2000 Institute of Ecotechnics Conference
Exploration:
Art, Science, Projects

October 22-25, 1999
Les Marronniers Conference Centre, Aix-en-Provence, France

Speakers

Space station experiments - history and future
Galina Nachitailo
- Space biologist, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Vice President, Moscow Center for Ecology and Space, Russia

Pataphysical theater - a demonstration
Kathelin Gray
, Director, Institute of Ecotechnics and Co-Founder, Theater of All Possibilities, Santa Fe, NM

Exploring and extending the frontiers of life: Antarctica, Arctic and Mars
Carol Stoker
, Space Sciences Div. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA

Exploring Planetary Transvangardia - Painters, Sculptors, Musicians
Judy Hawes
, Director, October Gallery, London

The Nostos laboratory: Experimenting with the contemporary voyage of return
Bernard Anson
, historian and culturologist, Rome, Italy

Explorations of the invisible Cosmos
Roger Malina
, Director of the Laboratoire D'Astrophysique de Marseille and the NASA EUVE Observatory, Executive Editor of the Leonardo publications

Projects: Interdisciplinary feedback loops
Sally Jane Norman
, Director of the Ecole supérieure de l'image, site d'Angoulême

Project to establish the new disciplines of closed ecological systems and biospherics
Josef Gitelson
, Director emeritus, Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia and
John Allen, FLS, Chairman, Global Ecotechnics Corp., inventor of Biosphere 2

Music, Composition, and Impovistation
Barre Phillips
, Musician, composer, teacher, recording artist, France

Exploring the geometries of vision
Patrick Heelan
, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Exploration of the Unknown with Mathematical Spacecraft
Michel Bounias,
Professor of Biomathematics and Toxicology, University of Avignon and Director of Research, INRA-DSPE, France

The Path to Democracy in Russia - Challenge and Promise
Misha Shevelev
, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Moscow News, Moscow, Russia