Public program: Summer talks and summer party

The HDSA2015 public program
About Bugs Bots and Bytes – H&D Summer Talks & Summer Party

In addition to participants 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 was 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 presented 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

18:00 Welcome

18:30 Presentation H&D Summer Academy 2015

19:15 Short break

19:30 Stëfan Schäfer about Summer Talks: (Un)willingly Memorialized — Images and the dead in the Digital Age

20:00 Jeremy Bailey on Gestural Interfacing

20:30 Short break

20:45 Ramon Amaro on Summer Talks: Training and the problem of data

21:30 Rosa Menkman on Discrete Cosine Transform

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

- DJ Nudist Looters

- DJ Boris Becker

- DJ Toby

- VJ Lucian & Vincent