Poetics and Politics of Virtual Reality

11-12 UiB and City University of Hong Kong Participants Meeting about student exchange and research cooperation

[lunch for invited participants]

1-1:30 Anne Karhio: Poetry is Virtual? Verbal aesthetic and the art of immersion

1:30-2 Odile Farge: Software and the Rhetoric of Creative Authoring

2-2:30 Olli Tapio Leino: Technological Play in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism: Free-to- Play, eSports, Gamification, and, Big Data/Blood Data

2:30-3 Chris Funkhouser: Virtual Orchestrations in Text & Sound

3:3:30 Flextime / coffee.

[Invited participants: 3:30-4 Poetics and Politics of Virtual Reality book project brainstorming]

Bergen Public Library Auditorium

10-10:30: Elizabeth LoshWitnesses, Bystanders, and Hangers-On: Virtual Reality Journalism and the Limits of Interventionism 

10:30-11: Stuart Moulthrop: Alternate Reality Must Be Broken 

11-11:30: Daniel Howe: 'Big Data' and the Aestheticization of Critique

11:30-12: Jill Walker Rettberg: Perspective as Algorithm: Central Perspective from Alberti to Google Street View

12-1: Lunch in Amelia’s Hage (Library Café)

Bergen Public Library U-Rom (or auditorium TBD) 

1-1:30 Scott Rettberg: Addressing Torture in Iraq through Critical Digital Media Art—Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project

1:30-2 John Cayley: Writing3D in the University: for more than a decade

2-2:30 David Jhave Johnston: Configuring Consciousness (and/or Curved)

2:30-3 Judd Morrissey: Veins of Place

3-4 Explore VRPlay with and explore library VR equipment, works-in-progress, demos, etc.

5-6:30 Fløyen excursion

7-10 Dinner out for presenters TBD