The Virtual— a room without borders?A conference 15th–16th September 2005 |
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We are glad to present the following keynote speakers and moderators who will participate in the conference.
keynotes
 Barry Brown [Keynote] Ethnographer and developer. PhD in Sociology, University of Surrey. |
Barry Brown is a research fellow at the Computing Science department at the University of Glasgow. He holds a degree in computer science from Edinburgh University and a PhD in sociology from the University of Surrey. He has published widely on the design and use of technology, including editing the popular Wireless World volume. While a research scientist at Hewlett Packard’s research lab in Bristol his research concerned the development of new music technologies. His more recent work concerns the use of technologies for pleasure and leisure using ethnographic studies to inform the design of technologies in an interdisciplinary research team. As an interdisciplinary researcher he has published in leading forums in Sociology, Geography, Computer Science, Tourism Studies, HCI and CSCW. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~barry/ |
 Katherine Hayles [keynote] Professor of English, University of California |
Katherine Hayles is professor of English at the University of California – Los Angeles. Her interests are literature and science in the twentieth century, modern British and American literature, cultural theory and electronic textuality. Her current research involves Virtual Bodies: Evolving Materiality in Cybernetics, Literature, and Information. Book-length manuscript tracing history of cybernetics from 1945-present and relating it to poststructural critical theory and contemporary literature. Riding the Cusp: The Interplay between Narrative and Formalisms, under contract to Routledge Press. An essay collection focused on showing the importance of narrative in a series of scientific sites, from game theory to sociobiology and artificial life. http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/ |
 Christer Sturmark [Keynote] Contractor, writer. |
Christer Sturmark has since the beginning of the 90ies worked with business intelligence. He has written a number of articles about the evolution of the global society. He has written three books on the subject and is currently working on his forth volume. Some people know him as a prominent figure during the IT-boom in Sweden. Among other things, he started the company Cell that sky rocketed on the stock market in the late 90ies. He has had various governmental assignments during the mid 90ies, most recently as head of the Swedish government's IT political group. On behalf of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs he has traveled to over 30 countries and lectured about the social, cultural, political and economical consequences of the networked society. http://www.sturmark.se |
moderators
 Kenneth Jacob Knoespel Professor & Chair, School of Literature, Communication & Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Kenneth J. Knoespel's work spans issues of insitutions facing and embacing technological change, science and visualization and the methodology of early scientific commentary. His current research includes work on diagrams within architecture, science and technology. He is revising a book on allegory and Renaissance science and completing research on a project dealing with science and culture in Sweden and Russia in the early modern period. http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~knoespel/ |
 Ola Larsmo Writer |
Ola Larsmo was born during I.G.Y, that is to say, in 1957. He has studied at Sjöviks Folkhögskola and Uppsala University: the science of literature, Nordic languages and theology. He was editor for Bonniers Litterära Magasin during the period of 1984-1990 and he has been a film critic, mainly in Dagens Nyheter since 1990. His first novel was called Vindmakaren and it won a contest arranged by BLM in 1983. Today he earn his living by writing. “I.G.Y”? It stands for “International Geophysical Year”, July 1957 – December 58. A year dedicated to studies of earth’s place in space. Donald Fagen made a song in 1982 with the same name, found on the record “The Nightfly”. The song probably says it all. http://www.olalarsmo.com/ |
 Jonas Linderoth PhD. LearnIT/ Department of education, Göteborg University. |
Jonas Linderoth has a background as an artist and art teacher. His research is focused upon learning, cognition and perception with interactive representations. He works with questions surrounding games and learning, role play and socio-dramatic interaction and how users perceive cultural meanings in image based virtual worlds. Trained as researcher at the department of education at Göteborg University his methodological emphasis lies on interaction analysis. Linderoths major claim in his research is that interactivity can not be seen as a feature which ads realism to a representation. Instead classification becomes unnecessary for the user since s/he learns the structural relations between sounds, words and images. http://www.ped.gu.se/kollegier/mil/ |
 Anders Sandberg PhD. School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology / Eudoxa AB. |
Anders Sandberg has a background in computational neuroscience, where he has studied learning and memory in neural network models of the brain. He has also worked with scientific visualisation of neural network data and political spaces in virtual reality. Currently he is writing and lecturing on the effect of emerging technologies on society. http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ |
 Alexandra Weilenmann PhD. Department of Applied IT, IT University & Mobility, Interactive Institute. |
Alexandra Weilenmann research deals with the ways in which mobile technologies are brought into play in collaborative activities, being work as well as leisure. She is interested in exploring mobility using empirical data of the practicalities of life with mobile technology. As a part of this, she has studied, amongst other things, teenagers’ mobile phones, snow clearing at airports, and the mobile work at London Underground. Methodologically and analytically the work draws upon the fields of computer supported cooperative work, ethnography, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Recent projects include the analysis of mobile phone conversations, looking at the formulation of location and activity, something which might have implications for the design of location-based services, and mobile technology in general. http://www.viktoria.se/~alexandra/ |