Location: Semperdepot, Wien (Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Wien, Austria)

Schedule

THURSDAY, March 6, 2025

Doors & exhibition open at 19:00
Events start at 19:30
Doors close at 22:00

Arse Elektronika: Plug & Play!
Opening speech by Johannes Grenzfurthner
19:30 Prospekthof

The STD-Experience (performance)
The STD-Experiencers
20:00

Flotsam and Jetsam (performance)
Ann Antidote and Lun Ário
20:45

Swift Pen Opera (performance) with open ending
Felix Helmut Wagner
21:15

Whimpkey (performance)
Hands-on machine presentations by Omzol
21:30

FRIDAY, March 7, 2025

Doors & exhibition open at 17:00
Lectures start at 17:30
Doors close at 22:00

Launching GooNMeeT: A Triple Open Source Approach for Collective Joy (lecture)
Rasos and Changai
17:30

GPT: What is Love? (keynote lecture)
Maya Magnat
18:00

AI porn musings (lecture)
Christian Heller
18:45

Bellies (lecture and performance)
Laura A. Dima
19:30

The Love of Statues: The Beginnings of Objectophilia in Western Art (lecture)
Kero Fichter
20:00

Erobotic Futures: How Global SexTech is Transforming Human Sexuality? (lecture)
Kathleen Cherrington
20:45

The Ear Touches the Gut, and It's Soft, Wet, and Hot Too (performance)
Nerea González
21:30

SATURDAY, March 8, 2025

Doors & exhibition open at 12:00
Talks start at 12:30
Doors close at 22:00

Humanoid Sex Robots, Sexuality and Queer Lacanian Psychoanalysis (keynote lecture)
Maaike van der Horst
12:30

Love Is An Open Serial Port (lecture)
Stefan Lutschinger
13:15

The Evolution and Future of Intimate Wearables and Human Sensuality (panel via Zoom)
Luke Robert Mason (host, Warwick University), Eva Pascoe (wearables pioneer, Cybersalon), Trudy Barber (Portsmouth University)
14:00

Hands as well as feet pretty well useless (lecture)
Christian Schlaeffer
14:45

Literatur Bordell (performance)
Stephanie Meisl & s.myselle
15:15

The Anatomy of Robot Girls in Anime (lecture)
Viviene Wallner
16:00

The Pornographic Gnosis's Guide to Post-Truth Reality: On the Occult Foundation of Science Fiction (lecture)
Philipp Blab
16:45

How Filming Porn Saved My Self-Esteem and the Nature of Digital Intimacy Today (lecture)
Georg Zev Mir
17:30

Break
18:15

Glowing Biome (talk)
Johannes Grenzfurthner interviews Italia Bruno & Federico Niccolai
18:45

Faust's Dilemma in the Age of Technical Synthesizability (talk)
Introductory presentation by Hid&eacut;o Snes;
plus panel with Stefan Yazzie Herbert, Jeanette Gorzala, Christian Rupp, Stephanie Meisl /
Johannes Grenzfurthner (host)
19:15

Desiring Technology. On Porn, Addiction & Progress (lecture)
Arne Vogelgesang
20:15

Digital Performance: Intimacy Through Technology (lecture)
Maya Magnat
21:00

SUNDAY, March 9, 2025

Doors & exhibition open at 12:00
Doors close at 18:00

Let AI dream wet dreams (workshop)
Christian Rupp
14:00

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