Cyborgs – when technology gets under your skin
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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German and English languageModern human beings are living in a symbiotic connection with the technology surrounding them, with wearables on and implants in our bodies. The merging of humans and technology are diverse and growing in number. In various ways, artists and scientists are getting engaged in these technological experiments. This raises societal as well as ethical questions. What conclusions can we draw from them?
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Ph.D. Mark COECKELBERGH
Professor, Philosophy, Media and Technology, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
| 1999 | M.A., Social Philosophy (distinction), University of East Anglia, Norwich |
| 2003 | Ph.D., Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham |
| 2001-2002 | Research Officer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath |
| 2003 | Researcher, Université de Liège |
| Researcher, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN), Mol | |
| 2003-2006 | Lecturer, Philosophy, Philosophy Group, Maastricht University, Maastricht |
| 2007-2014 | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente; Member, CTIT - Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, Twente |
| 2012-2014 | Managing Director, 3TU (now 4TU) Centre for Ethics and Technology, Eindhoven |
| since 2014 | Professor, Technology and Social Responsibility, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester |
| since 2015 | Professor, Philosophy of Media and Technology, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna |
Moon RIBAS
Avant-garde Artist and Cyborg Activist, Co-Founder, Cyborg Arts Ltd., London
| Moon Ribas is a Catalan avant-garde artist and cyborg activist best known for developing the Seismic Sense, an online seismic sensor implanted in her feet that allows her to perceive earthquakes taking place anywhere in the planet through vibrations in real time. In order to share her experience, she then translates her seismic sense on stage. Ribas transposes the earthquakes into either sound, in her piece Seismic Percussion; or dance, in Waiting For Earthquakes. In these performances the Earth is the composer and the choreographer; and Ribas, the interpreter. Ribas’ seismic sense also allows her to feel moonquakes, the seismic activity on the Moon. Ribas believes that by extending our senses to perceive outside the planet, we can all become senstronauts. Adding this new sense allows her to be physically on Earth while her feet feel the Moon, so in a way, she is on Earth and space at the same time. Since 2007 Moon has been experimenting with the union between technology and her body to explore the boundaries of perception and to experience movement in a deeper way. Some of her previous research includes transdental communication, 360° perception and the Speedborg. In 2010 she co-founded the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that aims to help people become cyborgs, defend cyborg rights and promote cyborg art. Ribas also co-founded the Transpecies Society in 2017, an association that gives voice to non-human identities, defends the freedom of self-design and offers the creation of new senses and new organs in community. |
Gerfried STOCKER
Artistic Director, Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, Linz
| Media artist and musician. Graduate of the Institute for Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics in Graz. Since 1990, he has been working as an independent artist. | |
| 1991 | Foundation of x-space, a team for the realization of interdisciplinary projects. In this framework numerous installations and performance projects have been carried out in the field of interaction, robotics and telecommunication. Stocker was also responsible for the concept of various radio, TV and network projects and the organization of the worldwide radio and network project Horizontal Radio in 1995. |
| since 1995 | Artistic director of the Ars Electronica Center and, together with Christine Schöpf, artistic codirector of the Ars Electronica Festival. |
| Projects and Installations have been shown among others at: | |
| EXPO - 92 Sevilla; Kunsthalle Bonn - 92; Biennale Venedig '93; ISEA '93 Minneapolis; Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles '94; Digital World Conference Los Angeles '94; SIGGRAPH '94 Orlando; ISEA '94 Helsinki; Dutch Electronic Art Festival - 94 Rotterdam; steirischer herbst '94, '95; Ars Electronica '95; SIGGRAPH '95, Los Angeles; ISEA '95 Montréal; Frankfurter Buchmesse '95; New York Digital Salon '95; Biennale Venedig '97, Millennium Dome London 2000, SIGGRAPH '02 San Antonio. |
Mag. Dr. Manfred TSCHELIGI
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg; Head of Center for Technology Experience, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna
| 1995 | Habilitation for Applied Computer Science (Venia Docendi), Faculty of Social and Economic Science, University of Vienna |
| 1986-2002 | Research Associate; Lecturer; Associate Professor; Head of Working Group on Human-Computer Interaction; Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna |
| 1995-1996 | Professor (C4), Business Informatics, University of Magdeburg |
| since 1986 | Founder and Director, CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering |
| since 2001 | Founder and Managing Partner, USECON - The Usability Consultants GmbH, Vienna |
| since 2004 | Univ.-Prof., Human-Computer Interaction & Usability, University of Salzburg |
| 2009-2016 | Director, Christian Doppler Labor for Contextual Interfaces, University of Salzburg |
| 2011-2014 | Academic Director ICT&S - Center for Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Technologies & Society, University of Salzburg |
| 2012-2015 | Co-Head, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg |
| 2013-2016 | Head, Business Unit Technology Experience, Innovation Systems Department, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna |
| since 2015 | Director, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg |
| since 2017 | Head, Center for Technology Experience, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna |
