THURSDAY, June 30th
11.30-12.15 Opening
Media of Electricity
12.15-13.00
Rupert Gaderer: Homo electrificatus: Experiment - Love – Media
13.00-13.45
Wolfgang Hagen: Mental Pictures, "Scheinbilder"? - How Hertz discovered his "rays of electric force”
13.45-15.00 Lunch Break
Electrified Perceptions
15.00-15.45
Florian Sprenger: Ghosts of Causality - Instantaneity of Electricity and the Crisis of Perception
15.45-16.30
Linda Henderson: Manifestations of Electricity and Ether in Early 20th-Century Art. The Cases of Marcel Duchamp and Umberto Boccioni.
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
Charged Bodies
17.00-17.45
Tim Armstrong: Elektricsters: Race and Electricity in American Literature'
17.45-18.30
Graeme Gooday: Gendered Authority in the Aesthetics of Electricity
19.30 Dinner
FRIDAY, July 1st
Nervous Energies
10.00-10.45
Andreas Killen: Influencing machines
10.45-11.30
Paul Gilmore: Sublime Electricity and Neuroaesthetics
11.30-11.45 Short coffee break
11.45-12.30
Stella Pratt-Smith: Electric Dreams and the “Yearning for a Lasting and Immaculate Present”
12.30-13.45 Lunch break
Electric Lights
13.45-14.30
David Nye:Illumination of cities (primarily in the US) before 1915
14.30-15.15
Katharina Wessely: “A Sea of Light..." Electric Light as Object and Means of Presentation at the Viennese Electrical Exhibition 1883
15.15-16.00
Miriam Höller: Shimmer and Glory in theatre. Perceptions of electric lights in Stuttgart
16.00 Good Bye