Sixième congrès Européen de la SLSA

Sixième congrès Européen de la

Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

RIGA

15-19 JUIN 2010-06-19

Main Organizer :

Electronic Text + Textiles (e-t+t)

TEXTURES

The SLSA-EU 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal ’texts’ but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic readings.

Through the term, ’textures,’ we aim to bring together transitional figures of thought in many fields : · in literary criticism : the movement from the material signifier to meaning, affect, and communication ; · in the arts : the well-known ’resistance in the materials’ ; · in cognitive science : the transition from the neuronal to the mental ; · in a textile : the construction of cloth and the surfacing of a pattern from the interwoven material threaded lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft) ; · in painting : the emergence of a whole through the patterning of smaller elements ; the presentation of an ’all over’ composition in a series of canvases ; · in sound art : the blending of running water or traffic noise into a continuous sonic structure ; · with regard to the body : the perpetual becoming-other of an allegedly fixed and bordered identity ; · the ’fold’ in Deleuze ; the ’tissue of quotations’ in Barthes, the ’weave’ in Derrida, the feminist spider’s embodied writing of gendered subjectivity, and other materialist readings of familiar poststructuralist conceits ; · etc. (please send us your ideas) The list is meant to be suggestive, not restricti ve, of the range of interests we hope to accommodate. As the conscious embrace of constraints - in science, literature and the arts - , can be productive not narrowing, so is our theme designed to be generative and to stitch together the diverse theoretical and transdisciplinary approaches that have long defined SLSA research.

PROGRAMM

Tuesday, 15 June

15:00 Registration (continues throughout the conference) Hall 17:00‐17:30 Welcome and opening of conference Soros 17:30‐19:00 KEYNOTE : Daina Taimina Soros 19:00 Reception Hall Wednesday, 16 June 09:00‐10:30 PARALLEL PAPER PANELS 1 W‐32 1.1 Tissue Cultures (Zylinska, Steinman, Buiani, O’Reilly/Smith) R‐403 1.2 Materiality and Textuality (Iuli, Jaffe, Morton) R‐301 1.3 Biopalimpsests (Hauser, Casini) R‐411 1.4 Architextures (Riekstins, McDonnell, Abrantes) 10:30‐11:00 Break 2 11:00‐12:30 KEYNOTE (talk‐performance) : Erin Manning & Brian Massumi W‐32 12:30‐14:00 Lunch 14:00‐16:00 ROUNDTABLE Materiality and Textuality I : W‐32 Addressing the Humanities : cognitivism, neuroscience, deconstruction, … (Abrioux, Herbrechter, Kirby, Tabbi, Wilson) 16:00‐16:30 Break 16:30‐18:00 PARALLEL PAPER PANELS 2 W‐32 2.1 Architextures (Holloway‐Attaway, Bolter, Swanstrom, Vandagriff) R‐303 2.2 Materiality and Textuality (Rackham, Mooney, Baker) R‐311 2.3 Biopalimpsests (Clarke, Salter, Pedersen) R‐507 2.4 Art as Research (Hales, Tharakan, High, Grube) Thursday, 17 June 09:00‐10:30 KEYNOTE AND ROUNDTABLE R‐303 KEYNOTE Networks and Sustainability : Felix Stalder R‐311 ROUNDTABLE Materiality and Textuality II : Sensations in Worlds : Impersonal texture and aesthetic experience (Lamarre, Kirby, Manning, Massumi, Xin Wei) 10:30‐11:00 Break 11:00‐12:30 PARALLEL PAPER PANELS 3 R‐311 3.1 Biopalimpsests (High, Duff, Bakke) R‐403 3.2 Materiality and Textuality (Pelse, Radin‐Sabados, Duffy) R‐303 3.3 Networks and Sustainability (Tyzlik‐Cover, Apprich, Krebs) 12:30‐14:00 Lunch 14:00‐16:00 PARALLEL ROUNDTABLES Roundtable Medicine and Literature : The state of the field 2010 (Besser, Budge, Gygax, Shuttleton) Roundtable Architextures : Beyond the Grid : Integrating numbers and narratives (Bühlmann, Hovestadt, Marshall, O’Donnell, Taurens, Wassermann) 16:00‐16:30 Break 3 16:30‐18:00 PARALLEL PAPER PANELS 4 R‐303 4.1 Materiality and Textuality (Abrioux, Heilmann) W‐32 4.2 Tissue Cultures (Catts, Zurr, Craggs) R‐311 4.3 Networks and Sustainability (Hadzi, Black, Biggs) 18:30‐20.00 SLSA business meeting : SLSAeu, SLSA Australia, projects, publications, 2012, 2014, … e‐t+t Ausekla iela 11 Apart. 222 map Friday, 18 June 09:00‐10:30 PARALLEL PAPER PANELS 5 R‐403 5.1 Architextures (Dumitrescu, Marshall, Rudovska/Veinberga) R‐411 5.2 Biopalimpsests (Hallersleben, Dumas) R‐603 5.3 Tissue Cultures (Walsh, Duff, Ugur) W‐32 Keynote Art as Research : Carole Gray & Heather Delday 10:30‐11:00 Break 11:00‐12:30 KEYNOTE : Joanna Zylinska W‐32 12:30‐14:00 Lunch 14:00‐16:00 ROUNDTABLE Biopalimpsests : Soros Synthetic Biology : (De)constructing eternal dreams (Catts, Hauser, Schmidt, Ried) 16:00‐16:30 Break 16:30‐18:00 KEYNOTE AND PARALLEL PAPER PANELS 6 R‐507 6.1 Materiality and Textuality (Flach, Cordell, Scharbert) R‐311 6.2 Architextures (Hovestadt, Bühlmann, Wassermann) W‐32 KEYNOTE Art as Research : Jan Kaila 20:00‐open Conference dinner at Neiburgs (map) Saturday, 19 June Dedicated to ART AS RESEARCH (location : always in the Soros Auditorium of the SSE) 09:00‐10:30 ROUNDTABLE : The Humanities and the Arts (Arends, Dombois, Eller, Flach, Klein, Scharbert, Gisler, Schöfer, Schwab, van Loo) 4 10:30‐11:00 Break 11:00‐13:00 PAPER PANEL 7 Art as Research (Jeffries, Mey, Brunner, Baker) 13:00‐14:00 Break 14:00‐15:30 KEYNOTE : Henk Borgdorff & Sher Doruff 15:30‐16:00 Break 16:00‐17:00 Closing and looking ahead

Place and dates : Riga, 15-19 June, 2010