Cybermind Conference 96

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 28 November 1996 

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
EST (US): 3:00AM
PST (US): 12:00AM
EST (AU): 7:00PM
CST (NZ): 8:00PM

 Performance: Stelarc

"Fractal Flesh"

Pictures of the event!

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
51 James St, Northbridge.
Entry: $5 at door.

LIVE!

FRIDAY, 29 November 1996

 8:30 - 9:00 Registration Nursing Lecture Theatre 201
Curtin University
9:05 - 9:15 Welcome

Karen Melzack		  
 9:15 - 9:45 Morning Break  
9:45 - 10:15 Keynote Address: Cybermind

Alan Sondheim		  
10:15 - 11:45

Panel: Cybermind - The Virtual Community

Chair : Richard MacKinnon
Discussant : Lynne Roberts

  • John Marshall - The Lost Ethnographer
  • Jerry Everard - A Semiotics of Cybermind
 MOO - Panel Log
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break Aboriginal Centre
Curtin University
13:30 - 14:30

Panel: Aboriginal Access to Cyberspace

Chair : Karen Melzack

  • Jill Abdullah - Postgraduate Interactive Programs at Curtin University
  • Michelle Winmar - Reconstruction/Family History/Cultural Tradition
  • Ernie Stringer - Assessing and Supporting Research
  • Anna Cole - Current Status of Indigenous Australians and the Net
 14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Break  
15:00 - 16:30

Panel: Weaving Webs

Chair : Lynne Roberts

  

SATURDAY, 30 November 1996

9:00 - 10:30

Panel: Cyber Spaces

Chair : Jerry Everard

Norm Dufty Lecture Theatre

 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break  
11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Law and Ethics in Cyberspace

Chair : Ari Mendoza

 

 

 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 - 15:00

Panel: Philosophy in Cyberspace

Chair : Richard MacKinnon

  • Ari Mendoza - The Cybermind Hand
  • Jerry Everard - Deleuze : The Subject of Cyberspace
  • Alan Sondheim - Love, Sex & Death in Kyberspace

 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break  
15:30 - 16:30

Forum: Cybermind The Philosophy and Psychology of Cyberspace

Chair : Karen Melzack

  • Alan Sondheim
  • Richard MacKinnon
  • Jerry Everard
  • Jon Marshall
  • Ari Mendoza

SUNDAY, 1 December 1996

9:00 - 10:00

Panel: Education and the Web

Chair : Martin Dougiamas

  • Eilean Fairholme - WWW Instructional Design
  • Michael Grau - TBA
  • Martin Dougiamas - Machine-Augmented Thought

Presentation: Cyberpain

Richard MacKinnon

10:00 - 10:45

Workshop

Leader : Alan Sondheim

 10:45 - 11:00 Morning Break  
11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Self in Cyberspace

Chair : Jerry Everard

  • Jon Marshall - Virtual Hauntings
  • Stelarc - Phantom Bodies
  • Lynne Roberts - Exploring Virtuality

 

 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 - 15:30

Plenary: Alan Sondheim - Person/Text

Chair : Ari Mendoza

  • Jon Marshall
  • Alan Sondheim

 

 15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Break  
Demonstration: Stelarc

 16:00 - 16:45

Round Table:

Cybermind Whence and Whither?
Conference Outcomes

Chair : Ari Mendoza

Participants : Alan Sondheim, Jon Marshall, Ari Mendoza, Richard MacKinnon, Fran Jacobson, Karen Melzack and other CMers.

 


 

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