Limits of Organic Life
Bec, Louis: We Are Extremophiles (plenary speech)
Bakke, Monika: Zoe-philia and the Predicament of Anthropocentrism
Rogers, Kathleen: Bacteria, Geology and Blood
Smith, Brad: Ascribing Status to Life Forms
Roosth, Sophia: Zeroing Out Biological Time: Standardization and Surprise in Synthetic Biology
Seaman, Bill: Neo-sentience: Positive Techno-evolution or Extreme, Hostile Takeover Environment?
Exo-Botany
Kuzmanovic, Maja / Gaffney, Nik: groWorld
Boland, Howard / Cinti, Laura: The Martian Rose
Mutations and Metamorphoses
Stelarc: Alternate Anatomical Architectures: Extruded, Empty and Absent Bodies (plenary speech)
van Rijsingen, Miriam: Prolific Encounters: towards a Philosophy of Mutability
Willet, Jennifer / Bailey, Shawn: BIOTEKNICA: A Mutation Model for Teratological Art
Valdes, Claudia X. / Thurtle, Phillip: From Spiderman to Alba: Transgenics in a Post-nuclear World
Extreme Bodies in Extreme Spaces
Horáková, Jana: Performing Spaces for Cybernetics Organisms
Beloff, Laura: Wunderkammer: Wearables as an Artistic Strategy
Ryan, Susan Elizabeth: Dress for Stress: Wearable Technology and the Social Body
Pell, Sarah Jane: Hydromedusa: Aqueous Architectures for Use in WET Spaces
Perspectives on Nano Art
Vesna, Victoria & Gimzewski, James: Blue Morph: Surges of Nanocellular Transformations (plenary speech)
Punt, Michael: Between Thought and Matter: the Final Frontier
Thomas, Paul: Boundaryless Nanomorphologies
Stein, Suzanne: Foresighting for Meaningful Innovation
Inner & Outer Spaces
Malina, Roger F.: Limits of Cognition: Artists in the Dark Universe (plenary speech)
Krueger, Ted: Mediated Perception
Osaka, Takuro: Artistic Proposals on the Cultural Application of JEM – 2009 ISS Art Experiment Program
Triscott, Nicola: The Arts Catalyst
Phillips, Mike: Normal to an Abnormal Degree
Tetsuro, Fukuhara: Space Dance in the Tube, Experience and Expression
Creative Autonomy
Joyce, Michael: Poem as Written Word at Boundary Condition
Grond, Florian: From Reality to a Line and Back, a Little Theory of Everything
Goodman, Lizbeth / Duffy, Brian / Sudol, Jeremi / Price, Marc et al.: TRUST: Robotics and Haptics for Extreme Interaction and Universal Design
Goto, Suguru: Virtual Musical Instrument and RoboticMusic
Art & Climate
Cílek, Václav: Climate as the Last Wilderness (plenary speech)
Ferran, Bronac / Ratto, Matt: Artists and Scientists as Extremophiles: Extreme Environments and Ecology
Santaella, Lucia / Garcia, Wagner: Cognitus: New Cognitive Tools to Assess Environmental Risks in Amazonas
Da Costa, Beatriz: PigeonBlog: Interspecies Co-production in the Pursuit of Resistant Action
Limits of Adaptation
Fischer, Hervé: Law of Divergence and Mythoanalysis of Limits
Schlacht, Irene: Art, Design and Human Metamorphosis in Extreme Environments
Chardronnet, Ewen: Dissemination and the Becoming-World of the Laboratory
Eco Sonifications
Crutchfield, James & Dunn, David: Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioaocustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change (plenary speech)
Polli, Andrea: AER – The Vehicle of the Soul
Harris, Yolande: Taking Soundings: a Sound-Artists Investigation into Technologies of Coastal Navigation
Young, Michael / Adderley, W. Paul: Here Is Now and There Is the Sound of the Land: Scientific and Sonic Perceptions of the African Sahel
Diennet, Jacques / Calvet, David / Kronland, Richard / Voinier, Thierry / Vallée, Claude: The COSMOPHONE: Playing with PARTICLES, the COSMOS and SOUNDS
Visual Study of Culture, Nature & Universe
Blassnigg, Martha: Imaging the Extreme
Rossi, Michael Paul: Kitsch and the Meaning(s) of Life
Mayeri, Rachel: Primate Cinema
O’Neill, Rob: The Morphology Project: Art-Science Explorations of Biological Shape Analysis and Evolution
Hessels, Scott: The Machines above us: an Overview of the ‘Celestial Mechanics’ New Media Artwork
Mind Reloaded
Ascott, Roy: Terror Incognito: Steps toward an Extremity of Mind (plenary speech)
Drayson, Hannah: Embarking upon the Colonization of Transcendental Space; Gestalt Biometrics
Clark, Tim: Massive Multiplayer Online Games and Anthropic Bias: The Role Game Creators, Possible “Life” World Scenario’s, and the Doomsday Argument
Doruff, Sher: Extreme Intervals and Sensory Fusions
Ingham, Karen: The Inverted Eye: a Transdisciplinary Gaze into the Dysfunctional Mind
Kliková, Alice: Limits of Biohermeneutics
Bodies & Devices
Kusahara, Machiko: Externalizing Our Body: Device Art and Its Experimental Nature
Kriesche, Richard: Defragmentation
Daubner, Ernestine: Art, (bio)technologies & (dis)abilities: Challenges of an Expanding Body/Mind
Donegan, Mick / Goodman, Lizbeth / Kennedy, Helen / Palmer-Brown, Dominic / Zhang, Li: InterFACES: Affective Interactive Virtual Learning Environments for People with Cognitive & Physical Disabilities
Kisseleva, Olga: From World WideVip to TUTOR
Extending Memory, Expanding Life
Barabási, Albert-László: The Architecture of Complexity (plenary speech)
Diebner, Hans H.: Cultural Evolution and the Internet – A Critical Approach
Germen, Murat / Ayiter, Elif: Looking Aside: Collective Constructs, Autarchic Assemblage
Inside & Outside: from Perception to Immunity
Lambert, Hervé-Pierre: Neuroesthetics, Neurological Disorders and Creativity
Harrison, Dew / Rauch, Barbara: The Art of Creating Moments of Stillness in a Volatile World
Novakovic, Gordana: Metropolis: an Extreme and Hostile Environment
MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences 