Virtual Futures '95
Virtual Futures '95: April email advertisement
VIRTUAL FUTURES 1995: Simploding Machinic Desires
May 26 - 28 1995, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, UK.
VIRTUAL FUTURES 1995 is an interdisciplinary event that examines the
role of cybernetic & non-linear systems in the arts, sciences, philosophy
& business. The conference will explore the relationship between postmodern
philosophy & chaos theory, with topics ranging from: information
technology, hypertext, multimedia, virtual reality, the matrix, complexity
theory, cyberfeminism, artificial life & intelligence, nanotechnology,
& the theoretical implications of technology in regard to the future of
economics, politics, & culture. Literary themes such as apocalypse,
narcotics, & cyberpunk science fiction will all be addressed, & the
conference will tend to emphasize materialist schools of continental philosophy
& neurophilosophy, with a particular stress on the works of Gilles Deleuze
& Felix Guattari.
VIRTUAL FUTURES 1995 will feature:
-Panels on: NetWar & Virtual Security, CyberFeminism, Deleuze,
Guattari & Schizophrenic Capitalism, CyberPunk Fiction
-A Special Performance on May 25th by Stelarc (cybernetically-enhanced
artist from Australia)
-MultiMedia Performances All Weekend: including O(rphan)D(rift),
TechNet, & members of VNS-Matrix
-A Warwick Arts Centre film talk featuring the work of Film & Video
Umbrella -Displays of the latest in computer-bred art by William Latham, Jane
Prophet, Gordon Selly, I/O/D & Collapse
-Late-night dancing, drinking & neural networking
-And several surprise guests & events!
"The hardest drinking, most politically incorrect philosophers in the
world" --Stelarc, in The Guardian