[Overview] [Presentations] [Workshops] [Art Events]

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Keynotes:

• Bruce Sterling — The life and death of media
  
• Douglas Hofstadter — Musical Pattern versus Musical Meaning: What’s the Difference
• Sally Jane Norman — Acting and enacting: Stakes of new performing arts
• Mark Pesce — Ontos, Eros, Noos, Logos
• Geert Lovink — Organised innocence and war in the new Europe
• Daniel Langlois — The Authoring Tool Paradigm
• Arthur Kroker & Marilouise Kroker — Digital Flesh

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ISEA Annual General Meeting

• Wim van der Plas, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts — AGM
• Theo Hesper, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
• Anton van Gemert, Alex Adriaansens & Gepke Bouma, ISEA96 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• Michael Rodemer & Shawn Decker, ISEA97 (Chicago, USA)
• Axel Wirtz, John Bryne & Martin Sperka, 3 Proposals for ISEA98
• Mr. Pattanayah,  Proposal for ISEA99
• Anne-Marie Duguet & Pierre Levy, Proposal for ISEA2000
• Xavier Berenguer, Proposal for ISEA2001
• Minna Tarkka, ISEA94 matters
• Monique Savoie, Nancy Tobin & Alain  Mongeau, ISEA95 evaluation and aftermath
  

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Paper and Poster Presentations:

Remark: although all papers were delivered (or simultaneously translated) in english, some of the titles, abstracts and papers are in french only.

• Roy Ascott — Wormholing in Cyburbia and other paranatural pleasures
• Ingeborg Bloem, Klaus Kempenaars, Andrea Wollensak, Ming Tung & Gabrielle Götz — Visual boundaries? 
• Mara Helmuth & Aladin Ibrahim — Granular Synthesis and The FCurve Sound Generator
• Peter Beyls — The Exploration of Musical Space by Way of Genetic Algorithms
• Veronique Bourgoin & Marc Roelens — Nouvelles perspectives pour l’image de synthese
• Paul Brenner — The File Room
• Isabelle Chemin — Perception: Fast Forward
• Anita Cheng & Ronaldo Kiel — The future of art on the internet 
• Christopher Csikszentmihályi — An embodied body of work 
• Kitsou Dubois — Une danseuse en apesanteur
• Tessa Elliott & Jonathan Jones-Morris — Interaction Arising From Installations
• Brian Evans — Implicate Beauty: Multimedia Art on the World Wide Web 
• Rob Fisher — Work-in-Progress: Interactive Art/ Science Planetarium Event on Cell Biology
• Peter Gena & Charles Strom — Musical synthesis: DNA sequences
• Nicholas Gebhardt — The sound tracking of the times
• Elizabeth Goldring — Imaging directly on the retina (A Progress Report)
• Ian Haig — The Computer Graphics Crisis
• Graham Harwood — Overall concept for the construction of a rehearsal of memory
• Nigel Helyer — Hybrid
• Michael Hill — The way is not difficult, but you must avoid choosing
• Barbara Hoffman — Art in Cyberspace: The Legal Dimension
• Christian Hübler — Co-realities: Interaction with Bodies of Hybrid Information 
• Jake — World utopian process (W.U.P.)
• Eduardo Kac — Photonic Webs in Space Time: The Aesthetics of Holography
• Jean Paul Longavesne — Machines a peindre et informatique picturale
• Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew — Nehiyawewin and virtual reality
• George Mühleck — Datagraphy and Architecture
• Axel Mulder — The icube system
• Keith Piper — The dis-orderly city
• Jean-Marc Philippe — La relation art/alliage a memoire de formes: 10 ans de parcours. $1500000 en recherche et developpement: un nouvel imaginaire artistique
• Joel Slayton — Large scale experimental media and performance 
• Lisa Steele — V tape: How New Technologies can Influence Education Within Media Arts 
• Jean-Pierre Dalbera — La Politique du Ministere Francais de la Culture en Faveur de la Creation Artistique et du Developpement de Nouveaux Services Destines aux Autoroutes de L’information
• McKenzie Wark — The virtual sensoria: Notes of the new media art
• Jeffrey Ventrella — Disney Meets Darwin
• Mike Leggett — CD ROM: The 21st Century Greek Bronze?
• Christophe Ramstein — Les Interfaces Multimodales avec Retour de Force
• Heidi Grundmann & Gerfried Stocker — Horizontal Radio: a telematic radio network project
• Todor Todoroff — Instrument de Synthese Granulaire Dans MAX/FTS
• David Clark Little — Composing with Chaos: Applications of a New Science for Music
• Agustin Fernandez — State-of-the-Art Rusticity: A Composer’s View
• Victoria Vesna — Installation “Virtual Concrete”
• Lanny Webb — Illusions of Reality

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Panels:

Recombinant Culture

• Arthur Kroker & Marilouise Kroker — Panel Intro
• Lynn Hershman — Gender Confusion and other forms of Cyber Cheating
• Stelarc — Panel Statement
• Lev Manovich — Physical Space and Virtual Space in Electronic Culture
• David Rothenberg — Imperialism and the Sampling of World Sound
• Alain Renaud — De “I’Oeil de Chair” à I’Anoptique

Gender and Technology: What Problem?

