We just returned from ACADIA 08: Silicon + Skin / Biological Processes and Computation (the conference was organized by Mark Swakhamer, Neri Oxman, Andrew Kudless). We exhibited our Robotic Ecologies and Vivisys projects, and gave a 15min presentaion on our work. Here are a few quick links to some of the more interesting presentations we saw:

The keynotes: AMID/Cero9, Francois Roche, Philippe Raum
Anxious Climates Exhibition curated by David Gissen from CCA
Hyperbody Research Group TU Delft (Dr. Nimish Biloria and Tomasz Jaskiewicz)
Center for Virtual Architecture (Omar Kahn from U. Buffalo)
Hylozoic Projects (Philip Beesely from Waterloo)
Spatial Robots and Variate Labs (Miles Kemp from Los Angeles)
AA EmTech (Michael Weinstock, George Jeronimidis, Evan Greenberg)
Evolutionary Computation (research by Peter Von Buelow from UMich)
Future of Computing (Volker Mueller from Bentley)
Theorist Sanford Kwinter