Super Human: Revolution of the Species Symposium
23 – 24 November 2009
BMW Edge, Federation Square
Melbourne, Australia
Due to popular demand, we are releasing single-day and half-day tickets for the Super Human symposium.
Two-day $500 / $350
Single-day $250 / $175 concession
Half-day $125 / $87.50 concession
Join artistic and scientific researchers from the fields of cognition, augmentation and nanotechnology as they consider what it means to be human, now and into the future.
For the full program visit www.superhuman.org.au or select from the following:
23 November – morning session – 9.30am – 12.30pm
Keynote: Barbara Maria Stafford (USA)
Transparency or the New Invisibility; the Business of Making Connections
Panelists: Michele Barker (AUS), Dolores Steinman (Canada), Kathryn Hoffmann (USA)
23 November – afternoon session – 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Keynote: Ju Gosling (UK)
Super Human Rights
Panelists: Kathy Cleland (AUS), Natasha Vita-More (USA), Tina Gonsalves (AUS), Mari Velonaki (AUS), Reva Stone (Canada)
24 November – morning session – 10.00am – 12.30pm
Keynote: Junichi Ushiba (Japan)
Brain-Machine Interface into Virtual Worlds
Panelists: Jonathan Duckworth (AUS), Danielle Wilde (AUS)
24 November – afternoon session – 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Keynotes: Tami Spector (USA)
Nanoaesthetics
Panelists: Leah Heiss (AUS), Svenja Kratz (AUS), Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (UK).
Closing Address: Paul Brown (AUS/UK)
Visit www.superhuman.org.au for further information and ticket sales.
Hey, these kids are up to some wicked stuff. You don’t have to be logged in to your FB account to view these.
Ever wanted to voluntarily expose your brain to newness so bright it’ll make it ooze out of your ears? We’ll, if you join up to the new Facebook _Augmentology-1L0L1_ project that’s what you’ll get: http://www.facebook.com/pages/_Augmentology-1L0L1_/125444933372
The page is chocked full of augmented reality tech vids, pics, obs, and demos. The augmentology project itself is “…a working manual discussing the formation and evolution of synthetic environments” (plus a little brain-stretching thrown in for good measure): http://www.facebook.com/l/;arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/
_Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ explores concepts that shape and are shaped by an extensive range of online/synthetic encounters.
http://augmentology.com
A working manual discussing the formation and evolution of synthetic environments.
Social tesseracting is a three part series of link-rich blog entries that functionally describe how synthetics – people who explore within and create augmented/cross-reality platforms – operate in emergent social areas. These entries expand upon earlier concepts as outlined in _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_, which explores concepts that shape and are shaped by networked encounters:
“These concepts are formed through principles generated internally within specific online environments. The aim of this Augmentology project is to construct a new discipline. This discipline is to be formulated and documented appropriately online. This discipline is not intended for traditional academic ratification. Augmentology does not adhere to canonised standards of referencing and/or validation. All materials linked are accessible online. References are presented in order to encourage link-based – rather than directional – information accumulation. These references include a mixture of verifiable and speculative sources.
Each entry is constructed to reflect how participants absorb information within attention economies and synthetic environments. The entries are designed to function within a system dependent on embedded information streams. Concepts are condensed to reflect this.”
http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/
