Fwd: Aboagora 2013 - online registration open until 31 May

From: Hannu Salmi <[email protected]>

Just to remind you that online registration for Aboagora 2013 will close on
31th May, day after tomorrow.

Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences
Turku, Finland, 13 - 15 August 2013

For full programme, online registration and conference tickets, please
visit www.aboagora.fi.


"The Human Machine"

Aboagora is an event that promotes dialogue between the arts, humanities
and sciences, and aims at challenging and breaking boundaries between arts
and the scholarly world. The programme consists of workshops, keynote
lectures and concerts. Aboagora is a joint effort by the Turku Music
Festival, the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku and
the Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi University.

Aboagora 2013 discusses the complex relationships between man and machine.
The human being itself can be viewed as a corporeal machine, an assemblage
of forces, actions and mechanisms, from the optics of the eye to the
processes of cognition. It is also possible to interpret the machine as an
extension of human senses. The boundaries between man and machine can be
blurred by using technological devices as integral parts of the human body.

The theme 'The Human Machine' can also pay attention on all those practices
that create humanness in a machine: How we assume machines to feel and
think? What kind of personal qualities do they have? Machines have also
served as the vehicles of human creativity, as tools but also as the
expressions of abstract thoughts. Aboagora wishes to address this
fascinating area that has been a fertile ground for artistic and scientific
explorations during recent decades.

Keynote speakers include Bruce Sterling (Science Fiction Author, USA),
Kevin Warwick (Professor of Cybernetics, UK), Mia Consalvo (Research Chair
of Game Studies and Design, Canada), Timo Airaksinen (Philosopher, Finland).

Among the workshop members are Tuomas Lukka (Zenrobotics Corporation), Timo
Kaitaro (Philosophy & Neuropsychology), Kathleen Richardson (Social
Anthropology), Mika Pantzar (Consumer Research Centre), Alf Rehn (Chair of
Management and Organization), Jussi Parikka (Media Theory), John Armitage
(Media Arts), Samuli Torssonen (Film director), Veijo Hietala (Media
Studies), Mia Lövheim (Sociology of Religion), Susanna Paasonen (Media
Studies), Johanna Sumiala (Media Studies), André Jansson (Media &
Communication Studies), and Alice Della Penna (Biology).

The registration fee for the symposium is 45 € (for students and
post-graduate students 25 €). It includes participation for all keynote
lectures, admission to all workshops, three lunches and coffee/tea, and
conference reception.

WELCOME!

Contact:
Coordinator Asko Nivala
Cultural History, University of Turku
asko.nivala(at)utu.fi
phone +358 (0)2 333 6294

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