Hexagram and the CIAM welcome the
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT OF THE
PLANETARY COLLEGIUM
Disturbing, fascinating, poetical, provocative,
the works and researches of the
Planetary Collegium's members reveal and explore the fundamental questions
that are opened by the technological explosion on the topics of
consciousness, life, humanity, knowledge, being-in-the-world, borders
between natural and artificial, access to information. 65 researchers from 15
countries will share during 4 days the result of their research-creation works
with their guests, their colleagues from Quebec, and with the general public.
The first International Planetary Collegium
Summit will be held in Montreal from April 19 to 22,
2007, on the premises of University of Quebec in
Montreals Coeur des Sciences.
The Planetary Collegium is an international
community of researchers, thinkers and artists
dedicated since 1994 to research/creation. It
also offers a unique Ph.D. research program
through its network of nodes in Europe, South America and Asia.
Although its members meet regularly in various
places around the world, the Montreal Summit
will be the first large scale meeting of its
young history. It will offer the Montreal based
artist/creators and the Montreal media arts
community the opportunity to get in touch with
projects, methods, tools and research projects
that are amongst the more advanced in the field.
The Summit will welcome numerous high reputation
international artists, thinkers and
researchers, such as Roy Ascott, founder of the
Planetary Collegium, astrophysicist Roger
Malina, culture theoretician Derrick de
Kerckhove, biochimist James Gimzewski, media artist and
theoretician Bill Seaman, philosopher Pierre
Lévy, transhumanist Natasha Vita-More, sound
artist Andrea Polli, as well as two researchers
from the CIAM-Hexagram community, Barbara Layne and Nicolas Reeves.
Entitled Reviewing the Future: Vision,
Innovation, Emergence, the Summit will allow 65
presenters from fifteen countries to share the
results of their latest works and researches with
their guests, and with the Quebec media arts and
technologies community. The Summit will be an
opportunity to get together for members of the
different nodes of the Collegium (Plymouth,
Beijing, Milan and Zurich, which will soon be
joined by Seoul and Sao Paulo), along with several
members pursuing their research on an individual
basis as part of this international network.
Many of these are amongst the best known artist/researchers of their fields.
Through mostly transdisciplinary research,
calling upon artists, scientists, engineers,
philosophers, educators and communications
specialists, the Collegium is contributing to the
production of new knowledge in the field of
media arts and to the transfer of this knowledge to
other fields. Computer science, communications,
research on consciousness, biotechnologies,
cognitive sciences, hypermedia, variable
environments, robotics are but a few of the disciplines
whose development feeds and informs the
Collegium research in all artistic disciplines :
performance, dance, architecture, new narrative
forms, music, installations, design, performing
arts, film and video
Although the Summit is first and foremost and
occasion to come in contact with singular artistic
approaches, which cannot be classified into
traditional fields and are at the cutting edge of
contemporary practice, several presentations
will discuss the theoretical, cultural, social,
educational, museological and environmental stakes of these practices.
The Summit is open to everyone interested. For
information about the Collegium and
registration to the Summit, please go to :
http://summit.planetary-collegium.net.
For more information about the Summit, please go to Hexagrams site at
www.hexagram.org, or to the CIAM site at www.ciam-arts.org.
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