[Overview] [Presentations] [Workshops] [Art Events]
Plenary Sessions
- Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts — Annual General Meeting
Keynotes
- Peter Appleton — Pocahontas has misgivings about living in a digital matrix
- Coco Fusco — At your service: Latinas in the global information network
- Nancy Reilly McVittie — The Presence of Absence (A-gain): Kathy Acker
- Anthony Wilson — Keynote
- Tim Cole — Keynote
- David Toop — Keynote
- Toshiya Ueno & Tapio Makela — Virtual Orientalism: A dialogue on technological others in media discourse
- Tim Etchells & Hugo Glendinning — Frozen Palaces
Paper Presentations
- Elizia Volkmann — Blazoned and over-exposed: Post-modern bodies in public spaces
- Katie Salen — Grrl Codes: the scripting of Racial and Gender Stereotypes
- Luc Courchesne — The form/content formula: parallel between pre-industrial cinema and current new media practice
- Ryohei Nakatsu & Naoko Tosa — Alive Cinema: Romeo and Juliet in Hades
- Fred Collopy — The Design of an Instrument for Visual Improvisation and Composition
- Ann Kroeber — Notions on David Lynch’s Use of Terror and the Importance of Film Sound
- Kathy Marmor — Performance art and technology
- Artur Matuck — A Manifesto for Compwriting and Re-Scriptable Information
- Rob Fisher — Science as art in the theatre of the brain
- Patrick Lichty — Virtual Spaces and Ergonomics: The Feng Shui of Cyberspace
- Steve Mann — Theoretical Issues of Humanistic Intelligence: From Postmodernism to Pastmodernism in the Cyborg Age of Metaphysical Computing
Revolution98 Session
- Taylor Nuttall — Is the potential for transcendence an intrinsic aspect of a virtual environment?
- Luchezar Boyadjiev — Revolution For All
- John Hyatt — The War for World Four
- Adele Myers — Twelve o’clock flight Virtual Revolutions
- Franz Otto Novotny — The Terror of Cyclic Existence
- Roman Verostko — The Manchester Illuminated Universal Turing Machine
Short Paper Presentations
- Helen Coxall — Touch Screen Interactivity and the Representation of Marginalised Groups in Museums
- Matthew Shadbolt — From Kindergarten to Total Carnage
- Steve Goodman — K-O Counter-Cultures
- Jonathan Swain — Viet Cong and the Internet
- James Faure Walker — Still Silent After All These Years
- Olga Kisseleva — Controller and controlled: interchangeability
- John Hyatt — Comparative Technologies/ Painting: More on Ghosts with Cartoons for the Next Millenium
- James Wallbank — Low Technology * Digital Revolution
- Istvan Kantor — Utility S(h)elves
- Greg Garvey — Techno@Fetish.tribe/Technogardism ~A Time Released Diaspora?
- Tony Eve — Creative Futures Interactive Arts at Manchester
- Paul Brown — The Art Mainstream As The Enemy
- Joel Slayton — Re=purpose of Information: Art as Network
- Robert Wechsler — Palindrom: interactive computer dance
- Rebecca Cummins — Liquid Scrunity and Necro-Techno: What’s wrong with thinking and laughing at the same time?
- Gregg Wagstaff — Cage, Acoustic Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
- Jeremy Diggle — On the road to Omniana
- Gaudi Hoedaya & Sonja van Kerkhoff — Making Salt
- Noah Riskin & Seth Riskin — Light Dance: the Twin Experience
- Mel Blain — Exploding Spaces
- Permi Gill & Ari Salomon — Electric Prayer Wheel: a meditation on genocide
- Greg Garvey — Dividing the self: Speculations on the split brain human computer interface
- Betty Beaumont — Open Electronic Book
- Niranjan Rajah — Beyond the site: Installation art at the end of geography
- Josepha Haveman — MayDay! a memory of history
- Julie Myers — Peeping Tom and Nosey Parker
- Annie Knepler & Ellen Grimes — Wider contexts: Electronic Media as sites for public art
- Simon Yuill — Visual rhetoric and computer media
- Richard Povallm & Jools Gilson-Ellis — Working with Poetics in an Interactive Environment: Mouthplace
- Julie Wilson-Bokowiec & Mark Bokowiec — The Bodycoder System
- Olu Taiwa & John Wood — Finding consensual times in digital music
- Nigel Helyer — Ship to Shore
- Doug Porter — Soapbox
- Steev Morgan — Embracing Chaos: A strategy for the next Millennium
- Tadao Maekawa — Synthetic Method of Fractal Textures
- Josepha Haveman — Is There a Digital Aesthetic?
