DAY 1 – Friday 28 February
Aphra Theatre, Grimond Building
0930-1000 Coffee/Registration
Session 1
1000-1040
CA York, University of Kent (UK)
Manifesting Beauty in a Virtual World: Aesthetic Choices for Consciousness Outside of the Body
1040-1120
Aurélie Debaene, University of Kent (UK)
Beyond the Body: Addressing corsetry’s comeback as a body modification tool and mode of self enhancement
1120-1140 BREAK
Session 2
1140-1220
Alice Helliwell, University of Kent (UK)
Evolutionary Creativity as a Model for Computational Creativity
1220-1300
Filomena Parente, Graduated University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy)
Art, Nature and New Means in Gillo Dorfles. The Issue of Objectification and the Function of Art for a Different Paradigm
1300-1400 LUNCH
Session 3 Reversed Presentations
1400-1420
Chiara Montalti, University of Florence and University of Pisa (Italy)
Cyborg visual art with trans-species “addenda”
1420-1440
Benedetta Milani, Leuphana Universität (Germany)
The Human Body in Post- and Transhuman Aesthetics
1440-1500
Laura Fumagalli, Università Cattolica of Milan (Italy)
Appreciating a Landscape: What is the Imagination Doing?
1500-1520 BREAK
KEYNOTE 1
1520-1640
Prof Katja Kwastek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Post-Digital = Post-Anthropocene? Ecological approaches in contemporary new media art
1640-1800 Into the AI Dungeon – AI and Gaming Workshop with Dr Dieter Declercq
1930 DINNER AND BREWERY TOUR AT THE FOUNDRY BREW PUB
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DAY 2 – Saturday 29 February
ELT2, Eliot Building
0930-1000 Coffee/Registration
KEYNOTE 2
1000-1120
Dr Glenn Parsons, Ryerson University (Canada)
Mediated Nature Appreciation
1120-1140 BREAK
Session 4
1140-1220
Lina (Stavroula Anastasia) Katsorchi, University of Sussex (UK)
Towards an Environmental Ethics: The Problematic Aesthetic of Technological Sublimity
1220-1300
Juliano Bonamigo Ferreira de Souza, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
Reframing Technology: Aesthetics and Nature in the Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse
1300-1400 LUNCH
1400-1500 Film Screening and Q&A with Liam Creighton
Session 5
1500-1540
Luca Marchetti, University of Milan (Italy)
Non-human animals, pictorial experience and the understanding of mirrors as representational tools
1540-1620
Pablo Fernández Velasco, Institut Jean Nicod (France)
The Aesthetics of Being Lost: Disorientation as a Catalyser of Aesthetic Experience in Immersive Environments
1620-1640 BREAK
Session 6
1640-1720
Dr Claire Anscomb, Graduated University of Kent (UK)
Computer Says No? Intentionality, Automaticity and Art-Making
1730 DRINKS RECEPTION