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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.