Day 1 Friday 3rd October
Opening Session BMW Edge
6:00pm - 6:10pm
Welcome - Kate Brennan, CEO, Federation Square
6:10pm - 6:20pm
Opening Address - Lily D'Ambrosio, Parliamentary Secretary
6:20pm - 6:30pm
Introduction to the Public Program - Mirjam Struppek
Keynote Address
BMW Edge
6:30pm - 6:40pm
Introduction to Keynote - Assoc Prof Scott McQuire
6:40pm - 7:30pm
New Frontiers of Global Urban Space: Heavy Metal/Fuzzy Logic - Prof Saskia Sassen
7:30pm - 7:50pm
Keynote Questions
7:50pm - 8:30pm
Official Opening of the Public Program: USM08 Multimedia Exhibition
The Square
Day 2 Saturday 4th October
8:45am - 9:45am
Tour of Correspondences - Conrad Bodman (optional)Contact section
Meet in ACMI Lounge
Session 1: Art, technology and public space
10:00am - 10:10am
Introduction to Session - Prof Sean Cubitt
10:10am - 10:30am
our space - Dr Melinda Rackham
10:30am - 10:50am
MobileTechnology Culture and the Emergence of 'Mobile' Subjectivities - Yoshitaka Mori
10:50am - 11:10am
Test Cases for the Public Sphere. Recent projects by Knowbotic Research - Dr Andreas Broeckmann
11:10am - 11:50am
Moderated Discussion
12:00am-12:45am
Poster Presentations Mirjam Struppek The Atrium
Session 2: Public screens and public space broadcasting: a new public sphere?
BMW Edge
2:00pm - 2:10pm
Introduction to Session 2 - Assoc Prof Scott McQuire
2:10pm - 2:30pm
CASZ | 362 days | 6516 hours | 219 artists showing 527works | and counting - Jan Schuijren
2:30pm - 2:50pm
Live Sites UK - Mike Gibbons
2:50pm - 3:10pm
Barco Media & Entertainment - LED Applications - Yann Le Bellego
3:10pm - 3:50pm
Moderated Discussion
Keynote Address BMW Edge
4:45pm - 4:50pm
Introduction to Keynote Addresses - Prof Nikos Papastergiadis
4:50pm - 5:30pm
Beyond Praxis - Aaron Tan
5:30pm - 5:40pm
Introduction to Keynote Address - Prof Nikos Papastergiadis
5:40pm - 6:45pm
Intimate Publics. Memory, Performance, and Spectacle in Urban Environments - Dr Andreas Broeckmann
6:45pm - 7:05pm
Keynote Questions
Day 3 Sunday 5th October
Session 3: Strategies for Urban Regeneration BMW Edge
10:00am - 10:10am
Introduction to Session - Dr Audrey Yue
10:10am - 10:30am
Spatial Intelligence - Prof Leon van Schaik
10:30am - 10:50am
Urban screens as a communication medium in the process of regeneration - Mirjam Struppek
10:50am - 11:10am
Tenantspin - A case study - Patrick Fox
11:10am - 11:50pm
Moderated Discussion
Session 4: Cross-cultural public networks BMW Edge
2:00pm - 2:10pm
Introduction to Session - Prof Nikos Papastergiadis
2:10pm - 2:30pm
2008 Taipei Biennial - A case study - Manray Hsu
2:30pm - 2:50pm
diverCities: A global collaboration space for intercultural dialogue - Prof Ien Ang
2:50pm - 3:10pm
The City as Open Creative Platform - Soh Yeong Roh
3:10pm - 3:50pm
Moderated discussion
Session 5: Closing Plenary BMW Edge
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Chaired
by Prof Nikos Papastergiadis and Assoc Prof Scott McQuire , the
plenary session will involve keynotes and members of the panel sessions, along
with guest speaker Conrad Bodman, and speakers from the floor in a discussion
of key issues emerging from the conference.
