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Book Launch, Symposium & Student Workshop

January 31st & February 1st, 2013

presented by NCE GRAND and OCAD University

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You are cordially invited to a monumental gathering of leading media scholars and industry leaders for a two-day event that will expand upon the themes of the seven chapters in
Euphoria & Dystopia:
The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues

(Sarah Cook & Sara Diamond, editors).


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FULL DESCRIPTION

The Banff New Media Institute (1995-2010) in the awe-inspiring Rocky Mountains was a dynamic international centre that addressed dramatically changing times—the heady rise of the digital age, its tumultuous descent, and its reformulation. BNMI hosted leading artists, designers, computer scientists and engineers, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, chemists, humanists, social scientists, and medical researchers. Its cutting edge summits (think tanks) foretold that future. These occurred at The Banff Centre, side by side with international artists' residencies, co-productions, transdisciplinary research, new media exhibitions and the incubation of commercial products and companies. The BNMI predicted and shaped trends in digital media.

The Euphoria & Dystopia symposium continues this tradition by reflecting on the digital concerns of the 1990s and early twenty-first century, while weighing these preoccupations against contemporary research, industrial, social and cultural trends. Through presentations and panel discussions, as well as a student research workshop, artists, designers, theorists and scientists will celebrate the 10 year legacy of the BNMI by investigating the transdisciplinary future of digital media research and its cultural & social implications.


Abridged Event Schedule:

Thursday, Jan 31

Graduate Student Research Workshop
10:30-5pm
Hosted by Sara Diamond (OCAD U), Kellogg Booth (NCE GRAND), Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland), Maria Lantin (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)

Keynote Presentation
6-7:30pm
Sara Diamond, Sarah Cook in conversation with Susan Kennard
Respondent: Kellogg Booth

Euphoria & Dystopia Book Launch & Reception
7:30-9pm
Remarks at 7:45

Friday, Feb 1

Research Symposium
8am-6pm

Seven panel discussions on the following themes:

Confirmed speakers include:

Dr. Kellogg Booth, Scientific Director, NCE GRAND
Dr. Abby Goodrum, VP Research, Wilfred Laurier University
Dr. Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University
Steve Dietz, Independent Curator
Cheryl l'Hirondelle, Artist
Dr. Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto
Stephen Selznick, Cassels Brock
Mark Bishop, Marble Media
Dr. Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech
Dr. Lyn Bartram, Simon Fraser University
Jutta Treviranus, IDRC, OCAD University
Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary
Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University
Dr. Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia
Dr. Maria Lantin, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Dr. Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland
Dr. Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths University
Philip Beesley, University of Waterloo
Susan Kennard, Parks Canada
Keith Kocho, ExtendMedia Inc.
& James Love, Knowledge Ecology International

For more informaiton & the full program schedule, visit the website:
euphoriadystopia.ca

Register for the keynote & book launch reception (free)

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Euphoria & Dystopia can be ordered from
The Banff Centre Press or Amazon.com