After our Residency at the National Unversity of Singapore for ISEA 2008, this is our second appearance at the International Symposium for Electonic Arts. As with all conferences, the core events of ISEA are the paper presentation, as with all conferences, they are massive-parallel. It’s advisable to make a Fahrplan for the road ahead.

This is a selection of presentation I am trying to visit, in the case of parallel presentations I’ll make my choice based on my mood, the Dortmund weather and the state of the daily Curry Wurst mit Pom Fritz.

Saturday, 21st

10:00–12:00h
P1 Enunciations of Nonhuman Performativity
Amongst others, with Jens Hauser
 

Monday, 23rd

10:00–15:00h
Hackteria Workshop, VHS G 132a
DIY Open Bio with Andy Gracie, Yasha Shatty & Marc Dusseiller Also on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:00-16:30h

10:00-12:00h
P4 Heavy Matter, OZ (not really related to the same-titled ‘Heavy Matter’ Exhibition)
Panel with Monika Wagner, Martha de Menezes and Christian Slater

11:15h
P3 Appropriating Social Media, domicil
Sabine Himmelsbach: Art and Politics. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art. A Space for Presentation and Production of Media Art

13:00-14:30h
P9 Future of the Lab, VHS L 102b
“Please note: this session is aimed at people who work in, for or with labs.” With Kitchen Budapest, fo.am, BALTAN.

Tuesday, 24th

10:00-12:00h
P14 The Digital Aesthetics of Climate Crisis, VHS L 103
With The People Speak at 10.50h

13:00–14:30h
P16 Artistsinlabs: Networking in the Margins of Eco-Activism, OZ

15:00–16:30h

P23 Coded Cultures and Japan Media Arts Festival Panel Session, VHS L 102
With Georg Russeger, Asami Hosokawa, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Michal Wlodkowski and yours truly.

17:00h-19:00h
Keynote Peter Weibel Introduction by Jens Hauser, OZ
The Tongue That Sees. Neuroaesthetics, Molecular Aesthetics and Media Aesthetics

Wednesday, 25th

Returning to Japan for Friday Morning’s Panel Session at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) with Watanabe Maiko, Akihiro Kubota, Emiko Inoue and Oron Catts.