[Sci-tech-public] CAVS event/ Oct 29th - note: Charlie Weiner is one of the speakers

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Larissa Harris of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies asked that I 
bring the
following event to your attention.  The specific details concerning the 
order of the
speakers will be available in a few days.  If you have any questions about 
this event,
please contact Larissa directly (617-452-2484; lrharris at mit.edu)

A press release describing the CAVS event is attached.

The list of speakers follows below.
Please note that Charlie Weiner (Professor Emeritus, STS) will be one of 
the speakers.


Starter Culture: Building a Critical Public for the Biotech Century

Eight short talks on bio-art, biotech, and bio-politics


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

N52-390


SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order):
Klare Allen, Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project Co-Director and
Community Organizer at Alternatives for Community Empowerment and Gene Benson,
Staff Attorney at Alternatives for Community Empowerment

Sujatha Byravan,

Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics

Beatriz da Costa,

Long-term collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble

Jonathan King, Professor of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology


Eugene Thacker,

Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, & Culture,
Georgia Institute of Technology

Nato Thompson, Associate Curator at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art and curator of the exhibition "The Interventionists"

Charles Weiner , Professor Emeritus of History of Science, Program in Science,
Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Faith Wilding,

Multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on issues of women and
technology, with particular emphasis on biotechnology

THE BIG QUESTIONS:
What is the relation of art and politics? Can activist artists and socially 
engaged scientists
work together? What are the politics of biotechnology under global 
capitalism, especially at
a time of open-ended war? What are the private and public institutions that 
govern its development
and control its interpretation and use? What should be the status of 
biological expertise and biological
literacy in a democracy? Is freedom of speech relevant to contemporary 
science, and is freedom of
research relevant to contemporary art?

CAVS is a center for art and exchange in the School of Architecture and 
Planning at MIT.
To join our mailing list, please write to lrharris at mit.edu.

CAVS at MIT (N52-390) is located at 265 Massachusetts Avenue. Take the Red 
Line to Central Square
or #1 Bus to NECCO Factory stop. Enter on Front St, next to the MIT Museum. 
Take the elevator to the
third floor. For more info, call 617.452.2484 or http://web.mit.edu/cavs/.







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