In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy

April 3, 2012
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts
234 St Kilda Road
Melbourne
Australia

Speakers:

Peter Singer
Princeton University

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Draft program:

Morning:

10.30 – 11.40: Panel around the work of Deleuze and Guattari, with papers by:

Ashley Woodward (M.S.C.P & C.F.I), 'Becoming-Animal in Peter Shaffer’s Equus';

Jon Roffe (M.S.C.P), 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Deleuze and Guattari but were Afraid to Ask Lobsters';

and Timothy Mathieson (art advisor to the Melbourne City Council), 'The Pelican Machine of Helen Martin's Owl House as an effectuation of Deleuze and Guattari's faciality machine'.

11.45 – 12.05: Animals in early film (Victoria Duckett, CFI)

12.15 – 1.15: Philip Adams, choreographer and the BalletLab artistic director, will refer to his past and recent work to discuss notions of extinction and the exotic in nature.

Afternoon:

2-4:  Keynote lecture by Professor Peter Singer (Princeton University and University of Melbourne).

Professor Singer will address the major tenets of his argument, first set out in Animal Liberation, that basic moral principles dictate that human tyranny over nonhuman animals must cease.

Discussion will follow.

4.15 – 5: 'Horses don’t have eyebrows - Animal Representation in Video Games'.

Speakers: Tom Crago (CFI PhD candidate and video game practitioner) and David Shea (CFI).


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