Tag - lecture
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The Forgotten Ephemera of Genius
Friday, February 15th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Friday, February 15th 8pm FREE Join us as Noah Sneider explores the origins and development of Russian animation. Noah will discuss a pair of early pioneers, Alexander Shiryaev and Wladyslaw Starewicz, whose story features highly flammable film stock, shin-shattering folk dance and stop-motion beetles. Additional topics of interest include the Soviet version of Winnie-the-Pooh, Interplanetary [...]
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Trash Myths: hippie trash pits and other things you can dig up
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Tuesday, July 17th 2012 8pm FREE A lecture by Annie Danis. In 1968 Dennis Hopper asked the residents of the New Buffalo Commune in Taos, NM to film their back-to-the-land home for “Easy Rider.” The residents refused, shunning his offer of catered meals and trucked-in amenities for their usual bulk rice and beans. Or so [...]
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Paranoid Machines: Los Angeles, 1946 – 1981
Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at 8:00 pm
From its desert summoning in 1946 to its meatspace release in 1981, Los Angeles has served as the mythopoetic incubator of a cybernetic ideology which now uses human culture as the substrate of a globe-spanning metaorganism. Jason Brown will explain.
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Paranoid Machines: a lecture by Jason Brown
Saturday, January 8th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Join us for a mash-up of a few LA-centric info-tech/paranoia epistemological vortex stories with Jason Brown.
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Father’s Day Lecture with Laura and Bob Steenberge
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Laura Steenberge and her father, Bob Steenberge, talk about the visualization of the cosmos from the ancient Greeks to the Hubble Telescope, with a special emphasis on infrared sensor technology.
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Topology: the geometry that isn’t.
Sunday, May 9th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
A lecture by Vin de Silva on the topic of topology.
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The Sound of Fear
Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
A lecture on the evolutionary paradox of screams, as illustrated by marmots.
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Pinatas: A Lecture
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Please join Sarah Bay Williams as she presents a talk about the short history, process, materials, resources, human nature, and meanings behind piñata-making. With live demonstration of a piñata in use (and full of candy).
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The Dolphinarium; or, How Far Down Does the Blowhole Go
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
A lecture by David Eng on the subject of dolphins. TO BE RESCHEDULED! Please check back for the new date.
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“Flatlands: Non-Hierarchical Space and its Uses” – a talk by Sam Gould
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Sam Gould talks about non-hierarchical space and its uses in a lecture that covers everything from the International Pop Underground Convention to Vietnam Day and the story of Home, WA.
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Lecture on Bollywood Film Masters
Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 7:30 pm
A lecture on Bollywood Film Masters: AR Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) and RD Burman (Sholay).
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Tempting St. Anthony: Epilepsy, Masturbation and Iconophobia
Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Colin Dickey discusses the history of the Temptation of St. Anthony, the story of the 4th century desert ascetic who was tortured by hordes of demons and would go on to become the patron saint of skin diseases.
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Computer Interface: A Video History
Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
In this talk Jamie Zigelbaum (MIT Media Lab) gives a brief history of human-computer interaction research and we’ll watch videos of seminal interfaces from Sutherland’s Sketchpad in ‘58 up through the latest nerdtastic work at MIT and elsewhere.
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MIRROR / HORROR Slide Talk & Film Screening
Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
A slide talk by Trinie Dalton on mirrors in art history, focusing on witchcraft and magic, and a discussion of Giallo horror film stills, with a screening of short animations by various artists.
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Dorkbot SoCal 36
Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
This event, presented by Garnet Hertz, Tim Durfee, and Norman Klein of Dorkbot SoCal, will explore how cultural objects shift over time, with each presenter exploring a single term related to patterns of cultural change.
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farewell to analog tv
Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
A talk by Jason Torchinsky about mechanical televisions, to be followed by a countdown to the demise of analog TV.
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“I can count every star in the heavens above but I have no heart I can’t fall in love…”
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
A talk (with audio examples) by Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, presenting the pop dialectics of the computer as a means of cultural technology in capitalist society.
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Jason Brown lecture about elves
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
These are not the elves you are looking for. A lecture in the magic forest.
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Bigfoot Presentation in the Forest
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
A history of bigfoot sightings and a practicum on field techniques led by local bigfoot experts Josh Grolemund and Scott Minton. Includes casts of bigfoot feet.
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Paranoid Machines Brooklyn edition
Saturday, April 4th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
An epic presentation examining contemporary gnostic mythologies of technology and paranoia, focusing on Vannevar Bush as a self-embodied allegorical emblem of information perversity, UFOs as emblems of memory and perversity, and the movie Tron.