The First Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium
Montréal, Canada
19-22 April, 2007

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Thursday, 19 April
Time (12h) Amphitheater (Room SH 2800)
200 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Agora des Sciences (Hydro-Quebec)
145 Rue Président Kennedy
9.30-9.45 am Yacov Sharir: Conference Welcome none
9.45-10.30 am Our hosts:
Louise Poissant, Dean, Arts UQAM
Michel Jebrak, Vice-Rector, UQAM
Alban Asselin, Director, Hexagram
none
10.30-10.45 am Nicolas Reeves: conference logistics none
10.45-11.00 am pause pause
11.00-11.45 am Peter Anders: Node Architecture none
11.45 am-12.30 pm Roy Ascott: The Collegium none
break
  Chair: Teresa Chen Chair: Natasha Vita-More
2.15-2.45 pm Michael Punt
"Contingent Realities: The Role of the Creative Arts"

Karmen Franinovic
"Participation in Urban Life: Democracy or Spectacle?"
3.00-3.30 pm Daniela Kutschat Hanns
"Interactive Environments: Towards an Epistemology – Models and Methodologies for Interactive Design"
Maia Engeli
"Metaphors for Creative Collaboration"
3.45-4.15 pm Jill Scott
"The Novel Approach: Art as Catalyst – From Global Warming to Public Debate"
Elif Ayiter
"Deconstructing the Palace"
4.15-4.45 pm pause pause
  Chair: Lenara Verle Chair: Elif Ayiter
4.45-5.15 pm Mike Phillips
"The View from Here!"
Isabelle Choinière
"Looking for a Choreographic Model Adapted to Our Time"
5.30-6.00 pm Kenneth Fields
"Ontotyping: Designing in the World"
Antonio Caronia
7.15-9.00 pm Poster session (to be held in Salle Polyvalente - 200 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest)
Friday, 20 April
Time (12h) Amphitheater (Room SH 2800)
200 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Agora des Sciences (Hydro-Quebec)
145 Rue Président Kennedy
  Chair: Valerie Bugmann Chair: Wolfgang Fiel
9.00-9.30 am Louis-Philippe Demers
"Multiple Ontologies Disorder"
Peter Anders
"Designing Mixed Reality: Cybrid Principles, Practice and Projects"
9.45-10.15 am Barbara Rauch
"Mapping Virtual Emotions"
Joseph Nechvatal
"Methods of Viractuality"
10.30-11.00 am David McConville
"Cosmological Cinema: Pedagogy, Propaganda, and Perturbation in Early Dome Theaters"
Edward Shanken
"Beyond Beyond Modern Sculpture: Historiography, Methodology, Teleology"
11.00-11.30 am pause pause
  Chair: Kjell Petersen Chair: Semi Ryu
11.30 am-12.00 pm Diana Reed Slattery
"Speaking with the Other: Knowledge Acquisition in the Psychedelic Sphere"
Simona Caraceni
"MUSEUM 2.0
Planetary Collegium Second Life Virtual Museum"
12.15-12.45 pm Roy Ascott
"Technoetic Art and the Syncretic Reality"
Kirsten Johannsen
"Recreation and Leisure in Outer Space: Designing Art for Microgravity Environments"
1.00-1.30 pm Carlos Nobrega
"Leaves System: Art Experiment in Plant Communication and Primary Perception"
Hung Keung
"Interactivity and Continuity: Methodology and Belief Behind Time and Space of Chinese Painting"
break
  Chair: Andreas Schiffler Chair: Tiffany Holmes
2.15-2.45 pm Pierre Levy
"An 'Artificial Life' Model of Collective Intelligence in an Infinite Mathematically Addressed Semantic Space"
Brandon Ballengée
"Visualizing Biological Abstraction in Nature: Exploring the Occurrence of Deformed Amphibians"
3.00-3.30 pm Nicholas Tresilian
"The Ideom of Event-Structure"
Juergen Moritz
"Sociable Technologies: Relational Artifacts and Empathetic Devices"
3.45-4.15 pm none René Stettler
"Reframing Semiotic Telematic Knowledge Spaces and the Anthropological Challenge to Design Interhuman Relations"
4.15-4.45 pm pause pause
  Chair: Honor Harger Chair: Laura Beloff
4.45-5.15 pm Francesco Monico
"Technopoetry Ars"
Natasha Vita-More
"Brave BioArt 2: Shedding the Bio, Amassing the Nano, and Cultivating Emortal Llife"
5.30-6.00 pm Katia Maciel
"Transcinema"
Andrea Gleiniger
Saturday, 21 April
Time (12h) Amphitheater (Room SH 2800)
200 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Agora des Sciences (Hydro-Quebec)
145 Rue Président Kennedy
  Chair: Juergen Moritz Chair: Andrea Polli
9.00-9.30 am Lenara Verle
"MIND VJ: An Interface to Manipulate Moving Images in Real-time Using Brain Waves."
