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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>There is just one week left to register for <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>DTMD 2013: An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>April 8<sup>th</sup> – 10<sup>th</sup> in Milton Keynes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An outline of the programme is given below*, and abstracts of all the talks are now available for download from the workshop website – see <a href="http://www.dtmd.org.uk/programme/Abstracts">http://www.dtmd.org.uk/programme/Abstracts</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Make sure you read to the bottom of the programme: don’t miss <b>Luciano Floridi’s</b> keynote talk and the Panel Session on Wednesday morning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please register using the link at <a href="http://www.dtmd.org.uk/registration">http://www.dtmd.org.uk/registration</a> before 22nd March<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Magnus Ramage and David Chapman on behalf of the Programme Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Outline programme<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Session 1: Information and Space (Mon 8 April, 10:30-13:00)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Keynote: Holger Schnädelbach, University of Nottingham, UK: Adaptive Architecture<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Ambjörn Naeve & Carl Smith, KTH, Sweden and London Metropolitan University: Spacification: How to design and construct spaces that can enhance artistic experiences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Caitlin Bentley Royal Holloway University of London: Information as evidence: The quest for development aid results<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Claudia Jacques, University of Plymouth, UK: Space-Time Aesthetics in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotics Analysis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Derek Jones, The Open University, UK: Where is information?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Session 2: Information and Time (Mon 8 April, 14:00-17:30)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Keynote: John Monk, The Open University, UK: What is time for?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Gabriela Besler and Jolanta Szulc, University of Silesia, Poland: Time as a constitutive element of information expressed in signs <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Jan Sliwa, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Trying to know everything – truth as a moving target <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Robin Laney, The Open University, UK: Difference as Meaning in Musical Narratives<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>David Chapman,The Open University, UK: Information is Provisional<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Informal evening discussions (Monday evening)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Session 3: Information and Identity (Tues 9 April, 09:00-13:00)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Keynote: Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University, UK and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Identification, information and narrative <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Michael Thompson, University of North Texas, USA The Antinomy of Identity: Personal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Identity and Time in Modern Philosophy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Robert Hunter, Northumbria University, UK How digital discourse has affected individuals ability to mould their identity and relationship to information online.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Jan Sliwa, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Living in parallel worlds – two Polish nations<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Paul Adams, Alcatel-Lucent, UK: Identity Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Karen Kear, Frances Chetwynd & Helen Jefferis, The Open University, UK: “To give a better understanding of who I am”: the role of personal profiles in online learning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Robin Smith, University Hospitals of Leicester,UK: Everything Must Go: Data Brokers and the Explosion of the Information Crime Economy’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Session 4: What is information? (Tues 9 April, 14:00-17:30)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Keynote: Pedro C. Marijuán, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (I+CS), Zaragoza, Spain: On being informational: caught into the communication flows<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Barbara Osimani Università degli studi di Camerino UNICAM, Italy: Code or cause? Genetic information as influence<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>João Alvaro Carvalho, Universidade do Minho, Portugal: Asking the right question: What is information? OR What is it that you are calling information?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Marek Hetmański, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland: Informational aspects of metaphors<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Marcin J. Schroeder Akita International University, Akita, Japan Ontological Study of Information: Identity and State<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Robert B. Lisek, Institute for Research in Science and Art, Poland: Presence and future of information space<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Informal evening activities (Tues 9 April, 18:00-19:30)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Including a discussion of information and art through Second Life<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Session 5: Synthesis and Art (Wed 10 April, 09:30-11:00)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keynote: Carson Grubaugh Information Artist, New York, USA: The Art of Information<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Session 6: Plenary and Panel (Wed 10 April, 11:30-13:00)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Keynote: Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire and St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK The Maker’s Information<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Panel Discussion exploring an interdisciplinary understanding of information, with the keynote speakers and delegates.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Dr Magnus Ramage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Lecturer in Information Systems & Editor-in-Chief, Kybernetes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Communication and Systems Department<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Email: <a href="mailto:m.ramage@open.ac.uk">m.ramage@open.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Web: <a href="http://www.cands.org/Home/people/magnus-ramage-1">http://www.cands.org/Home/people/magnus-ramage-1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p><br>
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