- Robert Murray — The survival of Design Education within the I.T. Revolution
- Kuljit Chuhan — Virtual Migrants: Racist deportations vs Freedom of virtual travel, electronic art as ideology
- Iris Hever — Media follow Art
- Simon Penny — Fugitive: a machine driven interactive digital video space
- Dooley Le Cappellaine — Technophobia
- Justin O’Connor — Metaphor Revolution
- Roz Hall — Evaluating Young People’s Creative Uses of Digital Technology: Whose Benchmarks and Why?
- Rob Gawthrop — Nothing Temporal can be Silent
- Branda Millar — Witness to the Future
- Amanda McDonald-Crowley — Foldback, on a transmedia exhibition and event marking the 10th anniversary of the Australia Network for Art and Technology
- Beryl Graham — Ironic: some rust-belt art
- Jon Large — Circuits and Bread
- Jon Cates — Hybrid Heroes of the Digital Revolution
- Jackie Hatfield — Women, Gender and Technology, Leisure, Pleasure or Penury?
- Centre for Metahuman Exploration — Empathetic Avatar/Surrogate Self
- Stewart Cook (co-ordinator) — Fine Arts’ student projects
Institutional Presentations
- IDEA (Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts) — State/Of/Emegency/
- Cutting Edge Research Group — Body, Territory, and New Technologies
- James Wallbank — Redundant Technology Initiative
- Oliver Lowenstein — Fourth Door
- Richard Povall — TIMARA: Building a new undergraduate curriculum: Technology in Music and Related Arts at Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Panels and Round Table Discussions:
Panels
- Kate Richards & Maria Stukoff — Tongue Twisters
- Paul Vanouse (chair) — Vision and Power
Bio-Architectures Virtual Cities: The Revolutionary Human-Machine Community
- Sean Cubitt — Panel Intro
- Gerry Beegan — The Uptodateograph
- Claudia Benthien — Tactile Interfaces and Bodily Communication: The Rhetorics of Touch in Virtual Reality
- Graeme Brooker — The Digital City and the Visceral Brain
- Nina Czegledy — Digitized Bodies Visual Spectacles
- Kathy Rae Huffman — Females Online
- John E. McGrath — After Privacy: Surveillance, Sexuality and the Electronic Self
- Gillian McIver — Culture, Technology and Power: Creative Leisure and Social Change
- Centre for Metahuman Exploration — Using Household Appliances to Control Humans, Robots and Cyborgs
- Anno Mitchell — Social Control and Imaginary Architecture
- Tsutomo Miyasato — The Magic Light for Viewing the Inside of Objects: A Supernatural Interactive Display
- Margaret Morse — Does Collective Intelligence Have a Body?
- Andrea Nagy — Technological Embodiment of the Female Body and Voice via Radio Transmission
- Ryohei Nakatsu — Integration of Art and Technology for Realising New Communications
- Simon Penny — Devirtualisation: Toward a Critical, Embodied Interactivity
- Andre Plante & Inoue Seiko — Emotions and Cultural Diversity
- Emma Posey — Technique in Place and Technology with Reference to Contemporary Fine Art
- Jill Scott — The Revolution of the Digital Bodies
- Andrea Wollensak — Positioning the Subject: Surveillance in Digital Mapping
Computers in Theatre: New Dimensions for Stage, Actors & Audience
- Claudio Pinhanez — Panel Intro
- Kevin Atherton — Gallery Guide
- George Coates — Theatre and Digital Media
- Ken Perlin — Bringing Interactive Animated Characters Out to the User
- Claudio Pinhanez — Computer Theatre
- Mark Joseph Sigaud — Why Bring the Virtual World onto a Classic Stage?
