MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences

International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
8-10 November 2007

MutaMorphosis is an international conference organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER festival in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations. The festival will feature also the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina.

8th - 10th of November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference website: http://www.mutamorphosis.org

The conference will explore the major mutations that are affecting the future of our world. Artists, scientists and researchers will present papers on the evolution of life and the societies they constitute, and on modes of knowledge, expression and communication of humans, animals and other forms of life.

The conference will concentrate on the growing interest -- within the worlds of the arts, sciences and technologies -- in EXTREME AND HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. These environments appear as symptomatic indicators of the mutations that are taking place; they are potential vectors that make possible an awareness of the different problems at the origin of the disturbances that threaten the ensemble of the Earth's eco-systems.

MutaMorphosis Plenary Speakers are:

Roy Ascott
Terror Incognito: Steps toward an Extremity of Mind

Albert-László Barabási
The Architecture of Complexity

Louis Bec
We Are Extremophiles

Václav Cílek
Climate as the Last Wilderness

David Dunn and James P. Crutchfield
Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioaocustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change

Roger F. Malina
Limits of Cognition: Artists in the Dark Universe

Stelarc
Alternate Anatomical Architectures: Extruded, Empty and Absent Bodies

Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski
Blue Morph: Surges of Nanocellular Transformations

Abstracts of plenary and session papers are listed on the MutaMorphosis website: http://www.mutamorphosis.org

Conference Steering Committee: Alban Asselin, Louis Bec, Annick Bureaud, Don Foresta, Denisa Kera, Roger F. Malina (co-chair: rfm.mutamorphosis@gmail.com), Louise Poissant, Pavel Sedlák (co-chair: sedlak@ciant.cz), Pavel Smetana

Organiser: CIANT ­ International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague (www.ciant.cz, CZ)

Co-organisers: Leonardo (www.leonardo.info, USA; www.olats.org, FR) , Hexagram (www.hexagram.org, CAN), Pépinières européenes pour jeunes artistes (www.art4eu.net, FR)

Partners: Centre for Global Studies at Charles University (http://cgs.flu.cas.cz, CZ), CYPRES Arts Sciences Technologies Cultures (www.cypres-artech.org, FR), Czech Academy of Sciences ­ Week of Science and Technology (www.avcr.cz/tydenvedy, CZ), French Institute in Prague ( www.ifp.cz, CZ), MARCEL (www.mmmarcel.org, GB) , UQAM (www.uqam.ca, CAN)

Join us in Prague 8-10 November 2007.
Registration is now open through 20 October 2007.

Visit the MutaMorphosis website for details and to register: http://www.mutamorphosis.org/