Program
Location (unless indicated otherwise): ASU Tower Center B (Digital Arts Ranch / Center for Philosophical Technologies)
Thursday, February 14
5:00-6:30 (@ ASU Stauffer Hall B204)
Niklas Wild-Damiris (Stanford University): "Overcoming the Cybernetic Worldview while Re-envisioning Post-humanism and Sustainability: Insights from Quantum Physics and Finance for Alternate Economies-ecologies"
7:00-9:00 (@ Cornish Pasty (on University Drive))
Drinks + Dinner
Friday, February 15
8:15-9:00
Breakfast
8:50-9:00
Welcome
9:00-10:15
Sha Xin Wei (Arizona State University): "Golem 2.0: Automation vs Augmentation"
10:30-11:45
Michael Beach (University of Washington): "Emergent Techno-Botanical Networks: Paracosmic Dreams and Speculative Methods"
Nat Mengist (University of Washington): "From Regulation to Responsibility: Alchemical Fertilizers, Industrial Pesticides, and the Search for an Epistemic Antidote"
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:45
Garrett Laroy Johnson (Arizona State University): "'Why Do You Have to Be So Self-Centered?': Tactics for Disrupting Genealogies of Cybernetic Extension in Sociotechnical Systems"
Jonathan Bratt (Arizona State University): "Humanistic Geography's Cybernetic Blindspot"
3:00-4:15
Thierry Bardini (Université de Montréal): "Post (living, machines) and the Journey to the End of the Species"
4:30-5:45
Sarah Choukah (Université de Montréal): "Of Slime, Sweat, and Carbon Valley"
6:00-8:00 (@ Casey Moore's (haunted room!))
Drinks
8:00-10:00 (@ The Yard)
Dinner
Saturday, February 16
8:15-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-10:15
Angela Sakrison (Arizona State University): "The Cybernetic Nomad"
Muindi Fanuel Muindi (University of Washington): "(Re)Creating the Self; Or, the Technologies of Self-Parody"
10:30-11:45
Adam Nocek (Arizona State University) and Stacey Moran Nocek (Arizona State University): Workshop TBD
12:00-1:30
Lunch
12:45-1:30 (@ Matthews Center 224)
Informal iStage Visit
1:30-2:45
Phillip Thurtle (University of Washington): "Goth Biology"
3:00–4:15
Josh Grant-Young (University of Guelph): “"And the Seeds Will be Planted Again...": Love, Strange Ecological Partnerships, and Atomic Posthumanisms in Harvest”
Desiree Foerster (Universität Potsdam, University of Chicago): "On Aesthetic Experience and the Formation of Habit in Atmospheric Milieus"
4:30-5:30
Wrap-up Session
6:00-8:00 (@ Handlebar)
Drinks
8:00-10:00 (@ Caffe Boa)
Dinner