Schedule

Toxic Life and Engineered Death

Winnipeg Cinematheque – 100 Arthur St.
FREE
To sign up for the symposium, please contact Tom at vpprogramming[at]videopool.org

9:00 am
Registration

9:30 – 9:45 am
Introductory remarks from conveners Dr. Melentie Pandilovski (Video Pool Media Arts Centre)

9:45 – 10:45 am
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Steve Kurtz
Toxicity, Representation and Social Control

10:45 – 11:00 am
Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Session 1
Moderator: Praba Pilar
Speakers:

Dr. Jennifer Willet
INCUBATOR: Propositions Towards New Laboratory Ecologies

Dr. Andrew E. Pelling
“This study has no clear hypothesis or objectives”

Niki Sperou
Zones of Inhibition, Liminal Territories and Contingent Effects

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Joe Davis
Forbidden Fruit

2:15 – 2:30 pm
Coffee Break

2:30 – 3:30 pm
Session 2
Moderator: Tom Kohut
Speakers:

Ted Hiebert
Embodiment, Technology and the Space Between Magnets

Melentie Pandilovski
Toxicity at the Equidistance Between Biotechnology and Biopolitics

3:30 – 3:45 pm
Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:45 pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Natalie Jeremijenko

4:45 – 5:00 pm
Coffee Break

5:00 – 6:30pm
FILM:
Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis (2010)
Dir. Peter Sasowsky