14 July 2009, 8.30am - 6.30, Educational Development Building (EDB 315), University of Sussex, UK
Hosted by the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), the Centre for Material Digital Culture and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
Convened by Dr Kate O'Riordan and Dr Adrian Mackenzie
Provisional Programme:
8.30am: Registration and coffee EDB 315
9.00-9.15 Welcome and introduction Adrian Mackenzie and Kate O'Riordan
9.15-11.00 Panel 1: Biographies - chair Margaretta Jolly
Arthur, Paul: Distributed Selves: Digital Identity and Biography
O'Riordan, Kate: Personal Genomes and Biodigital Publics
Smith, Mary Kathleen: The Bloodline: Genealogy, Uncertainty and the Politics of bio-histories
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-1.00 Panel 3: Feminisms - chair Lizzie Thynne
Bassett, Caroline: A Mutual Cancellation?: Firestone, Technology and Utopia
Haran, Joan: Life: A symptomatic reading of biodigital / biographical disruptions
McNeil, Maureen: Heroes of Genetics and of Feminism
1.00-2.00 Lunch EDB 315 and top floor of EDB
2.00-3.45 Panel 2: Ethics and agencies - chair Sharif Mowlabocus
Zylinska, Joanna: The Politics and Ethics of Biodigital Enhancement
Parikka, Jussi : Cuddling With the Biodigital: Lynn Hershman's Teknolust and Embodied Non-Human Agencies
Forero, Oscar: Natural resources management planning: challenges and opportunities brought by the digitalisation of bio-geographical indigenous knowledge
3.45-4.15 Break
4.15-6.00 Panel 4: Encounters - chair Kirk Woolford
Mackenzie, Adrian: Bacto-kidneys, designer vaccines and biosensors: contagious intensity and biotechnological subjectification in a synthetic biology talent competition
Ikoniadou, Eleni : Biodigital art ensemble: virtual encounters between science, technology and art
Dumitriu, Anna: Bacteria and Artificial Life
6.00-6.30 Plenary discussion
6.30pm: Reception top floor of EDB
Please note that the Journal of Media Practice will be holding an event on Monday 13th July at the same venue and participants are encouraged to stay for both events.
