Panel 01 Dynamics of Organization
Room Ford-Saal 1040|637
Moderator Alex Schubert

Talk 1
9:15 – 9:45

Lifelike Dynamics: Adaptive Dissipative Structures in Self-organizing Whirlpools

Matthew Woodham

Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15

Practising inclusivity outside of and on the periphery of the AI industry

Adriaan Odendaal
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45

The Machinization of Death Itself: Death Work and the Emergence of Necrovalue

Josef Barla
Goethe University Frankfurt

Discussion: 10:45-11:00

Talk 1
9:15 – 9:45

Possibilities of subjectivity in an in vitro intelligent agent

Nathan Thompson
Guy Ben-Ary

Talk 2
9:45 – 10:15

What it’s like to be a Humble Machine-Agent?

Anna Laktionova
KHK

Talk 3
10:15 – 10:45

Redefining Life in the Age of AI: The Human-Machine Symbiosis

Fatemeh Alizadeh
University of Siegen

Discussion: 10:45-11:00

Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45

What does the machine want? Two cases of accidental translation in Speculative Cosmotechnics

Antônio Frederico Lasalvia
The New Center for Research and Practice
Filipe Afonso
Saint Joseph University (Macao)
Filipa Frois Almeida
Independent researcher
Hugo Reis
ISCTE – IUL

Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15

World Wide Soul: post-identity and network spirituality (Lecture Performance)

Ana Bandeira
Fine Arts Faculty, University of Porto

Talk 3
12:15 – 12:45

Exomoon: Bridging Science and Theater Through Living Machines

Pieter Steyaert
University of Antwerp, SEADS
Ulrike Kuchner
School of Physics & Astronomy, TheUniversity of Nottingham, SEADS
Mary Pedicini
SEADS
Pim Tournaye
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, SEADS
Sven Kiefer
Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, SEADS

Discussion: 12:45-13:00

Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45

Theorizing neurodivergent unmasking as a epistemic resistance and liberation project

Stefaniia Sidorova
National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”

Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15

Keeping it on the down low – Camouflage & the right to opacity in critical migration research

Alina Achenbach
University of Groningen

Talk 3
12:15 – 12:45

BIRDLIKENESS: Understanding Bird Behavior in Hunting, Aviation, and Architecture

Noemi Quagliati
NICHE, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Discussion: 12:45-13:00

Panel 01 Sensory Narratives
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Kit Kuksenok

Talk 1
11:15 – 11:45

The Observer as Biomachine: Object-Subject Relations in Interactive and Biotechnological Art

Raivo Kelomees
Estonian Academy of Arts

Talk 2
11:45 – 12:15

How Interactive Digital Narratives are entanglement by the body: the role of aesthetics and sensory perception

Ana Catarina Monteiro
i2ADS & Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Miguel Carvalhais
i2ADS & Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
Rui Torres
Fernando Pessoa University, Porto

Talk 3
12:15 – 12:45

Anthropomorphism and Deception with ChatGPT and Sex Robots from a Derridean and Lacanian perspective

Maaike van der Horst
University of Twente
Víctor Betriu Yáñez
Independent researcher

Discussion: 12:45-13:00

Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30

“Automating Resilience” or Taking Care of the Vulnerable – What Can the Machine Do?

Yael Eylat Van Essen
HIT- Holon Institute of Technology

Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00

Designing for One’s Own: Towards Technology Design Education for Home and Family Care

Diego Maranan
University of the Philippines Open University / SEADS

Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30

Cybernetic Care: Performance for Kinesthetic Understanding of Mechanisms of Care

Christine Liao
University of North Carolina Wilmington
James DeVita
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Discussion: 16:30-16:45

Panel 01 Sensorial Otherness
Room Generali Saal | 639
Moderator Vivian Xu, Boris Debackere

Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30

Strolls through technological worlds

Joost Rekveld
Ghent University, School of Arts Ghent

Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00

Empathy machines

Natalia Fedorova
LUMA

Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30

What’s It Like to Be a Chair?

Werner van der Zwan
V2_ Lab for Unstable Media
Charl Linssen
V2_ Lab for Unstable Media

Discussion: 16:30-16:45

Panel 01 Programming Death
Room Conference Room 1040 | 531 – 5.31
Moderator TBA

Talk 1
15:00 – 15:30

Towards Engineered Life Cycles and Social Identity in a Robot Swarm Society

Suet Lee
University of Bristol
Sabine Hauert
University of Bristol

Talk 2
15:30 – 16:00

Reimagining Technological Finitude: Nostalgia and the Afterlife of Devices

Fatemeh Alizadeh
University of Siegen

Talk 3
16:00 – 16:30

The myth of immortality: of bodies or data.

Elena Giulia Abbiatici
Now Independent, previously Politecnico of Milan

Discussion: 16:30-16:45

Keynote
17:30 – 19:00
Generali Saal | 639