Day 1
Thursday, 15 November 2007

OPENING SESSION
14:00pm - 15:00pm Auditorium


Welcome Address
by Andreas Broeckmann (DE) Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/US), Bernd Scherer/HKW (DE)

Introductory talk by Oliver Grau (DE/AT):
MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital Humanities


Panel 1: CONCURRENT AFTERNOON SESSION
15:00 - 17:30, Auditorium
 

Place Studies: Art/Science/Engineering

(Moderation: Edward Shanken(US))
 
Speakers:

Michael Century (CA/US):
Encoding motion in the early computer: knowledge transfers between studio and laboratory


Stephen Jones
(AU):
The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, 1968-1975


Eva Moraga (ES):
The Computation Center at Madrid University, 1966-1973:
An example of true interaction between art, science and technology


Robin Oppenheimer
(US/CA):
Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two Experimental, Collaborative Art and
Engineering Subcultures Spawned the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" and E.A.T.


Panel 2: CONCURRENT AFTERNOON SESSION
15.00-17.30, Theatersaal

Intersections of Media and Biology 
(Moderation and Introduction: Ingeborg Reichle (DE))

Speakers:

Assimina Kaniari (GR/UK),
Morphogenesis in Action: D'Arcy Thompson and the experimental in Leonardo from LL Whyte to now

Jussi Parikka (FI):
Insect Media of the Nineteenth Century

Michele Barker
(AU):
From Life to Cognition: investigating the rol of biology and neurology in new media arts practice

Boo Chapple (AU):
Sound, Matter, Flesh: A history of crosstalk from medicine to contemporary art and biology


HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FÜR KULTURTECHNIK
An Introduction to the interdisciplinary research programme of the HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FÜR KULTURTECHNIK at HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY (Unter den Linden 6) with Prof. Jochen Brüning, Prof. Thomas Macho, a.o.
15 November, Thursday, 18.30 at Helmholtz-Zentrum, Humboldt University

Special Lecture Presentation
Timothy Druckrey (US):
Cinemedia: Archaeologies of Computation and AI in Cinema
15 November, Thursday, 21.00 at TESLA Media>Art<Lab Berlin