Program
Program
Panel,
4pm - 4.50pm | Sunday 15 July
As we career headlong through the anthropocene period where human activity leaves its indelible, and often destructive, trace on the planet, we ask: how do artists respond to this? Hear three wonderfully diverse speakers, including artists, discussing their own practices and perspectives on nature.
Art = Ideas,
Sunday 15 July
MOD.IFY: it's not what you know, will take you on an immersive and unexpected journey that will challenge what you think you know about what it means to be human. Explore artificial worlds and augmented realities, challenge your perception of pain and injury, be part of stories about space and place and consider what makes us human versus animal or machine.
Solo event,
9.30am - 10.20am | Sunday 15 July
Predictions of the coming collapse of China are today commonplace, but John puts the case for a radically different view: China as a new global empire guided by a one-party political system that faces serious challenges and yet enjoys surprising levels of public support and resilience.
In conversation,
9.30am - 10.20am | Sunday 15 July
The return to office of Mahathir Mohammed in alliance with his old foe Anwar Ibrahim has been remarkable. Can Malaysia really build a rejuvenated society and institutions? And, if so, is there any hope of political reconciliation for the Palestinians?
Solo event,
9.30am - 10.20am | Sunday 15 July
Private citizens will soon be able to experience space travel on commercial suborbital space flights, which will revolutionise global travel (e.g. Adelaide to London in two hours). Using NASA's parabolic zero-gravity flights and the UK’s human centrifuge, Tom explores how high G forces affect the human body.
Workshop,
9.30am - 11am | Sunday 15 July
Have you ever pondered what it is to be human? Need some help to prioritise what really matters? This 90 minute class guides us through considering our values, pondering our purpose and determining a personal design code for how to be in the world.* *Guaranteed to create more questions than answers.
