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PROGRAMME
Saturday 9 September 2006
The Roundhouse, Freedom Studio
10.00am Introduction and Welcome
Judith Palmer: Symposium Convener (UK)
Nicola Triscott: Director of The Arts Catalyst (UK)
10.15am HABITAT: MAKING SPACE FOR HUMANS
Space/Craft Performance/Art
Garrett Finney: Architect: FARO; Former Senior Architect at the Habitability Design Center, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. (USA)
11.15am SubCulture
Sarah Jane Pell: Artist (Australia)
12.00pm Space On Earth Station
Ion Sorvin: Architect, N55 (Denmark)
Neal White: Artist (UK)
1.00pm BREAK FOR LUNCH
2.00pm BUILD YOUR OWN SPACE PROGRAMME
The Quest for Transparent World: A LADOMIR perspective
Marko Peljhan: Artist (Slovenia)
3.00pm First Woman on the Moon (1999)
Aleksandra Mir 12 mins. DVD screening
3.15pm Gravity
Aleksandra Mir: Artist (Sweden)
Mrs Bloom’s Lunar Capsule
Michelle Griffiths: Artist (UK)
4.00pm BREAK
4.30pm LIVE INTERNATIONAL LINK-UPS
4.30pm Return to the Moon
Paul D. Spudis: Lunar Scientist. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (USA)
5.00pm From the Ever Wild West
Lowry Burgess & Frank Pietronigro: Artists: Co-Chairs of the Space Art Track of the 25th International Space Development Conference (USA)
5.30pm FINAL DISCUSSION
Sunday 10 September 2006
The Roundhouse, Freedm Studio
10.00am THE HUMAN BODY AND MIND IN SPACE
Life, The Universe and Everything
Kevin Fong: Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, University College, London. (UK)
11.00am The Human Mind in Space
Gro Mjeldheim Sandal: Professor of Psychology at the University of Bergen (Norway)
12 noon SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don’t Dream (video presentation)
London Fieldworks: Artists: Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson (UK)
12.15pm Cosmic Flash
Tim Otto Roth: Artist (Germany)
1.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm ADAPTING TO ALIEN ENVIRONMENTS
Politics and The Plague: Back Contamination From
The Planets
Ronald Jones: Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University College of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm (USA/Sweden)
3.00pm Do you know about helioseismology?
Semiconductor: Artists: Ruth Jarman & Joseph Gerhardt (UK)
3.45pm Cultural Utilisation of the International Space Station
Nicola Triscott: Director of The Arts Catalyst (UK)
4.00pm BREAK
4.30pm The Fall to Earth
Andrew Smith: Author of ‘Moondust’ (UK)
5.30pm FINAL DISCUSSION
