http://www.leoalmanac.org/vol19-no4-without-sin

This day symposium will explore and expand on the issues contained within the newly launched Leonardo Online Special Issue titled Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media. Confirmed speakers include: Heath Bunting (Irational.org), Leonardo Online’s Editor in Chief Lanfranco Aceti, Director of the Centre for Fine Art Research at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design Prof Johnny Golding, Sheena Calvert (University of Westminster), Dundee based researchers - Zoë Irvine,Cornelia Sollfrank, Ashley Woodward (Editor of Parrhesia), Sandra Wilson, Simone O’Callaghan and the volume Editor Donna Leishman. Please note: Heath Bunting will also offer a free workshop to interested delegate following the symposium on Wed 29th Jan in CentreSpace.

10.00 Coffee / Tea

Session 1

10.20 Welcome from Prof Stephen Partridge DJCAD / Dundee University

10.30 Introduction by Dr Donna Leishman

11.00 Dr Cornelia Sollfrank The Power of Ignorance. How being dumb can help to make smart art.

11.20 Prof Johnny Golding Ana-Materialism & the Pineal Eye: Becoming Mouth-Breast Visual Arts in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction

11.40 Dr Sheena Calvert The Economies of Language in Digital Space/s

12.00 Dr Ashley Woodward Existential value in the information age

Questions Chaired by John Dummett and Dr Sarah Cook

Session 2

2.00 Dr Lanfranco Aceti

2.30 Dr Simone O’Callaghan Seductive Technologies and Inadvertent Voyeurs

3.00 Dr Sandra Wilson The Premediation of Identity Management in Art and Design: New Model Cyborgs – Organic & Digital

3.30 Heath Bunting Introduction to the Identity Workshop

Plenary Discussion Chaired by Donna Leishman

5pm – 530pm Zoë Irvine's performance of Eloquent Voice

Session 3 [Optional]

Wed 29th Jan

Heath Bunting Artist Identity Workshop & Crypto Party 10 - 5.30pm