thursday, may 27th 9:15 am - 10:45 am Plenary I Jean-Hugues Barthelemy Individuation and Knowledge : the "refutation of idealism" in the French heritage of Simondon Download Paper 11:00 - 12:45 - Panel I – Sociality Chair: Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, University of Western Ontario Presentations: Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London The différance of the pre-personal: individuation in the field of infinite sociality Download Paper Heather Davis, Concordia University The Dephased heart of art: collectivity and the other-than-human Download Paper Christoph Brunner, Zurich University of the Arts Ethico-Aesthics as Acts of Collective Individuation Download Paper 12:45 – 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 3:45 - Panel II – Science and la Technique Chair: Dan Mellamphy, University of Western Ontario Presentations: Vincent Bontems, Interuniversity Research Center on Science and Technology: New Fields of Application for Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology Claudia Mongini, Independent Scholar Re-creating the individual: Simondon after Stengers Download Paper Arne de Boever, California Institute of the Arts: In Praise of the Apparatus: Agamben and Simondon Download Paper 4:00 - 5:45 - Panel III – Wired Chair: Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Bauhaus University-Weimar Presentations: Patrick Crogan, University of The West of England Online game communities: playing through the transductivities between war, simulation and contemporary digital technoculture Download Paper Sarah Choukah, University of Montreal Hacker Information Ethics and Simondon's “Individu Pur" Download Paper Vincent Manzerolle (University of Western Ontario) & Didem Özkul (Ankara University) Theorizing New Media Ontology in an Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity: Gilbert Simondon and Harold Innis 5:45 - 7:00 - Reception Papers from Conference Attendees The axiomatic ambition of Gilbert Simondon - Cecile Malaspina Download Paper Information-image: an art-technology study based on Simondon - Emerson Freire, UNICAMP - Campinas State University Download Paper | friday,
may 28th 9:00 am – 10:45 am - Panel IV – Architecture Chair: Katie Lloyd Thomas, Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London) Presentations: Chris Salter, Concordia University Ontogenesis and Human/Non-human Agencies Valérie Lamontagne, Concordia University Technical Individuation and Performative Wearable Art Patrick Harrop, University of Manitoba The Concretized Grotesque: Ornament and Transduction Through the Architecture of Gilbert Simondon’s Techno-Aesthetique 11:00 am – 12:45 pm - Panel V – Bio Chair: Oliver Feltham, American University of Paris Presentations: Thierry Bardini, Yagmur Denizhan and Vefa Karatay, University of Montreal Simondon & Biosemiotics: Transduction, Information, Signs and Living Individuation Download Paper Marie Pier-Boucher, Duke University Transductive Milieus and the Genesis of the Quasi-Living Simon Mills, De Montfort University Concrete Software 12:45-1:45 pm LUNCH 1:45 pm – 3:30 pm Panel VI - Simondon, Deleuze, Bergson Chair: Knox Peden, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University Presentations: Vera Knolle, Bauhaus University-Weimar 'Activité Technique' as Relation to the World: Simondon's Critique of Bergson's Concept of Technique Sarah Margairaz, University of Lille III From intuition to Transduction: Beyond the Heuristic Value of Analogy. A comparative reading of Simondon and Bergson Download Paper Aislinn O'Donnell, Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick) Ethics and experience in Simondon's philosophy 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Panel VII – Literature and Beyond Chair: Mark Hayward, American University of Paris Rob Mitchell, Duke University Simondon and the Milieu of Biotechnology Download Paper Ludovic Duhem Thinking Aesthetic Reality with Simondon 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm: Plenary II Mark Hansen, Duke University: Title TBA |