| Friday 12 March 14.30-17.30
Nature Space Society: N Katherine Hayles
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The Unilever Series:
Olafur Eliasson
The Weather Project 2003
© the artist / photography by Jens Ziehe |
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Nature Space Society
The Institute for Meteorological Mediation is part of Olafur
Eliasson's The Weather Project. The Institute
consists of three sessions on the relationships between society,
space and nature, and how they are currently being transformed both
theoretically and by technological and environmental changes in
the world. Each session features a keynote presentation by a major
theorist whose work bridges art and science, followed by discussions
involving Doreen Massey (Professor of Geography
at the Open University) and chaired by Dominic Willsdon
(Tate Modern).
N Katherine Hayles
N Katherine Hayles is the keynote speaker for the
second event in this series. Professor of English and Media Arts
at UCLA, she has written extensively on literature, science and
technology, becoming one of the foremost theorists of the posthuman.
Recent publications include Writing Machines, from MIT
Press, and the multiple award winning How We Became Posthuman:
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which
ranges from the science-fiction of Philip K Dick to Norbert Wiener's
cybernetics and Claude Shannon's information theory. Hayles will
be joined by Doreen Massey.
This event will be 
A collaboration with the Department of Geography at
the Open University
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored
by Unilever
Starr Auditorium
£5 (£3 concessions)
Talks & Discussions |
