Syndicate: Reality Engineers: Seminar Announcement

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From: "ana peraica" <ana.peraica@st.tel.hr>
To: <syndicate@aec.at>
Subject: Fw: Reality Engineers: Seminar Announcement
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:51:02 +0100

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From: Justine Smithuis <Justine.Smithuis@Felix.Meritis.NL>
To: <ana.peraica@st.tel.hr>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: Reality Engineers: Seminar Announcement


| Dear Ana Peraica,
|
| Following the success of last year's debut event, "Playstation meets
| Organism: Emulation in a Cultural Context" (1-3 September 2000), The
| Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University and Mediamatic Foundation are this
| Summer offering the new programme below:
|
| REALITY ENGINEERS: PROTOCOLS, BRAINS and STRINGS
| The Reinvention of Micro-Physics
|
| dates: Friday 31 August - Sunday 2 September, 2001
| location: Felix Meritis and Club Baby, Amsterdam
|
| The relations between information and reality have become an issue once
| again in the light of networked information technologies. Tele-action, Net
| presence strategies (commercial and creative), and the proliferation of
| scientific visualisations, make old questions like "is what I see here,
| real? Or is it a fraud?" relevant in suprising new ways. Is it a question
of
| reducing them to a matter of authority, still to be properly installed in
| the new realm (in the form of a truth-police)? Or is it a question of
| proving that the modes in which information is used to make things real
are
| shifting?
|
| During the seminar this issue will be approached from various angles, such
| as programming, philosophy and history of science and technology,
cognitive
| science, sonic fiction, wave theory, and the nascent field of web
| epistemology.
|
| This seminar is aimed at free-floating academics and joystick
intellectuals.
|
| Co-ordination:
| Jans Possel (Mediamatic Foundation)
| Justine Smithuis (The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University)
|
|
| More detailed information on programme, speakers and fee, will be
available
| soon. This information can be obtained by returning this message with your
| mailing details, after which you will receive the seminar brochure. The
| latest updates, as well as an application form, are also available at our
| website www.amsu.edu.
|
| For any further questions please contact me at The Amsterdam-Maastricht
| Summer University, tel. +31.20.6200225, fax +31.20.6249368, or e-mail
| justine@amsu.edu.
|
| We sincerely hope that this information will be of interest to you, and
| would highly appreciate it if you could pass this information on to any
| potentially interested friends or colleagues.
|
| With kind regards,
|
| Justine Smithuis
|
| *********************************************************************
| THE AMSTERDAM-MAASTRICHT SUMMER UNIVERSITY
| in assocation with
| MEDIAMATIC FOUNDATION
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| http://www.amsu.edu
| http://www.mediamatic.net
| *********************************************************************
|

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