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Conference: Transmodalities: mind, art, new media http://www.citrinitas.com/transmodalities/index.html 1 - 2 December 2005 Sabanci University, Orhanli, Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey Convened by Elif Ayiter ayiter@sabanciuniv.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2005 - Plymouth, England. The Planetary Collegium with Sabanci University, Istanbul International Conference: Transmodalities: mind, art, new media http://www.citrinitas.com/transmodalities/index.html 1 - 2 December 2005 Sabancý University, Orhanlý, Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey Convened by Elif Ayiter ayiter@sabanciuniv.edu Transmodalities: mind, art, new media is a conference that presents ideas, proposals, and projects by artists and scholars of the Planetary Collegium in association with faculty of the Sabanci University. Increasingly artists work across cultural modes, media and genres, invoking both science and mythology, technology and tradition. The postmodernist turn has become the transmodal transit, as we hyperlink and network our way through the emergent realities that new models of the world and our own subjectivity are creating. New media art is at once pragmatic and philosophical; it generates interactivity and transformation both socially and aesthetically, while reflecting on the changing nature of perception, connectivity and consciousness. Its outputs are deeply layered, with associations, meanings, feelings, histories, unities and discords richly woven into new telematic, digital or post-biological environments, providing us with new experiences and creative visions. Roy Ascott 2005