CAST students in an international conference
Students of the FASoS research master programme Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST) supported the organization of the 10th S.NET conference that took place in Maastricht in June 2018. The students helped to prepare the conference programme, the schedule and the registration of participants. During the conference, they helped conference participants with finding their way in the FASoS buildings. Moreover, the students attended keynote lectures, parallel sessions and the Conference Dinner.
S.NET is an international association that promotes intellectual exchange and critical inquiry about the advancement of new and emerging technologies in society. The aim of the association is to advance critical reflection from various perspectives on developments in a broad range of new and emerging fields, including, but not limited to, nanoscale science and engineering, biotechnology, synthetic biology, cognitive science, ICT and Big Data, and geo-engineering.
These topics are relevant for the CAST students, since in their research master programme they study the how the arts, science and technology shape modern culture. The theme of the Annual S.NET conference this year was “Anticipatory technologies – data and disorientation”. While technologies like predictive policing and preventive medicine promise to give us better data and practical control over the future, they also bring confusion and disorientation. The conference was a unique possibility for the students to experience how science works in practice.

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