Think Machine
Plektrum lecture program 2009
Every year Plektrum Festival focuses on a key topic or headline question that affects our life and forces us to seek answers to important questions. In previous years Plektrum has dealt with topics like “Creative Cities” and „Hidden Space“, this year the focus is on „virtuality“ – a phenomenon we see and hear about all the time but few of us really understand. With every minute we infiltrate with virtuality – we use digital signatures with our ID-cards, travel in a virtual space of computer games, socialize in virtual internet environments and fall victim to virtual wars where our files are erased by viruses.
Perhaps at this point we should ask „Do you live in reality?“ because in the last decades suspicion has arisen about how much we really live in reality and to what extent being in virtuality has taken over our beliefs, thoughts and actions.
Plektrum Think Machine is the name of the new web magazine and blog and now also the main title and presenter of a lecture program. Thought and machine bring together people, technology and culture hence creating interesting ideas, visions, views and manifests. Plektrum Think Machine is the place to find answers to Big Questions, derive future ideas and inspiration through the collaboration of listeners and well-known and renown lecturers. You will find the answer to the question “Do you live in reality” at Plektrum Think Machine in Von Krahl Theatre.
Think Machine thanks Helsinki-Tallinn Euregio and Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Tallinn.
Where is virtuality?
28th September 19.00-21.00 / Von Krahl
Think Machine’s first day makes an introduction to the virtual experience in today’s technology driven societies and explores how that experience shapes the values and life style.
Let’s play
29th September 19.00-21.00 / Von Krahl
The enormous industry of computer games, development of technology and incredible lifelikeness of games together with addictive scenarios has created many myths that damage the reputation of virtual games
Community, future and virtuality
4th October 19.00-21.00 / Von Krahl
Global meltdowns and ’sudden systemic shocks’ are not the type of crisis that are easily solved and tend to take substantial time to recover from.
