Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Faking It: Artificial Lives, Manufactured Bodies
Featuring Luciana Haill, James Turnbull, and Rob Englebright.
7.30-10.30pm at the Nightingale Room, Grand Central Pub, Brighton.
Register for free.
Friday, 1 December 2017
Venue: Terrace Room, Bramber House
| 09.30-10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00-11.20 | Welcome
Keynote 1: Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University): What is a Slave? |
| 11.20.-11.30 | Break |
| 11.30-13.00 | Panel 1: Humanisms Chair: Nicholas Royle Michael Jonik (University of Sussex): Inhuman Thinking Joel Evans (Lancaster University): Writing and the Inhuman Thomas Kewin (University of Liverpool): ‘The future is at stake […] in a struggle to determine what will happen to all living things’: Posthumous Posthumanism and the (Re:)Turn of the Human |
| Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.30 | Panel 2: Robotics Chair: Harriet Barratt Max Gee (Bournemouth University): Robots Do Not Have Feelings, or Do They? Exploring Emotional Awakening through Creative Practice Yugin Teo (Bournemouth University): ‘Hello. I am Baymax, your personal healthcare companion’: Challenging perceptions of robots in care work in Robot & Frank, Big Hero 6 and Humans Josh Grant-Young (University of Guelph): ‘And the seeds will be planted again…’ : Environmental Lessons, Transformation & Love in Harvest |
| 15.30-16.00 | Break |
| 16.00-17.20 | Keynote 2: Claire Colebrook (Pennsylvania State University): All Life is Artificial Life |
| 17.20-18.00 | Wine Reception |
| 20.00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 2 December 2017
Venue: Terrace Room, Bramber House
| 10.00-11.20 | Keynote 3: Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside): Lively Machines and Inert Organisms |
| 11.30-13.00 | Panel 3: New Forms, New Subjectivities, New Spaces Chair: Annabel Haynes Korina Zaromytidou (University of Brighton/KLC School of Design): The Utopia of a Digital Perception of Space Jess Oliver (University of Sussex): ‘The cogs and sprockets of his body’: Tom McCarthy and Encountering Time Maria Christou (Oxford Brookes University): The Turn to the Potential: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Non-Actors’ |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-16.00 | Panel 4: Bio-Arts and New Media Chair: Charlotte Terrell Vid Simoniti (University of Cambridge): Our Better Selves: Themes of Transhumanism in Bio-art and in Philosophy Ekaterina Nikitina (University of Silesia): Metabola A.I.: Defining Life Kate Monson (University of Brighton): FanFutures: Dreaming and re-dreaming our possible futures Tobias G. Palma (University of York): Prosthetics for Imagination: New Media and the changing perception of reality. |
| 16.00-16.15 | Break |
| 16.15-17.45 | Keynote 4: Paul Vanouse (University at Buffalo): Difference, Nature and Artifice: Proposing that we are not so special. |
| 17.45-18.00 | Conclusions |
| 18.00 | Wine Reception |
Artificial Lives 