Programme & Registration

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0930 – 1000	Registration and Light Breakfast
1000 – 1030	Introduction to Symposium by Pip Thornton, Andrew Dwyer, and Martin Disley
1030 – 1145	Keynote by Lawrence Abu Hamdan \| The voice before the law
1145 – 1230	Film Screening & Discussion led by Martin Disley \| Not I: The Voice, Identity and the Epistemic Mirage of Machine Learning (Credit: Unit Test)
1230 – 1330	Lunch
1330 – 1400	Commissioned Artist Talk by Agnes Cameron \| Conversational Agency
1400 – 1430	Commissioned Artist Talk by Theodore Koterwas \| The Unreasonable Expressiveness of Empathetic Artificial Mimicry
1430 – 1515	Break & Refreshments with Demonstrations from Agnes Cameron and Theodore Koterwas
1515 – 1545	Performance by Machine Listening \| After Words
1545 – 1630	Commissioned Artist Talk and Performance by Claire Tolan \| SYBIL (WHISPERS TO EVE) ECHO AT NOON! + LULZ NOON
1630 – 1715	Performance by Wesley Goatley \| Newly Forgotten Technologies: Five Echoes
1715 –	Drinks Reception

0930 – 1000	Light Refreshments
1000 – 1100	Keynote by Wesley Goatley \| Voices of the Underworld: Critical Art and the Myths of Machines
1100 – 1130	Talk by Michael Flexer & Philip Symes \| We ❤️ Big Brother: power, language, technology and voice hearing
1130 – 1200	Paper by Francesco Bentivegna \| Relational AI Voices: A Taxonomy for the Future of Performance Studies
1200 – 1230	Talk & Interactive Exhibit by Ahnjili Zhuparris \| Repurposing Surveillance + Babble-on
1230 – 1330	Lunch
1330 – 1500	Talk & Workshop by Amina Abbas-Nazari \| DIY voice modification
1500 – 1530	Break & Refreshments
1530 – 1600	Paper by Jane Frances Dunlop \| Multivocal Theatricalities: Articulating Data in Composites, Choruses, Crowds
1600 – 1700	Keynote by Rachel Maclean \| If it looks like a duck: Using deepfake to question identities and subvert reality
1700 – 1715	Close by Pip Thornton