Please double check the dates and times. Some events have changed from the
original schedule posted on the Symposium Web Site. (no mornings or saturday
sessions).
http://www.arts.arizona.edu/digitalarts/symposium/schedule.html


Thank you,


Lucy Petrovich






Digital Arts Symposium, Neural Net{work}
April 11-12th
http://www.arts.arizona.edu/digitalarts/symposium/
symposium co-chairs: Carol Flax, Art, Lucy Petrovich, Media Arts
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona in conjunction with
the Center for Consciousness Studies will host the Fourth Annual Digital
Arts Symposium, Neural Net{work}, on April 11-12th. This symposium will
offer to the southwest community the opportunity to meet digital theorists
and artists from around the world, to better understand the roll of emerging
technologies and how they affect our lives. Our speakers include:


Thursday, April 11th

1:00 - 3:00 pm
1:00 -- Opening remarks, Carol Flax and Lucy Petrovich (Co-Chairs)
1:10-2:00 Rebecca Allen - Coexisting in Mixed Reality
2:10-3:00 Pamela Jennings - Getting out of the Box: Creating Networks in the
Real World
Modern Languages Building, Room 350 - Second St. by Cherry
(Parking - Second Street Garage)

4:00 - 6:30 pm
4:00 Opening remarks, Mike Holcomb
4:30-5:20 David Rokeby - The computer as an organ of (self-)awareness
5:30-6:20 Roy Ascott - PLANETARY TECHNOETICS: art, technology and
consciousness.
Center for Creative Photography Auditorium - Fine Arts Complex
(Parking - Speedway & Park garage)

Friday, April 12th

1:30 - 4:30 pm
1:30 Remarks and announcements
1:40-2:30 Dan Collins - Breeding for the Evolutionary
2:40-3:30 Thecla Schiphorst - Pulp fashion: fabricating wearable
technologies
3:40-4:30 Michael Naimark - (Re)Presenting Place
Center for Creative Photography Auditorium - Fine Arts Complex
(Parking - Speedway & Park garage)

7:00 - 9:00 pm
Keynote Speaker - Kevin Warwick - Will Cyborgs inherit the earth?
reception following
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Room 202 - Speedway & Mountain
(free Parking behind the building)

INFORMATION ON ALL SPEAKERS

Dr. Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading,
UK, carries out research in artificial intelligence, control and robotics.
In 1998 he surgically implanted a silicon chip transponder in his left arm.

Rebecca Allen is an internationally recognized media artist inspired by the
potential of advanced technology, the aesthetics of motion and the study of
behavior. Her recent work blurs the boundaries between physical reality and
virtual reality, between biological life and artificial life. Allen is a
professor at UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts.

Roy Ascott, is an artist and theorist whose work has pioneered the creative
use of cybernetics, telecommunications and interactive media. He heads the
CAiiA-Star Ph.D. program in interactive computer art at the University of
Wales

Dan Collins,  Associate Professor of Intermedia within the School of Art at
Arizona State University and Co-Director of the PRISM lab--an
interdisciplinary 3D modeling and rapid prototyping facility.

Pamela Jennings is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and the Human
Computer Interaction Institute and research fellow at the Studio for
Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Her interactive art projects
include CD ROMs  and the ArTronic(tm) sculpture "the book of ruins and
desire."

Michael Naimark is a media artist who works extensively with field
cinematography, interactive systems, and immersive projection. He was part
of the original MIT research group who created the first interactive
videodisc called Aspen Movie Map.

David Rokeby, a Canadian artist, has been creating interactive sound and
video installations since 1982, exploring time, perception, intelligence
(both human and "artificial") and the relationships between humans and
interactive machines. He recently received a "Governor General's Award for
Visual and Media Arts" exhibiting a work called "The Giver of Names" at the
National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa

Thecla Schiphorst is a computer media artist, theorist, educator,
choreographer and dancer. She is on the faculty of the Interactive Arts
Program of the Technical University of British Columbia and has performed,
exhibited and spoken in many venues including collaboration with Merce
Cunningham.

This event has been made possible by a grant from the College of Fine Arts'
Dean's Fund for Excellence; Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from
the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts; Edward J
Gallagher Jr. Memorial Fund; Marjory and Louis J. Slavin Fund; and the
Office of International Affairs.

--
 Lucy  Petrovich
 UA - Media ARts

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