Panel 3: CONCURRENT MORNING SESSION
10.00-12.30, Auditorium

Histories of Abstraction
(Moderation and Introduction: Sean Cubitt (UK/AU))

Speakers:

Laura Marks (CA):
Artificial life from classical Islamic art to new media art, via 17th-century Holland

Arianna Borrelli (IT/DE):
(full paper) The Media Perspective in the Study of Scientific Abstraction

Amir Alexander (US):
(full paper) Death in Paris: When Mathematics became Art

Paul Thomas (AU):
Constructed infinite smallness

Speakers:

Lioudmila Voropai (RU/DE):
(full paper) Institutionalisation of Media Art in the Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Cultural Policy and Socioeconomic Factors

Renata Sukaityte (LT):
Electronic art in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: the interplay of local, regional and global processes

Christoph Klütsch (DE):
The roots and influences of information aesthetics in Germany, Canada, US, Brazil and Japan

Catherine Hamel (CA):
Crossing Into The Border - an intersection of vertical and horizontal migration

12:30 - 15:00
break

Place Studies: Media Art Histories
(Moderation and Introduction: Andreas Broeckmann (DE))

Speakers:

Daniel Palmer (AU):
(full paper) Media Art and Its Critics in the Australian Context

Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (PL):
From Media Art to Techno Culture. Reflections on the Transformation of the Avant-Gardes (the Polish case)

Caroline Seck Langill (CA):
(full paper) Corridors of Practice I: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 80s

Machiko Kusahara (JP):
A Turning Point in Japanese Avant-garde Art: 1964 - 1970

Media Theory in Cultural Practice
(Moderation: Tapio Mäkelä (FI))

Speakers:

Kathryn Farley (US):
(full paper) Generative Systems: The Art and Technology of Classroom Collaboration

Nils Röller (DE/CH):
An Individual Academy: Vilem Flusser's passage from institutional to individual practices

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (US):
The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory

Antony Hudek (US/CH), Antonia Wunderlich (DE):
Between Tomorrow and Yesterday: charting Les Immatériaux as technoscientific event

General Discussion
17.30-18.30, Auditorium

Forum Discussion: ISEA2008
with Gunalan Nadarajan
18:30-20:00, Conference Hall 3 (dinner discussion)

Keynote 2:
Siegfried Zielinski (DE) (Universität der Künste, Berlin)
On Deep Time Relations between Arts, Sciences,
and Technologies
Moderation: Miklos Peternak (HU)
16 November, Friday, 20.00, Auditorium