Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines
Tuesday 16 July, 2019
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Commons CM107 and 108
Bath Spa University
Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN
Programme Schedule
09:15 – 10:00 Coffee and Registration CM.107/108
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction: CM.107/108
Charlie Tweed (Bath Spa University)
10:15 – 11:00 Keynote Lecture 1: CM.107/108
Professor Simon O’Sullivan
Fictioning: Mythopoesis, Myth-Science and Mythotechnesis
Chair: Charlie Tweed
11:00 – 12.35 Panel 1: Activist Fictions CM.107/108
Ami Clarke
covfefe – language in a meme economy
Ada Hao
NAUT-ADA: (m)other eye
John Wild
Psychogeography in the Digitally Expanded City
Alberto Micali
The machinic conspiracies of data leaks
Chair: Ramon Bloomberg
12:35 – 13:30 Lunch Atrium
Viewing of Rod Dickinson’s Fear Filter
13:30 – 13:45 Performance: Ami Clarke Screening Room
Error-Correction: an introduction to future diagrams (2010 –
ongoing) and Low Animal Spirits (2014).
13.45 – 15:00 Panel 2: Non human Fictions CM107/108
Stephanie Moran and Alex Hogan
alien holobiontology: a collaborative multi-species eco-sci-fi
Jennet Thomas
ANIMAL CONDENSED>ANIMAL EXPANDED
Andy Weir
Call for a Geo-fictionalised Atomic Priesthood
Chair: Rebecca Smith
15.00 – 16:35 Panel 3: Speculative Fictions (parallel) CM.107/108
Hugh Frost
Mould Map EARTH PANTROPY: Near Future
Visions in Sequential Digital Art.
Garfield Benjamin
Human-DEcentred design: Speculative
fiction, design and ethics for a future after humanity
Teodora Sinziana Fartan
Reframing Futures: Speculative Strands and Fictions from an Uneven Aftertime
Chair: Andy Weir
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15.00 – 16:35 Panel 4: Post Truth Fictions CM.111
(parallel)
Maud Craigie
Bad Evidence: The Fictions of Interrogation
Michelle Atherton
Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIG’s):
A Performative Lecture/Screening
Rebecca Smith
Parafictions and Contemporary Art 2008-2018
Ramon Bloomberg
Facial Fictions: Identity and Recognition in the
Smart-City
Chair: Ami Clarke
16:45 –17.30 Keynote Lecture 2 CM.107/108
Tony David Sampson
Feeling Facts and Fakes in the Speculative Contagion of Shock Events
Chair: Charlie Tweed
17.30 Wine Reception CM.107/108
17:45 – 18.30 Final Performances & films CM.107/108
Performances
Harry Meadows and Andy Weir
SPECIFICITIES OF THE PLANETARY ROOM
Screenings
Charlie Tweed
Oporavak
Bjørn Erik Haugen
The Pen is mightier than the Word
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