FESTIVAL SCOPITONE 2014 - Sept 15th to 21th
Scopitone is a week-long festival of digital arts and electronic cultures, held in Nantes every September. Offering a concentrate of today’s musical and digital creativity, its concerts, exhibitions, installations, workshops, talks, visits and screenings attract almost 40,000 visitors of every age.
Rethinking the human condition in a hyperconnected era requires balancing the omniscience/omnipotence utopia with a renewed sense of natality and plurality, as described by Hannah Arendt. Firstly, I shall address and criticize the influence of the omniscience/omnipotence prejudice over policy-making. Secondly, I shall present how the notions of plurality and natality allow overcoming such prejudice. Thirdly, I shall re-examine the distinction between the private and public spheres under the light of natality and plurality. Fourthly, I shall propose a shift of policy-making from a risk-governance approach to a literacy-companion approach. In conclusion, I'll suggest seeing what practical wisdom means for an agent in a hyperconnected era.
Nicole Dewandre is advisor for societal issues to the Director General of the Directorate General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technologies (DG CONNECT) at the European Commission. She studied applied physics engineering and economics at the University of Louvain, operations research at the University of California (Berkeley) and philosophy at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). She entered the European Commission in 1983. She worked in "science and society" issues (women and science, research and civil society), before being in charge of the "sustainable development" unit that has been put in place in DG Research between 2007 and 2010. She is now working on the societal interface of the Digital Agenda for Europe.
A Web user today has his/her data and information distributed in a number of services that operate in silos. Computer wizards already know how to control their personal data to some extent. It is now becoming possible for everyone to do the same, and there are many advantages to doing so. Everyone should now be in a position to manage his/her personal information. Furthermore, we will argue that we should move towards personal knowledge bases and discuss advantages to do so.
Serge Abiteboul obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, and a State Doctoral Thesis from the University of Paris-Sud. He has been a researcher at Inria since 1982 and is now Distinguished Affiliated Professor at ENS Cachan. He was a Lecturer at the École Polytechnique and Visiting Professor at Stanford and Oxford University. He has been Chair Professor at Collège de France in 2011-12 and Francqui Chair Professor at Namur University in 2012-2013. He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008, and a member the Academy of Europe in 2011. Abiteboul's research work focuses mainly on data, information and knowledge management, particularly on the Web. He has recently started a blog about computer science (binaire.blog.lemonde.fr).
The digital revolution is often thought of as a technical revolution that impacts a wide variety of human activities. Using a variety of examples involving children as well as adults, we argue that its reach is far wider in the sense that it modifies or inverts many of our basic perceptions such as those of space and time, and explain why algorithmic thinking deeply changes many elementary ways of reflecting and acting in field as varied as science, engineering, medicine, and art.
Gérard Berry is a French computer scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Technologies and Academia Europaea. He was researcher at Ecole des Mines and Inria from 1973 to 2000 and the Chief Scientist Officer of the Esterel Technologies company from 2000 to 2009. He joined back Inria from 2009 to 2012. He held two yearly chair at Collège de France: Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation in 2007-2008 and Informatics and Digital Sciences chair in 2008-2009. He is currently Professor at Collège de France where he holds the Algorithms, Machines and Languages chair
Digital Humanities Green digital economy Human-Robot Interaction Human-Computer Interaction
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