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N. Katherine Hayles: Nature Space Society Play
Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project 2003
The Unilever Series - Olafur Eliasson
The Weather Project 2003
© Tate Photography, London
Date: 12 March 2004
Duration: 3 hours
Venue: Tate Modern

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 and Dominic Willsdon.


This talk is part of a discussion series consisting 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. Follow the Online Forum link above for a more detailed overview.

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A collaboration with the Department of Geography at the Open University.
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever

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