Andrea Ackerman & Ellen Ullman to speak at the San Jose Museum of Art!

BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.

FLESH & CHIPS: Converations with the Brides of Frankenstein

ANDREA ACKERMAN & ELLEN ULLMAN
Friday, September 23, 2005 8pm
“Bride” Andrea Ackerman and author Ellen Ullman explore how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial.

ACKERMAN earned an undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale and an MD, specializing in neuroscience, from Harvard. After practicing psychiatry for twelve years, she changed focus and began studying 3D computer animation at New York University’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications.
ULLMAN worked as a computer programmer for over twenty years, and is author of both The Bug and the cult-classic Close to the Machine. She currently writes for Harper’s Magazine, Wired Magazine, Salon.com and is a regular guest commentator on NPR.

DON'T MISS THE NEXT IN THE SERIES:

Camille Utterback & Anne Mellor
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.

Ticket Info: SJMA Members $5 each / $15 series; General Public $12 each / $30 series.
Purchase tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386.

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