Humanity+ @ Parsons : NYC
May 14-15, 2011CONFERENCE PROGRAM
CONFERENCE PROGRAM – Day 1
Saturday – May 14, 2011
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Natasha Vita-More and Ed Keller
DESIGNING Innovations – Radical Expressions
9:15 – 9:35 Howard Bloom – “Your Genie in a Bottle: Wish Fulfillment Machines”
9:40 – 10:00 Stephen Valentine – “TIMESHIP’S MISSION”
10:05 – 10:25 Heather Knight – “Why Prometheus loves Robots: How technology creators might be the next Greek Gods”
10:30 – 10:45 PANEL NUMBER ONE
DESIGNING Intelligence – Radical Impressions
10:50 – 11:10 Ben Goertzel – “Designing Minds and Worlds”
11:15 – 11:35 Max More – “Designing Death: Reframing and Refusing the End of Life”
11:40 – 12:00 Anders Sandberg – “Freedom to Explore: human enhancement, extensions & the ethics of the unknown”
12:00 – 12:30 PANEL NUMBER TWO
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
OUT THERE – Self Organization, Xeno-comm, non-Human Minds
2:00 – 2:05 Ed Keller – “talk TBD”
2:05 – 2:10 Perry Hall – “talk TBD”
2:10 – 2:15 Ted Byfield- “talk TBD”
2:15 – 2:20 Peter Watts – “talk TBD”
2:20 – 2:45 LIGHTNING EXPRESS / PANEL NUMBER THREE
IN HERE – Systems of Movement
2:50 – 3:10 Amy Li –”Mobile Technology”
3:15 – 3:35 Adam Zaretsky – “Art and Gene Action: Pathways to Expression”
3:40 – 4:00 Francois Roche – “Instructions for Bio-chemistry Urbanism” (mode d’emploi pour une société du temps libéré)
4:00 – 4:30 PANEL NUMBER FOUR
4:30 – 4:45 [coffee break]
LIGHTNING TALKS
4:50 – 5:00 George Dvorsky – “Designer psychologies: Moving beyond neurotypicality”
5:00 – 5:10 Dirk Knemeyer – “Applied Empathy: planning humanistic systems”
5:10 – 5:20 Moran Cerf – “Free Will: The Brain’s Ability to Predict & Simulate the Future”
5:20 – 5:30 John Lobell – “Genomic Fabrication”
5:30 – 5:40 Patrick Millard –”Biosphere 2 + Future Symbiosis”
5:40 – 5:50 Kristi Scott – “Understanding the role of popular culture in emerging technology discourse”
5:50– 6:00 Thomas McCabe – “Fixing Human Bugs”
6:05 – 6:45 PANEL NUMBER FIVE
RECEPTION 7:00 – 8:00
CONFERENCE PROGRAM – Day 2
Sunday – May 15, 2011
10:00 – 10:05 Welcome: Ed Keller and Natasha Vita-More
LIGHTNING TALKS
10:05 – 10:15 Mark Wexler – “Film presentation – ”How to Live Forever”
10:20 – 10:30 Jenny Tillotson – “Scentient Beings: The AScent Through The Emotional Spectrum”
10:35 – 10:45 Hal Hefner – “Controlled Genetic Management”
10:50 – 11:00 Josh Call and Curt Tigges – “Transhumanism in the University”
11:05 – 11:15 Greg Mada– “The Future of Car Design”
11:20 – 11:45 PANEL NUMBER SIX
11:50 – 12:00 [short break]
DESIGN ESSENTIAL – Evolving Techne
12:05 – 12:25 Vivian Rosenthal – “talk TBA”
12:30 – 12:50 Natasha Vita-More – “Transhumanist Aesthetics of Life Extension: new persons/new platforms”
12:55 – 1:10 Mitchell Joachim – “Cities by Invention”
1:15 – 1:30 PANEL NUMBER SEVEN
1:30 – 2:30 LUNCH BREAK
LIMITLESS – Design Thinking
2:35 – 2:55 Benjamin Bratton – “talk TBA”
3:00 – 3:20 James Hughes – “Design Principles for Minds and Societies”
3:25 – 3:45 Michael Massuci – “History is the Art of Forgetting”
3:50 – 4:10 Scott Draves – “Distributed Creativity of the Electric Sheep”
4:15 – 4:30 PANEL NUMBER EIGHT
4:35 – 4:45 Closing Remarks: Ed Keller and Natasha Vita-More
Conference Adjourns
