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DTMD 2013: An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity

April 8th – 10th in Milton Keynes

An outline of the programme is given below*, and abstracts of all the talks are now available for download from the workshop website – see http://www.dtmd.org.uk/programme/Abstracts

* Make sure you read to the bottom of the programme: don’t miss Luciano Floridi’s keynote talk and the Panel Session on Wednesday morning.

Please register using the link at http://www.dtmd.org.uk/registration before 22nd March

Regards,
Magnus Ramage and David Chapman on behalf of the Programme Committee

Outline programme

Session 1: Information and Space (Mon 8 April, 10:30-13:00)
Keynote: Holger Schnädelbach, University of Nottingham, UK: Adaptive Architecture
Ambjörn Naeve & Carl Smith, KTH, Sweden and London Metropolitan University: Spacification: How to design and construct spaces that can enhance artistic experiences
Caitlin Bentley Royal Holloway University of London: Information as evidence: The quest for development aid results
Claudia Jacques, University of Plymouth, UK: Space-Time Aesthetics in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotics Analysis
Derek Jones, The Open University, UK: Where is information?

Session 2: Information and Time (Mon 8 April, 14:00-17:30)
Keynote: John Monk, The Open University, UK: What is time for?
Gabriela Besler and Jolanta Szulc, University of Silesia, Poland: Time as a constitutive element of information expressed in signs
Jan Sliwa, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Trying to know everything – truth as a moving target
Robin Laney, The Open University, UK: Difference as Meaning in Musical Narratives
David Chapman,The Open University, UK: Information is Provisional

Informal evening discussions (Monday evening)

Session 3: Information and Identity (Tues 9 April, 09:00-13:00)
Keynote: Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University, UK and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Identification, information and narrative
Michael Thompson, University of North Texas, USA The Antinomy of Identity: Personal
Identity and Time in Modern Philosophy
Robert Hunter, Northumbria University, UK How digital discourse has affected individuals ability to mould their identity and relationship to information online.
Jan Sliwa, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland: Living in parallel worlds – two Polish nations
Paul Adams, Alcatel-Lucent, UK: Identity Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age
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.
Robin Smith, University Hospitals of Leicester,UK: Everything Must Go: Data Brokers and the Explosion of the Information Crime Economy’

Session 4: What is information? (Tues 9 April, 14:00-17:30)
Keynote: Pedro C. Marijuán, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (I+CS), Zaragoza, Spain: On being informational: caught into the communication flows
Barbara Osimani Università degli studi di Camerino UNICAM, Italy: Code or cause? Genetic information as influence
João Alvaro Carvalho, Universidade do Minho, Portugal: Asking the right question: What is information? OR What is it that you are calling information?
Marek Hetmański, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland: Informational aspects of metaphors
Marcin J. Schroeder Akita International University, Akita, Japan Ontological Study of Information: Identity and State
Robert B. Lisek, Institute for Research in Science and Art, Poland: Presence and future of information space

Informal evening activities (Tues 9 April, 18:00-19:30)
Including a discussion of information and art through Second Life

Session 5: Synthesis and Art (Wed 10 April, 09:30-11:00)
Keynote: Carson Grubaugh Information Artist, New York, USA: The Art of Information

Session 6: Plenary and Panel (Wed 10 April, 11:30-13:00)
Keynote: Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire and St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK The Maker’s Information
Panel Discussion exploring an interdisciplinary understanding of information, with the keynote speakers and delegates.

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Dr Magnus Ramage
Lecturer in Information Systems & Editor-in-Chief, Kybernetes
Communication and Systems Department
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Email: m.ramage at open.ac.uk<mailto:m.ramage at open.ac.uk>
Web: http://www.cands.org/Home/people/magnus-ramage-1


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