SCANZ 2009 Symposium Schedule

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand

February 7th and 8th 2009

Registration is required – $120 full registration, $60 for ADA members. Please register here.

Interconnections Chaos theory, Complexity, Cybernetics, Post-structuralism + Pasifika, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Polynesian and Maori Knowledge and Belief systems

The symposium theme is Interconnections. Papers and presentations that locate interconnections between Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian knowledge and belief systems, and a view based on integrated systems were sought.

SATURDAY February 7th

Time / Presenter / Title

• 10.00—10.30   Ian Clothier – Introduction, welcome and opening words
• 10.30—11.00   Danny Butt – Believing Knowledge
• 11.00—11.30   Dick Whyte – Poetry, Physics and Politics
• 11.30—12.00   Becca Wood and Amanda Newall – Distracted Bodies

/// 12.00—1.00   LUNCH

• 1.00—1.30   Dr Sally Jane Norman – Raranga tangata
• 1.30—2.00   Dr Herman Pi’ikea Clark – Ka muhe’e, he i’a hololua: Kanaka Maoli art and the eluding of globalization in Hawaii
• 2.00—2.30   Amanda Newall, Ola Johansson & Antti Sakari Saario  – Aboriginal Terraformations
• 2.30—3pm   Zita Joyce – The taonga of radio spectrum: articulating Maori Knowledge of wireless interconnectivity

/// 3.00—3.30   AFTERNOON TEA

• 3.30—4.00  Assoc Professor Nina Czegledy – Complexity and Cybernetics Redux (working title)
• 4.00—4.30pm   Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel – Digital Oracles and the Search Dictatorship
• 4.30—5.00   Richard Reddaway – Latin American Baroque; Cultural Bifurcation & the Meandering Line

SUNDAY February 8th

Time / Presenter / Title 

• 10.00—10.30  Mike Baker – Negotiating the Parameters of Missed Conversations in Urban Spaces
• 10.30—11.00  Heather Raikes – Corpus Corvus 
• 11.00—11.30   Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith, Dan Untitled, Miljana Peric, James Cunningham & Suzon Fuks – Enacting Collective Intelligence
• 11.30—12.00   Emil McAvoy – Discursive Formations: Considering crop circle formations through contemporary art theoretical discourses
 

/// 12.00—1.00   LUNCH

• 1.00—1.30   PANEL – LEONARDO Education Forum Aotearoa 
• 1.30—2.00   PANEL – SCANZ, Education for sustainability projects and Pukekura Park
• 2.00—2.30   Brett Stalbaum – Report on SCANZ GPS project in Pukekura Park

/// 2.30—3.00   AFTERNOON TEA

• 3.00—4.00   Led by Mercedes Vicente & Dr Sarah Cook – SCANZ 2009 Exhibition Discussion
• 4.00—5.00   OPEN FORUM Reflections/poroporoaki /the next SCANZ
  

   

To join us, please register for the symposium. Information is also available on travel and accommodation, and a summary of venue information is here.