Berkeley Big Bang 08 June 1, 2008
Berkeley, California 94720
Join us for Berkeley Big Bang 08, three days of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media.
The Berkeley Big Bang program will include a two-day symposium on new media, art, science, and the body in partnership with Berkeley Center for New Media and Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. The symposium will feature a plenary talk by Philip Rosedale, creator of Second Life and keynote by Hubert Dreyfus, Philosophy Professor, who analyzes Second Life from a critical and philosophical perspective, exploring how thinkers such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger would respond to the virtual embodiment enabled by such systems. Big Bang also offers campus media lab demonstrations and an immersive alternate reality game, Black Cloud / Red Eye by artist Greg Niemeyer. Berkeley Big Bang is presented in tandem with BAM/PFA exhibitions of work by media artists Trevor Paglen, Jim Campbell, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Scott Snibbe.
Official Website: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/bigbang
Added by rrinehart on May 31, 2008