Calendar  /  Forum on Virtuality


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Past Events

Modern and Historic Roman Architecture
October 6, 2010 / 5:00 pm
Building a Digital Ancient Rome Bit by Byte
Diane Favro
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"Slajov Zizek, Are Catastrophes Virtual?" Big Black Text, White background
October 13, 2010 / 5:00 pm
Are Catastrophes Virtual?
Slavoj Žižek
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Cartoon of white male coding with mask on
October 20, 2010 / 5:00 pm
Technology Outlaws and the Morality of Play
Douglas Thomas
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Collection of horses galloping from first movie made
November 3, 2010 / 5:00 pm
The Discovery of Virtual Movement
Tom Gunning
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Purple background with picture of 16th century folk imagery; Text "Counterfeit Chimeras"
November 17, 2010 / 5:00 pm
Counterfeit Chimeras
Claudia Swan
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Dark background, woman in action with colorful physics of motion
December 8, 2010 / 5:00 pm
Music, Mastery, and Memory
Tod Machover
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Digital rendition of woman with purple hair on Upenn White Button sculpture
February 2, 2011 / 5:00 pm
The Magic Circle
Timothy Allen
Deke Kassabian
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Black and White photo of Middle aged white woman paining in blue on wall
February 3, 2011 / 6:30 pm
The Real Real Thing
Wendy Steiner
Turquoise background, picture of Egyptian hieroglyphics on a mac computer on desk
February 9, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Virtually Immortal
Edward Tenner
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Light blue textured background, dark red text "Lisa Nakamura, Griefing Culture and Incivility on the Internet"
February 18, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Griefing Culture and Incivility on the Internet
Lisa Nakamura
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An old time clock with cartoon of couple dancing at every number, Text "Virtual Histories"
February 19, 2011 / 9:00 am
Virtual Histories
Dark blue background with White Woman with virtual reality point suit on, Text "Real virtual or virtually real"
February 23, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Really Virtual or Virtually Real?
Norman Badler
Grey background, two paper mache hands
March 16, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Artist's Talk
Ann Hamilton
Yellow background, blue cartoon dreaming of mac computer with heart in screen
March 23, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Flesh, Fantasy, and Bandwidth
Richard Summers, MD
March 24, 2011 / 11:15 am
The Rapidly Changing Face of the Middle East and Arab World
Blue textured background; 3d adjusted text "Kinds of Real"
March 25, 2011 / 9:00 am
Kind(s) of Real
Older fit white male on top of a mountain with a sun hat on
March 26, 2011 / 2:30 pm
Traveling the Silk Road Today
Colin Thubron
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Black and white textured image of volcano erupting, with red text overlayed "Nature's Revenge"
April 6, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Nature's Revenge
Lorraine Daston
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Yoda and small wooden doll ballerina
April 13, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Puppets: The Original Avatars
Robert Smythe
Martin P. Robinson
Eileen Blumenthal