Ordinary Professor at the University of Naples Federico II; holder of the Papamarkou Chair at the Library of Congress in Washington.

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Sun 6.9.
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

Moderation: Andy Cameron (UK)

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Bernhard Fink

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Shinsuke Shimojo

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Lawrence Malstaf

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Round Table: Bernhard Fink, Shinsuke Shimojo, Lawrence Malstaf

This Human Nature Lecture is part of the Prix Ars Electronica Forum Interactive Art.

Bernhard Fink (DE). Anthropologist, director of a group of young scientists supported by the German Research Foundation researching the “Evolutionary Psychology of Human Physical Appearance & Body Movement.” His research focuses on understanding human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, in particular the significance of human appearance and its influence on partner selection. After obtaining his doctorate and doing research at the University of Vienna, Fink went on to the University of Göttingen, where he is currently investigating the signals sent by body movement and the appearance of the skin.

Shinsuke Shimojo (JP). Director of the Shimojo Psychophysics Laboratory, the only laboratory of the California Institute of Technology which exclusively concentrates on study of perception, cognition, and action in humans.

Lawrence Malstaf (BE). He designed scenographies for choreographers and directors such as Benoît Lachambre, Meg Stuart and Kirsten Delholm. Soon he developed more into installation and performance art with a strong focus on movement, coincidence, order and chaos. Later he created larger mobile environments dealing with space and orientation, often using the visitor as a co-actor. His projects often involve advanced technology as a point of departure or inspiration but also to activate the installations.

Andy Cameron (UK). Executive Director of Fabrica.