Evolution 2.0
- Colin Fallows, Pete Fulwell & Michelle Wardle — Panel Intro
- Peter Beyls — Synthetic Creatures in Context
- Pamela Jennings — The Book of Ruins and Desire
- Jane Prophet — Sublime Ecologies and Artistic Endeavours: Artificial Life and Interactivity in the On-line Project Technosphere
- Sonia Landy Sheridan — Generative Systems and Generative Art
- Andrew Shoben — Greyworld: Sound Installation
Digital Divas present Between the Sheets
- Janet Bezzant (moderator), Barbara Layne, Sadie Plant, Regina Frank & Ingrid Bachmann — Digital Divas present Between the Sheets
Mediated Nations
- John Byrne — Panel Intro
- Hikmet Tabak — Introduction to MED TV
- Olga Kisseleva — Anticipated Future; Controller and Controlled: interchangeability
- Dee Dee Halleck — Deep Dish Satellite Network
- Jose Carlos Mariategui — Techno-revolution
- Marguerite Byrum — A Manifesto for Electric Propagandists
Paradiso Artificiale Rehearsals for Death: Avators and the Post-Biological Experience
- Yannis Paniaras — Panel Intro
- Jenny Marketou — Smell Bytes
- Mark Rudolph — Trance, Fixation, Serenity and Death: Meaningful Repetition: If there is One Moment only, let it be here in the falling Snow. Out on the Wild grasslands, I am You
- Yannis Paniaras — Digital Courts
- Charlotte Chiang & Steve North — Bad Men, Good Men and the Data Ganger Cometh
Revolution of the Public Sphere
- Emma Roberts — Panel Intro
- Maria Fernandez — Post-Colonial Electronic Media Theory?
- Tessa Elliot — Pose in the State of Flux
- Norma Wagner — The Escatological Expectation
- Patrick Lichty — The Panic Museum: Memory and Digital Alzheimer’s in the Information Age – Exhibition and Conservation in the Digital Arts
- Pervaiz Kahn — Partition
- Roshini Kempadoo — Time Frames
- Josepha Havemann — Are There Revolutionary Electronic Ethics?
- Michael Punt — So What’s New About This Revolution? Rethinking History
- Susanna Paasonen — … and there was light! RhetoricalPerformances in the Digital Realm
- John Hopkins — word-dialogue-Light-revolution-action: breaking the glass
- Neil Grant & Lawrence Giles — Arming the Gallery
Sound Government Always Leads to Revolution
- Nigel Helyer — Panel Intro Sound Governments always lead to Revolution
- Nigel Helyer — RPM: Virtual Bodies Meet Real Sound
- Sophea Lerner — Things That Go Ping
- Norie Neumark — Revolting Sounds: The Body/Machine with Organs
- John Potts — Revolution Sounds Like…
Digital Print
- Josephine McCormick — Panel Intro Digital Print
- Raz Barfield — Integrating Digital Technology and Autographic Printmaking
- Paul Coldwell — Rebelling Against Perfection
- Sue Gollifer — intercreativity
- George Whale — Towards a Synthesis of Text and Image
The Computers and Sculptors Revolution
- Rob Fisher, Martin Sperka, Christian LaVigne & Keith Brown — The Computers and Sculptors Revolution: Projects from Europe and the United States
St. Petersburg 3.0
- Colin Fallows & Alexander Kahn — Panel Intro
- Valery Alahov, Igor Verichev & Yuri Lesnik — New Composers
- Ekaterina Andreeva — Computer Generated Photography and Neo-classical Sensibility
- Andrei Khlobystin — Economy of Holy Energy
- Julia Staussova — Virtual Kingdom of Beauty
- Olga Tobrelut — Films: Party, Love Story, M. Monroe, V. Mayakovsky and Manifesto of Neo-Academism
Work
- Richard Williams — Panel Intro
- Simon Yuill — grammar-law-algorithm
- Greg Wagstaff — Utopianism: from Cage to Acoustic Ecology
- Mary Stieglitz — The Photographic Image: Revolution / Iteration
- Birgit Richard — Modelling Death to Get Real Death
- Julianne Pierce — The Mutant Offspring of Information Economies
- Gill Melling — Removing the Goal Post
- Nancy Reilly-McVittie — The Presence of Absence (A-gain)
- Louisa MacIver — Chastity belts, Voluntary incarceration, Sexual politics & Art
- Jean-Paul Longavesne — The Touch of Art in the Age of Digital Paintings. Digital Irony?
