Symposium
DI - MI tue - wed 9. - 10. 9.

Design Center Linz
10.00 ­ 13.00, 15.00 ­ 18.00


Participants
Donna Haraway/USA, Neal Stephenson/USA, Daniel Dennett/USA (Videokonferenz), Robert R. Birge/USA, Patricia Smith Churchland/USA, Huge Harry/NL, Paul Garrin/USA, Guillermo Gòmez-Peña/Mexico + Roberto Sifuentes/USA, Peter Fleissner/A, Peter Fromherz/D, Hiroshi Ishii/USA, Agentur Bilwet/Adilkno/NL, Pattie Maes/USA, Steve Mann/USA, Max More/USA, Stelarc/AUS, Victoria Vesna/USA, Mark Weiser/USA
Symposium

Zeitplan/Timetable
tue
DI

9
-
9
PLENUM
10.00 Intro: Gerfried Stocker/A
Artist, founder of x-Space, currently managing and artistic director of the Ars Electronica Center Linz

http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/
x-space/bio/stocker.html


Intro: Tom Sherman/USA
Artist and theorist, best known for his video art and writings about person/machine relationships.
10.15 Donna Haraway/USA

Biologist, teaches science studies, feminist theory, and woman´s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of the Nature and Crystals, Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in the 20th-Century Developmental Biology. Her latest publication is Modest_ Witness @Second_ Millennium. FemaleMan©_ Meets_ OncoMouseTM



http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/
~RF6T-TYFK/haraway.html
10.45 Diskussion/Discussion
11.00 Paul Garrin/USA
Media artist, has been collaborating with Nam June Paik for a long time. His documentation of the *Tompkins Square Riot* 1988 in New York City is known as the spark which ignited the *camcorder revolution*.

http://www.235media.com/
video_art_edition-ger/
PAUL_GARRIN.html
11.30 Pause/Break
11.45 Huge Harry/(01)
Huge Harry is a commercially available voice synthesis machine. He has started to work as a political activist, trying to achieve equal rights for computers.

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/
Brown_Alumni_Monthly/
4-96/elms/harry.html
12.15 Diskussion/Discussion
12.30 Stelarc/AUS
Artist, he has used medical instruments, prosthetics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore, extend and enhance the body´s operational parameters.

http://www.merlin.com.au/stelarc/
13.00 Pause/Break
SESSION I
Wetcomputing and neuro/electronics
15.00 Robert R. Birge/USA
Professor of chemistry and director of the W.M. Keck Center for Molecular Electronics, and research director of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software.

http://www.cat.syr.edu/publications/WWW/
people/birge.html
15.30 Peter Fromherz/D
Dr.rer.nat. [physical chemistry], Univ. of Marburg [1969], 1981 Professor of experimental Physics [biophysics], University of Ulm,1994 Director of Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry [section Membrane- and Neuro-Physics].

http://mnphys.biochem.mpg.de/
projects/news.html
16.00 Pause/Break
16.15 Daniel Dennett/USA
Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Author of several books, including Consciousness Explained, Darwin´s Dangerous Idea and Kinds of Minds.
via Videokonferenz, Concluding Response

http://www.tricoll.edu/~tj/philo/
phils/dennett.html
17.00 Pause/Break
17.30 G. Gómez Peña, Roberto Sifuentes/USA
Interdisciplinary artist whose work examines the perceptions of Chicano and Mexican cultures.

http://www.sirius.com/~jrg/danger.html
SESSION II
Interfaces as a process
15.00 Mark Weiser/USA
Chief Technologist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center [PARC]. His work since 1988 has been focused on Ubiquitous Computing, a program he initiated which envisions PCs being replaced with invisible computers embedded in everyday objects.

http://sunsite.Ust.hk/dblp/dp/
indices/a-tree/W/Weiser:Mark.html
15.30 Peter Fleissner/A
Professor for representation and effect research, information technology at Vienna Univ. of Technology; since August 1997 head of the department *Technology, Employment and Competition* of the EU institute for technological future research [IPTS] in Seville.

http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/igw/personen/
fleissner/peter.html
16.00 Pause/Break
16.15 Hiroshi Ishii/USA
Researcher with focus on media design to augment interactions between humans, computers, and the physical environment. At the MIT Media Lab, he directs the Tangible Media Group.

http://www.mediamatic.no/
whoiswohI/ishii/index.html
16.45 Diskussion/Discussion
17.00 Pause/Break
wed
MI

10
-
9
PLENUM
10.00 Patricia Smith Churchland/USA
Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Author of three books, including The Computational Brain and Neuroscience: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain.

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/philo/
Main.Pages.Files/Faculty.pages/
churchland.patricia.html
10.30 Diskussion/Discussion
10.45 Steve Mann/USA
known as inventor of the so-called *wearable computer* and *WearCam* [personal imaging system]. His present research includes pencigraphic imaging, and wearable, tetherless computer-mediated reality.

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Gallery/gallery.html
11.15 Pause/Break
11.30 Max More/USA
President of the Extropy Institute which aims to guide humanity into an unbounded future by encouraging the use of emerging and future technologies to overcome historically unchallenged limits to full human flourishing.

http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
12.00 Diskussion/Discussion
12.15 Agentur Bilwet/Adilkno (Geert Lovink/Arjen Mulder)/NL
founded in 1983 in Amsterdam, is engaged in promoting Illegal Science through travels, lectures and taking walks.

http://www.mediamatic.nl/Magazine/
8*4/bilwet-concept/bilwet-1.html
12.45 Diskussion/Discussion
13.00 Pause/Break
15.00 Neal Stephenson/USA
1959 Maryland, author of the science fiction novels Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and others.

http://euro.net/mark-space/Neal
15.30 Diskussion/Discussion
15.45 Victoria Vesna/USA
Installation and performance artist, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara teaching Electronic Intermedia and Computer Image.

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~vive
16.15 Pause/Break
16.30 Pattie Maes/USA
founded and directs the Software Agents Group at MIT´s Media Laboratory. Her areas of expertise are Human Computer Interaction, Electronic Publishing and Electronic Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life.

http://www.mediamatic.nl/
whoiswho/maes/index.html
17.00 Abschlußplenum/Plenary Discussion


Netzwerk-Symposium
Net Symposium


http://www.aec.at/
fleshfactor/net_doku.html
Seit 1996 betreibt die Ars Electronica im Vorfeld des Festivals ein Diskussionsforum im Internet. Gegenstand ist das jeweilige Festivalthema. Ebenso wie im Vorjahr unterschiedliche Ansätze und neue Aspekte des Denkens über *Memesis* richtungsweisend geworden sind, so hat sich auch heuer die im Netz geführte Diskussion zu einer wichtigen Basis für die Aufbereitung und inhaltlichen Vertiefung des Themas *FleshFactor* entwickelt.

Beiträge an fleshfactor@aec.at
Netzwerkmoderation: Tom Sherman
Medientheoretiker und Künstler/USA
Since 1996, Ars Electronica has conducted an Internet discussion forum in conjunction with the Festival. The theme of the current yearÕs festival is the topic under discussion. Just as diverse approaches and fresh views on the subject of *Memesis* opened up new directions last year, the discussions being carried on in the Internet this year are likewise establishing a solid foundation for, and a stimulating lead-in to, the subject of *FleshFactor.*

Send your contribution to fleshfactor@aec.at
Network moderator is Tom Sherman
media theorist and artist/USA