Calit2, the Division of Arts and Humanities, and the Department of Visual Arts present:

DESIGNING GEOPOLITICS: An Interdisiplinary Symposium on Computational Jurisdictions, Emergent Governance, Public Ecologies

June 2, 9:30am-3:00pm
June 3, 9:30am-3:30pm

Atkinson Hall Auditorium, Calit2, UC San Diego

How does a Earth govern itself? Through what jursidictions, what rights of the citizen-user, what capacities of enforcement, and in the name of what sovereign geographies? In fact we simply do not know. But in the face of fast –evolving cyberinfrastructures that outspace our inherited legal forms on the one hand, and a multigenerational arc of ecological chaos on the other, we need to find out quickly: we need to design that geopolitics.

Participating Speakers:

Benjamin H. Bratton
Adam Bly
Jordan Crandall
Teddy Cruz
Rene Daalder
Manuel de Landa
Hernan Diaz-Alonso
Ricardo Dominguez
James Fowler
Kelly Gates
Elizabeth Losh
Ed Keller
Charlie Kennel
Norman Klein
Peter Krapp
Geoff Manaugh
Lev Manovich
Metahaven
Naomi Oreskes
Casey Reas
Larry Smarr
Vernor Vinge
Tricia Wang
McKenzie Wark
Molly Wright Steenson

Designing Geopolitics: Computational Jurisdictions, Emergent Governance, Public Ecologies, is an interdisciplinary conference that will organize scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professions around these critical issues. We have made initial invitations to participants from the Visual Arts, Political Science, Philosophy, Systems Ecology, Engineering, Computer Science, History, Architecture, Literature, Interaction Design, Anthropology, Information Sciences, among others. We have also extended invitations to key strategic thinkers at some of the private companies whose work most directly bears on our issues. The conference program will align the design, the humanities with technologists and scientists and will place Calit2 at a critical interface between these academic and private missions.

All presentations will be streamed live at http://designgeopolitics.org/dg2011/

For additional information about the event and the speakers please visit: http://designgeopolitics.org/dg2011/