Valerie Bugmann
"In-gesture"
9.45-10.15 am Chris Speed
"Ecological Footprints in the Snow"
none
10.30-11.00 am Carol Gigliotti
"Wildness and Technology"
Margaret Dolinsky
"Transformative Navigation: Energizing Imagery for Perceptual Shifts"
11.00-11.30 am pause pause
  Chair: Norbert Herber Chair: David McConville
11.30 am-12.00 pm Claudia Westermann
"Lucid Orders for an Infinite World: A Topological Theory of Architecture"
Honor Harger
"Broadcasting the Music of the Spheres"
12.15-12.45 pm Tiffany Holmes
"Eco-visualization: Combining Art and Technology to Promote Sustainability"
Bill Seaman
"Neosentience: A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry Related to Artificial Intelligence"
1.00-1.30 pm Nicolas Reeves
"The Cloud Harp Project"
Wolfgang Fiel
"Empty Space – Symbolic Refuge"
break
  Chair: René Stettler Chair: Simona Caraceni
2.15-2.45 pm James Gimzewski
"Nano: The Role of Technology in the Future"
Andreas Schiffler
"Physics/Learning/Gaming"
3.00-3.30 pm Victoria Vesna
"Blue Morph"
Semi Ryu
"Virtual Puppet and Storytelling: From KOKTOO GAKSI to CoPuppet"
3.45-4.15 pm Norbert Herber
"On the Sound of Becoming: Musical Perturbations"
Yacov Sharir & Barbara Layne
"Twining: A Demonstration in Wearable Computing"
4.15-4.45 pm pause pause
  Chair: Diana Slattery Chair: Kirsten Johannsen
4.45-5.15 pm Jennifer Kanary
"roomforthoughts: Suicide Pigeon – A Clear Thought in a Psychotic Mind"
Roger Malina
"Ask Not What the Sciences Can Do for the Arts"
5.30-6.00 pm Andrea Polli
"Eco-media: Art Informed by Developments in Ecology, Media Technology and Science"
Lali Krotoszynski
"Choreographing Moving Image: Shared Creative Processes Between Artist, Users and Computer"
Sunday, 22 April
Time (12h) Amphitheater (Room SH 2800)
200 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Agora des Sciences (Hydro-Quebec)
145 Rue Président Kennedy
  Chair: Jennifer Kanary Chair: Isabelle Choinière
9.00-9.30 am Jurgen Faust
"Towards a Comprehensive and Universal Design Theory"
Laura Beloff
"Overview on Wearables"
9.45-10.15 am Teresa Chen
"Fusion or Confusion: Cultural Hybridity and Visual Art Practice"
Christina Miranda de Almieda
"The Silence of the Artistic I Listening for Bringing the Nanoscale to Human Consciousness"
10.30-11.00 am Kjell Petersen
"Emergent Narratives of Telematics"
Derrick de Kerckhove
11.00-11.30 am pause pause
  Chair: Yacov Sharir  
11.30 am-12.00 pm Diane Gromala
"Re-enervating Flesh: Visceral Sensations of Interactive Art"
Andre Parente
"The Excitables or 'The Art of Taming'"
12.15-12.30 pm Yacov Sharir: Close of Conference none