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Dear_______,

There's a free, open-source, community-powered unconference on Saturday October 2, 2010 in Portland, Oregon: CyborgCamp—a venue that celebrates and ponders the future relationships of the human and technology.

Two years ago, the idea originated on Twitter, and the excitement quickly extended into two local communities, Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, B.C. The first CyborgCamp developed and matured in only one day. Now, CyborgCamps are springing up in the global community, where open source enthusiasts, educators, media makers, inventors, hackers, programmers, authors, medical researchers, sociologists, and technologists - the hybrid visionaries and architects of the future - converge.

If this is your kind of thing, we would love for you to speak at the conference!

Sincerely, (your name here) http://portland.cyborgcamp.com

Suggested speakers:

  • Tim Seers - Robotvision
  • Matthew Lippincott
  • Max Ogden PDXAPI
  • Raven Zachary
  • Hideshi - Ziba?
  • Bill Derouchey @billder
  • Aaron Parecki - Data Visualization
  • Joshua Green (MIT Convergence Culture Lab) (Now LA - Anthropology of YouTube)
  • Bill Joy (Great speaker, into tech).
  • Doug Englebart (inventor of the Mouse)
  • Donna Haraway (founder of Cyborg Anthropology --> resides in Colorado)
  • Sandy Stone (Student of Donna Haraway's)
  • Deborah Heath (Professor of Anthropology, Cyborg Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College)
  • William Gibson (Everyone Knows)
  • Neal Stephenson (Perhaps even more relevant than Gibson, anymore)
  • Chris Moriarty http://sff.net/people/moriarty/
  • MT Anderson Feed
  • Brian Eno (awesome musician)
  • Genevieve Bell http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/gbell.htm
  • Some wikimedia folk
  • Eric Dishman from Intel
  • Zoe Keating (musiciantron)
  • WebMD product strategy phillip marshal?
  • UW? Gate foundation
  • Hit labs. Microvision. DARPA-funded for eye-based-infotron.
  • H+ conference/Valley of the dogbots
  • Carmen Campbell w biosensors
  • Adam Wilson EEG tweet UofWisc BioMedEng tron
  • http://www.psychster.com/ @nickmattos2
  • U of O wearable computing lab
  • GimpGirls @pdxsays

Additional Suggestions:

@stevenwalling says: perhaps David Mertz (author, wrote Cyborg entry in International Encyclopedia of Communication)

troismarteaux says: Speaker Suggestion: Aimee Mullins - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Mullins - kind of an analog cyborg, if such a thing exists. But her prosthetics - especially the high-speed ones - represent an amazing melding of biology and technology.

troismarteaux says: Speaker Suggestion (kind of an obvious one): Stelarc - http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/ - one of the most interesting artistic explorers of cyborgization.

@unclenate says: Try contacting Marc Pauline at SRL in Oakland. Have done telerobotics, hooked in Make(r) crowd as well http://bit.ly/3ff37

@kk says: let's invite Aimee Mullins: an athlete, actress, and model despite a disability that resulted in the amputation of her legs.

@smith says: Roman Onufrijchuk. Excellent dude. Philosophy of robots

@cfisk from Android -> Cyborg at LLab. Anyway, suggest Rodney Brooks, MIT, if you've seen Errol Morris' movie "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" (see Brooks article on Wikipedia).

Suggestions from J-P Voillequé

if you're a suit, you sit on a panel and get asked questions. This allows you to unbutton (the Disney guys said pretty smart stuff in the Q & A) and also limits your ability to bombard us with pitches. This includes, in my opinion, media (as opposed to thought) leaders like Mr. Uphoff. I'm sure he's really good at speaking off the cuff. Hell, have him moderate. He's more than capable of that."

Also from JPV: What's in a name? The confusion (in the alchemical sense) of human and app is taking place all around us all the time. Taking as given that we are living in a machine, how broad does the concept of cyborg need to be? What about "cyberactivity" within the cloud? And the payoff question: is there an "Overview Effect" in the information space, and is that consciousness what makes a cyborg a cyborg? This is riffing a bit on the "What is a cyborg" discussion, and strikes me as very interesting...

Suggestions from Tyler Sticka

Tristan Perich, electronic artist/musician who created 1-bit music (I talked with Amber, Bram and Mark about this briefly). His site appears to be down at this exact moment, but his project is viewable at http://www.1bitmusic.com/and his email address is mail@tristanperich.com

If you can't get Tristan, I'd recommend hitting up 2 Player Productions to see if you can't do a screening of the documentary "Reformat the Planet" (in which Tristan is a featured musician). The film is about musicians using primarily Game Boy and vintage video game equipment organizing a festival of their music.http://www.2playerproductions.com/

Amber had also mentioned the possibility of me speaking about the relevancy of electronics in music; if we get Eno, Perich, or anyone else, I fully expect to be bumped (rightfully so), but I'd love to speak on the topic if given the chance. It's been said that we'll be having musicians in attendance, and if there would be any way to conduct an interview as part of the presentation, that should also be explored.

Thanks for tolerating this stream-of-consciousness!

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