Name: David Cake
Confirmed panels
| Title | Proposed Time | Proposed Room |
|---|---|---|
| Frontiers, Commons and Copyright: Creativity in the Internet Age | Friday 10:00 AM | Cocktail Lounge |
| Hack Your Hardware (V2.0b) | Friday 5:00 PM | Montana B |
| Religion in Fantasy | Friday 9:30 PM | Montana B |
| The Collapse of Civilisation | Saturday 8:30 PM | Oshaneshii |
| Sorcerers and Storytellers | Sunday 2:00 PM | Cocktail Lounge |
| Global Warming: Spike vs Precipice | Monday 11:00 AM | Oshaneshii |
| Swancon QI | Monday 3:00 PM | Cocktail Lounge |
Title: Frontiers, Commons and Copyright: Creativity in the Internet Age
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
By facilitating collaboration, remixing, re-working and linking, the Internet is changing the boundaries of creative practice. Electronic Frontiers Australia, Creative Commons, and the Organization for Transformative Works are at the forefront of digital rights and creative metamorphosis. What do these organisations do? What avenues for art and writing do they provide? Why do we need them and what can they do for you?
Room Notes:
Tags: General, Technology
Confirmed panellists: David Cake, Sarah Xu, Cathy Cupitt, Maia Bobrowicz
2 additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Cocktail Lounge
Time: Friday 10:00 AM
Title: Hack Your Hardware (V2.0b)
Status: confirmed
Proposed by: John Parker
Description:
Flashing your firmware, bashing you box - Welcome to the wonderful world of modding. We look at simple hacks for your phone, camera and game console. A reprise of the panel at Wasteland II: Age of Iron.
Room Notes:
Tags: Format: Workshop, Technology, Equipment: AV
Confirmed panellists: John Parker, David Cake
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Montana B
Time: Friday 5:00 PM
Title: Religion in Fantasy
Status: confirmed
Proposed by: PRK
Description:
As an important part of many human lives, it is unsurprising that fantasy worlds often contain religions or spiritual belief structures. Whilst some of these are based quite closely on existing religions, many vary widely, with regularly incarnate deities, incredibly accurate prophecies or capricious deities playing board games with human souls. To what degree is religion a key component within a fantasy world, or when does it become overdone deus ex machina?
Room Notes:
Tags: Fantasy, History, Guests
Recording: (rights of use)Confirmed panellists: Trudi Canavan, David Cake, Kathryn Hemsley, Satima Flavell, Bevan McGuinness
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Montana B
Time: Friday 9:30 PM
Title: The Collapse of Civilisation
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
A discussion about the possible economic collapse of the USA and other major Western economies, and what it might be like to live in a society where the institutions we have relied on all our lives suddenly disappear. How to survive when everything breaks down. With reference to the work of Dmitri Orlov and comparisons to what it was like to live through the economic collapse of Russia.
Are we heading towards an SF dystopia?
Room Notes:
Tags: Format: Discussion, Science, Technology
Confirmed panellists: David Cake, Margaret Watts
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Oshaneshii
Time: Saturday 8:30 PM
Title: Sorcerers and Storytellers
Status: confirmed
Proposed by: Dave Cake
Description:
The astonishing crossover between magic in fantasy fiction, and magic as practiced by real occult practitioners. Some modern magicians work spells from Lovecrafts Necronomicon (despite knowing it doesn't exist), or embrace the cosmology of Michael Moorcock. Gods and monsters from 20th century fiction are being used for the same magical purposes as ancient real world mythology. And some authors embrace this breakdown of the barrier between fiction and magic, and write fiction as a magical act. Learn about this occult underground where the barriers between fiction and magic breakdown when the occult world goes post-modern. Discussion will cover occult writers like Kenneth Grant, Phil Hine (author of Cthulhu mythos magic guide the Psudeonomicon), Grant Morrison and his inspiration from chaos magic and Michael Bertiauxs Voudou Gnostic Workbook, Alan Moore as practicing magician, and the tangled history of the many Necronomicons.
Room Notes:
Tags: Fantasy, Geek stuff, Equipment: AV, Format: Panel
Recording: (rights of use)Confirmed panellists: David Cake
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Cocktail Lounge
Time: Sunday 2:00 PM
Title: Global Warming: Spike vs Precipice
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
Will we hit an ecotastrophe before we hit an information explosion?
Can we hold off the global warming "collapse" long enough to have the explosion of technologies that would come with the spike around to fix it. (I am specifically thinking about nanotech as a "fix" solution, since it is so useful as a "carbon squestering" solution.)
Room Notes:
Tags: Science
Recording: (rights of use)Confirmed panellists: John Parker, David Cake, Fern Clarke
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Oshaneshii
Time: Monday 11:00 AM
Title: Swancon QI
Status: confirmed
Proposed by: Dave Cake
Description:
The return of the totally unofficial rip off of the BBC quiz show.
Room Notes:
Tags:
Confirmed panellists: David Cake
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Cocktail Lounge
Time: Monday 3:00 PM