PLENUM
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10.00
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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.
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10.15
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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
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10.45
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Diskussion/Discussion
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11.00
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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
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11.30
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Pause/Break
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11.45
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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
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12.15
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Diskussion/Discussion
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12.30
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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/
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13.00
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Pause/Break
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SESSION I Wetcomputing and neuro/electronics
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15.00
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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
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15.30
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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
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16.00
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Pause/Break
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16.15
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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
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17.00
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Pause/Break
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17.30
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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
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SESSION II Interfaces as a process
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15.00
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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
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15.30
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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
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16.00
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Pause/Break
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16.15
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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
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16.45
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Diskussion/Discussion
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17.00
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Pause/Break
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