Join author Roberta Buiani on Thursday, November 14 at D.G. Ivey Library from 5 – 7 PM as she discusses her recently published book Viral Behaviors. Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts and the various artists included in the book.
Viral Behaviors. Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts
In a new era of global virology that requires novel methodologies to improve the comprehension of viruses and viral phenomena, Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viruses and viral phenomena.
Across a rich variety of case studies stemming from different areas of interest-covering literature, the graphic arts and scientific visualization, as well as performance, installation and bioart —this book asks whether embracing the complexity of viruses, rather than obsessively measuring, dissecting, or precisely mapping their parts and manifestations, may provide new methodological directions in the intersection of scientific thinking and artistic practice.
Viral Behaviors examines the struggles and successes of science and technology to tame the elusive nature and behaviour of viruses, and the potential of art-based and cross-disciplinary collaborations to better communicate their complex making and intense entanglement with the world at large.
Combining perspectives from art, philosophy, science and technology, it places biological and informational viruses alongside each other, revealing that, while the two types of agents affect the world in very different ways, their histories and manifestations contain surprising similarities that speak to a cultural continuum.
Author
Roberta Buiani
Roberta Buiani is Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) and coordinator of the NewONE: Learning without Borders at New College, University of Toronto, director of the ArtSci Salon at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and co-director of the SLOlab at York University.
Event Details
Book Launch with Roberta Buiani – Viral Behaviors. Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts
Thursday, November 14, 2024
5 PM – 7 PM ET
D.G. Ivey Library, New College – 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto
Book is available to borrow at Gerstein Library or online and can be purchased at Bloomsbury.com
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