Encoding the Future:

P e r s p e c t i v e s o n t h e

M a k i n g o f t h e

‘ H u m a n ’ i n

E x _ M a c h i n a

University of SiegenDecember 1-2, 2016

E n c o d i n g t h e F u t u r e

Encoding the Future:

Perspectives on the Making of the Human in Ex_Machina

University of SiegenAR X 1.04

December 1-2, 2016 Contact: encodingthefuture@uni-siegen.de

Organizers:Franziska Burstyn, M.A.

Dr. Marcel HartwigDr. Natalie RoxburghLisanna Wiele, M.A.

5:00-6:45 P a n e l 4 –

A I , B i g D a t a , a n d E c o n o m y 4 . 0 (Chaired by Gunter Süß,

Mittweida University of Applied Sciences)

Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen)

There She Goes, Our Beautiful World: Neoliberal Subjectivities, Ex_Machina, and the Industries of Tomorrow

Simone Müller (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich)

“To put a loving girdle round about the earth”: On Submarine Telegraphy as the Extension of the ‘Human’

Christoph Haase (Bielefeld University)

Her Corpus Electric and How it Compares to the HALImark of the Movie AI

Marc Ritter (Mittweida University of Applied Sciences)

A Short Survey on Recent Advances in Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval

6:45-7:15

F i n a l D i s c u s s i o n ,

C l o s i n g R e m a r k s

8:00 Conference Dinner at Trattoria Gianni & Giulia

E n c o d i n g t h e F u t u r e

T h u r s d a y , 1 D e c e m b e r

1:00-2:00 Registration

2:00-2:30 Welcoming Remarks

2:30-3:30 K e y n o t e 1

(Introduced by Natalie Roxburgh, University of Siegen)

Julia Leyda (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)

Cute 21st-Century Postfembots

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-5:30 P a n e l 1 –

G e n d e r a n d T e c h n o l o g y (Chaired by Lisanna Wiele, University of Siegen)

Jennifer Henke (University of Bremen)

Appropriating the Body – Monsters, Fembots, and Cyborgs

Minwen Huang (Leipzig University)

Be(com)ing Human? – Cultural Imaginary of Artificial Humans in Ex_Machina and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Sonja Georgi(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Visual Encodings of Human-Machine Interactions in Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina: Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and the (Post)Modern Gaze

7:30 Dinner and Drinks at 9Bar

F r i d a y , 2 D e c e m b e r

9:30-10:30 K e y n o t e 2

(Introduced by Marcel Hartwig, University of Siegen)

Shane Denson(Stanford University)

Ex_Machina: Post-Cinematic Frankenstein?

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 P a n e l 2 –

P h i l o s o p h y o f M i n d a n d

C o n t e m p o r a r y N e u r o n a r r a t i v e s (Student Panel)

What is Neuronarrative?The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Defining Qualia

Three Thought Experiments: China Room, Color Room, What is it Like to Be a Bat?

David Lodge’s Thinks… as a Pioneering Neuronarrative

12:30-1:30 Lunch at Ars Mundi

1:30-3:00 P a n e l 3 –

H u m a n i s m ,

P o s t h u m a n i s m , T r a n s h u m a n i s m (Chaired by Franziska Burstyn, University of Siegen)

Natalie Roxburgh and Felix Sprang (University of Siegen)

Humanism 4.0, Or A Critique of the Discourses on the Technological Singularity

Stefan Lampadius (Leipzig University)

Encoding Future Humanity - Greg Egan's Posthuman Vision in 'Diaspora'

Kaisa J. Kortekallio (University of Helsinki)

Lights, Camera, Intra-action! A Posthumanist Performative Take on Ex_Machina

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-4:30 K e y n o t e 3

(Introduced by Felix Sprang, University of Siegen)

Marcin Grzegorzek (University of Siegen)

Principles of Machine Learning

4:30-5:00 Coffee Break