Taking place during the Futures of the Book week, the Creating Minds conference examines how the essence of human expression in art, design, literature, and games has been completely reoriented by digital technologies and their social effects.
Creating Minds is an extraordinary occasion to question and discuss the digital age with renowned international speakers in this field.
The morning session gathers speakers working at the intersection of writing, publishing, and critical thinking to grasp how new technologies and media have affected old practices that are deeply embedded in the human experience.
The afternoon starts with lectures by two of the most influential theoreticians studying the relationship between human experience and technology, French philosopher Bernard Stiegler and Duke professor N. Katherine Hayles, whose talks probe the ways in which the act of thinking is always something mediated, shaped, and disrupted by its technological forms of prosthesis. The session concludes with a panel discussion including David Bates, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, and Warren Sack, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.
Join us and bring your thoughts about the revolution in the digital production.
This event is part of Futures of the Book, a week of discussions about the future of reading and writing in the digital age, organized as a partnership with Berkeley Center for New Media, the Books in Browsers conference, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Goethe Institute, and swissnex San Francisco.
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Program
| 9:00 am | Registration and light breakfast in the Banatao Atrium |
| 9:30 am | Welcome and Introduction by Greg Niemeyer, Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media |
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9:40 am |
Already Beyond the E-Book Age? François Bon, Author and Co-Founder of publie.net |
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10:00 am |
Is this a Story or a Poll? A machine-breaker’s guide to digital narrative Martin Gantefohr, Writer/Game Director and Co-Founder of House of Tales |
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10:30 am |
Synthesis by Eric Paulos, Assistant Professor for New Media, EECS, BCNM, UC Berkeley |
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10:40 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Adventures in Algorithmic Cultures Nicolas Nova, Professor at Geneva University of Arts and Design and founder of the Near Future Laboratory |
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11:20 am |
Network Tense: How to Approach a Contemporary, Technologically-Mediated World James Bridle, Writer, Artist, Publisher, and Technologist |
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11:30 am |
Synthesis by Kimiko Ryokai, Assistant Professor for Tangible Media, School of Information, BCNM, UC Berkeley |
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11:40 am |
Panel 1: Creative Disruption: Expression and Digital Form Francois Bon, Martin Ganteföhr, Nicolas Nova, James Bridle Moderated by Laura Sydell, NPR Digital Correspondent |
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12:30 am |
Lunch Break “Metadata” Poster Session in the Banatao Atrium |
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2:00 pm |
Hermeneutics, heuristics and paideia in the digital epistémè Bernard Stiegler, Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the George Pompidou Center |
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2:45 pm |
Break |
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2:55 pm |
The Cognitive Nonconscious: Implications for Thinking in the Digital Age Katherine Hayles, Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University |
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3:40 pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
Synthesis by Abigail De Kosnik, Assistant Professor for New Media, TDPS, BCNM, UC Berkeley |
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4:15 pm |
Panel 2: Thinking Technologies: Reading the Digital Mind Bernard Stiegler Katherine Hayles Warren Sack, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz David Bates, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley |
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5:00 pm |
Reception, Sutardja Dai Atrium |
Bios
David Bates
Professor of Rhetoic at UC Berkeley
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François Bon
Author and Co-Founder of publie.net
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James Bridle
Writer, Artist, Publisher, and Technologist
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Martin Ganteföhr
Writer/Game Director and Co-Founder of House of Tales
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N. Katherine Hayles
Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University
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Greg Niemeyer
Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media
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Nicolas Nova
Professor at Geneva University of Arts and Design and founder of the Near Future Laboratory
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Warren Sack
Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
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Bernard Stiegler
Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the George Pompidou Center, Paris
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Laura Sydell
NPR Digital Correspondent
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Photo: Myleen Hollero
