Amber'11 Art And Technology Festival November 10–13, 2011

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