Symposium: The Interface between New Technologies and Contemporary Art

SYMPOSIUM -- Engaging the Virtual: The Interface between New Technologies and Contemporary Art

The program will include short lectures, presentations and open discussions that deal with the imaginative use of new media, including computer imaging, robotics and websites, as well as other technologies, in works of art and design. It will also raise philosophical and critical questions about the interface between technology and creative human activity.

Program

All morning sessions wil takeplace in the Auditorium

9:30-10:45 Welcome

Sue Gibson Garvey: Director, Curator Dalhousie Art Gallery

Dr Jacob Slonim Dean, Dalhousie Department of Computer Science

Power, Sweat and Joy of the Real World: Juan Geuer

10:45-11:15 Coffee break informal discussion in the cybercafe area

11:15 - 12:30 Virtual behaviour, virtual language

Norman White: The Helpless Robot

David Rokeby: The Giver of Names

12:30-1:30 Lunch Break

Sandwiches, juice and cookies will be available in the cybercafe area for $4.00 per person. Optional: Stroll across the Avenue to the Art Gallery and visit the exhibition Engaging the Virtual. 

1:30-3:00

The following three sessions will run concurrently (Seminar Room A [up to 30 people only])

Engaging the Web

Jessica Carpenter: A Little Talk about Reproduction

Bob Rogers The brsite (Seminar Room B [up to 30 people only])

Virtual Design for Actual Living

Peter Spierenburg: the LaHave House Project (Auditorium)

Accepting, resisting and negotiating new technologies

Doug Back: Interactive Culture

Laiwan And your flesh will be made word: how to smooth the transition from your old analog body to an ideal body of information

Doug Porter: Losing Sleep

3:00 -4:00 Return to the Auditorium

Questions, comments and further discussion