Archive for November, 1996

CONFERENCE ON CYBERMIND

Friday, November 29th, 1996

CONFERENCE ON CYBERMIND: Registration, On-Line, and Program Information

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 1, PERTH AUSTRALIA

AT THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, BENTLEY CAMPUS

CYBERMIND96 is the first of its kind in Australia, with participation by
the Australian Aboriginal community, researchers, academics, artists and
students of cyberspace, living and loving on the net. 

The purpose of CYBERMIND96 is to discuss on-line environments, including
issues of technology, email lists, virtual reality, access, software,
philosophy, and psychology/psychoanalytics. Many of the presenters are
from the Cybermind email-list, which has been on-going for two and a half
years; some are also on FOP-L, and e-conf.

The conference has been designed for both real life and virtual partici-
pation (using low-end equipment if necessary). Online options will in-
clude the Cybermind MOO, two email lists, and CU-SeeMe projection. Vir-
tual participation is free of course.

To participate on-line in the conference:

Web site:
http://www.curtin.edu.au/conference/cybermind

Cybermind MOO
telnet://complex.curtin.edu.au:6666
134.7.170.170     port  6666

LOCAL ON-LINE FACILITIES

During the conference there will be a cybercafe in Perth for on-line dis-
cussion and exploration, with us, as part of your real life attendance
experience at CYBERMIND96.  In addition CUSeeMe will be available.

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HOW TO REGISTER

Please document your details (name, insitution etc)
attach to payment, made out to Curtin University of Technology,
and forward to:

Cybermind96
TLG
Curtin University
GPO Box U1987
PERTH   WA   6001

or contact us 61 9 351 3872 (credit cards can be accommodated)
or at http://www.curtin.edu.au/conference/cybermind

Perth

Perth is the City of Lights, seen by John Glenn from space, on the Eastern
edge of the Indian Ocean.  Renowned for its lay-back, easy-style of living,
golden beaches and friendly people.

For further information, on accomodation, what to see and what to do,
please check
http://www.stour.net.au/Perth.html and read below.

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Accommodation

Hotel            Royal Hotel - $40.00 per night single
                 Corner William & Wellington Sts, Perth
                  Ph (09) 324 1510
                  Fx (09) 321 2443

Backpackers       Britannia YHA Hostel - $21.00 p.night single
                  253 William St, Northbridge (Perth)
                  Ph (09) 328 6121
                  Fx (09) 227 9784

Student           Townsend Lodge - $15.00 p.night single
                         240 AdelaideTce  Perth
                         Ph (09) 325-4143
                         Fx (09) 421-1328

If you need assistance with accommodation please call
(09) 351 3872

Summer  season - BOOK SOON

   Before 22nd Nov                   After 22nd Nov
                                Waged   Unwaged         Waged   Unwaged

3 Day ticket            $130.00    $60.00          $150.00     $75.00  (Au$)

1 Day ticket            $50.00     $20.00          $55.00      $25.00  (Au$)

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SPECIAL EVENTS

STELARC

http://www.merlin.com.au/stelarc/fracfles/fracfles.html

FRACTAL FLESH

Virtual Reality technology allows a transgression of boundaries between
male/female, human/machine, time/space. The self becomes situated beyond
the skin. This is not a disconnecting or a splitting, but an EXTRUDING OF
AWARENESS.  What it means to be human is no longer the state of being
immersed in genetic memory but rather in being reconfigured in the
electromagnetic field of the circuit -

IN THE REALM OF THE IMAGE.

