Sunday 7 November 2010


09:00
Official Greetings
Prof. Micha Levin, Director, Shenkar Forum for Society and Culture, Tsila Hassine, Conference Curator.

09:15-12:30
Morning Session
The Influence of the Israeli Military Establishment on Computing in Israel
Moderator: Prof. Larry Abramson, Shenkar

09:15
Brigadier General (Ret.) Pinchas Buchhris, Departing CEO Ministry of Defense
"The Security Situation, the Human Capital and Thinking Out of the Box"

10:00
Benny Levin, founder NICE Technologies, CEO dbMotion
"From Uniform to Suit: Technology Migration from the Military to the Civilian Market"

Break: 15 min.

11:00
Benny Schnaider, VP Business Development Red Hat
"OSS (Open Source Software) in the Cloud"

11:45
Ms. Smadar Nehab, Tsofen High Technology Centers
"Barriers and Opportunities for Arab IT Engineers in Israeli High Tech Industry"

12:30-13:45
Lunch Break

13:45-17:15 - Afternoon Session

"Critical Perspectives on the Uses and Discourses of Digital Technology and the Military"
Moderator: Mr. Yotam Feldman, Journalist and Film Maker

13:45
Dr. Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths College
"Forensic Engineering"

14:30
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, Haifa University and Director of INFOSOC
"Digital Communication in Israel"

Break: 15 min

15:30
Florian Schneider, Jan van Eyck Academie
"The War of Meaning: Open Sources, Media Activism and Communication Guerilla"

16:45
Eran Sachs, Sound Artist
"Alternative Signals: From Electronic Battlefield to Soundscapes"

18:00
Exhibition opening and Cocktail Reception

18:30
Official Greetings and Keynote Presentations
Prof. Micha Levin, Director, Shenkar Forum for Society and Culture, Prof. Yuli Tamir, President, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Mr. Florian Schneider Jan van Eyck Academie

Keynote Presentations
18:30
MK Michael Eitan, Minister of Improvement of Government Services
"Digital Technology and Politics in Israel"

19:00
Prof. Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The Open (Source) Society and Its Enemies"




Monday 8 November 2010


09:00 - 12:15 - Morning Session
"Cultural and Artistic Approaches to Code Practices"
Moderator: Ms. Renee Turner, Piet Zwart Institute

09:00: Dr. Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths College
"Executing Software Studies"

09:45: Femke Snelting and Pierre Huyghebaert, OSP design collective, Brussels
"Unimagining tools"
Break: 15 min.

10:45: ‫Dr. Ayelet Karmon and Yair Reshef, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design ‬
"Influences of Code Platforms on Design Processes"

11:30: Mushon Zer-Aviv, Bezalel Academy, Shual Design Studio, Israel / New York
"Towards Open Source Design" "

12:15-13:30: Lunch Break

13:30-16:45 - Afternoon Session
"Opening Resources: Visualizing Resistance on the Internet"
Moderator: Mr. Florian Schneider, Jan Van Eyck Academie

13:30: Dr. Roberto Theron, Universidad de SalaManca
"Data Visualization: Aesthetic Tools for Social Change?"

14:15: Ted Byfield, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
"The Angel of History: Visualization, Internationalism, and Neoliberalism"

Break: 15 min.

15:15 Vinca Kruk, Metahaven Design Collective / Think Tank, Amsterdam

"Eden Abergill's Facebook Reputation"

16:00 Tsila Hassine and Ziv Neeman, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Closing Remarks and Discussion.