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The Planetary Collegium’s IXth International Research Conference: Consciousness Reframed
 



Theme: New Realities: Being Syncretic: A transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology and society.

Partner and Host: University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Vienna, 3 July – 5 July 2008

Planetary Collegium & Laboral Centro De Arte y Creacion Industrial

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, in Gijon, Asturias, Spain, presents HOMO LUDENS LUDENS, an international exhibition and symposium exploring games as a critical element in our daily lives and a speculation on the emergence of the “Homo Ludens Ludens”: the contemporary playing man. What does it mean “to play” and to be “a player”?

The goal of this Symposium, organised jointly with The Planetary Collegium, is to provide the framework for contemporary play, to highlight its interdisciplinary nature, and to show the multifaceted reality of our present-day entertainment society.

Planetary Collegium speakers: Professor Roy Ascott, Mike Phillips, Professor Michael Punt, Doctoral candidates: Laura Beloff, Wolfgang Fiel, Luis Miguel Girão, Margarete Jahrmann, David McConville, Guto Nóbrega, Nicolas Reeves, Natacha Roussel, Semi Ryu, Natasha Vita-More, Monika Weiss

Laboral guest speakers: Laura Baigorri, Erich Berger, José Luis de Vincente, Julian Dibbell, Daphne Dragona, Gonzalo Frasca, Julian Oliver, Paolo Pedercini, Martin Pichlmair, Anne Marie Schleiner, McKenzie Wark.

Curators: Erich Berger, Chief Curator, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón Laura Baigorri, New Media Arts Curator, Barcelona Daphne Dragona, New Media Arts Curator, Athens.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight on production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined.

Opening Hours: Wednesday to Monday, 12 noon – 8 pm LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries Los Prados, 121 33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain Tel: +34 985 185 577

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/seminarios/proximos/2?contenido_id=62

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