The overall theme for ISEA2012 is Machine Wilderness.
…Machine Wilderness references the New Mexico region as an area of rapid growth and technology alongside wide expanses of open land, and aims to present artists’ and technologists’ ideas for a more humane interaction between technology and wilderness in which “machines” can take many forms to support life on Earth. Machine Wilderness focuses on creative solutions for how technology and the natural world can sustainably co-exist.
The Cosmos; Radical Cosmologies
Creative Economies; Econotopias
Wildlife; Trans-species Habitats
Transportation; Dynamobilities
Power; gridlocked