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I'd like to invite you to the first International Planetary Collegium
Summit. Please read below:<br><br>
<font size=2>The "Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation,
Emergence" Summit will be held in Montreal from April 19 to 22,
2007, on the premises of University of Quebec in Montreal’s Coeur des
Sciences. Among the speakers are many internationally recognized artists,
thinkers and researchers, such as Roy Ascott, founder of the Planetary
Collegium, transdisciplinary artist Victoria Vesna
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<a href="http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/projects/current.php" eudora="autourl">
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/projects/current.php</a><font size=2>,
astrophysicist Roger Malina, nanotechnologist James Gimzewski,
philosopher Pierre Lévy, culture theoretician Derrick de Kerckhove, media
artist and theoretician Bill Seaman
</font><a href="http://digitalmedia.risd.edu/billseam" eudora="autourl">
http://digitalmedia.risd.edu/billseam</a><font size=2> and many others,
including me (Natasha).<br><br>
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"[T]he 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 occasion 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, to get together.
Many of these are amongst the best known artist/researchers of their
fields.<br><br>
"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 and the arts of the screen.
Although the Summit is first and foremost an occasion to come in contact
with unique 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."<br><br>
For further information and registration:
<a href="http://summit.planetary-collegium.net">
http://summit.planetary-collegium.net</a>.<br><br>
</font>Information can be found at
<a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.transhumanist.biz/</a> <br><br><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate,
<a href="http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/">Planetary Collegium
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<dd>Proactionary Principle Core Group,
<a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy
</a><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a>
<dd>Advisory Committee,
</font><a href="http://www.pietronigro.com/zgac/">Zero Gravity Arts
Consortium <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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