Public program: Summer talks and summer party

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Friday 7 August, 18:00–22:00, About Bugs Bots and Bytes – H&D Summer Talks Friday 7 August 22:00–03:00, H&D Summer Party

In addition to student workshops, Hackers & Designers has invited cross-disciplinary speakers from around the world to take the participants and the public into a deeper conversation around topics, which have arose in a modern digital society. Anyone and everyone, not just students, are invited to join the H&D Summer Talks on Friday, 7 August 2015, an evening of discussion around algorithmic work, life and death. The speakers promise an informed evening offering insights and diverse perspectives into their research, professional and artistic practices, but all the while maintaining the satirical and humorous approach of Hackers & Designers.

Program H&D Summer Talks – 7 augustus

18:00 Welcome

18:30 Presentation H&D Summer Academy 2015

19:15 Short break

19:30 Stefan Schäfer about the right to die digitally, digital euthanasia, image rights and more

20:00 Jeremy Bailey on Gestural Interfacing

20:30 Short break

20:45 Ramon Amaro on Training and the problem of data: What would it take to adopt a fugitive statistics

21:30 Rosa Menkman on Discrete Cosine Transform

22:00: H&D Summer Party, music by:

- DJ Nudist Looters

- DJ Boris Becker

- DJ Toby