• Carol Gigliotti — Panel Intro
• Brenda Laurel — Panel Statement
• Roy Ascott — Artificial Gender, Natural Technology, and Emergent Mind
• Mary Leigh Morbey — Gender and Technology: The epistemological problem
• Nancy Paterson — Cyberfeminism
• Timothy Binkley — Sex and Space
• Greg Garvey — Panel Statement
• Peter Lunenfeld — Are We Having Fun Yet?
• Victoria Vesna — Computers and the Intuitive Edge

Narratives, Interactivity and Metaphors

• Martin Rieser — Panel Intro
• Martin Rieser — Interactive narrative: A form of fiction?
  
• Martin Rieser – Multi-linear Narrative Structures in Multimedia
• Ted Krueger — Interactivity and control
• Andrea Zapp — The metaphor of touch
• Michael Hill — Whatever Happens Next Is Progress
• Judith Kerman — Literary hypertext
  
• George Legrady — Interface metaphors & new narratives in interactive media
• Toni Dove — Artificial Changelings
• Andrea Wollensak — The Metaphor of Touch-Identification, Personality and Contact Within the Screen

Three-space, Time-base, In-yer-face Art: The Aesthetics of Real Space Interactives

• Simon Penny — Panel Intro
• Doug Back — Critical friction: in your face, real space
• Hal Thwaites — Three-dimensional media technologies and the Electronic Arts 
• Christopher Csikszentmihalyi — Panel Statement
• Bill Vorn & Louis Philippe Demers — Machism/Machinism
• Eduardo Kac — Telepresence Art: The Ornitorrinco Project
• James Hagan — Panel Statement
• Ed Bennet — Bio
• Theodore Krueger — Panel Statement
• Norman White — Virtuality without Graphics

Sounding Out Genders: Women Sound Artists Talk about Gender and Technology

• Andra McCartney — Come Out and Play! Why Are Gender and Feminist Studies So Late To Come to Music?  (Panel Intro)
• Andra McCartney — Sounding out genders  (Panel Statement)
  
• Kathy Kennedy — Geography of the voice
  
• Wende Bartley — Panel Statement
• Susan Frykberg — Panel Statement
• Hildegard Westerkamp — Panel Statement

Body Matters

• Sara Diamond & Mary Anne Moser — Panel Intro
• Cameron Bailey — Virtual skin: Articulating race in cyberspace
• Char Davies — Embodied in VR: The Body as Experimental Ground
• Elizabeth Diller — Panel Statement

Emerging Architectures

• Roy Ascott — Panel Intro
• Roy Ascott — Sensuous City
• Marcos Novak — Transmitting architecture: The transphysical city
• Debra Gondeck-Becker & Julio Bermudez — Emerging architectures in the virtual scape
• Jeffrey Hannigan — Between Image and Icon: The Real and Virtual City

Sound in Space – Seismic Moments

• Nigel Helyer — Panel Intro
• Nigel Helyer — Sound, architecture and catastrophe
• Nicholas Gebhardt — Hearing Inside the Frame: The Mechanics of PictorialismThe sound tracking of the times
• Virginia Madsen — A seismic moment: sound as weapon, from Jericho to Waco
• John Potts — A Sampled World

Emerging Art Practices

• Annette Weintraub — Panel Intro
• Annette Weintraub — Resolving the 2d dilemma: repurposing your 2d art
• Simo Alitalo — The Changes in Public/Private Sphere and Presentation of Electronic Media Arts
• Tom Sherman — The ‘Finished’ work of art is a thing of the past
• Tapio Makela — Techno Formalism: Excessive Surfaces, Abstracted Identities
• Florent Aziosmanoff

Artificial Life: Challenges and Possibilities

• Jon McCormack — Panel Intro
• Louis Bec — De I’animat a I’infiltrat
• Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn — Real Artificial Worlds: The Perversion of Perception
• Mike King — Artificial consciousness, artificial art
• John D. Mitchell & Robb E. Lovell — EIDEA: An emergent interactive installation
• Jeffrey Ventrella — Eukaryotic Virtual Reality

Artistic Identity on the Net

• Michael Century — Panel Intro
• Jeffrey Schulz — Touch and go
  
• John Byrne — Cybersublime: The Aesthetization of Digital Politics
• Antya Umstätter — Ping
• Josephine Grieve

Body Narratives

• Margaret Morse — Panel Intro
• Margaret Morse — Dummies, dolls and robotic simpletons interpreting artificial stupidity
• Thecla Schiphorst — Immerce Cunningham multimedia prototype
• Kitsou Dubois — Danse et apesanteur
• Sally Jane Norman — Immersion and theater
• Sang Mah & Thecla Schiphorst — Body Maps: The Virtual Body Project
• Christine Ross — Corps et sens en performance videographique

Centers and Institutes for Art and Technology

• Luc Courchesne — Panel Intro
• Otto Piene — CAVS/MIT 1968-94
• Pierre Bongiovanni — Bio
• Itsuo Sakane — Bio
• Sara Diamond — Crossing Boundaries: The Banff Center for the Arts and Interdisciplinary New-Media
• Astrid Sommer

Digital Tools: Creative Development and Developing Creativity

• Kharim Hogan — Panel Intro
• Kharim Hogan — The means to the end implies the creation of the necessary tools and materials
• Chea Prince — Panel Statement
• Henry See — Panel Statement
• Daniel Langlois — Bio
• Eric McLuhan — Bio
• François Girard

Sharing Subjectivities: Exploring new concepts of interface design

• Frances Dyson — Panel Intro
• Frances Dyson — Panel Statement
• Isabelle Delmotte — Epileptograph: the internal journey
  
• Heidi Tikka — The surface of a hysterical body as an interface
  
• Elizabeth Goldring — Imaging directly on the retina
• Diana Gromala — The Instrumentality of Pain in Virtual Reality

Computers and Sculpture in the USA & France

• Christian Lavigne, Rob Fisher & Timothy Duffield — Computers and Sculpture Panel Intro
• Christian Lavigne — Ordinateurs et sculpture aux Etats-Unis et en France
• Rob Fisher & Timothy Duffield — Computers and Sculpture in the USA and France

Cosmic Creativity

• Pierre Lévy — Panel Intro
• Pierre Levy — L’intelligence collective et son objet
• Martin Sperka  — Reality, representations and cybergraphy
• Louis Bec — Art as probe
• Christopher Dobrian — Algorithmic Generation of Temporal Forms
• Peter Gena & Charles Strom — Musical synthesis of DNA sequences
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Peter Beyls

The Ideology of Interactivity: Freedom, Choice, Creativity

• Kim Sawchuk & Catherine Richards — Panel Intro
• Catherine Richards & Kim Sawchuk — Ideologies of interactivity
• Kim Sawchuk — Critical frictions, connective affinities
• m Sawchuk — Power Play: Surveillance and Interactivity
• Laura Trippi — Degrees of freedom
• Brian Massumi — Interface and active space
• Doug Back — The babbage disease

Round Table Discussion

Electronic Art and Audience

(Round Table with Curators, Critics, and Observers)

• Derrick de Kerckhove — Panel Intro
• Derrick de Kerckhove — Re-emergence des sens
• Derrick de Kerckhove — Panel Statement
• Diana Dominguez — De la fenêtre au labyrinthe: les technologies, le corps et le plaisir des relations
• Herve Fischer — Les nouvelles technologies et le retour au “primitivisme” de l’art
• Virginia Rutledge — Bio
• Anne-Marie Duguet — Bio
• Maria Grazia Mattei — Bio
• Roger Ricco — Bio
• Yves Louchez — L’état de la création infographique vue à partir de l’expérience d’IMAGINA

Thematic Meetings:

Conversion between Culture and Technology: the Role of Government

• Pierre Levy (France)
• Paul Hoffert (Canada)
• Jean Talbot (Canada)
• Gerri Sinclair (Canada)
• Guy Bertrand (Canada)

Changing Configurations: Image, Art and Technology

• Timothy Druckery (USA)
• Carol Dallaire (Canada)
• Hubertus von Amelunxen (Germany)
• Alain Renaud (France)

What Happened to the Pioneers?

• Monique Brunet-Weinmann (Canada)
• Dina Dar (USA)
• Marisa Gonzalez (Spain)
• Sarah Jackson (USA)
• Doreen Lindsay (Canada)
• Joan Lyons (USA)
• Sonia Landy Sheridan (USA)
• Nell Tenhaaf (Canada)
• M. Abdenour Amal (France)
• Barbara Astman (USA)
• Lieve Prins (Netherlands)
• Jacques Charbonneau

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Institutional Presentations:

• Nils & Florent Aziosmanoff — ART 3000
• Bernard Levy — La Revue VIE DES ARTS
• Guy Durand — La Revue INTER-Art Actuel
• Lamberto Tassinari — VISA VERSA, The Magazine for the Triangle Montreal-Toronto-New York
• Rejane Spitz — Dirty Hands on the Keyboard: A Revolutionary Lab
• Stephane Le Bouyonnec — Le Groupe Conseil Innovitech
• Justine Bizzocchi — Centre for image and sound research
• Unknown — Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie
• Bulat  Galeyev — Institute ‘Prometheus’ (1962-1995)
• Cynthia Pannucci — Art and Science Collaborations: A Magnet for New and Pioneering Work
• Michael Rodemer — The School of the Art Institute of Chicago