İstanbul Modern Cinema hosts the International Amber Art and Technology Festival which will be celebrating its 5th anniversary this year. The theme for this year’s festival is “Next Ecology,” proposing to look through a new perspective at all the different relationships humans establish with their natural and artificial environments, and the living spaces and forms they create.
CONFERENCE PANELS
12 NOVEMBER 2011
10.00 - 10.30 Registration
10.30 - 11.30 Keynote
Jussi Parikka
“The Nature of Media and the Ecology of the Technological”
11.30 - 11.45 Coffee braek
11.45 - 12.45 Panel I
Jamilah Ahmad
“Using Media as Preventive Tool to Create Environmental Consciousness Consumer”
Anne Sophie Spanner Witzke
“Technological Ecologies in New Media Art”
Brian Degger
“Make, Do, Mend and Hack (MDMH). The Biotechnologies of Next ecology”
12.45 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.15 Keynote
Ömer Madra
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.30 Panel II
Matteo Ciastellardi
“E-cology. The Sphere of Knowledge in the social Media-Driven System for Cultural Heritage”
Caterini Dinopoulou
“Telepresense and Telematics. The Physical and Digital Body in Interactive Digital Performance and Installation”
Sozita Goudouna
“Eleventh Plateau. Perceptual Ecologies And Territorial Assemblage”
Eva Kekou
“Getting The Puzzle Together of Media Art And Ecology in a Political Frame”
16.30 - 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 - 17.45 Invited speaker
Koert Van Mensvoort
“Money as a Medium & ECO currencies”
17.45 - 18.00 Open Discussion
AN ECOLOGY OF MIND, 2010
Dir: Nora Bateson / Canada / 60 Min / English, Turkish subtitle
ECUMENOPOLIS: CITY WITHOUT LIMITS, 2011
Director: İmre Azem / Turkey-Germany / 88’ / Turkish; English &Turkish s.t.
THE SECRET TRIOLOGY, 2008-2010
Director: Reynold Reynolds / Germany / 34’ / No speech
Six Easy Pieces (Germany, 2010, 3 channels of HD video transferred from 16 mm and photo stills) Six Easy
MCLUHAN'S WAKE, 2002
Director: Kevin McMahon / Canada / 94 min. / English, Turkish subtitle