The passionate and committed folks behind Arse Elektronika are planning it's third conference for 2009 and has just posted a call for papers, workshops, machines, and (from what I've heard about them) any good ideas of ways to communicate about the future of sex tech. From the site:
We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. And that's why our annual conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex, technology and the future. As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. "Bizarre enough for what?" -- you might ask. Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century.
Don't you think, replicants?
I personally think that in some ways sexuality represents a site of the least amount of change, and one of the problem is that the general public and sexuality professionals confuse novelty and radical change on a regular basis. But I devoured their anthology culled from the first and second conference and sincerely hope I'm able to make it to this year's conference.
Follow this link to submit papers and read more about Arse Elektronika 2009.
Related: Is Technology Ruining Sex? ; Which Came First, Sex or Tech? ; Sex Tech History ; Ways We Use Technology for Sex ; Is Virtual Sex Real Sex?
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