{"id":291,"date":"2005-01-18T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T20:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=291"},"modified":"2005-01-18T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T20:07:06","slug":"international-conference-on-the-fantastic-in-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/international-conference-on-the-fantastic-in-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m guest of honor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iafa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts<\/a>, called ICFA for short.<\/p>\n<p>My con schedule looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>3\/16: Wednesday evening. Arrive.<\/p>\n<p>3\/17: Thursday.  Noon, a lunchtime keynote talk on writing, &ldquo;Seek the Gnarl!&rdquo;.  I expect there to be a small amount of overlap with my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/readercon_7_12_2003.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Readercon 2003<\/a> talk.  I&#039;ll write something new up before then, and eventually post it.<\/p>\n<p>3\/18: Friday.  In the afternoon, a science talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/lifebox\" target=\"_blank\"><\/i>The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul<\/i><\/a>.  Here&#039;s a preliminary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/ppt\/icfa2005.mht\" target=\"_blank\">Power Point <\/a>of the science talk.  And from 4 &#8211; 5, a panel on &#8220;The Transrealist Writers&#8221; with Gary Wolfe, Damien Broderick, Peter Straub, John Clute, Kelly Link and John Crowley.  In connection with this topic, see my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/transrealistmanifesto.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Transrealist Manifesto<\/a> from the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>3\/19: Saturday.  10:30 &#8211; 11:30, panel on &#8220;Cyberpunk and Humanism&#8221; with Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Brian Aldiss, and David Hartwell.  And 1 &#8211; 2, a reading from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/frek\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Frek and the Elixir<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/stuncity.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>3\/20: Sunday.  Go to the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m guest of honor at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, called ICFA for short. My con schedule looks like this: 3\/16: Wednesday evening. Arrive. 3\/17: Thursday. Noon, a lunchtime keynote talk on writing, &ldquo;Seek the Gnarl!&rdquo;. I expect there to be a small amount of overlap with my Readercon 2003 talk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}