Join us for a discussion between Martha Schwendener and Alexander R. Galloway on Schwendener's newly published book, The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser's Radical Prescience. There will be a short presentation and a discussion, followed by a Q+A session.
Martha Schwendener, Ph.D., is an art critic for The New York Times and a visiting professor at New York University. She is a researcher in residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Flusser's Essays//Artforum. Her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Afterimage, Bookforum, October, Art in America, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, New Art Examiner, Paper Monument, and other publications. Her book, The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser's Radical Prescience, published by MIT Press, explores how a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. He is the author of several books on digital media and critical theory, including The Interface Effect (Polity, 2012). His collaboration with Eugene Thacker and McKenzie Wark, Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation, has recently been published by the University of Chicago Press. With Jason E. Smith, Galloway co-translated the Tiqqun book Introduction to Civil War (Semiotext[e], 2010). For ten years, he worked with RSG on Carnivore, Kriegspiel, and other software projects. Galloway's newest project is a monograph on the work of François Laruelle, published in October 2014. A member of the NYU faculty since 2002, Galloway has also held visiting posts at the University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2012) and Harvard University (Fall 2016).
This event is open to the public.
