Kit O'Connell
"King of the Goats"
Presenting at Arse Elektronika 2008 
16th-May-2008 09:30 pm
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Last year I attended the first Arse Elektronika, organized by Monochrom and held in San Francisco. I had a fantastic time and learned a lot (you can read my notes here). So it gives me great pleasure to announce that I will not only be returning to this year’s event …

but also presenting a paper, “What is the 21st Century Novel?” with my co-author Reesa Brown! This years AE theme is “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” and covers technology, sexuality and science/social fiction. Our presentation will be part of the first track for the conference, Narration. We will be talking about the history of the novel and our ideas for its future, as well as of course how human sexuality ties into it all. We’re also working on a collaborative project which ties into the paper’s theme that we hope to announce around the time of Arse 2008.

I’m excited to be returning to San Francisco, and Arse Elektronika. See you in September.

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Comments 
17th-May-2008 04:15 am (UTC)
congratulations! how awesome!
17th-May-2008 05:15 am (UTC)
Congrats on getting accepted!
17th-May-2008 07:38 am (UTC)
Thanks. Will you be back this year, too?
17th-May-2008 04:14 pm (UTC)
I may be around the conference, but I won't be presenting. I'm kinda taking a break from presenting on sex stuff this year, just trying to spend time working on new stuff.
17th-May-2008 09:39 pm (UTC)
I can understand the need to take some time off -- I remember your schedule last year seemed like pretty much non-stop presentations. I hope to see you around the conference though, I had fun chatting with you last year.
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