- Nelia Justo — Art Practice
- Maja Kuzmanovic — Anti-Author(ity) Manifesto: Digital World is a Plane
- Peter Lee — Revolution in Representation
- Jenny Jones — Reproductive Work and the Creation of the Digital Image
- Nina Edge — Scuzi
- John Levack Drever — The Exploitation of ‘Tangible Ghosts’: Conjectures on Soundscape Recording and its Re-appropriation in Sound Art
Digital Aesthetics
- Michelle Wardle — Panel Intro
- Ryszard Kluszczynski — Note on Digital Aesthetics
- Zara Stanhope — In Search of a Digital Aesthetic
- Caius Grozav — Commedia del Multimedia and Locomotion Pictures
- Mark Little — Towards a Digital Aesthetic
- Dena Elisabeth Eber — The Construction of Artistic Truths in Digital Images
- Pete Maloney — Virtual Reality as a Fine Art Medium Research Unit
- Norie Neumark — Time for Sound
- Yvonne Spielman — Is there an Avant Garde in Digital Arts?
- Niranjan Rajah — Installation Art at the End of Geography
- Don Ritter — My Finger’s Getting Tired: Unencumbered Interactive Installations for the Entire Body
- Gurdon Leete & Anna Bonshek — The Shock of Refinement: Reaestheticizing Life Through a New Technology of Consciousness
- Barbara Rauch — MA Multimedia Design Degree Show 1998, Middlesex University
- Electronic Arts Research Unit — MA Multimedia Arts Degree Show 1998, Liverpool Art School
Sonic Boom
- Colin Fallows — Panel Intro
- Max Eastley — Natural Systems
- Zina Kaye — (humble under-minded) psychic rumble
- John Kefala-Kerr — Bouquets and Backing Tapes: Karaoke Opera
- Brandon Labelle — Genius Loci: Music, Carnality and Contact-sound
- Peter Zinovieff — Electronic Music Studios (EMS)
- Joel Chadabe —The Interactive Instrument A Brief History
- Heidi Grundmann — Improvised Radio
- Todd Winkler — Mapping Movement to Sound: Recent Sound lnstallation & Dance Projects using Movement Sensing Systems
The Art Mainstream as the Enemy
- Paul Brown — Panel Intro
- Paul Brown — Initiation and the Academy
- John Conomos — Curators and Collectors
- Vuk Cosic — One Artist – One Art System, the case of net.art
- ®™ark — Economies of Art
- Matthew Fuller — The New Establishment
Virtual Interventions: Digital Avant Gardes
- John Byrne & Julia Knight — Panel Intro
- Julia Knight — Redefining Terms? ‘Artist’ and ‘Audience’ in New Media Art
- Horit Herman-Peled — The Disappearance of the Art Object
- Mark Palmer — Difference and the Virtual
- Steve Mann — Surveillance Situationist-Humanistic Intelligence
- Rosemary Laing — Brownwork/Greenwork
- Frank Reipe — ARTWARPEACE
Visual Languages
- David Crow — Panel Intro
- David Crow & Yaki Molcho — Dialogue
- Gene Benyhill — Symbols, Pictures and Signs: Social and Psychological Meaning
- Neil Grant — Moving Words of Seduction
- Joe Magee — Reproduction
- Gerard Mermoz — Re: vo-lut(te).ion
- Scott Oram — Five Miles of liquid tire: Making Sense of Spectacle, looking, and Illuminated Art in Blackpool (1879 – 1998)
- Julian Stone — A Study of the Changing Role of Typographic Education Within the Context of Hypermedia
- Michael O’Shaughnessy — The Concept of Fortune
- Jon Hitchen — Shorthand-Beaufonts
Round Tables
- Various presenters — Mercurial States Roundtable
- Manchester Metropolitan University — State of Emergence