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
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