Talks
The Agent Ruby Files
Thursday, May 23, 2013
6 p.m.
Participants
Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist and filmmaker
Amelia Jones, author, professor, and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, McGill University
Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections; Germanic Collections; Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries
Moira Roth, Professor of Art History, Mills College
Moderated by Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Image: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Agent Ruby (screenshot), 1999-2002; Collection SFMOMA, gift of bitforms gallery, Paule Anglim Gallery, and the artist; commissioned by SFMOMA; © Lynn Hershman Leeson
Join us for an onsite and online conversation inspired by Lynn Hershman Leeson’s web project Agent Ruby (on view at SFMOMA from March 30 to June 2, 2013), followed by a reception with more conversations over drinks and snacks. Discussion topics will include the archive and the museum; discourse and participation; and emerging technologies and digital humanities.