| Time |
Title |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Friday
|
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Northbridge
|
|
Western Australian Museum |
| 16:00 |
Biodiversity tour of the galleries |
|
Western Australian Museum |
|
Art Gallery of Western Australia Theatrette |
| 18:30 |
Keynote 1: Gaia Theory and Biodiversity |
Bruce Clarke |
Professor of Literature and Science, Department of English, Texas Tech University |
| Saturday |
Law Lecture Theatre, room 106, Law Building, The University of Western Australia |
| 9:45 |
REGISTRATION, tea and coffee, web display |
| 10:00 |
Housekeeping and opening notes |
Oron Catts |
Artist and SymbioticA Director |
| 10:25 |
Biodiversity and the Eye |
Gregory Pryor |
Artist and Lecturer, School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University |
| 10:55 |
Title TBA |
Anas Ghadouani |
Associate Professor, School of Environmental Systems Engineering, The University of Western Australia |
| 11:35 |
MORNING TEA, web display |
| 11:50 |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Animals but Were Afraid to Ask Vegetables (talk by Skype) |
Timothy Morton |
Professor of English (Literature and the Environment), Department of English, University of California, Davis |
| 12:35 |
LUNCH, web display |
| 13:35 |
Keynote 2: Biodiversity through the years of our lives |
Jonathan Majer |
Professor of Invertebrate Conservation, Department of Agriculture and Environment, Curtin University |
| 14:40 |
Interpreting Ecology in Fitzgerald Biosphere: Natural Patterns and OCBIL Theory |
Nathan McQoid |
Landscape Ecologist |
| 15:15 |
AFTERNOON TEA, web display |
| 15:30 |
Psychology, Water and the Rhetoric of Sustainability |
Geoff Syme |
Professor of Planning, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Edith Cowan University |
| 16:00 |
Encountering biodiversity as a ‘matter of concern’ |
Lesley Instone |
Lecturer, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Newcastle University British contemporary artists |
| 16:30 |
Uncertainty in the City (talk by Skype) |
Snæbjörnsdóttir and Wilson |
British contemporary artists |
| 17:15 |
SHORT BREAK |
|
Technoscience and Biodiversity Panel |
| 17:25 |
Title TBA |
Oron Catts |
Artist and SymbioticA Director |
| 17:40 |
Title TBA |
Hideo Iwasaki |
Artist and Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University |
| 17:55 |
A response to Catts and Iwasaki before opening up to audience questions |
Jane Calvert |
RCUK Academic Fellow, ESRC Centre for Innovation in Genomics, University of Edinburgh |
| 18:15 |
Biodiversity and Art Summary |
Perdita Phillips |
Artist and Research Associate, SymbioticA |
| Sunday |
Lake Clifton/Herron Community Centre |
| 9:45 |
REGISTRATION, tea and coffee |
| 10:00 |
Thrombolites, stromatolites and other microbialites of Lake Clifton |
Kath Grey |
Chief Palaeontologist, Geological Survey WA, Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum |
| 11:00 |
MORNING TEA |
| 11:15 |
Science and Conservation Management Round Table |
Scientists/environmental engineers/managers introduce their work on Lake Clifton and Yalgorup National Park areas |
|
| 12:15 |
LUNCH, further discussion |
| 13:15 |
Biodiversity as a local issue |
TBA |
|
| 13:45 |
Adaptation artist projects |
Oron Catts, Vyonne Walker, Annamarie Weldon, Perdita Phillips, Catherine Higham, and Carmel Wallace |
Adaptation Project, SymbioticA |
| 14:15 |
Closing remarks and final questions |
TBA |
|
| 14:25 |
Travel to thrombolite viewing platform Mt John |
|
|
| 14:55 |
Thrombolite visit |
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