Hi all,
If you are in Basel on Oct 31st come along & say hello...
Lecture series 'Frankenstein' in the 21st Century | Marc Garrett (University of
London)
At University of Basel.
Lecture series 'Frankenstein' in the 21st Century.
By Marc Garrett (University of London).
Lecture from 6.15 - 8pm
October 31st 2018.
University of Basel. Department of Languages and Literatures.
http://bit.ly/2SofzC5
Marc Garrett's presentation is a contemporary take on Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein and asks us to reconsider her warning, that scientific imagining
and all technologies have unintended and dramatic consequences for the world.
It also invites us to ask the same about the arts and human imagination.
Shelley’s classic, gothic horror and science fiction novel, has inspired
millions since it was written 200 years ago in 1816, and then published
anonymously in London in 1818. It offers a lens through which to look at the
practices of arts and sciences today and how they shape society’s relationship
with technology.
The presentation considers the roles of our arts and science traditions and
examines these issues as part of everyday life; as they are played out in the
anthropocene, climate change, gender politics, ethics, governance,
surveillance, posthumanism, transhumanism, hacking, biohacking, colonialism,
post-colonialism, neoliberalism, biopolitics and accelerationism. Dr.
Frankenstein plays the role of the Promethean scientist, a creative genius, and
also a narcissist tangled up in his own individual desires, exploiting others
in an irresponsible and abusive drive to control nature. But, who is the real
monster?
Marc Garrett is co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the arts
collective Furtherfield (a gallery and a Commons lab, both situated in the
park, in Finsbury Park, London), that began on the Internet in 96. He has
curated over 50 contemporary Media Arts exhibitions and projects, both
nationally and internationally. He is the main editor of the reviews, articles
and interviews on the Furtherfield website and has written book chapters and
articles about art, technology and social change, most recently in Artists
Re:Thinking the Blockchain (Torque Editions and Furtherfield, 2017, ed. with
Ruth Catlow, Nathan Jones, and Sam Skinner). And Artists Re:Thinking Games
(Liverpool University Press, 2010, ed. with Ruth Catlow and Corrado Morgana).
He is currently in the last year of his PhD in Art History at the University of
London, Birkbeck College.
Notes:
Research materials relevant to the talk.
'Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century' at Laboral in 2016.
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/exposiciones/monsters-of-the-machine
The smaller version 'Children of Prometheus' at Furtherfield gallery
https://www.furtherfield.org/events/children-of-prometheus/
Marc Garrett’s essay “Prometheus 2.0: Frankenstein Conquers the World!”
https://www.furtherfield.org/prometheus-2-0-frankenstein-conquers-the-world/
Monsters of the Machine and Children of Prometheus (Resource) page
https://marcgarrett.org/2016/06/07/curating-monsters-of-the-machine/
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner
Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
Marc Garrett – Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice.
Posted in Journal Issues, Research Values. VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, 2018
http://www.aprja.net/unlocking-proprietorial-systems-for-artistic-practice/
Furtherfield Editorial – Border Disruptions: Playbour & Transnationalisms.
https://www.furtherfield.org/editorial-border-disruptions-playbour-transnationalisms/
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