Performance at PICA - 51 James St, Northbridge
4-7 pm
$5.00 at the door

Perth Institute Contemporary Art
Ph: 227 9339

RICHARD MACKINNON

'Building Virtual communitites'
As presented at Silicon Valley, Calif, USA
Details to be announced

Contact Details
Convenor:
Karen Melzack
melzack@iinet.net.au
Ph (09) 443 1004

CONFERENCE:

EMAIL Cybermind96@cc.curtin.edu.au
Fx: (09) 351 3938          Ph (09) 351 3872

OR CONTACT

Helen Roberts
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
PERTH  WA  6001 Australia.
http://www.curtin.edu.au/conference/cybermind

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PROGRAM: 

FRIDAY:
08.30 - 09.00   REGISTRATION

[08.45 - 09.00 MEETING OF PANEL CHAIRS - strategy meeting]

09.05 - 09.30   WELCOME - by Karen Melzack
                WELCOME - by Nyungah Community of Perth

09.30 - 10.00   MORNING TEA

10.00 - 10.30   KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Cybermind
                        - by Alan Sondheim

10.30 - 12.00   PANEL: Cybermind - The Virtual Community
                Chair: Richard MacKinnon
                Discussant: Lynne Roberts
                * Jon Marshall - The Lost Ethnographer (20 mins)
                * Jerry Everard - A  Semiotics of Cybermind (20 mins)
        Discussant - quick reminder of key points of each paper (15 mins)
                     then 35 mins question time

12.00 - 13.30   LUNCH

13.30 - 14.30   PANEL: Aboriginal Access to Cyberspace
                Chair: Karen Melzack
                * Anna Cole - Current Status of Indigenous Australians & the Net
                * Jill Abdullah - Postgrad Interactive Programs @ Curtin
                * Michelle Winmar - Reconstruction/ Family History/Cultural Trad
                * Ernie Stringer - Assessing and Supporting Research

14.30 - 15.00   AFTERNOON TEA

15.00 - 16.30   PANEL: Weaving Webs
                Chair: Lynne Roberts
                * Terry Maybury - Virtual Story Telling
                * Glenda Nalder - Virtual Images
                * George Borzyskowski - Hacker Demo Scene

[16.40 - 17.00 MEETING OF PANEL CHAIRS

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SATURDAY

 08.30 - 08.45 MEETING OF PANEL CHAIRS

09.00 - 10.30   PANEL: Cyber Spaces
                  Chair  Jerry Everard
                * Fanny  Jacobson - TBA
                * Melinda Wearne -  Structural Aesthetics
                * Geoff Rehn - Interactive Environment on PC
        20 mins each then Chair summary of key points + 20 mins questions

10.30 - 11.00   MORNING TEA

11.00 - 12.30   PANEL: Law and Ethics in Cyberspace
                Chair: Ari Mendoza
                * Rob Cover - Social Development, Social Reality & Internet
                * Suzanne McKenzie - Informed Consent in Virtual Reality
                * Richard MacKinnon - Governance in Cyberspace

12.30 - 13.30   LUNCH

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
                Chair's summary of key points (10 mins) then 20 mins questions

15.00 - 15.30   AFTERNOON TEA

15.30 - 16.30   FORUM: Cybermind: The Philosophy and Psychology of Cyberspace
                Chair: Karen Melzack
                Participants: Alan Sondheim, Richard MacKinnon, Jerry Everard,
                        Jon Marshall, Ari Mendoza

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SUNDAY

[08.45 - 09.00 Meeting of Panel Chairs]

09.00 - 10.00   PANEL: Education @ Web
                Chair: Martin Dougiamas
                * Eilean Fairholme - WWW Instructional Design
                * Michael Grau - TBA
                * Martin Dougiamas - Machine-Augmented Thought

10.00 - 10.45   WORKSHOP
                Leader: Alan Sondheim

10.45 - 11.00   MORNING TEA

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

13.30 - 15.30   PLENARY: Alan Sondheim - Person/Text
                          Chair Ari Mendoza
                           *Alan Sondheim
                           *Jon Marshall

15.30 - 16.00   AFTERNOON TEA

16.00 - 16.45   ROUND-TABLE: Cybermind - Whence and Whither?
                         Conference Outcomes
                          Chair: Ari Mendoza
                          Participants: Alan Sondheim, Jon Marshall, Ari
                          Mendoza,
                          Richard MacKinnon, Fanny Jacobson, Karen Melzack
                          and other
                          CMers