The First Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium - Montreal April 19-22

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THE PLANETARY COLLEGIUM MONTREAL SUMMIT - 2007

"Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation, Emergence"

Montreal, Canada, 19-22 April, 2007

The first International Planetary Collegium Summit will be held in Montreal=

from April 19
to 22, 2007, on the premises of University of Quebec in Montreal's Coeur=

des Sciences.
Among the speakers are many internationally recognized artists, thinkers and
researchers, such as Roy Ascott, founder of the Planetary Collegium,
transdisciplinary
artist Victoria Vesna, astrophysicist Roger Malina, nanotechnologist James=

Gimzewski,
philosopher Pierre Levy, culture theoretician Derrick de Kerckhove, media=

artist and
theoretician Bill Seaman, and many others.

Entitled Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation, Emergence, the summit
will allow 65
presenters from fifteen countries to share the results of their latest
works and researches
with their guests, and with the Quebec media arts and technologies
community. The
Summit will be an occasion for members of the different nodes of the Colleg=
ium
(Plymouth, Beijing, Milan and Zurich, which will soon be joined by Seoul
and Sao Paulo),
along with several members pursuing their research on an individual basis=

as part of this
international network, to get together. Many of these are amongst the best=

known
artist/researchers of their fields.

Through mostly transdisciplinary research, calling upon artists,
scientists, engineers,
philosophers, educators and communications specialists, the Collegium is
contributing to
the production of new knowledge in the field of media arts and to the
transfer of this
knowledge to other fields. Computer science, communications, research on
consciousness, biotechnologies, cognitive sciences, hypermedia, variable
environments,
robotics are but a few of the disciplines whose development feeds and
informs the
Collegium research in all artistic disciplines : performance, dance,
architecture, new
narrative forms, music, installations, design, performing arts and the arts=

of the screen.
Although the Summit is first and foremost an occasion to come in contact
with unique
artistic approaches, which cannot be classified into traditional fields and=

are at the
cutting edge of contemporary practice, several presentations will discuss=

the theoretical,
cultural, social, educational, museological and environmental stakes of
these practices.
For further information and registration:
<http://summit.planetary-collegium.net>http://summit.planetary-collegium.ne=
t.

The Planetary Collegium

The Planetary Collegium is an international community of researchers,
thinkers and
artists dedicated since 1994 to research/creation. Through its network of=

nodes in
Europe, South America and Asia, it also offers a unique research program
leading to the
University of Plymouth PhD. Although its members meet regularly in various=

places
around the world, the Montreal Summit will be the first large scale meeting=

of its young
history. It will offer the Montreal based artist/creators and the Montreal=

media arts
community the opportunity to take notice of the projects, methods, tools
and research
projects that are amongst the more advanced in the field.
http://www.planetary-collegium.net


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Designer
PhD Candidate, University of Plymouth - Planetary Collegium, School of
Computing, Communications and Electronics, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in=

the Interactive Arts
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle,=

then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the=

circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller