Lecture Series AGE-ISM: Rearview Mirror

A day long (9hrs-14hrs) program investigating the relationship between innovation and culture

21 mrt 2012

Lectures and screening by: Marshal McLuhan, Anne de Vries and Thomas Lommee.

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Rearview Mirror

“In Rearview Mirror we investigate the relationship between innovation and culture. Employing both Hegelian and Marxist perspectives we roughly sketch an understanding of the dual construction between the two; between the real and ideal, the constructed and the unconscious, between economy and experience. Looking at the succession of new media over old media and the evolution of technology and perception, we attempt to portray the social, political and economical shift of our age. A blind attempt; as McLuhan explains in a 1969 Playboy issue; “because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world.”

Program

09:00 - Breakfast
10:00 - Screening The Global Village and the artist, The Summer Way (1968) with Marshall McLuhan and Norman Mailer
10:30 - Lecture by Anne de Vries Merging of Matter and Information
11:30 - Drinks
12:00 - Lecture by Thomas Lommee Open Structures
13:00 - Lunch

Info

Entrance for all lectures is free, please reserve via age.ism.lectures@gmail.com
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AGE-ISM is curated by Elise van Mourik
Scenography by Laure Jaffuel,
Music by Matthias Dolder,
Food by Piedro Bolas, Aliki van der Kruijs
Moderation Guy Königstein