CIL Bulletins

This short MC test will tell you if you should come to the Microwave Festival 2009 Keynote Conference:

1. How can we make humans more environmentally responsible?
A) Replace their brains with Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.3
B) Make movies like The Day After Tomorrow
C) Use “eco-visualisations” to allow people to actually see the consequences of their choices

2. How can we gain an understanding between humans and other living creatures?
A) Get a pet poodle, dye its fluffy fur pink and blue, and bring it to $10,000 spas every week
B) Go to the Ocean Park and take 1 million photos of the dopey pandas
C) Wrestle a rhinoceros beetle through a head-mounted display wrestling device

3. The rhinoceros beetle is one of the strongest animals on Earth — how many times its weight can it lift?
A) 0.743 times
B) 2 times
C) More than 30 times and, arguably, according to Wikipedia, over 850 times

4. How can SOUND influence our thinking and shift our perceptions?
A) The more we listen to pop music, the higher our IQ gets
B) Babies grow up taller listening to the sound of construction sites
C) We can find out about a nano-world invisible to our eyes through sounds it produces

5. Which one would most people in modern society not recognise?
A) Just Do It
B) Finger Lickin’ Good
C) Helianthus annuus

>>>>>If you answered all or mostly (C), congratulations, you’re a thinker, and the Microwave Festival 2009 Keynote Conference would be extremely interesting for you.
>>>>>If you didn’t get mostly (C), you definitely need to come to the Conference; it will bring you great insight on how we are shaping the human future.

// TODAY (Sun) // HK Heritage Discovery Centre (Kowloon Park, Tsim Sha Tsui exit A1) // Free admission //

11:00 – 12:00 Eco-visualization: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption 視化環保概念︰以藝術及科技節約能源 Speaker: Tiffany Holmes

12:00 – 13:00 On why you might want to text/sms a fish, carry a bat gun or wrestle a rhinoceros beetle (and other adventures in a cross species world); what these have to do with your own environmental health, lifestyle experiments and capacity to respond to environmental challenges 為何你會想給魚兒發短訊、攜帶蝙蝠槍、與犀甲蟲搏鬥、或在跨物種世界裡進行其他冒險；這些與你的環境健康、生活實驗和應對環境挑戰的能力有什麼關係呢？ Speaker: Natalie Jeremijenko

14:00 – 15:00 Sound Thinking in Art Making: Ghosts, Quantum tunnels and Butterflies 乍現的聲音想像: 《細胞鬼》、《量子隧道》與《藍蝶》 Speaker: Victoria Vesna

15:00 – 16:00 Next Nature: Nature caused by people 次自然之人定自然 Speaker: Koert van Mensvoort

Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2009:
www.microwavefest.net

By the way, Helianthus annuus is the scientific name for sunflowers.

(posted by Linda / text by Winnie Fu, Chair of Microwave festival)