10:30–12:30: Panel I, “Societies of Surveillance”
Trevor Paglen: “Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Limits of the Visible” (Geography, UC Berkeley)
Julia Scher: “Locate” (Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln)
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli: “Shadowed by Images: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Art of Surveillance” (Film Studies, University of Aberdeen)
Commentator: Régine Debatty (Freelance curator, blogger, and lecturer)

12:30–13:45: Lunch

13:45–16:00: Panel II, “New Media Technology and the Body Politic”
Eugene Thacker: “After Life” (Literature, Communication & Culture, Georgia Tech)
Thomas Keenan: “The death of politics? Human rights, new public spheres, and the jihad” (English & Human Rights Project, Bard College)
Sha-Xin Wei: “Petitot, Whitehead, the Problem of Novelty, and Computer Vision” (Topological Media Lab, Concordia University)
Commentator: Mario Biagioli (Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen; History of Science, Harvard University)

17:00–19:00: Film Screening: Secrecy (Peter Galison and Robb Moss, 2007, selected for the 2008 Sundance Festival)
Q&A with Peter Galison to follow the film. (NB: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE BELMONT PICTUREHOUSE, 49 Belmont St, in downtown Aberdeen, off Union Street.)

19:15 Open reception at the Peacock Gallery, 21 Castle St, Aberdeen

Saturday, April 26

9:00–9:30: Coffee

9:30–11:45: Panel III, “New Media in Global Contexts”
Ken Goldberg: “The Emperor’s New Media” (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research; Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley)
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: “Imagining the Global” (Media Studies, Brown University)
Alexander Galloway: “Alternative Algorithms (On Method)” (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU)
Sande Cohen: “Digital Critical?” (Critical Studies Department, California Institute for the Arts)
Commentator: Alberto Moreiras (Hispanic Studies & Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen)

12:00–13:00: Lunch

13:00–15:00: Panel IV, “New Media: New Forms and Figures”
Tim Lenoir: “Recycling the Military/Entertainment Complex: Turning Swords to Ploughshares” (Jenkins Collaboratory, Duke University)
Brian Rotman: “Virtual X and Ghost Effects” (Comparative Studies, Ohio State University)
Colin Milburn: “My Little Avatar, or Nanomorphosis” (English and Science Studies, UC Davis)
Commentator: Peter Galison (History of Science & Physics, Harvard University)

15:00–15:30: Coffee Break

15:30–17:30: Panel V, “Interface/Affect/Thought”
Laura Marks “Latency and the Will to Figuration in Islamic Art and New Media Art” (School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University)
Siegfried Zielinski (Media Theory – Archaeology and Variantology of the Media, Universität der Künste, Berlin)
Mark Hansen: “Is the ‘Digital’ in Digital Cinema the Same as the ‘Digital’ in Digital Media?” (English and Committee on Film & Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Commentator: Christopher Fynsk (Director, Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen)