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The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents: >From Object to Things: How to Represent the Parliament of Nature? Bruno Latour, Professor and Curator, Ecole des Mines, Paris * NOTE Special Room and Time * Monday, October 17th, 101 Morgan Hall * 6:30-7:30pm, Screening of Film: "Making Things Public" * 7:30-9:00pm, Lecture * Free and open to the public. * This presentation is jointly Sponsored with * Berkeley's New Science, Technology, and Society Center (see below) "Things" are controversial assemblages of entangled issues, and not simply objects sitting apart from our political passions. The entanglements of things and politics engage activists, artists, politicians, and intellectuals. To assemble this parliament, rhetoric is not enough and nor is eloquence; it requires the use of all the technologies -- especially information technology -- and the possibility for the arts to re-present anew what are the common stakes. This talk will debrief and discuss "Making Things Public", a recent art show that provided a simulation of these issues. ===================================================== Bruno Latour was trained first as a philosopher and then as anthropologist. After field studies in Africa and California he specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management. He has written Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (Princeton University Press), Science in Action, and The Pasteurization of France (both at Harvard University Press). He also published a field study on an automatic subway system, Aramis or the love of technology, and an essay on symmetric anthropology: We have never been modern (both with Harvard and now translated in 22 languages). With the same publisher, he also published a series of essays, Pandora's Hope: Essays in the Reality of Science Studies. In a series of books in French he has been exploring the consequences of science studies on different traditional topics of the social sciences. Since 1982, Latour has been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'Innovation at the Ecole nationale supirieure des mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the History of Science department of Harvard University. He has recently curated, with Peter Weibel, two art exibitions at the ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art in Germany. For more information see: http://bruno.latour.name/ ===================================================== ATC Primary Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center for New Media (CNM) and Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Additional ATC Sponsors: Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. *Special Sponsors for the this presentation: Berkeley's Science, Technology, and Society Center: STSC; Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at UCSF; Stem Cell Initiative Humanities GROUP Team Award; and the French Studies Program. ATC Director: Ken Goldberg ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer ATC Graduate Assistant: Irene Chien Curated with ATC Advisory Board For updated information, please see: http://atc.berkeley.edu/ ---------------------------------------- You are subscribed to this list as nettime@bbs.thing.net. To unsubscribe, send email to unsubscribe.55895.46300236.7738710490282964057-nettime_bbs.thing.net@en.groundspring.org. Our postal address is 685 Carolina Street San Francisco, California 94107 United States _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann