Arse Elektronika 2008: Schedule
| September 25, 2008 |
Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2008 Award Ceremony
@ CELLspace / 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco / September 25 / 8pm, doors open at 7pm
An unobjectionable award for sex machines, orgasmotrons and teledildonics
Hosted by monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner and info maniac David Dempsey. Featuring Annalee Newitz, Jonathan Mann aka GameJew, and many other human and non-human guest stars. The winners will be honored with the "Golden Kleene".
Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2008 will be a dignified occasion -- and so we invite you to dress up properly. Surprise us with sex and science fiction related costumes... and maybe win a "Golden Kleene" yourself!
Presentation of Arse Elektronika Anthology: "pr0nnovation?"
@ CELLspace / 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco / September 25 / 8pm, doors open at 7pm
It is our pleasure and privilege to present you with the first Arse Elektronika Anthology: "pr0nnovation?"
From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porno, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. No one can predict what the future will bring, but history indicates that sex will continue to play an essential role in technological development. Is it going too far to assume that research in nanotechnology and genetic engineering will be influenced by our sexual needs? The question is not whether these technologies alter humanity, but how they do so.
Edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry.
Published by RE/Search Publications (San Francisco) in cooperation with monochrom.
Featuring: Timothy Archibald, Peter Asaro, Thomas Ballhausen, Binx, Violet Blue, Jonathan Coopersmith, Mark Dery, Thomas Edlinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Tina Lorenz, Stefan Lutschinger, Kyle Machulis, Aaron Muszalski, Annalee Newitz, Carol Queen, Thomas Roche, Autumn Tyr-Salvia, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Katie Vann, Rose White, Amanda Williams, Katherina Zakravsky.
| September 26, 2008 |
Arse Elektronika Conference / Day 1 / Narration
@ CELLspace / 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco / September 26 / 1pm - 8pm, doors open at 12noon
"Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction"
September 26 will be devoted to the theme of "Narration".1 PM
Fuck Space: Slashing the Ocean (MP3)
Keynote address by Constance Penley2 PM
Datamining Slash Fiction: Automated text analysis of patterns in homoerotic amateur science fiction stories (MP3)
Jens Ohlig3 PM
Princess Peach the Porn Star: Power in Erotic Video Game Fan Fiction (MP3)
Bonnie Ruberg4 PM
What is the 21st-Century Novel? (MP3)
Reesa Brown & Kit O'Connell5 PM
Avoiding the Emily Gould Effect (MP3)
Susan Mernit & Viviane6 PM
Science Fucktion (MP3)
Johannes Grenzfurthner and Richard Kadrey
Arse Elektronika Reading
@ Center for Sex & Culture / 1519 Mission Street near 11th, San Francisco / September 26 / 9pm, doors open at 8 pm
Carol Queen, with the support of the Center for Sex & Culture and cosponsorship of San Francisco's premiere SF/fantasy bookstore Borderlands, presents a curated erotic reading evening, featuring writers who commonly explore sexual themes in their science fiction and alt-reality fiction work. While the focus of much of the conference will be a critical deconstruction of sexual tropes in SF/speculative/alt-reality fiction, the focus of this event will be to appreciate and celebrate the fiction itself. Readers include Rudy Rucker, Richard Kadrey, M. Christian, Steven Schwartz, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Thomas Roche, and more.
| September 27, 2008 |
Arse Elektronika Conference / Day 2 / Technology
@ CELLspace / 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco / September 27 / 1pm - 8pm, doors open at 12noon
"Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction"
September 26 will be devoted to the theme of "Technology".
1 PM
What is Sex? (MP3)
Keynote address by Rudy Rucker2 PM
Prosthetics and Future Fetishism (MP3)
Karin Harrasser3 PM
Sexy: Sex-related interfaces in mainstream science fiction (MP3)
Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff4 PM
Sex0rz: Future Gadgets (MP3)
Aaron Muszalski5 PM
Performance, Identity, and Subversion: Sex and Gender in the Age of Social Networking (MP3)
Mae Saslaw6 PM
The (Infinite) Library of Porn: Storage and Access (was cancelled)
Rose White7 PM
The Erotic of the Machine (MP3)
Panel: 23N! (zeni), Benjamin Cowden, Thomas Roche, Violet Blue, Daniel Fabry, Allen Stein; Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
| September 28, 2008 |
Arse Elektronika Conference / Day 3 / Politics
@ CELLspace / 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco / September 28 / 1pm - 8pm, doors open at 12noon
"Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction"
September 26 will be devoted to the theme of "Politics".
1 PM
From Computer-Mediated Sex to Computer-Generated Sexuality: An Outlook on the Posthuman Sexual Trope (MP3)
Bonni Rambatan2 PM
Mechanical morality, Robotic love: the Cultural Representation of Sex Machines in the Modern West (MP3)
Isaac Leung3 PM
The Mind Diddlers: An investigation of sex as a symbolic system for non-human communication among UFO contactees, magick subcultures, and alternative religions (MP3)
Jason Brown4 PM
What's love got to do with it? Or how there is no escape from metaphysics in the future (MP3)
Mela Mikes5 PM
Radical Porn - Intercourse between fantasy and reality (MP3)
Sharing is Sexy.org6 PM
Arse Elektronika 2008 closure panel (MP3)
All participants (oh yes: massive!)