Art and Technology
Alan Brody, Evan Ziporyn, Jay Scheib, Krzysztof Wodiczko
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
The Violence of the Image
(2004)
Cultural Identity and Politics
(2002)
Irving Singer
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher
Susan Blackmore (b.1951)
talks on memes and "temes"
Richard Brody
Video essay for Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht /
Not Reconciled or Only Violence Helps Where it Rules
(1965, Jean-Marie Straub, co-written by Daniele Huillet)
Collective Intelligence
MODERATOR: DAVID THORBURN
MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty Fellow Director, MIT Communications Forum
Morgan Fisher
About Film and the Richness of Life (2007)
Temple Grandin
The Mind of a Visual Thinker: Photo-Realistic Images
Peter Greenaway (b.1942)
Filming and Directing Night Watch
(2006)
The Slavery of Music and Sound
(2002)
Michel Houellebecq
The Combination of Fiction and Truth (2006)
Fred Dretske (Frederick Irwin Dretsk born 1932)
What We See
Video essay on HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY
(1977, dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
Text taken from Susan Sontag,"Syberberg's HITLER" (1979)
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Art historian Hayden Herrera presents an opening-day talk about Kahlos life and art
Daniel Kahneman (b.1934)
Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws
Lewis Lancaster
Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology
Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
Lecture in San Francisco (1987)
Kevin B. Lee
Video essay for JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
David Lynch
Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
Thomas Metzinger (b.1958)
Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and First-Person Perspective
John Perry (b.1943)
Thinking and Talking About the Self
Photography and Contemporary Performance Art (2007)
Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft, RoseLee Goldberg, Babette Mangolte
Pipilotti Rist lecture on her work
by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Porn, Peep Shows and Public Space
Jeffrey Escoffier, Dagmar Herzog, Amy Herzog, William Kornblum, Rachel Kramer Bussel,
Linda Norden, Aoibheann Sweeney
Rebecca Saxe
How we read each other's minds
Thomas Scanlon (b.1940)
The Ethics of Blame
Irving Singer
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher
Video essay on HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY 1977, dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
Text taken from Susan Sontag,"Syberberg's HITLER"
Agnès Varda (b.1928)
The Things We Leave Behind
Kristin Thompson on Variety (1925), E.A. Dupont
Video essay on Variety
Kara Walker (b.1969)
Confronting History, Race, and Stereotypes
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