Two robot panel talks via Pia Lindman

IN NEW YORK:
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Art/Sci Collision: Of Human-Robot Bondage
* April 18, 2007
* Kaufmann Theater, first floor
* $15 ($13.50 Members, students, senior citizens)
* This program is made possible, in part, by the Allaire Family
and Ruth A.Unterberg.
* Code: EL041807
* 7:00 p.m.

How does the emerging reality of human-machine relationships affect our
understanding of ourselves? This panel, moderated by Sherry Turkle, MIT
Initiative on Technology and Self, will consider this question and the role
of art in articulating issues around it. Panelists Aaron Edsinger and Lijin
Aryananda, MIT researchers; and artist Pia Lindman will discuss their
collaboration.


IN CAMBRIDGE, MA:
MIT - MUSEUM
TUESDAY 24th of APRIL, 2-4PM

TRANSROBOTISM: OF HUMAN-ROBOT BONDAGE

Panelists include Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot Corporation, Joy
Hirsch, director of the fMRI Research Center, Center for Neurobiology and
Behavior, Columbia University and Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the
MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Respondents include Peter Galison,
Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, Harvard
University and David Rodowick, Philosopher and Professor of Visual and
Environmental Studies, Harvard University. Organised and moderated by Pia
Lindman, artist in residence at MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory.
MIT Museum, 265 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA. Large Conference Room.

Pia Lindman
Artist-In-Residence, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stata Center, Building 32-G432
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
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